Welcome To The Long Exhale. Hypnotherapy For Perimenopause: What It Is (And Isn’t)

If you’ve found this podcast, you’re somewhere in the long, often-unspoken stretch of years called perimenopause, and you’re looking for something that isn’t another supplement, another app, another thing to add to the list.This first episode is an introduction. We talk about what hypnotherapy actually is, what it isn’t, and why the evidence base for it is unusually strong for the symptoms of midlife — research from Baylor University on hypnosis for hot flashes, the North American Menopause Society’s recommendation of clinical hypnosis as a non-hormonal therapy for vasomotor symptoms, and decades of evidence on hypnotherapy for sleep, pain, and anxiety. None of it is mystical. None of it replaces medical care. All of it is worth ten minutes of your time before you begin the sessions themselves.