Tag: cognitive health
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There’s a Particular Kind of Exhaustion That Comes From Realizing Your Hormones Have Started Making Executive Decisions Without Consulting You
The piece explores the emotional and physical shifts women experience during perimenopause and menopause, highlighting how hormonal changes impact stress tolerance, emotional regulation, and sensory processing. It emphasizes the need for self-compassion and collaboration with one’s body instead of attempting to maintain control, reframing this transition as an opportunity for growth and new leadership.
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Embrace Slowness: A Guide for Perimenopausal Clarity
For many women, perimenopause arrives with an unexpected cognitive shock. Thoughts feel louder.Memory feels unreliable.Focus fragments.Decision-making takes more effort than it used to. The cultural reflex is to treat this as a productivity problem—or worse, a personal failure. But from a neurological perspective, something else is happening entirely. The perimenopausal brain is not breaking down.It…