784: How to Feel Like Yourself Again When Life Won't Let Up, Or Slow Down with Mona Sharma

Energized with Dr. Mariza · Oct 22, 2026 · 53m

What happens when the version of you who could always push harder suddenly isn’t available anymore?

For Mona Sharma, perimenopause arrived in a way she never expected. After navigating mold exposure, long COVID, gut issues, disrupted sleep, hair loss, and an experience with testosterone pellet therapy, an unexpected frozen shoulder became one of the clues that made her finally consider declining estrogen and perimenopause.

But this conversation goes much deeper than hormones.

Mona and Dr. Mariza explore the emotional reckoning that can happen when your old capacity changes, the routines that…