In this episode of Gen X Voices, I chat with Karen Miller, a Reiki Master, coach and holistic practitioner.

Karen practices holistic living, nature spirituality and a little magic every day. She’s an ordained minister, herbalist, equestrian and mum to a daughter and many animals.

In this episode, we talk about Karen’s journey from corporate trapped but successful single mum through suicidal thoughts, depression and food allergies to now being an advocate for holistic living. Karen broke out of living her life how she should live it to embrace all the coulds as she turned 50. In our chat, Karen helps me get over my fear of horses and we talk about having fulfilling relationships later in life and how to take a "sparkle walk" :).

To find out more about Karen and her courses, go to her website at www.shiftkitchen.com, Facebook at www.facebook.com/shiftkitchenbalanaceforbodymindspirit and see her incredible nature photos on her Instagram at www.instagram.com/ravynwood.

I hope you enjoy our chat and do subscribe to Gen X Voices to hear future episodes. You can connect with me on Instagram at thegenxwomenscoach and Twitter at susebb.

This is the last episode of Season 1 of Gen X Voices and I’d love to hear your feedback on the Gen X Voices journey so far with this short survey: https://forms.gle/qNpyTzguPghGCESu9

PLEASE NOTE: poor audio in parts of this podcast (yes, we did everything we could to fix it so please don't @ me!)

CONTENT WARNING:

Suicide is discussed in this episode. 

If you need support: 

UK Samaritans https://www.samaritans.org/ or call 116 123; 

USA https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ or call 1800 273 8255. 

Wikipedia has a global list of suicide helplines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines

In Episode 9, I chat with Lorna Ive, women’s health and wellbeing specialist.

Lorna is the founder of award winning PeriMenoPost, a LIVE campaign and digital platform to raise awareness and support across all stages of menopause. She wanted to create a community for women to feel informed, comfortable and to create conversations to break down the menopause taboo!

In this episode, we go deep into everything menopause, with Lorna sharing her menopause journey and where she’s at now with her health. We discuss the lack of menopause education for GPs in the UK, hidden health issues such as adenomyosis and how to persevere with your goals, no matter what.

To collaborate with Lorna, join her community or find her perimenopause resources and advice, go to her website: https://perimenopost.com/and she’s on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/perimenopost/.

I hope you enjoy our chat and do subscribe to Gen X Voices to hear future episodes. You can connect with me on Instagram  and Twitter .

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Content warning: medical descriptions of perimenopause, menopause and adenomyosis

In this episode, I chat with Rachel Peru, body confidence activist, influencer and host of the Out of the Bubble podcast.

What a great chat with Rachel! Volunteering for a Macmillan charity fashion show set her on the path for midlife modelling, both catwalk and lingerie. We talk about being inspired by other women and the challenges she’s set herself for 2021, working with your values, our Mums and body confidence, talking to the next generation about ageing and being visible as well as the growing midlife movement for women.

You can connect with Rachel on her Instagram @rachelperu1 and listen to her amazing podcast at https://www.outofthebubblepodcast.com/.

If you want to buy the books we mention in this episode, they’re all up on my website as affiliate links to bookshop.org at https://www.susanbbentley.com/resources/, supporting local bookshops.

I hope you enjoy our chat and do subscribe to Gen X Voices to hear future episodes. You can connect with me on Instagram @thegenxwomenscoach and Twitter @susebb. Find out more about my coaching and training on my Linktr.ee. 

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