What if the “woo” you’ve been side-eyeing all these years is actually the missing piece in your perimenopause puzzle?

In this episode, Stacey peels back the layers on energy work — not as a mystical concept, but as a real, biological, and emotional process that every woman experiences as her hormones shift.

She breaks down how changing estrogen and progesterone levels make your nervous system more sensitive (a.k.a. why you cry over dog food commercials and snap at your partner), and how that same sensitivity might actually be your superpower.

You’ll learn:
🔹 How hormonal changes make you more intuitive and energetically aware
🔹 What “energy work” really means (and why it’s not all linen dresses and crystals)
🔹 Why slowing down — not pushing through — is the secret to feeling better
🔹 Simple daily rituals that help you regulate your energy and reconnect to yourself

This isn’t about becoming more “woo.” It’s about finally listening to your body’s language — your energy — and realizing it’s been trying to guide you all along.

Listen now and discover how to work with your energy instead of against it.

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You know that feeling when you’ve been eating the same breakfast for years — same coffee, same smoothie, same handful of nuts — and one day your body just says nope?

Yeah… same.

In this episode, we’re talking about what it actually means to eat with your cycle — and why your body doesn’t want the same foods every day. I’ll walk you through how your hormones shift each week, what your body is craving (and why), and how the temperature of your food might be the most overlooked key to digestion, energy, and mood.

You’ll learn:
✨ How your hormones change through the four phases — and what to eat in each one
✨ Why digestion (and even your body temperature) play a huge role in how you feel
✨ My favorite foods to reduce bloating, boost energy, and balance mood
✨ How to start cycle syncing your meals without overhauling your diet

This episode will help you see food differently — not as something to control, but as one of the most enjoyable, affordable, and intuitive forms of hormone support out there.

Oh — and you’ll never look at a cold smoothie in winter the same way again. 😉

📘 Mentioned in the Episode

• Cycle Syncing Food Guide — your free cheat sheet with what to eat in each phase + easy breakfast ideas.
  👉 Download it here
• Dandy Blend (the dandelion coffee alternative I love)
• Fermented vs. shelf-stable pickles — how to tell which ones actually have probiotics

🩸 Phases in a Nutshell

Menstrual (Winter): Warm, mineral-rich comfort food — think soups, stews, and cozy meals that feel like a weighted blanket.
Follicular (Spring): Fresh and vibrant — leafy greens, berries, and foods that support detox and energy.
Ovulatory (Summer): Light, colorful, cooling foods — salads, fruit, and omega-3s.
Luteal (Fall): Grounding, fiber-rich comfort — roasted veggies, root foods, cinnamon tea, and dark chocolate.

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We live in a world that tells us to “optimize every moment” — even the ones when we’re brushing our teeth. As overachieving, multitasking moms, we’ve replaced boredom with productivity and filled every quiet space with someone else’s voice.

In this episode, Stacey explores what happens when we never stop consuming and how the Default Mode Network in our brains literally needs silence to process, heal, and create.

You’ll learn:

• Why silence feels uncomfortable — and what’s really happening in your brain
• How perimenopause shifts our body’s need for rest and recovery
• The science (and woo) behind why quiet heals
• Easy ways to create more “blank spaces” in your day — from silent showers to music-only drives

This is your permission slip to turn down the noise, stop fixing yourself, and start listening to your own voice again.

And yes, Stacey fully gets the irony of it all — a podcaster telling you to listen to fewer podcasts. We'll talk to Alanis about it later.

If you try a “blank space” moment this week — tell Stacey about it!
📩 Email her at stacey@stacey-hutson.com

or DM her on Instagram

@stacehutson

Remember 5th grade health class? Pads, tampons, cramps, done.

But what if your gym teacher had told you this: your period isn’t just five days of bleeding. It’s a map of your body’s hormonal changes. And if you learn to listen, you’ll discover a different set of superpowers every single week of your cycle.

That’s the foundation of cycle syncing — and it’s what we’re diving into today.

In this episode, I’m breaking down:

• Why so many of us high-achieving millennial moms are burned out and disconnected from our bodies
• How diet and fitness culture has been wrecking our hormonal health
• The difference between the male 24-hour cycle and the female 28-day infradian cycle (and why it matters)
• The four phases of your cycle — menstrual, follicular, ovulatory, and luteal — and how to align food, fitness, and energy with each one
• What cycle syncing actually looks like in real life (yes, including naps and Gilmore Girls marathons)

This isn’t about doing more. It’s about finally listening to your body — and discovering that your hormones aren’t the enemy, they’re the instruction manual.

✨ Grab your free Cycle Syncing Map — the fridge-friendly cheat sheet that breaks it all down for you

🎧 And make sure to hit subscribe — cycle syncing will be a recurring theme on this show, and you’ll want to come back to this episode again and again.

Remember TRL after school, low-rise jeans that never passed the squat check, and crying through Titanic in theaters (every single time)? We were unstoppable in our 20s—CrossFit at dawn, cocktails at midnight, living on four hours of sleep and audacity. Then we became moms… and suddenly our gold-star perfectionism turned into exhaustion, anxiety, and maybe even a late-in-life ADHD diagnosis.

Now? Our bodies aren’t letting us “just push through” anymore. The gray hairs, the 2 a.m. doom spirals, our hormones losing the plot—welcome to perimenopause, the era nobody prepared us for.

I’m Stacey Hutson—wellness chef, health coach, mom of two, and former cohost of the Mother Plus Podcast—and this is The Next Phase Podcast. Each week I’ll bring you the wellness tools and the woo practices that help us navigate perimenopause with more energy, more clarity, and a lot more fun.

Subscribe now so you don’t miss the first full episode—because if we do this right, our 40s might just be the best years yet.