You overreacted, or at least that's what you told yourself afterward. But the anger of perimenopause is almost never about the dishes, but about everything that has been building underneath for years. This post explains what the anger is actually about and what to do with it. By Michaela Kozlik, LCPC · Therapist specializing in perimenopause, anxiety & trauma | Illinois It's not you. Well, it is you. But not in the way you think. Something happened recently and you overreacte

By Michaela Kozlik, LCPC · Therapist for women in midlife & perimenopause, Illinois You are so tired of yourself. Not in a self-pity way, but maybe in a deeper, more unsettling way. You're tired of performing, of showing up as the version of yourself that everyone around you recognizes... Tired of saying you're fine when you're not. And maybe you're feeling the loneliness of living a life that looks right from the outside and feels hollow or confusing from the inside. You don

You're not imagining it, something is happening... By Michaela Kozlik, LCPC · Therapist for women in midlife & perimenopause, Illinois If you're in your 40s or early 50s and you've been wondering why everything feels harder than it used to, why your body doesn't bounce back the way it once did, why you feel like you're one small thing away from completely losing it... this one is for you. Perimenopause and chronic stress feed each other. The hormonal shifts happening in your