The Menopause Mindset
This is the place to be to get some answers and to feel supported along this often bumpy journey. It’s my mission to help peri to post menopausal women go from feeling anxious, alone and confused to feeling positive, informed and connected. Here you'll learn about lifestyle interventions and mindset shifts that can make this happen. Join me and my guests on a journey that will educate, empower and motivate you to make menopause a positive force in your life. I'm Sally Garozzo, an award winning Clinical Hypnotherapist with a special interest in how complex trauma affects our menopause symptom severity. See you inside.
The Menopause Mindset
206 The Great Brain Rewiring of Menopause
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What if menopause isn’t a breakdown, but a house renovation you’re living inside?
In this episode, I reframe menopause in a way I wish someone had offered me. Not as decline. Not as loss. Not as something to “push through.”
But as a neurological remodel happening in real time, while I’m still expected to function, work, parent, decide what cheese to buy, and hold everything together.
No wonder it feels chaotic.
What I share in this episode:
- Why menopause is not just hormonal, but deeply neurological
- How fluctuating estrogen affects mood, memory, focus, and emotional regulation
- Why brain fog, emotional sensitivity, and slower thinking are not failures, but signs of reorganization
- What’s really happening when my tolerance for noise, pressure, people-pleasing, and nonsense disappears
- How the amygdala shifts and threat sensitivity gradually dials down
- Why decisions feel slower, more embodied, and less driven by urgency
- How identity itself begins to shift during menopause, not collapse
- The grief, the disorientation, and the unexpected clarity that emerges on the other side
- Why post-menopause often brings deeper contentment, discernment, and grounded leadership
If you’re like me and feeling:
- Less sharp but more sensitive
- Slower but more discerning
- Less tolerant of bullshit
- Less available for emotional labour
- More interested in depth than surface-level busyness
Nothing has gone wrong.
Something is reorganizing with intent.
Join me!
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‘Becoming’ is the new membership I’ve created for this phase
Becoming is a space for women in this in-between phase where old identities no longer fit, and new ones haven’t fully arrived yet.
The waitlist is now open.
🔗 Join the waitlist:
https://www.sallygarozzo.com/becoming
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