Perimenopause: From Conditioning to Conscious Living | SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast with Julie Beck

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Julie Beck, SOVEREIGN Magazine’s Perimenopause (Peri-Power) Columnist and Spiritual Life Coach, to explore the October New Moon theme of Constructed Reality through Julie’s article, “From Conditioning to Conscious Living.”

Julie shares how perimenopause can expose misalignment by stripping away roles, routines, and external validation, prompting women to question conditioned definitions of success, worthiness, and identity.

Drawing from her own burnout and client work, she discusses creating time and space to reflect, slowing down instead of filling the void with more doing, and taking step-by-step action to set boundaries. Julie guides a “Steps to Your Sovereign Self” journaling exercise: writing a letter to your future self 12 months ahead with prompts about how she feels, lives differently, what she has let go of, no longer tolerates, and what feels easier. Nicole reflects on finding her own voice through boundaries and estrangement, and Julie reframes the shadow self as a helpful signal of truth and alignment.

Timestamps:

00:00 Trigger Warning

01:06 Meet Julie Beck

02:01 Constructed Reality Theme

02:38 Perimenopause Wake Up Call

04:45 Burnout and Misalignment Signs

06:50 Pause and Reflect Practice

07:59 Truth Telling and Boundaries

10:56 Letter to Future Self