Recovery is not a return to
who you were.
It is becoming true to who you are.
Specialized counselling for women navigating addiction, disordered eating, and the particular complexity of midlife. Hormonal literacy. Shame resilience. The whole person.
I help women find their way back to themselves
I'm Bryn Meadows — counsellor, Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator, and founder of Menopolooza and the Bloom Recovery Program. I specialize in supporting women navigating addiction, disordered eating, and the profound transitions of midlife — at the intersection of hormonal biology, shame resilience, and real life.
The intersection is where the real work begins
Bryn specializes in the places where multiple struggles converge.
Midlife & Perimenopause
The neurobiological, emotional, and identity shifts of perimenopause and menopause — and the compound weight of the lives women are carrying.
Addiction & Substance Use
Alcohol, prescription medication, and behavioural addiction — treated with hormonal literacy, shame resilience, and relapse prevention that accounts for the whole person.
Disordered Eating
Restriction, bingeing, compulsive exercise — especially where disordered eating intersects with midlife body changes, substance use, and complicated relationships with the body.
Shame & Self-Worth
Guilt, shame, perfectionism, people-pleasing — using The Daring Way™ curriculum to build genuine shame resilience from the inside out.
Family & Couples
For partners and families affected by a loved one's addiction — navigating boundaries, grief, codependency, and their own healing.
Identity & Transition
Empty nest, divorce, career change, loss of parents — the compound losses of midlife and the question of who you are becoming on the other side.
A recovery program built for this life stage
Bloom is an integrated clinical program for women in perimenopause and menopause navigating struggles, including the complexity of caring for family systems, work pressures; on top of the challenges of perfectionisim, addiction and disordered eating. Bloom encompasses teaching on: Hormonal literacy, shame resilience, Self-Compassion and The Daring Way™ — woven into one structured path.
Naming
Understanding the biology of what's happening. Naming needs, fears, and shame without judgment. Hormonal literacy as a foundation for self-compassion.
Claiming
Claiming values, voice, and the right to boundaries. Dismantling people-pleasing and perfectionism. Stepping into the arena with shame resilience.
Becoming
Choosing wholehearted living over numbing. Writing the manifesto of the truer self. Building a life grounded in joy, connection, and genuine recovery.
Available as a 12-week group program and a 3-day residential intensive
Both options integrate the Bloom workbook, The Daring Way™ shame resilience curriculum, and a clinical framework that treats hormonal transition as central to recovery.
You don't have to keep white-knuckling it alone
A 15-minute consultation is always the place to start. No commitment, no pressure — just a conversation to see if this is the right fit.
All sessions available via Zoom across Canada
