Charlotte Ellison on the hormone rollercoaster and why baring your soul to Instagram is curiously cathartic - Middling Along
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Join me this time as I chat to lovely Charlotte Ellison (aka ‘Not At The Gym’ on Instagram) about the hormonal roller coaster we call perimenopause!
Charlotte has been assiduously documenting the physical and mental challenges of perimenopause and her mixture of vulnerability, humour, honesty and a nifty turn of phrase has won her a dedicated following over there. An introvert in ‘offline world’ Charlotte talks about using Stories almost as a sounding board…
We also talk about:
how our partners cope living with our meno-rage, noise sensitivity, and the abrupt shift from adept multitasker to bumbling idiot…and the only way through the confusion is total honesty
the maelstrom of hormones living with two teenage daughters…and what her girls think of her social media exploits…
giving up alcohol and how for so many of us it doesn't agree with us in midlife and menopause, leaving us the next day with low mood, irritable, impatient
the camaraderie and joy of connecting with the midlife/ perimenopause community on social media
How taking prescribed antidepressants made her feel 10 x worse but ultimately galvanised her to educate herself about what was going on with her hormones and what she could do to mitigate her symptomsbout the hormonal roller coaster we call perimenopause!
You can find Charlotte over at https://www.instagram.com/notatthegym