There is a particular kind of disorientation that many women describe in perimenopause, and it does not always make it onto the standard list of symptoms alongside hot flashes and disrupted sleep. It is more subtle and more unsettling than that. A sense of not quite recognising yourself. Of feeling present in your life but somehow not fully in it.…

Burnout rarely announces itself clearly. It tends to accumulate quietly, in the gap between what you’re giving and what you’re getting back, until the point where ordinary demands start to feel unmanageable and the capacity to recover between them has gone. It doesn’t always look dramatic. Often it looks like someone who is still functioning, still showing up, still meeting…