Millions of women are living with the signs right now: the anxiety, the broken sleep, the brain fog, the creeping rage but they have absolutely no idea what is causing it.

You are not falling apart and you are not suddenly bad at your job. You are not becoming someone your family should worry about and you are not losing your mind. The answer is far more simple than that: you are perimenopausal — and the reason nobody told you is that most of us were never taught what it actually looks like.

Perimenopause is one of the most significant hormonal shifts a woman's body will ever go through, and it remains one of the least talked about, least understood, and most frequently misdiagnosed transitions in women's healthcare. That is not acceptable. So let us change it.