143. Perimenopause, Your Nervous System & Why You Stop Tolerating What No Longer Serves You with Natasha Zajmalowski

If you're a woman over 35 and you've been feeling more triggered, more exhausted, less tolerant of the things you used to just push through — this episode is going to change how you understand yourself.I'm joined by Natasha Zajmalowskii, a naturopathic doctor and Menopause Society certified practitioner with over 24 years of clinical experience, and this conversation genuinely blew my mind. We talk about what's actually happening in your brain and nervous system during perimenopause and menopause — and why it's not falling apart, it's transforming.We go deep on the hormonal roots of emotional dysregulation, why your window of tolerance narrows so dramatically, and what it means that your fawning response is finally breaking down. We talk about familiar safety versus embodied safety, why your old trauma is surfacing so intensely right now, and what "issues in your tissues" actually means at a physiological level.Natasha also shares her framework called Metamorphosis — the idea that perimenopause is the chrysalis stage, where the old structure has to come apart before something new and more powerful can be built. And we talk about puberty 2.0, the nervous system under renovation, entrainment, and why routine might be the most underrated medicine for women in midlife.The Unburdened Heart Program: https://marinayt.com/the-unburdened-heart Connect with Natasha:www.proactive-healthcare.comwww.menomorphosis.cawww.instagram.com/drnatashazndWORK WITH ME 1:1:❥Softening into self- 3 month 1:1 with Whats App Support:https://marina-yt.mykajabi.com/offers/PAWQhZHu❥❥1:1 Coaching with me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWcZM5s9c2OjOLwoGMI5jE6rh_JAzjN2d_vCtuVe7e3pVGxw/viewformDOWNLOAD FOR FREE:Stay or Go: 5 Clarity Questions to Reconnect with Your Inner Knowing: https://marinayt.com/stay-or-go-guideAttatchment Practice: Discover the actual blocks beneath the surface so you can actually have the deep intimacy you crave: https://marinayt.com/attachment-practice Connect & Ground: 10 Incredible Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation: https://marinayt.com/connect-and-groundAlive & Aligned: 7 Embodiment Practices For Self Connection: https://marinayt.com/alive-and-alignedTrigger to Rooted: A step by step process of working with your triggers: https://marinayt.com/trigger-2-rooted VIEW MY COURSES & RESOURCES:https://marinayt.com/resources CONNECT WITH  ME:Follow me on Instagram:⁠ ⁠www.instagram.com/marina.y.t⁠⁠ Subscribe to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@marinatriner Top Episode Quotes:"A dysregulated nervous system cannot hold health. It affects every system — your gut, your cardiovascular system, your inflammation. All of it." "Fawning isn't a standalone state. It's an adaptive layer that sits on top of fight, flight and freeze. And when the hormones that fuel it start to disappear, what floods in is the truth." "Perimenopause is when the brain is flooded with prediction errors. For three decades it built its model around your hormones — and now those hormones are gone. What feels like brain fog is actually your brain struggling to filter what matters from what doesn't." "In puberty 1.0 we learned who we are by orienting towards others. Puberty 2.0 is when we orient back towards ourselves — towards how we feel, not how we look." "Self-care is the greatest act of love for the people you care about. Because when you don't take care of yourself, the people who love you carry that worry — whether they tell you or not." perimenopause and nervous system, menopause healing, hormones and emotional regulation, somatic healing, nervous system regulation, perimenopause symptoms, fawn response, people pleasing and hormones, trauma and menopause, burnout recovery, window of tolerance, embodied safety, inner child healing, women's health, midlife transformation, attachment healing, emotional regulation, self compassion, deep within podcast, naturopathic medicine