Calm Your Daily Stress - Stress Relief for the Busy Midlife Woman

Struggling with procrastination? What if your procrastination isn't your enemy, but a message trying to reach you? In this episode, Denise talks with embodiment coach Sarah Laverty about how listening to it, instead of fighting it, can turn it into a friend.

Sarah Laverty is an embodiment coach based in Northern Ireland. She specialises in helping women to develop unshakeable self trust and confidence by getting out of their heads and into their bodies - and right now she's on a mission to turn procrastination from your worst enemy into your best friend.

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What if everything you have been told about breast health is wrong? 

Lynn Fraley, a nurse with a doctoral degree in public health from Berkeley, is pulling back the curtain on the mammogram (breast cancer screening) industry, medical fear tactics, and the breast cancer statistics that nobody is sharing with women. She is giving us the real numbers, the honest conversation, and three action steps you can start using today to feel informed, empowered, and in control of your own body. This is the episode that will change the way you think about your health forever. 

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What if six minutes with a good book could actually calm your nervous system? Spoiler: it can, and the research proves it.

Stephanie Affinito shares with us why reading and writing are two of the most underrated stress relief tools out there. From her "pause pile" strategy to the brain dump method that finally quiets that mental noise at the end of a long day, this episode is packed with simple things you can start doing today.

Stephanie is a book-loving, notebook-hoarding literacy educator on a mission to change lives one book and one notebook...

Do you feel like you're always pushing, rushing, and trying to do more, and feeling exhausted all the time?

In this episode, Marcy Luna shares why chronic stress can quietly affect your health, motivation, memory, and relationships. You'll discover simple, science-backed ways to calm your nervous system, create more capacity in your day, and break free from the belief that stress is the key to success. If you're a busy woman who is tired of running on empty, this conversation is packed with practical tips you can start using right away.

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In this episode, Denise Eckert talks with Denise Duffield-Thomas about burnout, boundaries, ADHD, and the pressure many women entrepreneurs put on themselves. 

Denise DT shares her personal experience with burnout, how learning to set healthy boundaries protected her time and energy, and how her ADHD diagnosis helped her better understand the way she works. 

Together, they discuss practical ways to reduce overwhelm, simplify life and business, and stop striving for perfection. This uplifting conversation is a reminder that success doesn't have to come at the cost of your well-being. 

Denise Duffield-Thomas is the mon...

In this episode, Silvia Araya shares how anxiety and panic attacks can be signals from your body that something needs attention, not something to fear. She offers practical advice for busy women on managing stress, asking for support, listening to their needs, and creating a healthier balance between work, family, and self-care. 

Silvia Araya is a clinical trauma professional with over 15 years of experience helping people heal from anxiety and panic attacks through holistic, trauma-informed approaches.

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In this episode, Katie breaks down the hidden reasons so many women are exhausted, wired at night, running on caffeine, and still waking up tired. From blue light and late-night snacking to hormones, food sensitivities, and overloaded to-do lists, she shares simple shifts that can help you finally feel like yourself again. If your brain won’t shut off and your energy is hanging by a thread, this episode is going to hit home.

Katie Barngrover is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner and former math and science teacher who has spent years helping women uncover the hidden st...

Going through a divorce can feel lonely, stressful, and completely overwhelming, but Jill shares simple ways to make the process easier on yourself and your family. In this episode, Jill talks about co-parenting, handling big emotions, supporting children through change, and why getting the right support can make all the difference. 

Jill Kaufman is a Therapist, Divorce Coach, Mediator & Co-parenting Expert. After going through her own difficult divorce, she made it her life’s mission to help others not have it so tough. Her book, online course and transformative group coaching program help parents navigate the overwhelming pro...

Cameron Allen, a neuroscientist,  shares how stress and burnout can quietly take over your life and explains why nervous system regulation is the key to feeling calmer, clearer, and more connected. In this episode, he talks about simple daily practices that can help busy women lower overwhelm, stop overthinking, and create more peace in their everyday lives.

Cameron is a neuroscientist and technologist with 18 years in translational neuroscience and 11 years of leading transformative groups whose work draws from physiology, functional neuroimaging, and immersive systems. His focus is not on fixing people, but on helping them recognize and s...

Hannah shares an honest look at her sober living journey and how it helped her stop numbing stress and start facing it. She shows how sober living can lead to stronger self-trust, healing, and a more grounded, peaceful life. 

