Your weight will be off the charts
Your anxiety is going to be all over the place
Anger will be your companion for a while
You will begin to suspect whether you are inherently a bad person
You will get all kinds of advice
Everyone is a doctor, a therapist, a philosopher
Apparently, they know better because they are not dealing with it.
As difficult as it is to accept
Mood swings are not something women invented.
Hormones are the real villains.
With it comes brain fog, trouble concentrating, and restless nights.
Hormones fluctuate widely
Bone health, mental health, everything goes for a swing
Hot flashes will make your already angry face red
As your ovaries slow down,
Estrogen goes for a roller coaster ride
Progesterone, which reduces anxiety and promotes calm, declines.
In this journey of your hormones coming of age.
You break down, you cry yourself to sleep,
But as dawn comes, you face the world with your strong kohl eyes.
You are resilient and adaptive,
defiant, unyielding,
refusing to break.
Perimenopause starts 10 years before menopause
