Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill
Changing Conversations Around Age, Potential, and Possibility for Women in MIDLIFE
If you follow me on social media or heard some of the episodes leading up to this one, you know that I am currently in the thick of navigating yet ANOTHER breast implant rupture. Except for this time, I am getting an EXPLANT. Yep, after over $100k over the years, many many surgeries, and a lot of complications, I have decided I am OVER the decision I made at 19.
Dr. Amie and I decided to take our voice note conversation about breast implants from a private text convo to LIVE to you. We are talking about TWELVE boob jobs on the episode! YES 12! The decisions, the mistakes, the beliefs and even the regrets (from me)
I found Laura on Instagram and fell in love with the way she is living and walking the walk I am constantly sharing about. She is in her 50s and is doing ALL of the things as if age is NOT a factor (because it’s not!) Everyone always says “just wait until you turn 50!” right? But what the heck happens at 50?! Laura set out to document the process as she approached the age. And while there ARE some things that DO change at 50, it’s not doomsday like we believed it would be.
I had Amy on today to talk about A LOT of chronic pain and illness that come up for A LOT of midlife women, where we think we don’t have control and have to just “accept it”. But thanks to people like Amy (who was “finally” diagnosed with Crohn’s disease after a whole assortment of health symptoms…and was prescribed 16 different medications/day), we can actually make IN HOME healing and wellness centers where we can start to heal ourselves! Oftentimes (especially in midlife) we can experience a series of things going wrong…and we just chalk it up to an overall decline thinking “what’s wrong with me???” BUT we have to remember that when just ONE thing is out of whack in your body, a number of other things can spiral quickly after. Addressing that ONE thing could solve the rest! This is what we mean when we talk about addressing the “root cause” of something.
I had Dr. Cheri Ong who I met almost a year ago at a vision retreat. I could NOT wait to get her on the show and dive deeper into “designer vaginas”. Yep! Designer vaginas. And if you’re in midlife, you’re going to want to hear what she has to say. Dr. Ong has a background in trauma surgery and plastic surgery. What she found was that there was a void in aesthetic labiaplasty (vaginal) surgeries. Despite so many of us never hearing about it, it’s one of the fastest growing (400x) types of procedures requested and is a highly underserved market. She dove deep and became an expert!
