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EPISODE · Aug 17, 2026 · 26 MIN

Perimenopause Didn't Do This. The Last Twenty Years Did (Ep. 140)

from Where Women Win with Sarah Fechter

By the time the fire alarm goes off, the house has been quietly filling with smoke for ten years.  You don't smell it at first. A little tiredness you blame on a busy week, a period that comes early or maybe late a night.  You wake up at three a m soaked and wide awake for no reason, a word that won't come to you in the middle of a sentence, one at a time.  They're easy to wave off, easy to promise yourself you'll deal with it later.  That's the cruel thing about smoke. It never arrives all at once. It comes so slowly that you learn to adjust to it. You get used to being tired.  You get used to a bad night's sleep. You start calling your symptoms normal. Hell, we brush it off with humor.  We're just getting old now. That's how we are.  This is what forty looks like. And the slower it comes, the easier it is to convince yourself there's nothing there at all.  And then one day, the alarm is screaming, and you're standing in a doctor's office in your forties, maybe in your fifties, with a lab sheet full of numbers that are suddenly not okay with you, wondering how it all happened so fast.  It didn't happen fast. It happened over the two decades. We're going to unpack those last two decades together on this episode.   Time Stamps:   (2:05) What Perimenopause Really Is (3:45) Who I Talk To Every Single Week (17:40) What You Don't Have To Tell Me (21:18) Why The SF Coaching Method Exists ----------  Apply for SF Coaching Method  https://sarahfechter.ac-page.com/sfhq-cc Complimentary Health Content  https://sarahfechter.ac-page.com/Health_Wellness_Community ----------  Follow Me On Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sarahfechter.ifbbpro/   Check Out My Website - https://www.sarahfechter.com ----------  This Podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing, other professional health care services, or any professional practice of any kind. Any reliance on the information provided in this Podcast is done at your own risk and Sarah Fechter Fitness LLC expressly disclaims any and all liability or responsibility for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or other damages arising out of any individual use of, reference to, reliance on, or inability to use, this Podcast or the information presented in this Podcast. All contents and design for this Podcast are owned by Sarah Fechter Fitness LLC. Always consult your professional team before beginning any exercise or nutrition program.

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