Something is shifting and you can't quite name it. Your period arrives early. Then late. Then doesn't. Sleep frays at the edges. You cry at a commercial and laugh ten minutes later at nothing in particular. Your favorite jeans fit differently. The mirror shows someone you almost recognize.
This is the attic. The first floor of the haunting — where most women spend years before anyone tells them what's happening.
Perimenopause can start in your late 30s and last a decade. It's not a switch. It's a slow dimming of one set of lights and a flickering on of others. You are not imagining it. You are not broken. You are early to a party nobody warned you was being thrown.
What lives in the attic with you. Tools to track, name, and understand the early haunting.
A dedicated paper journal beats apps for nervous-system reasons — the act of writing slows you down enough to notice patterns.
Find a tracker journalCycle tracking starts with temperature. A 0.01°F thermometer is sensitive enough to catch ovulation shifts.
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