Parts and Perimenopause with Melissa Monahan — IFS for the Transition Nobody Warned Us About
About this episode
Melissa Monahan discusses the mental health aspects of perimenopause and how Internal Family Systems can assist women during this transition.
I didn't know frozen shoulder was a perimenopause symptom. Neither did Melissa Monahan, this week's podcast guest, and she's a therapist living through it herself. This week Melissa joins me on the podcast to talk about the mental health side of perimenopause and menopause, and what IFS can offer women going through it. She's an IFS Level 2 therapist and host of Mindfully Meni , a podcast and Substack for women in this chapter of life -- and the people who love them. In this episode we talk about the changes happening in our inner worlds during this transition, and how IFS can help us make sense of and befriend parts whose burdens we may be noticing for the first time. Takeaways Perimenopause is as much an identity transition as a physical one. As estrogen drops, the manager parts lose their primary tool. Anger, anxiety, and old wounds may surface. Parts that were managed and exiled for years may now need additional care and compassion I share about my angry part around hot flashes, and what happened when I got curious instead of contemptuous. Anger in women going through this transition is often the first time they've allowed themselves to feel it. The polarization between…
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