Everything is up for review in perimenopause.

And that is okay.

I need women to know that and need them to know that we get to create a new way of

operating in the second half of our lives.

That ensures that you are feeling alive and that you're stepping fully into yourself.

Dr. Snyder!

So pumped to have you here.

You have been on quite a journey.

Most recently getting your book to a point where it is complete and it is published.

And talk a little bit about that journey and what

inspired you to write this book. Yeah, absolutely. I had a front row seat to my mother's

perimenopause journey when I was about 30 years old. And before that, even in clinical practice,

the majority of my women were in their 40s and their 50s, and I did know about menopause,

and I did know that there was a bit of a roller coaster leading into it, but not to the extent.

I, like so many other practitioners, I didn't by no means write or brush off my patients,

but I just wasn't connecting the dots until I saw my mom go through it.

And it was so destabilizing. This woman was

always a superwoman. She was a single mom, but man, she had capacity. She was like a bullet train

until she wasn't. And that, I would say, that defining moment for her, I remember her not understanding what was going on

with her body, her trying to make sense of all the shifts and changes. Many of them were brain-related.

The rage, the lack of stress tolerance, the fatigue, the sleep issues. Like she was, at the time,

I think she was a CFO and she was, you know, leading teams and

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