On this episode of the Reseter podcast, I bring you Chantel Donnelly. Now what you're

going to hear in this conversation is really applicable to those of you over 40 that are struggling

with stress management anxiety depression you're finding yourself caught in these

stress loops and you can't seem to get yourself out of them.

Why I wanted to bring Chantel on is that she really offers us a fresh perspective of looking at the stress that happens to women as we move

through the peremeneopause and menopausal years and she brings a different

approach in the fact that she's a physical therapist and so she has

some strategies that we can do with our body to affect our minds. So what you're going to hear in this conversation is that she

looks at stress not from the top down, meaning that something stressful hits you, and so you have to work on your

thoughts, you have to work on the patterns going on in your brain to be able to change your response patterns that we might typically

have used something like therapy or meditation or reading books even to change our perspective.

We often really think about stress from a mental place.

What Chantel really gives us

is this understanding that we could actually change our stress response by coming

at it from a body level. So what you're going to hear in this conversation is that she has some really cool hacks, like some

massage hacks, some tapping hacks on the body, some breathing hacks that we can do

as we're learning to navigate the loss of hormones through our

metopausal experience. She also brings to light something that I don't feel

like we I've talked enough with you all about, which is our cortisol response when we are in our parameopausal years.

As we lose estrogen and progestrone,

cortisol actually takes over.

And cortisol's job is to really help us see

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