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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver

Menopause Is a Portal: Reclaiming the Body, the Story, and the Second Half with Dr. Hillary McBride

May 26, 2026 · 1h 7m

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In this episode of unPAUSED, Dr. Mary Claire Haver sits down with Dr. Hillary McBride, a psychologist, researcher, and author whose work focuses on women's lived experience of embodiment across the lifespan, and particularly what happens during the perimenopausal and menopausal transition. She brings a feminist, biopsychosocial lens to the work, looking at the intersection of biology and culture and how the stories we are handed about aging as women can shape what we actually feel, right down to measurable health outcomes. Dr. McBride opens by naming what the research literature has gotten wrong. Women's voices have been largely absent from the empirical conversation about perimenopause and…