JTS Perimenopause Therapy

09/11/2026

Good friends are good for your brain. 🧠✨

The kind of friends who make you laugh so hard it’s loud, weird, snorty, and absolutely not cute. 😂

Turns out those “ugly laughs” aren’t just fun—they’re good for us. So consider this your permission slip to find the people who bring them out of you. 💛

09/10/2026

Divorce changes more than a relationship—it can reshape entire friend groups, too. Suddenly, couple friends get complicated, social circles shift, and you’re left wondering… who gets custody of the friends?

We’re talking about the weird, messy, very real ways friendships can change when life takes a different trajectory. 💛

09/09/2026

Friend breakups can hurt just as deeply as romantic ones—but we don’t always give ourselves permission to grieve them that way. There’s real loss in losing someone who knew you, loved you, and shared part of your life. Friendship grief is grief, too. ❤️

09/08/2026

This week on The Midlife Double Take: Midlife Friendships 💛

Friendships in midlife can look a whole lot different than they used to—and maybe that’s a good thing.

This week, we’re talking about the friendships that grow with us, the ones we outgrow, friendship breakups, shifting expectations, finding your people later in life, and figuring out what we actually want and need from our friendships now.

And, of course, we bring our own friendship histories to the table—the good, the complicated, and what we’ve learned along the way.

If your friendships have changed as you’ve gotten older, this one might feel familiar. ❤️

🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/59MrGrw7OAJ0PqfeAZkxgU?si=ImTSLtcMQ8e9KvN5OLI8zQ&utm_source=copy-link

📺 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/U1RhJhxbqnA?is=dkPOoCv0q38RkGpS

The Midlife Double Take · Episode

09/07/2026

We’re done accepting suffering as a normal part of being a woman. 🙌

Perimenopause symptoms deserve to be taken seriously. We deserve information, options, treatment when we want it—and providers who actually know how to help.

Turns out, we have choices. Let’s talk about them. ❤️

09/06/2026

92% is kind of a wild number. 😳

For something that will affect roughly half the population, menopause education has historically gotten surprisingly little attention in medical training.

This isn’t about blaming doctors—it’s about recognizing a gap in the system and advocating for more education, better conversations, and better care for women in midlife. ❤️

The more we talk about it, the more we can change it.

09/04/2026

Wait… perimenopause can mess with our cholesterol too?! 🙃

Yep. Cholesterol levels can shift during the menopause transition—and it’s one more change that can feel like it came out of nowhere.

So if your numbers suddenly look different even though you haven’t changed much, it may be worth talking with your healthcare provider about the bigger midlife picture.

Because apparently perimenopause likes to leave no system untouched. 😂

09/03/2026

Why does perimenopause hit some women like a Mack truck while others seem to breeze right through? 🫠

We don’t have all the answers—but it’s worth asking what makes the experience so wildly different from one woman to the next.

And maybe slowing down, caring for ourselves, and supporting our nervous systems isn’t indulgent. Maybe it’s health care. ❤️

09/02/2026

Doing all the “right” things and still feeling like butt? 🙋‍♀️

Eating well. Moving your body. Taking care of yourself. And somehow… you still don’t feel GOOD.

One of the more frustrating parts of perimenopause and midlife is realizing the things that used to work for your body may not work the same way anymore. And sometimes, neither does the mindset we used to bring to them.

🎙️ Midlife Double Take
Conversations about perimenopause, menopause & midlife.