What does your body need at this moment Stillness or Movement? Why?

Today is World Perimenopause Day. Beautiful, I want to pause for a moment and just say: look at what we have walked through together this month. We have named 8 symptoms in the Psychological category of The 34™. We have held space for a heavy anniversary week. We have shown up for each other in ways that many of us never had women show up for us during this transition. Today is a celebration. And I want to celebrate YOU. The woman who is quietly doing the work. The woman who read a post this month and felt seen for the first time. The woman who took the cheat sheet to her doctor's office. The woman who whispered "me too" in the comments. The woman who is here, right now, still becoming. You are not alone. You have never been alone. Perimenopause is not a decline. It is a transition. And the woman on the other side of it is a force. A question for our space today: 👇 What is ONE thing you know about yourself now — because of what you've walked through this year — that you didn't know at the start of it? Naming it here makes it real. And I want to celebrate every single one of you. I'll go first in the comments. 💜 — Coach Dorothy

Hey Beautiful, I need to make sure you know something that most women are never told: the brain fog, the word retrieval delays, and the memory shifts so many of us are experiencing in perimenopause are directly connected to our hormones — and to our long-term brain health. Two-thirds of Alzheimer's diagnoses are in women. That is not a coincidence. Estrogen is one of the most brain-protective hormones in your body. As it fluctuates and drops in perimenopause, your brain enters a critical window — and how you support yourself in these years matters for the decades to come. You are not "just getting older." You are in a transition that deserves informed, active care. Three things I want you to hold onto today: 🌿 Your cognitive shifts are real and biological — not personal failures 🌿 You are not powerless — sleep, nourishment, movement, and stress regulation all matter 🌿 This is worth an honest conversation with your provider Next week — we'll walk into Memory Lapses (Symptom #9 of The 34™) together. So today is our set-up for that deeper conversation. A question for our space today: 👇 Has your doctor ever talked to you about the connection between hormones and brain health? If yes — what did they share? If no — what do you wish you had been told? — Coach Dorothy 🧠

I want to pause today — not to teach, not to add anything to your plate — just to check in with you. We've walked through the closing of the Psychological category of The 34™. We've honored a heavy anniversary week. We've named symptoms so many women have been quietly carrying. And we've done it together. So today, I want to ask you three simple questions. Not to answer publicly. Just to sit with quietly, wherever you are: What has your body been trying to tell you this month? What is one small thing you've done for yourself that you're proud of? What do you need in the second half of September that you haven't asked for yet? If you want to share your answers below, I would love to read them. If you want to keep them private, that's beautiful too. This isn't a homework assignment. It's a mid-month exhale. Because so many of us have been asked to just keep going — through everything, all the time, without pausing to notice what we're carrying. Today, we pause. Take gentle care of yourself in the days ahead. 💜 — Coach Dorothy. . . . #MakeCalmYourNewNormal #PerimenopauseAwarenessMonth #MidMonthCheckIn #NervousSystemRegulation #CoachDorothyRenee #MidlifeWomen #WomensWellness #YouAreNotAlone

The 34™ #8: Low Confidence (Psychological Category — the final one in this category) If you have caught yourself second-guessing things you never used to question... if you're rehearsing sentences that used to just come out naturally... if you look in the mirror and don't quite recognize the woman looking back... I need you to hear this today: you are not becoming less. You are being rebuilt. Low confidence in perimenopause is the cumulative weight of every symptom we've walked through in this category — the anxiety, mood swings, panic, crying spells, depression, and irritability. Each one chipped away at your sense of yourself. By the time low confidence arrives, your nervous system has been through the wringer. But here's what I want you to hold onto: the confidence you're mourning may have been performance. It was armor. It was who you became to survive rooms that never fully made space for you. And perimenopause is thinning that armor because the next version of you doesn't need it anymore. One gentle practice — The Evidence Practice. Once a day, write down ONE piece of evidence that contradicts the doubt. Not affirmations. Real, specific evidence. Something you did that day that a less capable you couldn't have done. Over time, you build a case for yourself. We've walked through 8 symptoms together in the Psychological category. That's the whole chapter. Next, we open into the Somatic category — the whole-body symptoms so many of us have been quietly carrying. Before we turn the page — a question just for us in this space: 👇 Which of the 8 Psychological symptoms hit hardest for YOU as we've walked through them? Which one made you feel most seen? I'll go first in the comments. 💜 — Coach Dorothy