05/28/2026
I lost 160 pounds. I beat stage 2 thyroid cancer. I’d built a career, gotten remarried, and by every outside measure I had it together.
And then perimenopause walked in and nearly took me out.
I’ve never said this part out loud to most of you. There was a stretch where I was so far down that I wrote out a list of mental health facilities for my husband, just in case. I genuinely thought something was deeply wrong with me. I thought I was the problem.
It wasn’t me. It was my hormones shifting, and not one person around me was connecting the dots.
Perimenopause is not just hot flashes and missed periods. It can hit your mind and your body at the same time the anxiety, the 3am wake-ups, the rage, the weight that won’t move and too many women get handed an antidepressant and sent home without anyone ever looking at the full picture. (And to be clear, there’s nothing wrong with that medication when it’s truly needed. I just knew, in my body, that something else was going on too.)
So if you’re in it right now, start here. Track the pattern, not just one symptom it’s the cluster showing up together that points to peri. And when you go to your doctor, don’t just ask for “hormones.” Ask for a full thyroid panel (TSH, free T3, free T4, and antibodies not just TSH), estradiol and progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, and SHBG, plus fasting insulin and a morning cortisol. And ask them to look at your free hormone levels, not just the totals. That’s so often where the real answers are hiding.
I came back from the bottom. If you’re standing where I was, I promise you can too.
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Save this for the hard days. And send it to a friend who’s been told “it’s all in your head.” 🤍