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Ann Marie McQueen has focused on the spectrum of complementary and mainstream health care for much of her 30-year journalism career. That includes covering the early days of marijuana law reform, holistic and alternative treatments, transgender issues and abortion rights in North America and accessibility, solar power, and the Special Olympics in the Middle East. She has worked as a national columnist for Sun Media in Canada, was part of the launch team and served as news, arts and life, and features editor for The National newspaper in the UAE, and was the first sustainability columnist in the Gulf. Ann Marie is the founding editor-in-chief of Live healthy, the only health and wellness platform for men and women in the Middle East. She has written and reported for the Globe and Mail, CBC Radio, CBC The World This Weekend, Women's and Men's Health Middle East, Vogue Arabia and Harper's Bazaar Arabia. She has been recognized with awards in health and excellence in feature writing from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada, Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario and ITP Publishing in Dubai. Ann Marie launched Hotflash inc in June 2020 to cover the latest clinical studies, treatments, products, guidance and more via a weekly research letter, podcastand across social media. Hotflash inc subscribers include some of the top CEOs, doctorsand other practitioners in the space, alongside curious, open-minded women and other folks seeking to connect the dotsand find their own solutions,all part ofafast-growing 20k+ global community living across 40+ countries.

It’s not too late to get an All Access Pass to the 2025 Hotflash inc Summit!⁠⁠36 powerhouse speakers leading conversatio...
21/12/2025

It’s not too late to get an All Access Pass to the 2025 Hotflash inc Summit!⁠

36 powerhouse speakers leading conversations to help you navigate perimenopause and menopause with confidence.⁠

From hormones and healthcare to movement, mindset, beauty, and beyond. This is about awareness, education, and empowerment.⁠ And zero fear.⁠

You get lifetime access to all 40 videos, as well as Hotflash inc Summit Book of Knowledge (top takeaways from all the interviews) and the BETA version of the Hotflash inc Hormone Therapy Navigator.⁠

Find all the details: https://summit.hotflashinc.com/all-access?ac=UrUKm85J⁠

AM x⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

The science-backed tool that’s actually helping me relax.Ninja Jr and I are both healing, I guess. I’m sharing this beca...
21/12/2025

The science-backed tool that’s actually helping me relax.

Ninja Jr and I are both healing, I guess.

I’m sharing this because in the middle of all this chaos, I found a tool that brought a little peace.

Yours in chilling out,
AM x

19/12/2025

Episode 190 of The Hotflash inc Podcast is out 🎙️⁠

In this conversation I talk to Sonja Rincón CEO and Co-Founder of ⁠

We dive into perimenopause, hormone therapy, and what happens when women use data, pattern recognition, and lived experience to take their health seriously.⁠

We talk misdiagnosis, symptom tracking, why most tools fall short, and how better information can change the way women advocate for themselves in midlife.⁠

🎧 Listen to the full conversation wherever you listen to your podcasts.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Thank you to for sponsoring this podcast. Powered by Mitopure®, Timeline’s clinically proven Urolithin A gummies are designed to boost energy and support healthy aging at the cellular level. Use code HOTFLASH at timeline.com for 20% off your first order.⁠

19/12/2025

Just prepping the podcast this weekend 🎙️

I’m speaking to Sonja Rincón in Austria — the founder of Menotracker, an AI-powered app built by a woman, for women navigating perimenopause.

Sonja was frustrated by the whole system: how she was treated, how her friends were treated, and how most symptom trackers felt like they were built for data owners, not for women. She’s a data person — but also deeply concerned about privacy. With your data stays yours. Full stop.

We talk about her own hormone therapy journey (including the reality that patches aren’t available in Austria), how she figured out her dosing, and what it really takes to build a menopause tech company from the ground up.

We also get into language access — most menopause information is still only in English. She’s changing that. I’m working on it too.

This episode drops Friday on the Hotflash inc Podcast — wherever you get your podcasts.

Funny + Meaningful things I saw this week⁠.⁠⁠Which slide(s) for you?⁠⁠⁠Credit from the first post onwards:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...
19/12/2025

Funny + Meaningful things I saw this week⁠.⁠

Which slide(s) for you?⁠

⁠Credit from the first post onwards:⁠






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18/12/2025

I know it’s hard but it’s going somewhere good.

17/12/2025

In episode 189 of The Hotflash inc Podcast I talk to Dr. Elkins, the leading researcher in the field of clinical hypnosis for menopause.⁠

In this clip, we talk about:⁠

How clinicians actually measure hot flash severity⁠
👉 Why sleep disruption and night sweats matter just as much⁠
👉 What the research shows after a 5-week self-hypnosis program⁠
👉 And whether the benefits last beyond treatment — including impacts on sleep and anxiety⁠

🎧️ Listen to the full conversation wherever you get your podcasts.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

16/12/2025

How do you see menopause?⁠

I appeared on the Pro-Aging panel at the We The Women event and we had such a great conversation about this topic.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

It takes a lot for something new to earn a spot in my rotation — especially when it comes to supplements, skincare or an...
14/12/2025

It takes a lot for something new to earn a spot in my rotation — especially when it comes to supplements, skincare or anything in the self-care realm.⁠
I'm always trying to pare things down, not pile more on. But every so often, something comes along that really stands out.⁠

Go to https://www.hotflashinc.com/shop to check out the brands — plus a special discount code for being part of the hotflash inc menoposse 🔗⁠

📌 This is not an ad⁠
📌 If you order using one of my codes, Hotflash inc receives a small commission.⁠

AM⁠ ❤️⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

12/12/2025

🎙️ NEW Episode of The Hotflash inc Podcast is out now.⁠

In episode 189 of The Hotflash inc Podcast I talk to Dr. Elkins, the leading researcher in the field of clinical hypnosis for menopause, with more than 25 years of experience and more 100 peer-reviewed publications.⁠

We explore the groundbreaking science behind hypnosis for hot flashes, its surprising effectiveness (up to 70% reduction!), how it works in the brain, why it matters for breast cancer survivors, and how hypnosis may also support sleep, stress, and other midlife symptoms.⁠

🎧 Listen to the full conversation wherever you listen to your podcasts.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
Thank you to for sponsoring this podcast. Powered by Mitopure®, Timeline’s clinically proven Urolithin A gummies are designed to boost energy and support healthy aging at the cellular level. Use code HOTFLASH at timeline.com for 20% off your first order.⁠

12/12/2025

Normalize screaming in perimenopause when it’s safe and we won’t scare people?⁠

Instant mood lift.⁠
Free therapy.⁠
Zero side effects. (Maybe a slight sore throat)⁠

Your nervous system wants it OUT…⁠

…before it explodes IN.⁠

Released > repressed.⁠

Primal scream therapy was developed by Arthur Janov back in the 1960s to help people access and release deep-seated childhood trauma by expressing what they weren’t allowed to feel at the time — including full-body screams.⁠

While it’s not widely practiced in its original form today, the core idea remains: trapped emotions finding a physical release.⁠

He wrote a book about it in 1970, The Primal Scream: Primal Therapy, The Cure for Neurosis, with the concept becoming popularized by celebrity advocates like John Lennon and Yoko Ono.⁠

Janov’s primal therapy was largely marginalized by mainstream psychology and considered pseudoscience.⁠

But there was obviously something there, and it’s seen a recurgence in recent years in modalities like breathwork (I do 9D), which use specific breathing patterns to build up to the ‘primal’ release.⁠

More recently, the marketplace has offered controlled spaces - like rage rooms - for people to yell, break things and get out what’s been locked inside.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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