Fun With Perimenopause!
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
As ladies in our 40s, we've got perimenopause on our minds – let's chat about it! We share where we are personally in this journey, what our interaction with providers has been like , and how we'd like to see the conversation around perimenopause change.
For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we have a companion bonus book club episode for you! We are discussing The New Menopause by Dr. Mary Claire Haver. In the episode we dive even deeper into the changes that menopause brings and how we can navigate it as comfortably and gracefully as possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Erica. |
| 0:05.7 | And I'm Kelsey. In every episode, we bring our different perspectives to candid conversations |
| 0:10.7 | that feel like chatting with good friends. |
| 0:13.2 | We started the show years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out |
| 0:16.7 | of things to talk and laugh about yet. |
| 0:19.8 | Today's episode is all about the very fun, very exciting topic of perimenopause. |
| 0:25.7 | We will be chatting about the start of the big change. |
| 0:29.1 | What we're noticing is we enter that phase of life, how we're talking about and learning |
| 0:32.8 | about this topic with other women in our life. |
| 0:35.4 | And then over on Patreon, if you're really excited about this topic, |
| 0:39.1 | we will have a companion book club episode diving even deeper into it. We are reading and discussing |
| 0:44.9 | the new menopause by Dr. Mary Claire Haver. You may have seen her all over the internet on her |
| 0:51.1 | book promotion, but she's got a lot of great interesting insights. So we're going to be |
| 0:55.1 | digging into the details a little bit more over there. But to get started, let's make sure we're |
| 1:00.3 | all on the same page because I don't even feel like perimenopause was a word in the zeitgeist for very |
| 1:06.0 | long. But it's technically defined as the time before menopause when a woman's ovaries gradually produce less estrogen and progesterone and prepare for the end of the reproductive years. |
| 1:17.4 | It can last several years and be accompanied with symptoms such as hot flashes, mood swings, irregular periods, and sleep disturbances, among others. |
| 1:25.8 | So fun. |
| 1:26.5 | Basically, if you can think of it, |
| 1:27.9 | it might be a symptom of perimenopause. |
| 1:30.1 | And then menopause itself, |
| 1:31.9 | which this was kind of cleared up for me, |
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