Therapy for Moms in Midlife and Perimenopause

You're the steady one

 

From the outside, you have the kind of life that everyone wants.

 

You've built a life that you've worked hard for, but something isn't right. It almost feels like you want to burn everything down to the ground and move to a remote farm in Vermont and become a homesteader.

 

It started with the anxiety that came out of nowhere in the car while you were driving to pick up your kids from school

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You started feeling off when you started dreading going to work, and felt this loss of purpose.

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You started crying, seemingly for no reason and couldn't shake this weariness that feels bone deep.

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You're starting to resent your spouse, your employer, your relatives or your kids, because they depend on you to do everything and fix everything.

 

And you also feel guilty, because you should feel grateful for all that you have and you've always prided yourself on being the independent strong one.

 

Inside, you're anxious, waking at 3am, snapping at the kids over small things, and carrying a loss or a change you haven't had time to feel.

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Maybe you became a mom later in life, and you're raising young kids while your body changes, your parents get older and you feel stretched thin by all of life's responsibilities.

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Maybe you're navigating perimenopause and this season has shifted the ground your coping skills were built on.

 

And there's nowhere in your week to think about any of it for longer than the drive to work.

 

 

Hormones are part of it. They may not be all of it.

 

If you're navigating midlife and perimenopause, you may just think that you need to treat the hormones.

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You may just think that you just need a better planner, a better system, to get more organized, more self-care, more time off.

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Your OB-GYN can treat the hormonal side of perimenopause, and you can get another planner, or hire a housekeeper, but if the anxiety, irritability and overwhelm are still there, or old hurts are coming back up, there may be something underneath that needs attention too.

 

That's the part I help with, because you shouldn't navigate this chapter of transition alone.