by Lori Stevic-Rust, PhD ABPP | Aug 30, 2026 | Becoming Real with Dr Lori Podcast
I walked into a room last week and forgot why I was there. Then I lost a word I use all the time and stood there waiting, certain my brain would eventually hand it back to me. If you’re a woman in midlife, I suspect you know this feeling — and I suspect you also...
by Lori Stevic-Rust, PhD ABPP | Aug 22, 2026 | Becoming Real with Dr Lori Podcast
Painful sex, lower desire and changes in orgasm are common during menopause and after cancer treatment—but many women never mention them to their doctors. And too often, their doctors never ask. In this episode, I talk with Dr. Rachel Pope, a gynecologic surgeon and...
by Lori Stevic-Rust, PhD ABPP | Aug 15, 2026 | Becoming Real with Dr Lori Podcast
The tragic Lindsay Clancy trial is all over the news right now, and at the center of much of the conversation is postpartum mental health. Her case is raising difficult questions about postpartum depression, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, OCD and, at the most severe end...
by Lori Stevic-Rust, PhD ABPP | Aug 9, 2026 | Becoming Real with Dr Lori Podcast
FOR MORE THAN forty years, women have walked into my office and said some version of the same things. I don’t feel like myself anymore. My brain feels foggy. I’m anxious all the time. I can’t sleep. I’m so irritable, and I don’t...
by Lori Stevic-Rust, PhD ABPP | Aug 1, 2026 | Becoming Real with Dr Lori Podcast
A few weeks ago I sat down with my friend Pat Schraff to talk about the SAVE Act, and what I thought I was doing was one episode about names. About what women have historically had taken from them, and what it means when the name on your birth certificate is no longer...
by Lori Stevic-Rust, PhD ABPP | Jul 25, 2026 | Becoming Real with Dr Lori Podcast
The other day my daughter called me, half joking, to say that somebody should invent adult recess. That it should become a thing. We laughed, and then we hung up, and then her comment did what the true ones always do — it followed me around for days. Because I do miss...
