Christina Hackett
The Health Courage Collective
The Health Courage Collective Podcast is for women who are too busy to slog through hours of generalized, inapplicable and often contradictory health information, but too smart to ignore that a few minutes of focused attention now can prevent years of suffering in the future. Hosted by Christina Hackett - a pharmacist who doesn’t want you to live on prescriptions, a certified coach specifically trained to maximize your potential, and a compulsive learner obsessed with preventative, cutting edge, holistic and integrative medicine. Take a few minutes a week to increase your physical and mental r...
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Christina Hackett
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Jul 8, 2026
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237: Increase Happiness in Any Area of Life 14.01.2026 16:56
Visit my website: www.healthcouragecollective.com If you’re not very happy in one area of your life, there is a basic principle that you can use to increase your happiness in that area. We have a lot of different areas of our life that affect our enjoyment now and our odds of being able to keep living the way we want to when we’re elderly. If your level of happiness in an area of your life (like...
236: How to Take Your Estrogen (oral vs. topical) 07.01.2026 29:22
Click HERE to learn how a world class hormone replacement therapy regimen is put together You understand that whether or not to take estrogen matters to your experience of perimenopause and menopause. But a question you might not be asked is how you want to take your estrogen. And the answer matters. Estrogen pills produce different effects in your body than topical estrogen (via a cream or a p...
235: Let This Secret Group Help You Live at an Elite Level (orig pub 5/15/24) 31.12.2025 26:29
Download your FREE canva template for your board of directors here: www.healthcouragecollective.com/board Would you be more likely to sail through menopause and beyond well prepared and well resourced to feel great and live and give more if you had a set of elite level consultants giving you advice and encouragement and acting as a sounding board to help you advance toward your best self? my web...
234: How to Get What You Want With Your Hormone Health 24.12.2025 15:18
Join the Hormone Confidence Beta Program Waitlist Here !! A world-class hormone regimen can be pretty life changing at the time of perimenopause and beyond to help you live and give more as you get older, rather than less. It’s not just about not suffering from debilitating symptoms of perimenopause, although it most certainly does that, too, but it can help you provide resources to all of your...
233: Do I Need DHEA? 17.12.2025 17:27
Join my hormone mastery Beta Program Waitlist here!! When exploring hormonal or midlife health, have you heard it recommended that you take DHEA? If you’re curious about how helpful DHEA can be or whether it can help you as a woman in your 40s or 50s, you’re in the right place. I want you to age abnormally well, and I think understanding DHEA’s role in your healthspan will help you make wise dec...
232: How to Think When You Don't Feel Like Yourself 10.12.2025 15:50
Perimenopausal changes in hormones can make it feel like your personality is getting hijacked and you’re suddenly not yourself anymore. There are different helpful routes you can take to start feeling like you again. Today we’re going to talk about how to think in the meantime. Link to free mp3 download of empowering questions: https://www.healthcouragecollective.com/empowering-3856 Find all f...
231: What I Didn't Know Before About Building Bones that Don't Break Part 2 03.12.2025 17:44
An unfortunately all too common way to lose your autonomy and stop living before you die, and to die sooner and more painfully, is to suffer an osteoporotic fracture in your old age. The time to prevent that from happening to you in your 80s is right now. And it’s not about calcium, vitamin D, or even bone mineral density. Most of what you’ve heard about bone health as you age is wrong or not e...
230: What I didn't Know Before About Building Bones That Don't Break part 1 26.11.2025 23:12
An unfortunately all too common way to lose your autonomy and stop living before you die, and to die sooner and more painfully, is to suffer an osteoporotic fracture in your old age. The time to prevent that from happening to you in your 80s is right now. And it’s not about calcium, vitamin D, or even bone mineral density. Most of what you’ve heard about bone health as you age is wrong or not e...
229: The Missing Piece of Your Health Improvement Plan 19.11.2025 16:20
Of the many ways to evolve and become more of who you want to be and feel how you want to feel in your body as you move toward menopause and beyond, there’s one systematic way of thinking that is often overlooked. So most people miss out on the opportunity to grow in this different way (that also happens to be more fun). Come to my website: www.healthcouragecollective.com Are you ready to give...
228: Testosterone: The Missing Note in Midlife's Symphony 12.11.2025 22:01
One of women's main hormones that keeps us sharp and strong and helps us feel like ourselves is so overlooked by most prescribers that they only think to prescribe it to midlife women for one single condition. But it does way more than one thing, and you don’t want to miss out on its benefits as you navigate perimenopause. Learn how to advocate for your hormone health and get the elite level peri...
227: What Do you NOT Want to Know? 05.11.2025 21:49
Have you ever said “uhh… I don’t want to know.” Are there some health metrics you’re purposely avoiding because you don’t want to know what they have to say? While we often convince ourselves that it’s scary, knowing the truth actually allows you to relax and expand your life in ways you never thought possible. Avoiding it keeps you stuck. Visit my website: www.heatlhcouragecollective.com Are y...
