The site FindingMeno.com is offered as my humble attempt to show the distillate of what I would have liked to know about perimenopause. Symptoms were so severe that I had very limited energy, all the while I was not even sure yet whether my condition had anything to do with perimenopause at all.
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Hyperresilience is not the same as health
We are taught that hyperresilience is a superpower. What midlife tends to make visible is: What we call resilience is often just the capacity to take a punch. And the body, right now, is asking to stop taking punches.
Resilience, at its root, means to resist well,
Is It Burnout or Perimenopause? Understanding The Difference
Fatigue, mood swings, disrupted sleep, less resilience… the overlap of symptoms (and not only the symptoms) is confusing. A diffuse change, not for the better, in capacity. Most people in their thirties and forties encounter some version of this. It is a diagnostic problem a) because
Perimenopause Fatigue | Why Hormones Are Not the Whole Story
Perimenopause requires a new strategy. Symptoms like fatigue and brain fog are often regarded as hormonal inconveniences. But for people with a history of hyper-resilience or CPTSD (which happen to often coincide with structural racism and misogyny), these symptoms signal a decades long load which is