A little over three years ago, I started noticing that something was “off” with my body.  I was no longer tolerating foods I had always eaten, I wasn’t sleeping through the night, I was always feeling anxious and while I hadn’t changed my eating or my workout regimen – I was steadily gaining weight.  Initially I blew it off as stress.  As a mom of three with a full-time job, a part-time job and everything in between…who wouldn’t be stressed?  I tried to meditate it away, massage it away, vacation it away – and while those things do help and are important – they weren’t enough.

After a few doctor visits and bloodwork, I learned that I was dealing with hormonal imbalance due to perimenopause.  My type A personality took the news very lightly.  “Ok cool, I will just fight this like I have fought everything else.  I will eat even less and workout even more!  I will get over this in no time!”  These past three years have determined – “That was a lie!”  I wasn’t able to successfully address my perimenopause because I wasn’t facing it.  I was treating it like I knew what it was…but I didn’t.

“Let’s Face It!”  Sometimes we don’t have all the answers.  Sometimes, when we are doing our very best, we still miss the mark.  Sometimes we can’t go off of what we think we know and need to enlist more help.  I have now been introduced to a world of probiotics, prebiotics, magnesium and black cohosh!  I thought I just needed to drink more water!  Slowly but surely, I am now finding my way and coming up with a plan to help me thrive.  I hope that if you find yourself in a season of unfamiliarity that you enlist all the help you need.  You deserve it.  I’m here if you need me.