We've been taught to revere certain voices in health and wellness—doctors in white coats, fitness gurus with perfect bodies, nutritionists with decades of credentials. Their advice carries weight, and rightfully so.

But I've noticed something striking in my work with women in midlife: sometimes, the most important expert on your body is being systematically ignored.

You.

You, who has lived in this body for five, six, seven decades. You, who knows exactly how that slice of bread made you feel versus that piece of fruit. You, who can sense the subtle shifts in your energy long before any blood test could detect them.

There's a profound wisdom in your lived experience that no medical textbook can capture.

And yet, when that inner knowing conflicts with external advice, we're taught to doubt ourselves. To dismiss our body's signals as irrelevant or unreliable. To trust the study, the article, the expert opinion over our own experience.

I wonder how often you've thought, "This doesn't seem to be working for me, but the doctor says it should, so I'll keep trying"? Or "Everyone says this is healthy, but I feel terrible when I eat it"?

What if those moments of disconnect aren't signs that your body is resistant—but messages that this particular approach simply isn't right for your unique physiology?

What if the most revolutionary act isn't finding the perfect expert, but reclaiming trust in your own experience?

I believe there's a middle path—one that honors medical wisdom while also validating your lived experience. Where external knowledge serves as a map, but your body's signals serve as the compass.

After all, who knows your journey better than the one who's been walking it all along?

What do you think? Have you ever had that experience of knowing something wasn't working, despite what the experts said?

Kindly, 

Jen

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