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I Thought I Was Over It: Why Old Wounds Surface in Your 40s and 50s

What therapy, time, and insight can do is help the thinking part of the brain understand and contextualize those experiences. That’s genuine and important work. But it doesn’t always fully update what the body holds, which is why a woman can intellectually understand that she’s safe now and still find herself flooded with anxiety in situations that bear even a passing resemblance to earlier experiences of threat, abandonment, shame, or loss of control.

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When Menopause Feels Like Trauma: Making Sense of What Nobody Warned You About

Menopause changes how you show up. A lot of women describe wanting to step out of parenting, or at least step out of the version of parenting they've been doing for twenty years. Not because they love their children any less, but because parenting asks us to constantly care for someone else's needs, and suddenly you find that you genuinely do not care what anyone else wants from you in the way you used to.

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