30/03/2026
If I could rewind 5 years and talk to 39-year-old-Melissa – I would tell her that she wasn’t going crazy. She wasn’t imagining things. She was at the beginning of her perimenopause journey and all she needed was a new approach (not to keep doing the same things she had always done and expect to feel better).
These are the signs I wish I had noticed earlier:
😴 I wasn’t sleeping the same – I was having random wake ups through the night & I just wasn’t getting the same good quality sleep anymore.
🙄 My belly was getting ‘squishier’ – I was eating the same, doing the same exercise, but my pants just started feeling tighter around my middle. I couldn’t just ‘eat well’ and see results anymore.
😫 Stress felt like it hit harder and my anxiety was more intense – I just wasn’t coping with the demands of life in the same way. I couldn’t juggle as many balls and my capacity was less.
🩸 My periods were getting heavier and each month felt like the flood gates opened – I felt like had reverted back to my early menstrual years when I was 16. I was bleeding through onto my bed sheets, being careful when I stood up in fear of blood flooding onto my pants, running off to the toilet every few hours to change my pads, & seeing chucky clots fall onto the bathroom floor when I was showering.
😬 My hair was getting thinner – every time I washed my hair, clumps of it would end up being left in my hands. I felt like my ponytail was getting less voluminous and my hairline was thinning out.
😵💫 I was forgetting things and I felt like the simplest of tasks required my full focus – I would sit down to work and get easily distracted, which meant that it would take me twice as long to complete the task I set out to do. Keeping lists was an essential part of life.
If you are ready to face the reality of perimenopause – but in a way that feels empowering (not panicky), then I have a created a quiz that will instantly give you your ‘PERIMENOPAUSE SCORE’. From here you will understand exactly where you are at on your perimenopause journey and be able to get clarity to be proactive about what support your body is asking for.
Comment: QUIZ and I will send you the link.
