Dr. Julie Merriman, Author at Aspire Magazine

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Dr. Julie Merriman, PhD, LPC-S is a counselor educator, professor, author, and burnout researcher with more than three decades of experience. After years of training clinicians, directing counseling programs, and supporting women through burnout and compassion fatigue, she began to see a pattern that wasn’t being named clearly enough: the same nervous system overload driving exhaustion and disconnection was also quietly reshaping desire, intimacy, and embodiment in midlife. Learn more at www.juliemerrimanphd.com

Dr. Julie Merriman

Radiance Begins Where Performance Ends: Why Chakra Psychology Matters for Women in Midlife

For decades, high-achieving women have been taught to interpret the changes of midlife through a narrow biological lens. When desire fades, when energy collapses, when emotional resilience thins, the explanation offered is almost always hormonal.