Has your body awakened you at 1:47am with a mind that won't quiet? Have you ever experienced rage randomly or perhaps at specific times of the day? Has your digestion seemed to turn on you, causing discomfort with almost everything you eat these days? These aren't random malfunctions. They're your organs speaking in their specific time windows, and in perimenopause, they're speaking louder than ever before.

This episode maps the 24-hour Chinese body clock through the particular lens of perimenopause - showing how hormonal transformation amplifies each organ system's voice during its two-hour window of peak activity. What might feel like your body failing is actually your body using time itself to announce and navigate one of life's most profound transitions.

In this episode (part one):

• The quiet symptoms that appear first - the ones women mention apologetically, almost as afterthoughts, before recognizing they're following precise patterns tied to organ meridian times
• Why 1-3am waking may not be insomnia but your Liver processing both hormones and identity, metabolizing decades of what's been while sorting what's becoming
• The 3-5am Lung window and that specific quality of sourceless grief - how perimenopause asks the body to practice release and exhalation in the predawn hours
• Large Intestine (5-7am) and the sudden digestive complications that mirror a deeper question: what patterns do we keep carrying, what do we finally eliminate?
• Stomach (7-9am) and its confused receptivity - when what once nourished now agitates, and the body asks to be fed differently
• The Spleen's mid-morning struggle (9-11am) to transform food into energy, and experience into understanding; when brain fog and worry loops signal transformation fatigue rather than cognitive decline
• The Heart (11am-1pm) and emotional flooding - palpitations, sudden tears, the feeling of too much or too empty as every heartbeat circulates blood with a different hormonal story