Ep6 Pressing Play on The Stress Trap in Perimenopause (and 5 ways to get out)

The Pressing Play Podcast · Apr 30, 2026 · 16m · transcript

In this Stress Awareness Month edition of Pressing Play, host Jo Fiddy unpacks the stress trap of perimenopause: the part no one warned you about. The shrinking tolerance. The thinning sleep. The cortisol that lands harder than it used to. The anxiety that seems to come from nowhere.

Spoiler: nothing is wrong with you. Your brain is literally rewiring.

Jo walks you through what’s actually happening in the hippocampus and amygdala as Estrogen fluctuates, why cortisol hits differently in midlife, and how to work with the renovation instead of fighting it.

Then she gives you 5 ways to support…