Author name: Janette Sarginson

No one warned me how quietly perimenopause would slip into my life, or how deeply it would affect my mind. I expected hot flushes, maybe irregular cycles but I didn’t expect the emotional shifts: the sudden anxiety, the days when sadness sat just under my skin, the moments when I felt strangely invisible even to […]

Losing my mum cracked something open in me that I’m still trying to understand. Grief has become a kind of quiet companion, sometimes loud and demanding, sometimes soft but always there, sitting just beneath the surface everyday. I didn’t expect these two experiences to collide. I didn’t expect that the sadness of missing her and

What Is Perimenopause? Understanding the Transition Before Menopause Perimenopause is a natural, though often confusing phase in a woman’s life. It marks the transition leading up to menopause, when the ovaries gradually produce less estrogen and the menstrual cycle begins to change. Although every woman experiences it differently, perimenopause is a universal biological process, not