Midlife as a Threshold: When the Body Stops Letting You Override It
Midlife as a Threshold: When the Body Stops Letting You Override It  
Podcast: The Root Cause Reset
Published On: Wed Mar 25 2026
Description: What if midlife isn’t a breakdown — but a threshold?In this episode of The Root Cause Reset, Dr. Trish Schneider sits down with Alison Litchfield, who works with the whole person — body, mind, and spirit — through somatic practice, psycho-emotional awareness, fascia work, posture, breath, and nervous system intelligence.Alison views physical symptoms not as problems to suppress, but as communication. She believes the body carries lived experience — stress, grief, resilience, adaptation — and that true healing begins when we stop overriding signals and start listening.Together, they explore:Why midlife is often when “the old ways stop working”The nervous system’s role in physical symptomsFascia as stored experienceWhy symptom management stops working in midlifeEmbodied practice as a path to sustainable healingListening to the body as an intelligent systemIf you’re in a season where pushing harder no longer works — and your body seems to be asking for something deeper — this conversation will feel like permission.