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Perimenopause, POTS, and Midlife Community with Ann Marie Halstead

In this episode of Menopause Unmuted, my guest Ann Marie, a college professor of 25 years who teaches community engagement, started writing on Substack a few months ago and is building Midlife U, a community for women in midlife to help support them through this transition. Ann Marie shares her perimenopause journey and how it differs from the typical one.

She had a hysterectomy in her 30s and has one ovary remaining so she never had a period to signal the transition. We talk about what she calls the midlife collision: the unexpected loss of her mom, long COVID, a close friend’s Alzheimer’s…

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