The Rage, Anxiety, and Insomnia You're Feeling Aren't You — They're Perimenopause. Here's the Proof.

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Sep 30, 2025 · 53m

You snapped at someone you love and could not explain why. You woke up at 3am for the fourth night in a row with your heart racing. You gained weight around your middle despite nothing changing. And your labs came back normal. Helen Stearns wants you to stop blaming yourself. The rage, the anxiety, the insomnia, the skin shifts, the midsection weight — these are not character flaws or stress responses. They are the direct physiological result of wildly fluctuating hormones during a perimenopause transition that can last four to ten years and often starts in your late thirties or early forties…