Hannah Turner is a poet and writer whose work transforms the raw honesty of recovery into art. Inspired by her early sobriety as a student in Paris, her collection, The Clarity of Chaos, seeks to illuminate a path of hope for others. Through authentic and compassionate storytelling, Hannah proves that vulnerability is a bridge to healing and that b...

Amy Schadt shares how women can break free from people pleasing, perfectionism, and the pressure to do it all. She explains simple ways to choose peace, calm stress, and start living life on your own terms. 

Amy Schadt is the creator of the Radical Embodiment Method, a coach, dancer, and educator who helps women break free from stress, perfectionism, and self-doubt — and reconnect with confidence, joy, and the freedom to live life on their terms.

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Denise Eckert shares how affirmations can help busy women lower stress, calm overwhelm, and shift negative thinking into more supportive thoughts. She explains that simple, believable affirmations can regulate the nervous system, build confidence, and support emotional healing. 

Denise also gives easy ways to use affirmations throughout the day and reminds listeners that being kinder to yourself can create more calm, one thought at a time. 

Denise is the host of the Calm Your Daily Stress podcast and the creator of the Relax Now mobile app. Passionate about helping busy women lower stress, she shares fu...

You’re doing all the things, yet you still feel stuck—and it’s frustrating. In this episode, Dawna Campbell reveals why your mind keeps circling in stress and overwhelm, and what’s really happening underneath it all. She explains how subconscious patterns and stored emotions keep you in the same loop, even when you’re trying to move forward, and shares simple ways to calm your body, shift your energy, and get back into a place of flow. 

Dawna Campbell is an internationally recognized speaker, bestselling author, and transformational coach known for helping people uncover and release sub...

Kristine shows us that emotional healing isn’t about fixing what’s “wrong” with you—it’s about finally listening to what your body has been trying to say all along. When stress, overwhelm, and life keep piling up, it’s often stuck energy and unprocessed emotions running the show behind the scenes. Through simple shifts and deeper awareness, emotional healing helps you release what you’ve been carrying, reconnect with yourself, and start feeling like you again—calm, clear, and back in control.

Kristine Genovese helps healthcare and wellness professionals restore their own well-being while transforming how they support o...

Feeling stressed, wired, exhausted or just off—but not sure why? In this episode, Dr. Sam dives into how your genetics may be driving your mood, energy, and overwhelm. Through his dna decoded approach, you’ll walk away with simple insights to better understand your body and start feeling more calm, healthier, clear, and in control.

Dr. Sam Shay, DC, IFMCP is a functional medicine expert, speaker, and stand-up comic. He helps people escape survival mode and reclaim their energy, focus, and vitality. His approach combines personalized lab testing and genetic analysis through his signature programs: the DNA...

Kayla MacDonald shares why stress, emotional eating, and self-sabotage aren’t about willpower—they’re signs your body is trying to feel safe. She explains simple, quick ways to reconnect with yourself so you can feel better, stay grounded, and actually enjoy your life again. 

Kayla MacDonald is a food freedom and embodiment coach who helps women break free from self-sabotage and finally feel safe, sexy, and at home in their bodies. She's the creator of Food Freedom Fantasy, a sensual, story-driven method that uses archetypes, nervous system rewiring, and inner storytelling to help women turn cravings into cl...

Terry Tateossian shares her powerful story of burnout, self sabotage, panic attacks, and the wake-up call that pushed her to change her life as a busy midlife woman. She explains how self sabotage can quietly show up in everyday habits and shares simple ways midlife women can recognize it, work through it, and start moving forward. 

Terry Tateossian is a serial entrepreneur, wellness expert, and the founder of House of Rose and THOR Retreats.

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Tami Stackelhouse explains what fibromyalgia really is and why so many people struggle to get answers about their pain, fatigue, and brain fog. She also shares how stress affects the body and why learning to support your sleep, nervous system, and lifestyle can help you start feeling better. 

Tami Stackelhouse is an award-winning author, founder of the International Fibromyalgia Coaching Institute, host of the Fibromyalgia Podcast®, and executive producer of the feature documentary, INVISIBLE. Tami teaches fibromyalgia patients how to take back control of their lives and health using her signature Fibromyalgia Wellness Framework℠ — so they can break...

