About this episode

Susie Garden discusses the often-overlooked emotional challenges of perimenopause, focusing on the feeling of losing one's identity.

Feeling like you don’t recognise yourself anymore can be the most confronting part of perimenopause and it often sits beneath the better-known symptoms like weight gain, brain fog, anxiety, poor sleep, and mood swings. I’m Susie Garden, a perimenopause naturopath and clinical nutritionist, and I’m talking about the “unlisted symptom” I hear in clinic all the time: that deep sense of becoming a stranger to yourself, sometimes with tears and a lot of self-doubt. We explore how everyday changes...

People in this episode

Host: Susie Garden

Topics covered

• perimenopause
• self-identity
• mental health
• nutrition
• naturopathy

Keywords

• perimenopause
• self-doubt
• weight gain
• brain fog
• anxiety
• poor sleep
• mood swings

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