All things menopause, HRT, anxiety & ED with Robyn Kievit

All things menopause, HRT, anxiety & ED with Robyn Kievit

April 18, 2026 · 56 min · Season 2 · Episode 269

About this episode

The episode discusses menopause, hormone therapy, and their impact on eating disorders with expert Robyn Kievit.

This conversation is one I've been wanting to have for a long time. I invited Robyn Kievit onto the podcast because she is doing something genuinely rare. She is the first dietician to become a nurse practitioner, she specialises in eating disorders, disordered eating and body image, and over the past several years she has become deeply educated in hormone therapy and perimenopause. She is one of very few clinicians in the world looking at all of this together, as one whole picture. And that matters enormously for the women I work with. We talk about what perimenopause actually feels like, why the hormonal shifts of this life phase can cause eating disorder symptoms to surge, what hormone therapy is and who it might help, and why so many women are being dismissed by their doctors when they deserve so much better. We also talk about body image, aging, grief, and what it means to enter this next season of life with compassion rather than resistance. This episode is for you if: You're in perimenopause or approaching it and want to understand what's actually happening in your body Your anxiety, depression or eating disorder symptoms have surged and you don't know why You've been…

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