Unmute Your Midlife

E8: Has My Mind Turned Against Me? (Intrusive Thoughts and Anxiety in Perimenopause)


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Hormone fluctuations can create a chemical storm that affects our thoughts and emotions, but calm is coming.

  1. Name it, don’t shame it. Label intrusive thoughts out loud — “This is anxiety, not truth.”
  2. Ground your body first. Slow breathing, light stretching, a cool towel — get your body safe so your mind can follow.
  3. Regulate your nervous system daily. Morning sunlight, hydration, balanced protein, and magnesium support.
  4. Reach out, don’t isolate. Talk to your provider or join a community for support.
  5. Keep a “reality anchor” notebook. Write: “What’s true right now?” It breaks the loop.
  6. Your peace isn’t gone. It’s just waiting for you to come back to it.

Emotions travel 80,000 times faster than thoughts. All reasonable and practical thinking arrives in our nervous center long after the emotion has expressed itself.

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Unmute Your MidlifeBy Joyce McCall