Ep 2: 3 Signs Your Menopause Is Actually Unprocessed Trauma | Mayim Bialik

Have you ever wondered why you feel anxious, overwhelmed, or disconnected in a world that keeps asking you to hold more? This conversation will meet you gently and honestly. In this episode of The Radically Well Podcast, Rosie Acosta sits down with Mayim Bialik, PhD, actress, neuroscientist, writer, and mental health advocate. Together they explore the inner landscape of women’s wellbeing through a blend of science, spirituality, and lived experience.

They talk about the rise of anxiety, the emotional aftershocks of the pandemic, the realities of perimenopause and menopause, and the way trauma often resurfaces as we age. They also discuss why women are still dismissed and misunderstood in medical spaces and how reclaiming our voice and agency can be transformative. This episode reminds us that we are not alone, we are not broken, and we deserve compassionate care and connection.

✨ What You’ll Learn
- How Mayim blends neuroscience and spirituality to make mental health feel both accessible and empowering.
- Why anxiety, burnout, and emotional overwhelm have increased since COVID and what this reveals about our nervous systems.
- What women experience during perimenopause and menopause, especially around mood changes, identity shifts, and feeling misunderstood.
- How trauma stored in the body can resurface with hormonal changes and stress.
- Why many women are misdiagnosed or dismissed when seeking medical support for hormonal or emotional symptoms.
- How contemplative practices, community, and connection support mental resilience during major life transitions.
- What Mayim has learned from interviewing physicists, near death experiencers, and mental health experts about consciousness and healing.
- Why compassion, self advocacy, and curiosity remain vital tools for emotional wellbeing.

Connect with Mayim Bialik
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/missmayim/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@MayimBialik
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6TgOe2poCdpZtQwKetQmU1
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mayimbialik

Timestamps

00:00:00 Why Mayim Started a Mental Health Podcast
00:02:10 Anxiety, COVID, and the Emotional Toll No One Predicted
00:05:30 Blending Neuroscience and Spirituality in Real Life
00:08:45 Women, Hormones, and Feeling Unheard in Healthcare
00:12:20 Rosie’s Early Menopause Experience and Misdiagnosis
00:15:40 How Trauma Resurfaces During Perimenopause and Menopause
00:20:05 The Stigma and Barriers Around Hormone Therapy
00:27:00 Trauma, Hormones, and Emotional Intensity
00:33:10 What Hope, Community, and Curiosity Teach Us About Resilience
00:43:00 The Physicist Who Changed Mayim’s Perspective
00:53:00 Mayim’s Substack and the Return to Writing
00:54:29 Closing Thoughts and Reflections

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Hi, I’m Rosie Acosta. I’m here to question the conventional and share what truly makes a difference in living with presence, love, and compassion. Whether it’s through meditation, mindful living, or healing the parts of ourselves we’ve been taught to ignore, I believe every moment of our journey holds the power to transform us. I’m not about quick fixes or surface solutions. I’m about real, conscious practices that reconnect us to our truth, our roots, and our higher purpose.

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