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Balance Through Menopause with Iwona Gerner

Balance Through Menopause with Iwona Gerner

Hosted by: Iwona Gerner

On Balance through Menopause, we look beneath the surface at how hormonal changes shape your nervous system, mood, energy, and sleep — in perimenopause, menopause, and the years after. We share practical ways to ease...

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Why Being so Strong catches up with you in Perimenopause: The Guardian Pattern

You hold it all. Quietly. You see what needs to be handled before anyone else notices. You step in early. You do not leave things half-done. In this episode: the Guardian pattern. Where the grip comes from. Why...
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Why Do I Feel Disconnected in Perimenopause? The Vanisher Pattern

You drift out of conversations. Your phone becomes a way out. Plans that used to feel easy now feel like effort. When things get heavier, you go quieter. This episode is about the Vanisher pattern. What the stepping...
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Why Do I Feel So Drained by Everyone? Perimenopause and the Keeper Pattern

Someone asks for something and the yes is already out. Someone walks in a little off and your attention is already there. You reach the end of the day and realise you didn't check in with yourself once. This episode...
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Exhausted But Still Wired in Perimenopause? The Driver Pattern

You sit down and within seconds you're up again. You lie in bed and your mind is still running. You stay on top of it — even when your body is asking you to stop. This episode is about the Driver pattern. Where she...
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Your Pattern Is Making Your Perimenopause Harder. And You Can Change That.

If you've been told perimenopause is just hormones — that's half the story. This episode is about why your pattern is hitting you so hard right now, the five patterns side by side, and the part that matters most: what...
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The Pattern That Was Already There Before and how it developed;

The way you respond when life gets hard was shaped a long time ago — long before perimenopause. This episode is about where it actually came from. The small, almost invisible moments that shaped how your nervous...
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When Your Rhythms Shift in Perimenopause

Your body used to have a rhythm. Now it doesn't. The old structure doesn't hold anymore. This episode is about what's happening in your hormonal rhythm right now, why your old routines stop working, and what it means...
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Your Sleep Starts in the Morning: The Perimenopause Wake-Up Call

The 3am wake-up isn't starting at 3am. This episode is about why perimenopause sleep is harder to fix at night than most advice suggests — and what actually shifts things, earlier in the day than you would think. If...
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What to Do (and Not Do) When Anger Rises in Perimenopause

Not suppression. Not explosion. This episode covers what actually works when anger is rising — from the high-activation moment to the guilt that comes afterward. Including what to do with yourself after you snap anyway.
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You're Not an Angry Person, So Why Are You Snapping at Everyone in Perimenopause?

(Anger Part 1) Your amygdala is packed with estrogen receptors. When estrogen fluctuates in perimenopause, your alarm system fires faster — with far less provocation. This episode is the biology of why you snapped...
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What Your Anger Is Protecting in Perimenopause

Anger in peri rarely shows up alone. It's doing a job — guarding something older, something the system has been managing for years. This episode is about what your anger is actually protecting, why it isn't random or...
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In Perimenopause, Relation Before Regulation Matters Even More

A wave hits. You try to deal with it. What if dealing with it is not what your body actually needs. This episode is about what comes before the tool — the move that changes how everything else lands. The practice that...
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