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There was a time when sleep was simple. I went to bed. I slept. I woke up. I really didn't appreciate what a marvellous arrangement that was. Then menopause arrived.

It didn’t begin as something subtle. It began with an injury. I had moved some heavy furniture by myself - one of those moments where you think, “I’ll just get this done.” I felt the pull through my lower back almost immediately. I knew I had done something significant to my back. What I didn’t expect was how differently my body would respond - and how long that response would linger.

Sometimes when a woman is overwhelmed, you can see it before she’s said a single thing. Her shoulders rise. Her breath goes shallow. Her chest lifts instead of her belly. And in that moment, the body shifts gear without asking permission - straight out of calm parasympathetic mode and into the jumpy, over-alert sympathetic one.