In this educational episode of The Menopause Mindshift Self-Love Podcast, The Menopause Queen, Lisa R. Triggs, is joined by Ann Mattingly-Lowe, founder of Generations Skincare, for a conversation about what happens to our skin during menopause and how women can better support their changing skin.

Lisa and Ann talk about the effects of declining estrogen on collagen, elasticity and hydration, what women should know about hyaluronic acid, and how ingredients such as peptides, vitamin C and niacinamide can support the skin. They also discuss sun damage, SPF, age spots, skin health, and the connection between self-care, confidence and how women feel about themselves as they age.

About Ann Mattingly-Lowe

Ann Mattingly-Lowe is the founder of Generations Skincare, a company created to help women care for and feel confident in their changing skin throughout life. Her work brings together skincare education and self-care with the belief that aging doesn’t mean losing beauty, confidence or a sense of self. After retiring from a career in the pharmaceutical industry, Ann turned her own struggles with changing skin during menopause into a new purpose, creating skincare designed to address concerns including dryness, dullness, uneven tone, fine lines and loss of firmness.

Connect with Ann: Website: Generations Skincare

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🎙️ Welcome to your menopause rewrite! Where you don’t just survive menopause—you redefine it on your own terms. Hosted by Lisa R. Triggs, motivational speaker, 3 time bestselling author, coach and unapologetic voice for women navigating the wild ride of perimenopause, menopause, and midlife transformation. After 20 years of battling over 30 symptoms (yes, 30!)—from insomnia and fatigue to depression and burnout—Lisa discovered one life-changing truth: everything shifts when you start with self-love.

Now she’s on a mission to help YOU reclaim your joy, your health, and your power. You’ll discover:

✨ What it really means to “unleash your inner queen”

✨ How the way you feel about yourself can affect menopause symptoms

✨ The importance of mindset shifts during this transformational time

✨ Real talk about HRT, relationships, and the emotional toll of menopause

Whether you’re 35 or 65, curious or completely overwhelmed—this podcast is your space to feel seen, heard, and fully supported.

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In this episode, The Menopause Queen, Lisa R. Triggs, is joined by Anne Van Leynseele, creator of Preferment™, for a conversation about rethinking retirement and intentionally planning for the next third of your life. They explore why purpose, learning and continuing to challenge yourself matter as you move through midlife and beyond, and why leaving a career doesn’t have to mean slowing down. Plus, Anne shares her passion for chocolate and some surprising ways high-quality chocolate can be enjoyed beyond the traditional sweet treat.

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🎙️ Welcome to your menopause rewrite! Where you don’t just survive menopause—you redefine it on your own terms.

Hosted by Lisa R. Triggs—bestselling author of The Menopause Mindshift: How I Unleashed My Inner Queen, And You Can Too!, self-love advocate, and unapologetic voice for women navigating the wild ride of perimenopause, menopause, and midlife transformation.

After nearly 20 years of battling over 30 symptoms (yes, 30!)—from insomnia and fatigue to depression and burnout—Lisa discovered one life-changing truth: everything shifts when you start with self-love.

Now she’s on a mission to help YOU reclaim your joy, your health, and your power. You’ll discover:

✨ What it really means to “unleash your inner queen”

✨ How the way you feel about yourself can affect menopause symptoms

✨ The importance of mindset shifts during this transformational time

✨ Real talk about HRT, relationships, and the emotional toll of menopause Whether you’re 35 or 65, curious or completely overwhelmed—this podcast is your space to feel seen, heard, and fully supported.

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What if menopause is affecting you in more ways than you’ve realized?

In this solo episode of The Menopause Mindshift Self-Love Podcast, I’m getting real about what menopause symptoms can actually look like and why acknowledging what’s happening in our bodies, emotions and behaviours is an important part of taking care of ourselves.

Menopause is about much more than hot flashes. Disrupted sleep, brain fog, irritability, anxiety, overwhelm, body changes and emotional outbursts can all become part of the conversation. And sometimes, we don’t make the connection.

In this episode, I talk about:

👑 Recognizing the symptoms you may not have connected to menopause

💗 How self-awareness and self-love begin with listening to what your body is telling you

🧠 Making conscious choices around stress, movement, food and other lifestyle factors that can influence how you feel

I also share some of my own struggles with stress, sugar and symptoms returning, and why I’ve learned to stop and ask myself what my body might be responding to.

Because you can’t manage symptoms you haven’t acknowledged are there.

Acknowledging is the first step, and that’s a key component of loving yourself.

That last line is especially strong because it brings the whole episode back to the Self-Love Podcast rather than leaving it as an episode purely about symptom recognition.

🎙️ Welcome to your menopause rewrite! Where you don’t just survive menopause—you redefine it on your own terms. Hosted by Lisa R. Triggs—bestselling author of The Menopause Mindshift: How I Unleashed My Inner Queen, And You Can Too!, self-love advocate, and unapologetic voice for women navigating the wild ride of perimenopause, menopause, and midlife transformation. After nearly 20 years of battling over 30 symptoms (yes, 30!)—from insomnia and fatigue to depression and burnout—Lisa discovered one life-changing truth: everything shifts when you start with self-love. Now she’s on a mission to help YOU reclaim your joy, your health, and your power. You’ll discover: ✨ What it really means to “unleash your inner queen” ✨ How the way you feel about yourself can affect menopause symptoms ✨ The importance of mindset shifts during this transformational time ✨ Real talk about HRT, relationships, and the emotional toll of menopause Whether you’re 35 or 65, curious or completely overwhelmed—this podcast is your space to feel seen, heard, and fully supported.

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What if one of the tools that could help you navigate the emotional side of menopause was as simple as a pencil, a piece of paper and permission to write something bad?

