because midlife stress, perimenopause & boundaries don’t come with a manual — but this is pretty close

Hormone therapy conversations are loud — and often extreme. You’re either told it’s dangerous… or that it will fix everything. Neither is true. What Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) Is Hormone therapy replaces hormones (estrogen & progesterone) that are being produced less by your body during perimenopause and menopause. The hormone changes are unpredictable, so sometimes HRT helps with the effects of reduced hormones. HRT can: Reduce symptom intensity Improve sleep and mood

Many women reach a point where they’re doing “all the right things” — and still don’t feel okay. This is often where shame sneaks in: “Maybe I didn’t try hard enough.” That’s not what’s happening. Lifestyle vs Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) Is a False Choice Lifestyle support and hormone therapy are not competing options. Lifestyle care: Protects long-term healthspan Supports metabolism, bone, and nervous system health Makes medical treatments work better Hormone therapy:

Early perimenopause symptoms can feel confusing and overwhelming. Learn what actually helps first — sleep, stress, blood sugar, and strength — before supplements or HRT.

You’re exhausted. Your sleep is trash. Your emotions feel unpredictable. Your body feels unfamiliar. And somewhere between forgetting why you walked into the kitchen and crying because the dishwasher beeped too loudly, you start wondering: Is this perimenopause… or am I actually losing my mind? Let me say this clearly, right up front: 👉  You are not broken. You are not weak. And you are not losing your mind. What you’re experiencing is incredibly common — and incredibly unde

How’re your hormones treating you these days (not a joke!)? If you’ve been anywhere near the midlife corners of the internet lately, you may have seen the news: The FDA is removing the black box warning from Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for perimenopausal and menopausal women. And listen — I’m the last person to throw confetti for federal health decisions. But this one? This one actually makes sense. What This DOESN’T Mean: It doesn’t mean every woman now needs to hop on

Let’s be real. When something weird pops up in your body — a new pain, hot flash, or random heart flutter — you’re gonna Google it. We all do. But here’s the frustrating truth: most of what shows up in those search results wasn’t written for midlife women. A 2024 Lancet  series called menopause research “decades behind other medical fields.” And the NIH’s latest women’s health plan literally lists midlife women as an “underserved population.” So when we search, we’re working