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HERself

306. How We're Aging Gracefully As We Near 40

HERself

Abby and Amy

Grow, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Parenting, Kids & Family, Opportunity, Honest, Real, Vulnerable, Purpose, Best Self, Self-improvement, Future, Comparison

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Aging has been on our minds a lot lately. At 39, we’re standing on the edge of a new decade, and with that, we continue to have more conversations around perimenopause, energy levels, and taking care of our bodies. In this episode, we’re opening up about what aging looks and feels like for us right now—the struggles, the science, accepting it, and the ways we’re finding strength in this next chapter. Abby shares her personal journey with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after her docto...

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0:00.0

On a day-to-day basis, if you don't get a lift in, if you don't take your supplements and you don't eat perfectly for one day, it's not going to make a difference. But if you do that again tomorrow and again the next day and again the next day and again the next day, and if it's done consistently without perfection, that's the key. That's the key. And especially coming from a disordered eating background, having a perfect diet, it's way harder.

0:20.9

It can't be your goal.

0:21.9

It can't be the goal because at some point, you're not going to be able to do it.

0:28.5

I'm Amy.

0:30.0

And I'm Abby.

0:31.6

And as women, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others.

0:35.7

But your life isn't supposed to look like hers.

0:39.0

Being your best self means standing firm in your decisions

0:41.7

and always being willing to grow with a purpose.

0:44.8

We get vulnerable and real with an honest look

0:47.8

into the challenges and triumphs we all face.

0:51.1

Every woman listening gets the opportunity

0:52.9

to choose what life looks like for herself.

1:00.0

Hi guys and welcome to another episode of the herself podcast. Today we have a interesting subject,

1:08.9

what we think is an interesting subject. And we are going to talk about

1:12.5

the way that we have been feeling about aging as two women that are now 39. I've joined you.

1:20.3

I've joined the club. Your much older friend. Drew's turning 40 on Thursday when we record this

1:26.9

episode. So it's just something that I do think a new

1:30.4

decade brings you to think about aging a little bit more. And so we wanted to kind of talk about

1:36.9

a lot of different things when it comes to aging and kind of see where the episode takes us.

1:41.1

Well, it's interesting too, because September is the month that more people are

1:44.3

born in than any other months. I feel like a lot of people are having birthdays. My birthday, I think,

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