The Hormone Changes Behind Anxiety, Brain Fog & Poor Sleep | Dr Sohère Roked

Something I'm starting to notice is how people are blaming a lot on menopause.

As if everything that happens in a woman's midlife is because of declining hormones.

Yeah.

But it is a really, it can be a very difficult time for women.

You know, young children, aging parents, big jobs, loss of identity.

How much do you think we are conflating menopause with midlife?

Yeah.

So, yeah, that's a really interesting question, actually.

That is a really good question because there's a lot of stuff that comes up.

And like you said, real practical things like work, aging parents.

childcare a lot of the time still, you know, because people are having children later in life and things, you know, relationship things, friendship things.

But I think it's also because, you know, like when you start your period, it's like an initiation where you're transitioning from, you know, child to adolescent into womanhood.

And midlife is that transition from adult woman into your wise woman.

And I think often if you fight against that, it can make it a bit worse.

So I think some acceptance around that stage of life can also help.

And I know that's really difficult because of all the messaging we get with media and things like that, you know, over the hill, past it, your best years are behind you.

And there is with menopause, that real, you know, loss of fertility, which can be really difficult for a lot of women as well.

I, you know, so I've gone from being a fertile woman to a woman who's no longer of childbearing age.

And I think it's important to feel those things.

I don't think, you know, bearing emotions is a good thing because it comes out in a weird way later on if you do that.

But once, you know, you've had the grieving period or, you know, accepting the change, acknowledging any loss that's there as well, really spending the time looking at it as a new positive stage of life and what can now be done in this stage of life, you know, the new ideas, the wisdom you're bringing, the way you can support other women like you're doing and things like that as well is huge.

It's like so beautiful.

I think it's an amazing opportunity for

transition.

And I also think it's not about trying to hold on to who we were, right? It's about stepping into who we are becoming.