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Ep #90: Relationships with Jennifer Spreng

β€’ Andrea Donsky, Nutritionist

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How do perimenopause and menopause affect our relationships with friends, family, and in marriage? Learn from Jennifer Spreng, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, some of the holistic approaches and techniques she uses with her patients when she is interviewed by Andrea Donsky, Nutritionist, Menopause Educator, Researcher, and co-founder of We Are Morphus.

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Show Notes:

0:00 Introductions
1:38 What Jennifer is hearing from her women patients in perimenopause and menopause
3:55 How our relationships with family and friends, libido, and marriages may change during perimenopause and menopause  
8:03 How she works with couples and families to find the issues they may be experiencing and the importance of communication
12:30 Love languages and how it affects relationships
17:30 Attachment theory in relationships
28:08 How Jennifer uses a holistic approach to mental health in her patients in perimenopause and menopause  
39:39 A discussion of HRT and how it can help with relationships and mental health

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