✨ Seeing the good — even at 3:40 a.m. ✨

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Perimenopause is a powerful transition. And sometimes, a challenging one.

I can feel how much my body is changing. There are days when I feel tired — even though my sleep hygiene is solid. I nourish my body well. I move a lot. As a personal trainer, I also want to lead by example.💪🏻

Since my total hysterectomy about a year and a half ago, I’ve immersed myself even more deeply in women’s health — especially menopause, post-menopause, how training shifts, how nutrition needs evolve, and how we can support our hormones instead of fighting them.🙏🏻💛

And still… there are nights when cortisol has its own plan.

Last night I woke up at 3:40 a.m.😞

I tried to fall back asleep. Had some water. Waited.

It didn’t happen.

I could have been frustrated.

Instead, I chose differently.🤗

I hadn’t been at my pottery wheel for weeks. Yesterday afternoon I planned to sit down and create — but the weather was so beautiful that I spent hours in the garden instead, bringing it back to life.🌱

So this morning, before sunrise, I sat at the wheel.

In the quiet. In the stillness. While the world was slowly waking up.🌅

And it felt like a gift.

Of course, I could focus on the disrupted sleep.

But I’d rather focus on what was created in that unexpected pocket of time.

Now I’m heading to work — and later I can return to the garden without that lingering thought of “I really wish I had time for the wheel.”

Sometimes the positive meaning isn’t in the perfect plan.

It’s in how we respond to what is.🥰

Maybe one of the most important lessons of this phase of life is this:

Don’t fight your body. Learn to work with it. 🤍

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