364 // The truth about midlife "hot mess" moments and managing energy.364 // The truth about midlife "hot mess" moments and managing energy.
Speak Truth - How to live Healthy, Happy and Holy with Stacey Ziegler | Holistic Life Coach
Today is all about real talk, real life, and real wellness for women over 50. Join me for a "Get Ready With Me" where I share my simple 5-minute makeup routine, how I handle thinning eyebrows and melasma, and my favorite trick for natural, heatless...
13:18•15 Sept 2026
Midlife Hot Mess Moments, Faith, and Five‑Minute Fixes with Stacey Ziegler
Episode Overview
- Simple, natural makeup and heatless hair routines can help midlife women feel put together without draining energy.
- Perimenopause, hot flashes and HRT changes can impact mood, stamina and workouts, so honouring your limits matters.
- Short prayer walks and saying the rosary are used as daily anchors to reconnect with God and steady the mind.
- Grocery shopping and cooking are reframed as acts of love, fuelling family and becoming opportunities for gratitude.
- Even on exhausted days, looking for small blessings shifts focus from frustration to thankfulness and peace.
“If anything that could leave you with today is find the gratitude in the things, even when you're tired or you spend too much money on something.”
Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey and midlife chaos at the same time? This episode of *Speak Truth* drops you right into Stacey Ziegler’s “hot mess” midlife moments, showing how faith, self-care, and a sense of humour can carry you through days that feel anything but glamorous.
Speaking to women over 50, especially mums who feel worn out by addiction, unhealthy habits, or just sheer busyness, Stacey shares a five‑minute “Get Ready With Me” routine that fits into a hectic schedule. You’ll hear her talk through thinning eyebrows, melasma, hot flashes and weight gain, all while keeping things practical with simple makeup, organic products, and heatless “natural beach waves”. It’s not about perfection; it’s about feeling decent enough to face the day.
Later, she checks back in after teaching water aerobics at the YMCA, her own workout, and a pricey grocery run. She’s exhausted, dealing with perimenopause, HRT side effects, plantar fasciitis, and that drained, “pooped out” feeling many midlife women know too well. Yet she keeps circling back to gratitude and faith: her prayer walk, saying the rosary, cooking mahi mahi and zucchini parm, and remembering that providing food for her family is something to be thankful for.
You’re not alone.” She invites women to see their own messy days through a lens of grace, asking them to “find the gratitude in the things, even when you’re tired or you spend too much money on something.” If you’re a woman feeling fried by hormones, habits, or life responsibilities, this candid, vlog‑style chat might be the reminder you need that you’re not the only “hot mess” — and that faith, small routines and a bit of humour can still carry you through.
Stacey sums it up with, “This is real life through midlife with Christ… walk with me in this journey as we do it together. Right? How might your day feel different if you looked for gratitude in the middle of the chaos?
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