In this intimate episode recorded from my deck in Southern Colorado, I pull an exclusive excerpt from my upcoming book, Not Managed, Fully Lived. I open up about my personal journey through the summer of 2022—a season marked by deep grief, a mountain move, long COVID, severe insomnia, and the disorienting arrival of perimenopause.

I also break down why high-achieving, neurodivergent women cannot simply willpower or top-down reframe their way through hormonal and metabolic shifts. I share how personalized genetic testing (slow COMT, MAO, MTHFR) helped me decode my body's stress chemistry, why "healthy" foods were triggering adrenaline spikes, and how listening to my body’s signals—rather than overriding them—led to true physical and emotional sovereignty.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

• The Perimenopause & ADHD Shift: Why your usual coping strategies and self-care habits stop working during hormonal transitions.
• Symptoms as Signals: How brain fog, vertigo, and insomnia are biological communications asking to be heard, not deficits to suppress.
• Genetics & Stress Chemistry: How slow COMT and MAO variants impair your ability to clear adrenaline, and why certain healthy foods increase histamine and anxiety.
• Releasing the Shame of Burnout: Michele’s candid experience with executive burnout, taking a medical leave, and allowing her nervous system to discharge chronic activation.
• The 3-Step Signal Evaluation: A practical framework (Check Your State, Watch for Repetition, Isolate One Variable) to discern real biological signals from temporary anxiety spirals.

Ready to stop overriding your body's signals and build true capacity? If your brain or body has been sending you signals—whether through brain fog, fatigue, or stress overload—you don't have to navigate it alone. Book a complimentary Capacity Consultation with me. Together, we will look at where you're standing, evaluate what your system is communicating, and map out your next steps toward biological and emotional sovereignty.

Book a free Capacity Consultation: https://link.flowi.io/widget/booking/UvsQ3VCK5GmeAYlW7Rhe

With you,

Michele