We Normalised The Wrong Things - Burnt Out Mums Club Weekly Meeting

Content note: This episode discusses periods, PMDD, pregnancy loss, endometriosis, adenomyosis, and the emotional weight of reproductive health. We share some very personal things. We think that matters.This is not an easy episode to write a blurb for, because what happens in it is the kind of conversation most of us have never had — not with our mothers, not with our doctors, not even with ourselves. Welcome to this week's meeting of the Burnt Out Mums Club.Alexi and Alison talk about periods. Really talk about them.About the shame that arrives with your first one and quietly never leaves. About PMDD — what it actually feels like from the inside, and what it looks like from the outside when you grow up with someone who has it. About the diagnoses that took decades. About the relationships that absorbed the collateral damage before anyone had a name for what was happening. About the things we were told to just push through — and what it costs us when we do.This episode covers endometriosis, adenomyosis, PMDD, pregnancy loss, and the particular grief of not knowing that what you were experiencing was not your fault and was not normal.It also covers clots on white tiles, period candles, and why one of us spent a week at home after getting her period because she genuinely thought you couldn't leave the house while bleeding.We normalised the wrong things for a very long time. This conversation is part of un-normalising them.For the women who thought it was just them. It wasn't.