I am a working mom with a biology degree and a passion for learning. When perimenopause hit, I was not only unprepared. I did not even know it was happening at first. I was busy raising kids and working more than a full-time job. I did not have capacity for much more. I chalked up a lot of the symptoms to stress and my hectic life.

I decided to write this book so women could easily understand what perimenopause is and what they can do about it. At the time, all the books I found were too clinical or too heavy with science.

I just wanted a simple book I could read start to finish that would help me understand all things perimenopause.

When my mother-in-law passed away, and then my mom shortly after, I noticed striking similarities in how they spent their final years. The decline was fast. It felt too familiar to be coincidence. When I started digging into the research, it was hard to ignore that women being deprived of key hormones could be a contributing factor. At that moment, I decided I was going to break that pattern and make sure I did not spend the last years of my life in a care home or hospital, bedridden and incapable of looking after myself. I did not want my husband and me to be a burden on my children. So much of what happened to them was shaped by what they did or did not do during menopause. It lit a fire in me to finish this book. I wanted women to learn from my experience and understand that there are things we can do early that will help us live and thrive well into our 80s.

I wrote this so you would know what I did not. So you can make choices the women before us could not.

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