Your symptoms are not random.
They’re not a character flaw. They’re not just getting older. And you were never imagining them. They form a pattern, and most women never get to see theirs.
This is the workshop I most wanted to start with. Not because perimenopause is having a moment, but because so much of what we get told about it is incomplete, and because this is where women get dismissed more than anywhere else.
What we got into
Why you can have a period every single month and still be missing the hormone that keeps you calm and sleeping. This is the one that explains why one month feels manageable and the next one doesn’t.
How perimenopause gets missed completely in women who don’t have a regular cycle. I almost missed my own, and I’m a nurse.
Why your labs can come back perfectly normal in the middle of all this, and the one stretch where they finally tell you something useful.
The symptoms nobody warns you about. Itchy ears. Burning tongue. Vertigo. Bumping into door frames. Yes, those can all be on the list.
Six hormones, not two. Most of the conversation stops at estrogen and progesterone. The other four are often the ones actually running the show.
The triangle that explains why you finally get one thing under control and something else immediately flares up.
And the seven patterns. Hot and Bothered. Cortisol Craver. Liver Lover. Mighty Mito. Blocked Burner. Running on Empty. Unicorn. One of them is yours, and knowing which one changes where you start.