226: It's Alive! Bring Your Health Goals Back From the Dead 29.10.2025 20:28
Find more complete show notes here: https://www.healthcouragecollective.com/podcast/b/226 If you’d like to create a breakthrough that will give you a better future, it’s not going to happen from being haphazard, scattered, or vague. Your problem isn’t that you don’t have enough willpower. You just need a method that allows setbacks to be THE THING that drives your life forward. No more stumbli...
225: The Biology of Facial Aging 22.10.2025 26:34
More Complete Show Notes Here: https://www.healthcouragecollective.com/podcast/b/225 We know the appearance of our face changes as we get older, but it’s hard to define what, exactly is different. I think you’re beautiful and you absolutely do not need to do anything to your face for any reason. But if facial aging is something you think about, I think knowledge is power and understanding the bi...
224: Making Intentional Change Easier 15.10.2025 25:26
Find more complete show notes here: https://www.healthcouragecollective.com/podcast/b/224 Being able to voluntarily change your behavior to create the life you want is a next-level skill that you can use to create any life you want. If you can’t appropriately diagnose what’s holding you back from making the changes you want to make, you’ll stay stuck and frustrated and thinking there’s something...
223: Overlooked Risks of Hormone Replacement Therapy 08.10.2025 29:51
Ready to get clear about exactly what you want to do about your changing midlife hormones and how you're going to make it happen? Get on the waitlist for my new beta program where we'll get you clear, confident and prepared to handle your changing hormone levels and get the care you deserve. Join the waitlist here: https://www.healthcouragecollective.com/waitlist-join-page Find more complete show...
222: Change Your Life With These 3 Questions 01.10.2025 17:34
If you’re looking to be more intentional with your next 40+ years, honor the remaining time you’re gifted, create more of what you want, and enjoy the process; then regularly deploying these 3 questions is for you. There’s a Tony Robbins quote that says “Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” Let’s get better a...
221: Stop Letting Sleeplessness Age You 24.09.2025 24:23
Despite the fact that we spend ⅓ of our life sleeping, sleep can sometimes feel elusive, mysterious and frustratingly out of our control. If you understand the importance of sleep, but just can’t get yourself to sleep as well as you wish you could, understanding the 3 systems that affect sleep might help give you some ideas of ways you hadn’t thought of to optimize your sleep. CBT-I directory: ht...
220: What's Draining You? Shift from Frustration to Focus 17.09.2025 22:09
Have you heard of “energy vampires?” Like, how your coffee maker, printer and speakers use electricity that you have to pay for if they’re still plugged in, even when they’re off? What if you got only a certain allotment of kilowatt hours for your house for the day? You could do way more of what you want with the limited energy you’re given if you unplug all of that other stuff. There’s someth...
219: 10 Hormone Replacement Therapy Mistakes 10.09.2025 27:21
Hormone replacement therapy can be a game-changer for midlife women, but there are some very common mistakes that I frequently see watering down the positive effects of hormone therapy for midlife women. Let’s talk about 10 of them so that you’re able to make a plan for you that will give you all the benefits that matter to you. Take my Udemy Course about the basics of bioidentical hormone replac...
218: Why is it So Hard to Find a Good Hormone Doctor? 03.09.2025 24:53
It’s pretty obvious that our healthcare system is not helping midlife women thrive. The limited and often suppressed information available to women is confusing enough on its own. Then once you finally dive in and make some sense of how you want to approach your hormonal health, why is it so hard to find a good prescriber to work with? Take my Udemy Course about the basics of bioidentical hormon...
217: An Easy Way to Outsmart the #1 Killer of Women 27.08.2025 20:45
There’s a test you can do yourself at home to get a lot of good data about how likely you are to stop living due to the #1 cause of death in women. The best part is that it’s free and easy and if it comes back not optimal, you have time to start doing simple things now so that you make it to your 80s in unusually good health. send me a message with questions, suggestions, or ideas of things you n...
216: The Antidote to Worrying About Aging 20.08.2025 23:36
What you focus on multiples, right? It’s totally natural to worry about the future, your aging biology in particular. But even though it feels useful -like you’re doing something, it won’t prevent the chronic diseases of aging. If anything, it will make them more likely. And it will make the years between now and then a lot less fun. What worries you about aging? send me a message: healthcou...
215: Your 6th Vital Sign (orig pub 7/6/22) 13.08.2025 21:59
Vital signs are the indicators of how well our bodies are functioning. This week we talk about an important measure of your health and longevity. If you want to improve the functioning of your immune system, decrease your risk for alzheimers and other chronic diseases, improve your insulin sensitivity, and be more injury and debility resistant, this episode is for you. This is a high-leverage a...
214: The Problem With Trying to Fix Your Problems 06.08.2025 19:46
Sometimes there are problems with trying to fix your problems. You can hack your behavior, do more and more actions, procure more desirable circumstances and really perfect a limited version of yourself. One who never grows or progresses or frees herself to create the astounding future you deserve. Or you can start seeing your approach to problems differently. come visit my website: www.healthc...
213: Every Woman Should be on This Prescription 30.07.2025 27:43
There’s a prescription I think almost every woman should eventually be on, but most of them don’t know that it could improve their future. Things change as we age, but there’s no reason to suffer unnecessarily, especially when there are cheap and easy solutions that can help you live more as you get older, rather than less. If you want to improve your overall resilience while lowering your risk...
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