You are 44. Your period arrived twice this month, you woke at 3 a.m. for the fourth night running, and a friend told you that you must be in menopause. You are probably not. Perimenopause vs menopause is one of the most common points of confusion we hear from women looking for menopause and perimenopause […]
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You brought a list to your appointment. You had thought about it for weeks before you booked. Exhausted. Gaining weight without changing anything. Hair coming out in the shower. Cold all the time. Foggy. Flat in a way that is not quite sadness. Your thyroid gets checked. The result comes back normal. You are told […]
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The invitation arrives in June. A wedding, a cottage weekend, a beach day with friends you have known for twenty years. And somewhere between saying yes and finding something to wear, a quieter thought surfaces. What happened to my body? You have not changed how you eat. If anything, you eat less carefully now than […]
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It is 3:07 a.m. You are awake, again. The room is warm. The sheets are damp. Your mind has already started running through tomorrow’s list, and the harder you try to fall back asleep, the further away it gets. By July, many women have stopped expecting anything different. Sleep has become something that happens to […]
You are standing on a patio in Burlington in the middle of July. The sun has been down for an hour. Everyone else is comfortable. And then it starts, that unmistakable rise from your chest into your neck and face, the flush, the sweat, the sudden urgent need to be somewhere cold. If you have […]
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You’ve always known your skin. You knew its tendencies, its rhythms, what it liked and what it didn’t. And then, somewhere in your late 30s or early 40s, it changed. More dryness than before. A dullness that doesn’t lift with moisturizer. Fine lines appearing faster than expected. Or, confusingly — breakouts, after years of clear […]
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Calling all women! Interested to learn more about hormones? I will be a guest speaker at Blueberry Clinic’s Virtual Women’s Health Series on Thursday June 11th. Sign up today by emailing blueberrytherapy@gmail.com. There is no fee and the program runs for a few weeks (different speakers each time). It is from 7:30-8:30pm. To learn more, check […]
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Hot flashes can seriously impact a woman’s quality of life during the perimenopause and menopause years. Perimenopause is defined as the years prior to menopause when women experience shorter, longer, and/or irregular menstrual cycles which can be attributed to decreases in hormones such as estrogen. This period can range from a few months up […]
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