Perimenopause 101

You’ve been white-knuckling it through the anxiety for what feels like forever. The racing thoughts at 3am. The dread that […]

You fall asleep just fine. Head hits the pillow, maybe you read for ten minutes, lights out. And then —

You started progesterone hoping to feel better. Maybe you’d finally get some sleep. Maybe the anxiety would ease up. Maybe

Let me be honest with you about something. There’s a symptom affecting the majority of women in perimenopause and menopause

You sat in that doctor’s office and tried to explain it. The 3am wake-ups. The heart racing out of nowhere.

You’re eating well. You’re moving your body. You’re doing the things you’ve always done — maybe even more of them.

You snapped at your kid over something tiny. You white-knuckled your way through a work meeting because a colleague chewed

“`html You’re mid-sentence and the word just… disappears. You can see the thing. You know exactly what it does. But

You were fine. And then, somewhere around your late thirties or early forties, you weren’t. Not in a way you

You wake up at 2am drenched. We’re talking sheet-soaking, hair-plastered-to-your-face, did-I-just-swim-here drenched. And the first thing everyone says — your