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After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings

After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings

Your Brain Is Begging for These 5 Things (And it could help you prevent Alzheimer’s disease)

Sep 23, 2026 · 52m

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You walk into a room and have absolutely no idea why you’re there. You can’t find the word you were JUST about to say. You’re exhausted, foggy, forgetful - and everyone tells you: welcome to motherhood.But… what if we stopped brushing all of it off??Today, Deena sits down with Emma Heming Willis and clinical psychologist Dr. Nicole Beurkens from Make Time Wellness for a fascinating (and refreshingly non-doom-and-gloom) conversation about women’s brain health and why we should be thinking about our brains LONG before there’s a problem - especially in the context of potential Alzheimer’s disease prevention. We’re getting into brain fog, hormones, perimenopause, sleep, movement, stress,…