Posts tagged perimenopause
Why Weight-Inclusive Care Matters in a Weight-Centric World

The beginning of each new year is always a fraught time to have a body. Just yesterday, I took the annual health survey required by our health insurance to “unlock” the activities needed to fund our HSA accounts, I was immediately confronted by everything I hate about the New Year.

Nowhere in this survey was there an option to say you were happy with how you are currently eating, moving, sleeping, or managing stress. It was simply assumed you need to be trying harder or striving to do better.

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Perimenopause: Navigating Body Changes and Symptoms with Intuitive Eating and Self-Compassion

Do you remember your first perimenopausal symptoms? Or at least the first time you realized the weird thing happening to you might just be perimenopause?

I sure can remember when things started to change, when things related to my body and menstrual cycle started to impact my normal flow of daily life.

The most noticeable disruption started a few summers ago when I had a stretch of night sweats.

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