Parenting Peri-Menopause and Emotional Explosions
Did you know that hormonal changes during perimenopause can affect serotonin, dopamine, and noradrenaline levels?
These changes can influence mental health, anxiety, depression, and ADHD symptoms, on top of all the other changes happening during this stage of life.
Because parents are having children older than generations previously, the hormonal shifts of adolescence and peri-menopause are kicking off at the same time.
Add this to all the additional challenges parents face during middle age...
...and a teen who won't get off their device and there's the recipe for the perfect storm of emotions in households with teens.
One of the topics that we didn't quite get to is on the interview last week was...
What are the strategies that you can use as a parent to diffuse the emotions when everyone's hormones are kicking off?
So this week's parent thinking space is a short video above all about that.
In the short video (3 mins) I talk about how you can understand what's going on in these moments when everyone's feelings are exploding, their hormones are going off, your hormones are going off, and everyone's yelling at each other.
And what you can do practically to try and diffuse those situations before they even happen.
And if you missed the interview last week you can watch inside the healthy hormones app for free ā€‹here.
