On an evening in March of 2020, I had just gotten home from working an 11-hour day at my corporate real estate job.  I bent down to get something out of the kitchen cabinet, hit my head, and burst into tears.  It didn’t even hurt.  Not really.

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Dramatic, right?  Maybe.

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My sleep was a disaster, my memory was shot, and I was overweight and fatigued despite working out consistently and eating right.  I couldn’t figure out what was going on!  I felt alone and totally out of control of my body.

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I  looked at my husband and said, “I’m done; I need a time-out.  I need to get to the bottom of this because I can’t keep whatever this is up anymore!” 

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The truth was that I was burnt out.

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The following week, our office shut down due to Covid, and the decision was made that we were working from home indefinitely.  Although not ideal circumstances, my time-out was handed to me.

 

A month later, I stood in the deli line at the grocery store, masked up and gloved up, and had my first hot flash.  As it turned out, I had started perimenopause during a Pandemic. 

 

Filled with disgust and frustration at the dearth of information and attention given to perimenopause, menopause, and other women's health issues, I started a podcast about the subject.  A few months later, I returned to school for a health coaching certification and to finish my Pilates apparatus training. 

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Like many people, I arrived in the health and wellness space to understand my own body, which led to a desire to help and educate others. With so little health information available for women, it became my goal to fill that gap, reminding women that they are not alone.