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Gina's Story: When You Don't Recognize Your Own Body Anymore

Gina has spent decades knowing exactly who she was in her body. This year, she stopped recognizing herself.

My cousin Gina and I talk about what happens when a woman's body quietly stops confirming the person she's always understood herself to be.

She walks me through her transition from perimenopause into what she now realizes is postmenopause — bloodwork that didn't match what she was feeling, two good years on HRT that quietly stopped working, sleep that disappeared again just as she thought she'd settled. She's been lifting heavier four times a week through all of it. The discipline never…

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