Menopause Meets Mindfulness: Amita’s Healing Blueprint for Women Over 40

Update: 2025-08-05

Description

Today’s guest, Amita Sharma, shares her deeply personal experience with perimenopause in the corporate world, the mental health toll it took, and how she turned that struggle into NourishDoc, a global wellness platform for women 40 and over.

This award-winning episode of Sh!t That Goes On In Our Heads brings you a powerful, eye-opening conversation about the intersection of menopause, mindfulness, and mental health. With over 2 million downloads, we are proud to be the 2024 People's Choice Podcast Award Winner for Health and the 2024 Women in Podcasting Award Winner for Best Mental Health Podcast.

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Mental Health Quote:
"The sooner you embrace yourself, the sooner you start living your truth. Otherwise, you're just wearing a mask." — Amita Sharma

What This Episode Covers
Amita opens up about the invisible toll of perimenopause, from brain fog and depression to sleep deprivation and lost libido—all while trying to survive in a high-stakes, male-dominated tech career. We explore how mindfulness, acupuncture, holistic nutrition, and boundary-setting became her survival tools, and how that journey became the seed for NourishDoc. This comprehensive wellness platform helps thousands of midlife women worldwide.

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Meet Our Guest: Amita Sharma
A former high-tech executive turned wellness innovator, Amita Sharma is the founder of NourishDoc. Her lived experience as a perimenopausal woman in corporate America ignited a mission to support other women through the mental and physical chaos of midlife. NourishDoc offers integrative, evidence-based programs for women 35+, tackling sexual health, menopause symptoms, mental clarity, and long-term chronic condition prevention.

Amita’s Links:
Website: http://www.nourishdoc.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nourishdoc/
X (Twitter): https://x.com/nourishdoc
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nourishdoc
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/nourish_doc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amita-sharma-nourishdoc/

Key Takeaways:

Perimenopause isn’t just hot flashes—it deeply impacts mental health, identity, and daily functioning.

Holistic wellness tools, such as yoga, journaling, and red-light therapy, can help restore balance.

There’s a serious education gap in healthcare—many doctors are not trained to recognize or treat perimenopause.

Actionable Tips from Amita:

Track your symptoms and advocate for testing—don’t wait for your doctor to connect the dots.

Start mindfulness and journaling daily to help process changes and center yourself.

Explore integrative therapies, such as acupuncture, dietary changes, and vaginal health supplements, to enhance quality of life.

Important Chapters & Timestamps
00:00 – Intro & Meet Amita
03:00 – From Architecture to High-Tech to Holistic Health
07:00 – What Perimenopause Really Feels Like
12:00 – Mental Health Impact: Depression, Anxiety & Fog
16:00 – Cultural Stigma & Workplace Silence
22:00 – Loss of Libido, Intimacy, and Sexual Health
28:00 – How NourishDoc Empowers Women
35:00 – Systemic Gaps in Women’s Healthcare
43:00 – Amita’s Advice to Her Younger Self

References:

NourishDoc Research & Programs – http://www.nourishdoc.com/

WHO and NIH studies on menopause-related mental health

PubMed clinical research (as referenced by Amita)

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