Your body is changing, and so is everything else. While your doctor can help with the physical side of perimenopause, this course is here for the part no one prepares you for: the mental and emotional side. The anger, the mood swings, and the feeling that you have somehow lost yourself along the way.
Created and taught by Heidi McBain, a certified Menopause Mental Health therapist with 25+ years of experience.
Does Any of This Feel Familiar?
“I don’t even recognize myself anymore.” Somewhere along the way, that version of you quietly slipped away, and you are not quite sure how to find her again.
“I’m exhausted in a way that sleep doesn’t fix.” A bone-deep tiredness that has quietly accumulated over months, maybe longer. The kind that a good night’s rest can’t touch.
“My partner and I feel more like roommates than partners.” You love each other. But somewhere in the middle of all of this, the closeness has slipped away, and you are not sure how to find your way back to each other again.
“Everyone needs something from me, and there is nothing left.” You are running on fumes just to get through the day, surviving but not thriving, going through the motions and wondering when it will start to feel like enough.
“I thought I would handle this better.” You expected to move through this transition with more grace. Instead, you feel overwhelmed by things that never used to bother you, and quietly worn down by the struggle of it all.
“I’m surviving. But I’m not really living.” The life you want to be living feels just out of reach, and you are not sure how to close the gap.
If any of this sounds familiar, you are in the right place. And more importantly: this does not have to be your permanent reality.
(Here is what almost no one tells you: nearly every woman feels this way during perimenopause. It doesn’t mean anything is broken. It means you are navigating one of the biggest transitions of your life, and you are doing it without nearly enough support.)
The Perimenopause Truth No One Talks About
Perimenopause is one of the most significant transitions a woman will go through, and it is also one of the least talked about life changes. Most women move through it alone, convinced they are the only ones struggling, the only ones who feel this way, the only ones who can’t seem to get it together.
You are not the only one, and this does not have to be your permanent reality.
Imagine, in the Near Future…
Waking up feeling like yourself, maybe even a better version of yourself. