Let's Relieve Regret: A self-help podcast about forgiving yourself · Shadoe and Victoria

You can change at any age (with guest Louise Carr)

·1 hr 21 min·5 clips

Louise says anger can be treated as strength while shame is the emotion she thinks people should let go of.

The episode opens with the show's familiar gentle invitation to let go of worry, hurt, grudges, self-doubt, and self-shame. Victoria Muir-Bursia introduces Louise Carr as a guest and brings her into the conversation with Shadow Ball. Louise is described as a certified holistic nutrition consultant who graduated from the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition. Her work centers on midlife women who feel exhausted, depleted, and out of balance, along with the uncomfortable symptoms of perimenopause. The hosts frame perimenopause as a real and often uncomfortable transition. Louise's view is that the food we eat every day can help reduce menopause symptoms and act as one tool for managing the experience. The show spends time on the idea of using nutrition to make sense of what is happening in the body and hormones in midlife. The conversation then moves into protein. Victoria connects the topic to her own nutrition background and remembers how protein science used to be debated. Louise and the hosts talk through the idea that protein can help build muscle, and that muscle can help protect the brain. Leucine, an amino acid, comes up as part of that explanation. The hosts treat that science as useful without pretending it solves everything. They also bring in the role of muscle in protecting the brain. From there, the talk widens into the idea that people are holistic beings. Movement, nutrition, stress reduction, and time outside are all treated as valid supports. Victoria reflects on the podcast itself and how it grew out of a need to ease regret and stress. She connects her own regret about not standing up for herself with the possibility of being kinder to herself now. She wonders aloud whether her brain is starting to prune what no longer matters. That turns the conversation back toward midlife change as something emotional as well as physical. The episode ends with gratitude for Louise's visit and with the show's usual warm sign-off, keeping the mood open, human, and unfinished in a good way.

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A grounded midlife conversation about regret, nutrition, and practical self-care.

This conversation folds regret, perimenopause, nutrition, and self-kindness into one steady midlife conversation. Louise Carr comes across as a certified holistic nutrition consultant who understands midlife women, and the hosts meet her with real curiosity as they talk through…

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If midlife feels like a moving target, this conversation gives you a steady place to start.

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