In this episode of The Menopause Mindshift Self-Love Podcast, I’m joined by therapist and author Margaret Bryden for a fascinating conversation about what she calls Bad Poetry and how writing can become an accessible form of self-expression and self-compassion.

We explore how poetry can help us slow down when our thoughts feel overwhelming, become more aware of what we’re feeling, silence the judgemental inner critic, and create space for the emotions that can surface during menopause. Margaret also explains why writing doesn’t have to be polished, profound or even traditionally poetic to be valuable.

And perhaps my favourite part of the conversation is where writing and our stories meet: when we begin making meaning from our experiences, we can start taking greater ownership of the story we tell ourselves and how we choose to move forward.

Margaret even gives us a wonderfully simple place to begin: five minutes and one question, “What am I carrying today?”

About My Guest:

Margaret Bryden is a therapist, mom and author of How I Understand It: A Bad Poet’s Guide to Mental Health and Resilience. Through her work as a therapist, Margaret began using poetry to help people increase self-awareness, work through difficult emotions and find language for experiences that can sometimes be hard to express. Her approach, which she calls Bad Poetry, is about quieting the inner critic, getting curious about what’s true for you, and giving yourself the freedom to write without judgement. Her guest form also describes Bad Poetry as an act of self-compassion.

• Why “bad poetry” can quiet your inner critic. Margaret explains why removing the pressure to write something “good” creates space to express what is actually true for you.
• How writing can help during menopause. We talk about anxiety, overwhelm and the emotional changes that can accompany this transition, and how slowing down and putting thoughts on paper can help you see what you’re carrying.
• How writing your story can help you move forward. Near the end of the conversation, Margaret introduces the idea of narrative authority, taking ownership of the meaning you give your experiences. This ties beautifully into your whole “write your own story” philosophy.

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www.SageInsightTherapy.com

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The conversation you’re avoiding may be the one that changes everything.

How many times have we hoped things would get better on their own?

We hope someone will notice. We hope they’ll change. We hope that if we wait long enough, things will somehow work themselves out.

But sometimes the greatest act of self-love isn’t waiting. It’s finding the courage to tell yourself the truth, speak up, and have the conversation that could change the direction of your life. That’s what we’re talking about today.

In this episode of The Menopause Mindshift Self-Love Podcast, The Menopause Queen, Lisa R. Triggs, sits down with Marcelle LeBlanc for an honest conversation about communication, relationships, and why the conversations we avoid can sometimes be the ones we need most.

Midlife can bring greater clarity about who we are, what we want, what we value, and what we’re no longer willing to accept. Marcelle shares how learning to communicate those things clearly can help us address resentment, disappointment, disconnection, and unmet needs before years pass without anything changing.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

👑 Why avoiding difficult conversations can create greater distance in relationships

👑 How to get clear about what you actually want before starting the conversation

👑 A practical way to communicate what’s wrong, explain how it’s affecting you, and make a specific request

👑 Why midlife can bring new awareness to relationship patterns, boundaries, and values we may have carried with us for years

About Marcelle

Marcelle LeBlanc is the founder of The Conversation Architect, where she helps women develop the skills and language to have difficult conversations they’ve been avoiding. Drawing from her own experience rebuilding her life following divorce and 17 years of listening to women share their relationship struggles, Marcelle helps women get honest about what they want, communicate more clearly, and approach important conversations with greater confidence.

Connect with Marcelle:

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/theconversationarchitect/

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Women spend years caring for families, building careers, managing relationships, and taking care of everyone around them. Somewhere along the way, their own happiness, creativity, and passions can quietly move further down the list.

In this episode of The Menopause Mindshift Self-Love Podcast, The Menopause Queen, Lisa R. Triggs, sits down with Kenya E. Aissa, former social worker, wellness entrepreneur, author, founder of Ruby Envy Wellness, and creator of Escape to Create, to talk about what happens when women decide to put themselves back on that list.

Kenya shares why creativity, movement, mindfulness, and self-expression can help women reconnect with parts of themselves they may have lost along the way, and why choosing your own happiness and mental wellness is an important part of self-love.

In this conversation, you’ll discover:

👑 Why women can struggle to give themselves permission to prioritize their own happiness

👑 How creativity, movement, and mindfulness can help women reconnect with themselves

👑 Why returning to old passions or discovering new ones can be especially meaningful during midlife

👑 How choosing yourself can become an act of self-love rather than something to feel guilty about

Sometimes returning to joy starts with one decision: stop waiting for someone else to give you permission.

Connect with Kenya; Website: https://www.rubyenvywellness.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingkenya Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kenyabeewrites/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rubyenvy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenya-e-aissa-ms-91463bb6

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🎙️ Welcome to your menopause rewrite! Where you don’t just survive menopause—you redefine it on your own terms. Hosted by Lisa R. Triggs—bestselling author of The Menopause Mindshift: How I Unleashed My Inner Queen, And You Can Too!, self-love advocate, and unapologetic voice for women navigating the wild ride of perimenopause, menopause, and midlife transformation.

After nearly 20 years of battling over 30 symptoms (yes, 30!)—from insomnia and fatigue to depression and burnout—Lisa discovered one life-changing truth: everything shifts when you start with self-love. Now she’s on a mission to help YOU reclaim your joy, your health, and your power. You’ll discover:

✨ What it really means to “unleash your inner queen”

✨ How the way you feel about yourself can affect menopause symptoms

✨ The importance of mindset shifts during this transformational time

✨ Real talk about HRT, relationships, and the emotional toll of menopause

Whether you’re 35 or 65, curious or completely overwhelmed—this podcast is your space to feel seen, heard, and fully supported.

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💖 Ready to Rise? Start Here:

🔗 Grab the Book: The Menopause Mindshift - https://themenopausemindshift.com/

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