Opt to Thrive…for Midlife Women
Opt to Thrive is a health and wellness podcast designed to support, educate, inspire, empower and motivate midlife women to live their healthiest, happiest most fulfilled lives. Motivated by her own life experiences and challenging midlife transition, Dr Corina Sims created Opt to Thrive.
Dr Sims is a rural GP Obstetrician and Menopause Specialist who has a passion for connecting with and empowering other women to be the best version of themselves. Disappointed with the vast amount of contradictory information targeted at menopausal women, Dr Sims also recognised the gap in medicine that has been identified around the globe in managing women going through it. Dr Dims strives to bring evidence based information to those who are searching for answers.
Listen in every week where on one week you’ll find either a short and sweet episode designed to uplift, inspire and give helpful tips to manage your mind and a longer episode the next created to educate and inform.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 61
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Manage Your Mind Mindful Moment - The Power of Values
Happy Thanksgiving to our U.S. listeners! 🦃 This week, I’m reflecting on gratitude and happiness, which inspired next week’s episode where I talk about 10 happiness hacks!
In today’s Min…
My Personal Menopause Journey - Why Menopause the Musical Pissed Me Off and What I Did to Change My Health Trajectory, Reclaim My Energy and Vitality and Lose the Menopause Belly
In this episode of Opt to Thrive, I get personal and share my own menopause journey—the challenges, the frustrations, and how I took control of my health and well-being. I'm diving into…
Manage Your Mind Mindful Moment - Acting Against Your Own Will
In this week's Mindful Moment Dr Sims reflects on cognitive dissonance. What it is, what happened when she recognized it in her own life and what she did about it.
The 3 Principles of Weight Management in Midlife - It's That Easy! Part 2
Join in as Dr Sims and Dr Suzanne Rutherford finish their conversation around weight management in midlife, along with how to get through this midlife transition in the best possible wa…
Manage Your Mind Mindful Moment - Contrast is What Makes it SO Good!
Grab a cuppa and join Dr Sims as she sits in the sunroom on the farm and reflects on what it means to live your very best life.
Contrast.
50/50.
Beauty.
The 3 Principles of Weight Management in Midlife - It's That Easy! Part 1
In this episode we welcome our very first guest! Dr Suzanne Rutherford is a physician and nutrition coach practicing in Ontario and British Columbia, Canada. Suzanne is also cofounder o…
Manage Your Mind Mindful Moment - Reset With a Body Scan
This is the first episode in the Manage Your Mind Mindful Moment series which will be dropped on alternate thursday's to the usual Opt to Thrive episodes.
During these short Manage Your …
Stopping Menopause Hormone Treatment - When, How and Why
Responding to listener feedback, in this episode Dr Sims discusses the things to consider before you start or when you are thinking about coming off of menopause hormone treatment.
As w…
I'm Doing What I've Always Done, So Why am l Putting on Weight? - The Truth About Weight Gain and Menopause
In this episode of Opt to Thrive Dr Sims seeks to answer the question "is it really menopause or is there something else to blame for the weight gain most women will experience during …
Motivation - Simple Strategies for Change
Motivation is necessary to make the changes we want to make in our lives. In this episode Dr Sims explores the stages of change and how to go about finding motivation. Dr Sims explains …
When He's Having Trouble Pitching a Tent - What You Need to Know
This episode of Opt to Thrive takes a little detour...sort of. For those of us with male partners, erectile dysfunction doesn't just affect him. This condition can have a significant im…
Let's Talk About Sex!
In this episode of Opt to Thrive, Dr Sims explores what can happen to a woman's libido around the menopause transition and what can be done about it. Part of that exploration includes a…
What Everyone Needs to Know About Contraception Around Menopause
In this episode of Opt to Thrive, Dr Sims takes us right through all of our contraceptive options leading up to that final menstrual period, and in some cases for 1-2 years after. Each …
8 Top Tips for a Better Night's Sleep
Unfortunately, more than half of women at midlife are going to suffer to a degree with some form of sleep disturbance/Insomnia. In this episode of Opt to Thrive Dr Sims takes us through…
5 Easy Ways to Manage Stress
If You Change Your Thoughts, You Can Change Your Life
In today's episode of Opt to Thrive, Dr Sims introduces you to her favourite mind management strategy. She explores how our thoughts impact our behaviours and give us our results. If yo…
The Number One Health Hack EVER!
Join Dr Sims in this episode of Opt to Thrive where she gives the details of the number one proven health hack ever. This health hack has a very long list of proven benefits and it's fr…
The HRT Scandal - Everything You Need to Know
In this episode of Opt to Thrive, Dr Sims starts with a short entertaining history of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), now known as menopause hormone therapy (MHT). We hear about how …
Hormone Havoc - It's NOT all in your head!
In this episode of Opt to Thrive Dr Sims breaks down perimenopause, menopause and post-menopause and what is happening in the body during each phase. The symptoms and the risks are disc…
The Who and Why of Opt to Thrive
In this episode you meet your host Dr Corina Sims as she sets the scene for what's to come in future podcasts. You'll gain insights into her motivation behind creating the podcast, what…