🙋♀️Do you feel like something has changed lately, like you are adrift at sea and just not yourself?
🤦♀️Do your find yourself awake at 3am, wired, tired, not sleeping? Is your attempt at sleep hot and uncomfortable, perhaps you have experienced a night sweat or two?
🙍♀️Do you feel more anxious than you ever remember, and like your confidence has vanished? Are you questioning yourself, who you thought you were and everything around you, what your purpose is?
🙎♀️Do you feel a constant sense of exhaustion, overwhelm, and find yourself avoiding your partner, social situations, family situations, and struggling to get out of bed?
🙋♀️Do you feel irritable, enraged, have sudden mood swings, bouts of intense anger and find yourself becoming argumentative with those you love or in your work environment?
🤦♀️Do names escape you, did you walk into a room and forget why, or can’t remember something you know you know, but it is right on the tip of your tongue?
🙍♀️Do you now experience joint and muscle aches that were not there before and feel like your body is in a constant state of inflammation?
🙎♀️Do you feel like your clothes no longer fit, your weight has shifted, and you have become frustrated by your increasing weight despite dieting and exercising?
🙋♀️Have you been told that you are depressed, working to hard and stressed at work, too young to be in perimenopause and dismissed by the medical profession?
If you have answered yes to any of the above questions and have been completely blindsided or feel like you have been getting slowly boiled by the symptoms of perimenopause and have been struggling for some time, then you are not alone!
I see you; I feel you; I am you, because I am living through the experience of Perimenopause, just like you, right now!
I had never even heard the term ‘Perimenopause’ until I was at least 2 years into my own personal experience. And because I was not aware of the distinction between Perimenopause and Menopause, I continued to suffer in silence and to be misdiagnosed and because of what I went through I am making sure you do not have to live through the same story.
My personal perimenopause journey inspired me to keep asking questions and to keep learning, so that I could help as many women as possible. I am a Licensed Menopause Champion, (or as I like to call myself “Meno Concierge”) as certified by Menopause Experts Group and I have been a mentor for many years with the Adelaide University.
