About this episode

This episode explores how perimenopause affects motivation and brain chemistry, offering insights into the hormonal changes that impact effort and discipline.

Motivation can disappear so quietly in perimenopause that you start telling yourself a brutal story - 'I’m lazy', 'I’ve lost my discipline', 'I don’t recognise myself'. We’re putting that story under the microscope and replacing it with something far more accurate and far more useful: your body is moving through a major hormonal transition that changes brain chemistry, sleep, stress response, and the way effort feels. We unpack the oestrogen dopamine connection and why dopamine, the neurotra...

People in this episode

Host: Susie Garden

Topics covered

• perimenopause
• motivation
• hormonal transition
• brain chemistry
• dopamine
• stress response

Keywords

• perimenopause
• motivation
• hormones
• dopamine
• brain chemistry
• stress response
• effort

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