Lisa Marree shares simple, powerful ways to support your hormones, lower stress, and feel more like yourself again in midlife. With easy habits and real-life tips, this episode helps busy women boost energy, clear brain fog, and find calm without overwhelm.

Lisa has a Military & Medical Science background and for the last 25 years run her own holistic health business. Lisa is a Menopause Expert, and has helped over 10,000 women navigate the physical, mental, and emotional transitions of perimenopause and menopause — without confusion, quick fixes, or burnout.

She uses a unique East-West method that blends Science, Ho...

Anni Eza shares simple ways to calm stress, slow down, and step out of survival mode guilt free. This episode is a reminder that your healing journey can feel peaceful, freeing, and doable — even on your busiest days. 

Anni is a catalyst for transformation, master healer (more than 10,000 healing sessions), ego death doula, teacher, and co-founder of Seeds of Bliss.

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In this episode, Melanie shares how calming your nervous system and listening to your body can transform your relationships, helping you feel safer, more connected, and more at ease. It’s a gentle, uplifting reminder that small shifts can lead to deeper trust, better communication, and happier relationships.

Melanie Bonk is a Certified Love, Sex & Relationships Coach and Somatic Trauma-Informed Therapist with nearly three decades of lived partnership experience. She helps individuals and couples reduce stress at the root—by restoring nervous system safety, emotional regulation, and embodied presence in their daily lives and relationships.

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This episode, Deidre Gestrin focuses on burnout prevention with simple, real-life tools to help busy women protect their energy, reduce stress, and feel better fast. Perfect for anyone who’s tired of running on empty.

Deidre Gestrin is the founder of Abundant Wellness Essentials. She is a Certified Health Coach and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who understands the challenges of a high-performing career. She has guided individuals through a process to become clear-minded, decisive, and energized in all aspects of life.

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In this episode, Kimberly Brown explains that we do not have to win a war against our thoughts. Instead, we can acknowledge that familiar voice, recognize it is not actually true, and offer ourselves a little goodwill instead .

Kimberly Brown is a meditation teacher and author. She leads classes and retreats that emphasize the power of compassion and kindness meditation to reconnect us to ourselves and others. She studies in both the Tibetan and Insight schools of Buddhism and is a certified mindfulness instructor. Her latest book is Happy Relationships: 25 Buddhist Practices to Transform Your Connection with...

In this episode, Charlotte Haggie busts the myth of “balance” and shows why what busy women really need is resilience. She explains that stress comes from the pressure we put on ourselves—like trying to be the capable one, the perfectionist, or the people pleaser. 

As a qualified coach and mum of two, Charlotte is disbanding the myth of ‘balance’ and highlighting the need for resilience for working mums who long to be focused, present and productive as they lead at work and at home.

Through her Ease Over Effort™ Framework, Charlotte helps women build the mental mu...

In this episode, Noelle McWard explains the 3 main anxiety types (catastrophizing, control, and distorted beliefs) and shares simple tools to help you feel calmer and more in control. 

Noelle McWard Aquino is a therapist in Chicago with more than 30 years experience specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders. She is the author of the bestselling book, Anxiety Unpacked: Discover Your Type and Recover Your Peace, published in 2025. In addition to her clinical work, she is a speaker, therapist educator, and mother to a young adult child who has lived with anxiety for most of his life.

 Menopause coach Sharon Pendlington joins the show to share how chronic stress wreaks havoc on hormone health by keeping your body locked in survival mode — leaving you wired, tired, and emotionally spent. Drawing from her own midlife journey, she breaks down why listening to your body isn't a luxury, it's a necessity, and how simple tools like breathwork and nervous system regulation can help you finally sleep deeply and feel like yourself again. If you've been running on empty and wondering why nothing is working, this episode is your permission slip to slow down — because slowing down isn't quitting, it's...

Caroline Nixon is a medical intuitive, psychic and healer with over 25 years of experience helping women reclaim their health, vitality and energetic alignment.

Her work is rooted in the belief and understanding that you are a powerful creator who came here to do amazing things, and you need to feel your best in order to create a life that is impactful without burnout!!

Caroline helps you get there through her 1:1 healing packages as well as her group experiences.

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Lynda Samphire is a transformational and intuitive dreams guide who helps people reconnect with their natural rhythm and inner intelligence. Through her work bridging consciousness, embodiment, and earth-based wisdom, she supports others in awakening their creative potential through gentle practices like dreamwork and intentional microdosing—guiding them back to a life of harmony, wholeness, and purpose.

