Hey friends, it's Rosie here.
Welcome back to Radio Headspace.
Recently, I've had a surge of messages from friends, texts, DMs, voice notes, all some version of the same thing.
Hey, I saw Balance.
Is this what I'm going through?
Why is this happening to me?
Am I losing it?
If you haven't heard, Balance is a docuseries I worked on as an associate producer about perimenopause.
It's been out in the world for a few months now.
And with that comes something I didn't fully expect.
Women reaching out in a quiet panic.
And I get it, because just before I turned 40, I had a moment that felt exactly like that.
I was out in public going through the motions of a workday, and then out of nowhere, it hit.
A wave of heat rising through my body so quickly it felt like someone had flipped a switch.
My heart started racing.
My skin felt flush.
I could feel the heat in my face, my chest, my neck.
And immediately my mind went to one place.
Something is wrong.
Am I okay?