Perimenopause: Awareness as Menopause Approaches

By Melissa Gorley, FSI Coach and Staff Writer. Originally published in Family Foundations. “In my experience, hormone testing has confirmed the signs my body is giving me,” longtime TC, CCL Staff Member, and FSI Coach Stacey Nagle shared in a recent conversation about perimenopause. “The problem for me was that I wasn’t trusting myself. It…

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Expecting the Unexpected: Perimenopause

Originally published in Family Foundations. Gini was 35 when she began experiencing cycle irregularity and spent the next several years hunting for clarity. Finally, at age 39, a blood test came back with the answer. Menopause. “Suddenly a lot of my other symptoms made sense!” she says. Perimenopause simply hadn’t been on her radar, in…

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