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Marla Simlett, or as many know her, Marvelous Marla is a speaker, emcee, and registered clinical counsellor who helps people learn and laugh their way to becoming their greatest self.

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Isabelle Tremblay spent years looking successful while quietly burning out. After 24 years in high-pressure marketing roles—on top of raising two young kids—she hit a breaking point and walked away from the polished life that was draining her.

In the space that followed, she rebuilt from the inside out. Meditation, mindset work, and a new belief that leadership can come from love reshaped everything. That journey inspired her best-selling book Love, Lead, Succeed, where she shares her story and practical tools for redefining success without losing yourself. Readers walk away with permission to slow down, the cour...

Kathleen Conner spent decades being the woman who had it all together—running a business, raising a family, and saying yes to everyone but herself. At 53, she had a revelation: she was living the “perfect life that was perfectly wrong for her.” Out of that moment of truth, she created The Box-Breaking Method™—a transformative framework that helps women break free from the roles and expectations that keep them feeling small, tired, and unseen. 

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Dr. Melanie Gray is a nurse educator, wellness strategist, and creator of the STOP-IT™ Method, a framework that helps women slow down, set boundaries, and lead with clarity and grace.

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Lara Bokovay is a Certified Intuitive Life & Executive Coach who helps women—especially moms—heal generational cycles, regulate their nervous systems, and move from survival to calm, empowered living. She blends intuitive guidance with gentle frequency-based tools to support deep emotional and cellular healing.

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Angela Jean teaches the fundamentals of nervous system resets, helping people keep their bodies open so transformation truly sticks. She guides clients to understand emotional energy, because not all energy is the same — and shows them how to redirect negative thought patterns around love, money, and self-worth. Using high-vibe audios combined with intentional movement, she installs empowering patterns in just three-minute micro-sessions that are fun, flexible, and easy to do as often as needed, so anyone can embody this method.

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Hormone health expert Ashley Rocha founded Ladywell after her own battles with PMS, PMDD, and fertility issues pushed her to find real answers — and what she discovered is that most doctors simply aren't trained well enough to help women navigate their hormones. In this episode, she breaks down how chronic stress silently disrupts everything from your metabolism to your mood, and why so many women are misreading hormonal symptoms as "just stress." Ashley also shares refreshingly simple daily habits — morning sunlight, protein at every meal, a consistent sleep schedule — that can genuinely move the needle on how you feel. 

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Tess Cheng is a certified health and wellness coach with over 13 years of experience, passionate about empowering individuals to thrive through all stages of life with sustainable wellness practices. With a background in Clinical Nutrition from NYU and personal experience managing hypoglycemia and a family history of diabetes, Tess knows firsthand the importance of building lasting habits that support energy, resilience, and long-term health. 

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Denise Eckert is a life coach, hypnotherapist, EFT practitioner, podcaster, and mobile app creator on a mission to help women break free from daily stress. She hosts the Calm Your Daily Stress podcast, where inspiring guests share simple, effective techniques to bring more calm and balance into busy lives.

Most recently, Denise designed the Relax Now mobile app—a global hub of expert-led, bite-sized relaxation practices that help women reset and recharge in just minutes.

Looking ahead, Denise’s vision expands beyond stress relief. She’s passionate about empowering young women to launch their dream busine...

Dr. Amy Albright is CEO & Co-Founder of Holon and an Executive Coach. She blends practical science with intuition to guide change. For more than 20 years, she’s helped people transform their lives and businesses to grow or reinvent themselves.

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Stacey Johnson left her career as a therapist after losing her husband, and that heartbreak became the foundation for her work helping high-achieving women recover from burnout, grief, and life's biggest transitions. In this episode, she gets real about why driven women keep pushing past their limits — and what a dysregulated nervous system is actually trying to tell you through that tight chest and bone-deep exhaustion. From thought dumps to shifting deep-seated beliefs, Stacey makes it clear that asking for help isn't weakness, it's the smartest move you can make. 

Stacey Johnson is a women’s resilience coach...

Ravinder Taylor specializes in helping individuals overcome obstacles to success through mind training techniques. Her work emphasizes the importance of understanding and controlling subconscious patterns. She is the author of Mind Training: The Science of Self-Empowerment and President of Progressive Awareness Research 

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