You Did Everything Right. Perimenopause Still Showed Up.

There are so many other women who are maybe at the cusp of perimenopause right now, almost feeling like they're white knuckling it.

And perhaps up at three o'clock in the morning, feeling that sense of anxiety, feeling that sense of doom, And using all of their powerful skills to just push through and get to the other side, perhaps having an inkling that perimenopause is involved, but overwhelmed with the options of where to start.

If you could go back to you.

first experiencing these symptoms, first experiencing that sense of almost a loss of control and loneliness and overwhelm, what would you say to her and how would you begin to support her in those first lonely, out of control stages?

The first thing to understand is that this is biological.

100% of women go through perimenopause.

Just like we provide so much grace to young girls going through puberty and all of their hormonal fluctuations, we get to show the same grace to us women as we enter.

So that's number one.

A lot of women come to me saying, oh my God, I thought I was broken.

You're not broken.

There are tools that you can have at your disposal where you can walk through this phase really smoothly, I would go find yourself a functional medicine team of doctors who look at your entire body and look at optimizing your hormones.

Don't wait until... your symptoms are really bad because it takes that much longer to pull yourself out of that ditch.

It's that much more expensive to pull yourself out of that ditch.

So please don't wait.

The longer you wait, the deeper that ditch gets.

So that's where I would say you start.

Surround yourself with some really good female friends.

We talk about treating lab work all the time.

Go get your blood work done, get your labs treated.

We rarely miss.

And midlife can be a very lonely time, especially with high achieving women who are trying to build companies.

Being all the way at the top as it is, is a lonely place to be.

You're trying to maintain this image.

In addition to that, not having friends that you can truly open up and fall apart in front of and recognize that they love you regardless.

is a really lonely place to be.