Key points

Perimenopause symptoms can negatively impact all areas of life.

For mild symptoms, mindfulness practices (along with other healthy lifestyle shifts) may be sufficient.

Mindfulness can lessen the severity, duration, and intensity of symptoms.

Mindfulness saved my life during perimenopause .

Hyperbolic? Perhaps.

However... if you’d asked my exhausted, brain-fogged, strung-out-on-night-sweats, sporadically ragey, overwhelmed, perimenopausal self, she would strongly assert: ACCURATE . During those hormonally tumultuous years, mindfulness served as a lifeline.

Though research is still sparse regarding the direct benefits of mindfulness on menopause, there is plenty of evidence demonstrating its positive impacts on common symptoms of perimenopause, such as anxiety , d

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