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"I've never been this short-tempered before...."

What women in their early forties are noticing

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Hi ,


One conversation from my menopause workshop on Monday evening has stayed with me all week, and I wanted to share it with you.


The woman I was talking with is in her early forties. She isn't sure she's anywhere near menopause yet, but she booked because so many of her friends are starting to talk about "shifts and changes". The thing that keeps coming up is their cycles. Women who have never really noticed PMS are suddenly finding the days before their period much harder: more irritable, more short-tempered and angrier than they've ever been, and often quite shocked at themselves.

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