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Dr. Susan Hardwick-Smith is dedicated to empowering women in midlife to feel fully alive – sexually, relationally, and spiritually. An award-winning gynecologist and best-selling author of Sexually Woke, Dr. Susan believes that a woman can experience her most fulfilling life and truest self at 40, 50, and beyond.

Join Dr. Susan and her guests as they dive into the secrets of reawakening your sex life, spirituality, relationships, and how to live the second half of life as an open field of possibility in which to play, explore, and finally be your true self.

Empowering Midlife Wellness with Dr. Susan Dr. Susan Hardwick-Smith

    • Health & Fitness
    • 4.7 • 54 Ratings

Dr. Susan Hardwick-Smith is dedicated to empowering women in midlife to feel fully alive – sexually, relationally, and spiritually. An award-winning gynecologist and best-selling author of Sexually Woke, Dr. Susan believes that a woman can experience her most fulfilling life and truest self at 40, 50, and beyond.

Join Dr. Susan and her guests as they dive into the secrets of reawakening your sex life, spirituality, relationships, and how to live the second half of life as an open field of possibility in which to play, explore, and finally be your true self.

    Lose the Fat Forever - Our 12-Week Medical Weight Loss Optimization Program is Now Virtual!

    Lose the Fat Forever - Our 12-Week Medical Weight Loss Optimization Program is Now Virtual!

    We have SO many requests to join our weight loss optimization program from outside of Houston, or even outside of Texas or the United States - and finally, we have created a plan that can make this work for you no matter where you live! Today I'll be describing how our weight loss optimization plan works, reminding you about the "six pillars for success" over our 12-week program, and how this could work for you if you live in Texas... or anywhere!

    • 24 min
    Drop Belly Fat by Reducing Insulin NOT Calories! | Empowering Midlife Wellness

    Drop Belly Fat by Reducing Insulin NOT Calories! | Empowering Midlife Wellness

    Most of us know now that all calories are not the same, and the old model of calorie deprivation for weight loss simply doesn't work long-term. Especially in midlife, we can turn into fat storing machines due to hormone change: most importantly, insulin resistance.

    Today I'm talking to Dr. Leah Antoniewicz all about insulin resistance- what is it, why does it happen and how do we overcome it with several simple and easy to implement lifestyle changes. Her positive message will show you how you CAN be successful and achieve your optimally healthy body composition, and keep it for the rest of your life.

    • 39 min
    Top 10 Ways to Achieve Optimal Health | Empowering Midlife Wellness

    Top 10 Ways to Achieve Optimal Health | Empowering Midlife Wellness

    Do you ever feel like there is just way too much information to absorb about how to be healthy that it can sometimes leave us paralyzed and not knowing where to start? Everyday we get more information about what to do and what not to do to be healthy, so today I'm focusing on what I call the "low hanging fruit". If we start with just one or two of these things (or a little bit of each of them), we will start moving forward in a positive direction. You don't need to be stuck feeling paralyzed because you can't be perfect. Even if you do a little bit of some of these, your health will improve, and if you do a little bit of all of them, your health will dramatically improve!

    There are literally hundreds of things that we could do to improve our health, but today I am attempting to simplify it by narrowing it down to 10....which is still a lot! You might think about picking two or three to commit to, or just do a little bit of each of them, and add more as you can. But any positive movement is better than none!

    • 1 hr
    5 Ways to Improve Sex Drive in Midlife | Empowering Midlife Wellness

    5 Ways to Improve Sex Drive in Midlife | Empowering Midlife Wellness

    Decreased sexual desire is the most common complaint I hear regarding our changing sexuality in perimenopause and menopause. Today I'm talking about the diagnosis, causes and potential treatments of decreased sexual desire in women. I'll go over 5 categories of potential treatments, including the science as well as my own personal experience (and that of my thousands of patients) regarding what works and what doesn't. Most importantly, this is not something that we need to just accept as part of getting older, and there are truly effective ways to make it better if you want to!

    • 32 min
    Dr. Leah's 10 Point Approach to Ideal Nutrition| Empowering Midlife Wellness

    Dr. Leah's 10 Point Approach to Ideal Nutrition| Empowering Midlife Wellness

    Today I'm sitting down with my partner Dr. Leah Antoniewicz to discuss one of our new service lines, which is holistic nutrition consultation. Dr. Leah has specialty training in nutrition as well as being a menopausal gynecologic specialist, and has a 10-part approach to creating the ideal nutrition plan for each of our patients. Whether the goal is losing fat, gaining muscle or simply improving health and longevity, she will discuss how we create an individualized plan that will allow you to maximize your success.

    Book your nutrition consult here:
    https://completemidlifewellnesscenter.com/holistic-nutrition-consultation/

    • 23 min
    10 Treatments for Hot Flashes & Night Sweats! | Empowering Midlife Wellness

    10 Treatments for Hot Flashes & Night Sweats! | Empowering Midlife Wellness

    Vasomotor symptoms, commonly known as hot flashes and night sweats, affect the great majority of women in perimenopause and menopause, and are a direct result of estrogen depletion. So it stands to reason that replacing estrogen is the number one (FDA approved) way to address these often highly unpleasant symptoms at their root.

    Today I'll talk about the cause of these symptoms as well as describing the many ways they can be extremely disruptive, and will share not only why estrogen remains the best treatment, but also mention 9 other options that have been shown in clinical studies to work better than placebo.

    • 23 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
54 Ratings

54 Ratings

JS Springfield ,

Great episode!

I have forwarded this to all my girlfriends and sisters! Thank you!

Marilyn558 ,

Thank-you

Love the information, easy to listen to, and to the point, don’t have to listen to your problems like other hosts.

wildoneforever ,

Stop interrupting the guest

I was really enjoying the episode with Coach Meg Ellis, but Dr. Hardwick-Smith kept interrupting her and changing the trajectory of the conversation. There were many points during the interview where I wanted to say "Let her finish her thought! Stop interrupting!" Unfortunately, I couldn't finish this episode.

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