Hormones, Marriage, and Shifting Desire: Dr. Cathleen Gerenger, 7, on Thriving When Everything Changes

About this episode

Dr. Cathleen Gerenger discusses the impact of hormones on marriage and personal health, sharing her journey and insights on thriving through change.

After a car accident sent her on a deeply personal journey into bodywork and healing, Dr. Cathleen Gerenge, Type 7, discovered that the path to thriving was not just clinical but deeply embodied, and that lesson changed the way she practices and the way she lives, and she brings her brilliance to us about thyroid, specific hormones, and taking care of us, just as she too found results and also the energy back for community in the Vietnamese beauty and wellness industry, winning Ms. Vietnamese Florida after age fifty! In this conversation we talk about every decade of a man and woman's life across hormones, what's happening with thyroid, progesterone, testosterone, and more, the hormonal connection to irritability and disconnection and lost desire in marriage, and what it actually looks like to take your health and your marriage back at any stage. This is a holiday weekend, which means food and gatherings and all the joy of being together, and it also means a beautiful moment to pause and ask: am I taking care of the body my marriage lives inside? Dr. Gerenger is warm, brilliant, and refreshingly honest about her own journey. This one is going to stay with you. Watch on YouTube…

People in this episode

Host: Christa Hardin

Guest: Dr. Cathleen Gerenger

Topics covered

• hormones
• marriage
• health
• bodywork
• desire
• thyroid

Keywords

• hormones
• marriage
• thyroid
• health
• desire
• bodywork
• wellness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vietnamese beauty and wellness industry

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