You Are Not Losing Your Edge. You Are Losing Sleep, Support and Silence and Nobody Told You That It Was Menopause.
If you are a high-functioning and aspirational woman in your 40s or 50s, here is a sentence you have probably never said out loud "I don't know how much longer I can keep compensating like this."
Not because you are failing but because you are succeeding, expensively.
Research keeps confirming what so many women have quietly suspected. The problem was never competence. It is expensive. The Fawcett Society's landmark UK study of over 4,000 menopausal and peri menopausal women found that 77% experienced at least one symptom they rated as very difficult and 44% reported three or more symptoms at that level. Sleep problems were the most disruptive, cited as difficult by 84% of women, followed by brain fog (73%) and anxiety or depression (69%). And critically: 44% of…
