Hormone Grenades and No Sick Leave

Send us Fan MailA lot of women spend decades feeling like their bodies are a full‑time job with no sick leave – from periods and pregnancy to perimenopause and beyond. In this episode of Rage on the Rocks, Sarah and Lauren rage about what it’s like to hold down careers, families and the general craziness of life while battling insomnia, hot flushes, brain fog and a medical system that still treats women as “hysterical” or “just stressed”. As always being women, there are glimmers – Medicare shifts, the village of other women, and the unexpected “I don’t give a fuck” superpower that arrives with midlife hormones.