The Knowing Beneath Burnout: Living in Emotional Entanglement

In this episode, we explore a quieter truth about burnout.

What if you’re not exhausted because you’re doing too much —
but because you’ve been living inside long-standing emotional entanglement and over-responsibility?

Many women, especially women 40+, aren’t just tired from work. They’re depleted from years of managing emotional climates, staying in misaligned jobs or relationships, self-silencing to keep the peace, and using willpower where support and structure were needed.

I share parts of my own story — carrying adult responsibility from a young age, appearing steady while internally overwhelmed, and experiencing a physical collapse from severe burnout in 2023. During recovery, I began using creative expression and somatic awareness to untangle what rest alone couldn’t repair.

This conversation distinguishes between ordinary overwork exhaustion and the deeper corrosion of emotional messiness and misplaced responsibility. Because exhaustion isn’t always asking for more rest.

Sometimes it’s asking for softness.
Space.
Creative healing.
A reorganization of your inner systems.

At the end of the episode, I introduce an intimate program for women called The Untangling — a held container for those ready to move from emotional overwhelm into clarity, vitality, and sustainable structure.

If this resonates in your body, you’ll know.

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Curious about working together?

Explore:

• An Inner Softening: Softening into Presence Guided Meditation. A radical simple art practice for understanding the integrity of your body's current state of energy.
• The Untangling - a somatic reshaping using art and breath. A space to loosen what you've been holding. Email for more information patricia@patriciarundblade.com.

Thank you for tuning in to Mindfully Disruptive.

Until next time, may your voice be rooted in truth,
and your presence be your power.

You're Not Fading—You're Just Done Performing: Redefining Beauty in Menopause

The beauty industry has a message for women in menopause: You're fading. You're aging out. You need to fight it, fix it, reverse it.
We call bullshit.

In this unapologetic ManiPause conversation, Patricia and Marina take on the beauty industry's exploitation of menopausal women's insecurities—and why we're done buying what they're selling.
We're not fading. We're not becoming invisible. We're just done performing beauty for the male gaze, for Instagram, for a society that profits off our fear of aging.

And what happens when you stop performing? You start radiating.
In this episode, we explore:
• How the beauty industry weaponizes menopause to sell you "solutions" to a problem that doesn't exist
• The insidious ways social media amplifies aging insecurity (filters, anti-aging content, "age-defying" everything)
• Cultural differences in how aging women are valued (and why Western culture fails us)
• What self-acceptance actually looks like when you've been conditioned to hate aging
• Challenging traditional beauty standards that were never designed for us anyway
• The difference between beauty (external performance) and radiance (embodied presence)
• Role models who are aging boldly and redefining what's possible
• Why self-love and authenticity are radical acts in a youth-obsessed culture

This conversation isn't about "embracing aging gracefully." Screw graceful. This is about embodying your power, your presence, your radiance—unapologetically.

We close with reflective questions for listeners:
• What would change if you stopped trying to look younger and started radiating who you actually are?
• Where are you still performing beauty instead of embodying radiance?
• What new definition of beauty do YOU want to initiate?

You're a Manifestor woman in menopause. You're not here to fade quietly. You're here to redefine what radiance looks like.
The beauty industry can keep their anti-aging creams. We're choosing presence, power, and embodied radiance instead.
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Love what you heard? We're just getting started.
This isn't just a podcast—it's a community of Manifestor women & all women reclaiming midlife on OUR terms.

Stay connected with us:
📍 Patricia Rundblade: @patricia_rundblade
Website: Patricia Rundblade
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📍 Marina Le Menn: @coaching_with_marina
Website: Coaching with Marina
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Share your own menopause stories, questions, and "wait, is this normal?!" moments in the comments or on our socials—we read everything and this community is built on real conversations.

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Because the more women who hear this message, the less alone we all feel.
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When Menopause Isn't a Choice: Anna Roxana's Journey Through Medical Menopause and Reclaiming Power

Some women enter menopause gradually. Anna Roxana Lia Chaga was thrust into it—medically induced at a young age during breast cancer treatment.

In this raw and powerful ManiPause conversation, Patricia and Marina welcome Anna Roxana—power systems engineer, artist, holistic practitioner, and Splenic Manifestor—for a deeply personal dialogue about navigating menopause when it's not on your timeline, not your choice, and compounded by cancer treatment.

Anna shares what most people don't talk about: the brutal reality of anti-hormonal therapy side effects, the loss of identity and sexuality, the fear that comes with a cancer diagnosis, and the long journey back to reclaiming your body, your power, and your sexual health.

This conversation goes deep:
• Medically-induced menopause during breast cancer treatment (and how it's different from natural menopause)
• Managing severe side effects from anti-hormonal therapy while trying to live your life
• The grief of losing your body's natural rhythm before you were ready
• Navigating perimenopause AFTER medical menopause (yes, that's a thing)
• Embracing her identity as a Splenic Manifestor and what that means for healing
• Reclaiming sexual health when your body has been through trauma
• The Breast Cancer Confidence Project and supporting women through the journey
• Holistic practices that supported her healing beyond Western medicine
• Trusting yourself and not letting fear dictate your decisions

Anna's message is clear: Don't let fear run your life. Trust yourself.
Whether you've been through medical menopause, natural menopause, cancer treatment, or are supporting someone who has—this conversation will remind you that reclaiming your power is possible, even when your body has been through the unthinkable.

This is what happens when Manifestor women refuse to let circumstances define them.
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Guest Info & Links:
Ana Roxana Ciupuliga
(Ah-nah Rok-sah-nah Choo-poo-lee-gah)
“I’m a Power Systems Engineer with a PhD, working as a Senior Policy Advisor in the energy sector, and I’m also an artist and holistic practitioner integrating various modalities.”
Website: anaroxana.com - music & creativity & arcofjoy.com - the place for spiritual, wisdom, healing, and shamanism. Offering at the moment: Photon Light Therapy.
Instagram: @anaroxanamusic & @arcofjoy

Love what you heard? We're just getting started.
This isn't just a podcast—it's a community of Manifestor women & all women reclaiming midlife on OUR terms.
Stay connected with us:
Patricia Rundblade: @patricia_rundblade
Website: www.patriciarundblade.com
LinkedIn: Patricia Rundblade
Marina Le Menn: @coaching_with_marina
Website: Coaching With Marina
LinkedIn: Marina Le Menn

Share your own menopause stories, questions, and "wait, is this normal?!" moments in the comments or on our socials—we read everything and this community is built on real conversations.
Help us spread the word:
* Share this episode with a woman who needs to hear she's not alone
* Leave a review (it helps us reach more listeners!)
* Like and comment—tell us what resonated with you
Because the more women who hear this message, the less alone we all feel.
See you in the next episode.