{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Neuroscience of Coaching","title":"Menopause Is Not Decline: A Nervous-System Lens for Coaches (Luce Beaulieu)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1793,"description":"Perimenopause and menopause can affect more than hormones. Dr. Irena O’Brien speaks with coach Luce Beaulieu about capacity, nervous system regulation, identity, brain fog, shame, leadership, and why old ways of pushing through may stop working.Perimenopause and menopause are often discussed as hormonal or reproductive transitions. But what if they are also capacity transitions?In this episode of Neuroscience of Coaching, Dr. Irena O’Brien speaks with coach and transformation specialist Luce Beaulieu about menopause, nervous system regulation, identity, emotional meaning, and embodied leadership. Luce explains why menopause is not simply a list of symptoms, and why many women experience this phase as a deeper disruption of identity, energy, self-trust, and the ability to keep pushing through.Together, Irena and Luce explore how changing body signals can affect the brain’s predictions, why old strategies may stop working, and why what looks like burnout, low confidence, emotional instability, or resistance may sometimes reflect a system under greater physiological and emotional load.This conversation is especially relevant for coaches and helping professionals who work with midlife clients navigating brain fog, emotional intensity, burnout, identity shifts, leadership strain, or the quiet realization that they can no longer function in the same way they once did.“You’re going through a revolution. You’re going through a deep, deep transformation on all levels of your being.” — Luce Beaulieu“A client can be highly competent and still have less available capacity because her system is managing more.”— Dr. Irena O’BrienGuest Bio:Luce Beaulieu helps midlife women in leadership stop running their work and impact from depletion, and start leading from real internal capacity. After nearly 20 years working in sustainability, research and social impact, she recognized a critical gap: we cannot build better systems with burned-out, dysregulated leaders.Today, she integrates...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/OkRhxohT3r9F1IGONxxYMrSfPeWULpvDdhNwh58USV0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNGMy/MzA0NzI4YmI2OWIz/OTM3NGY0NWU3OWM5/ODk4YS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}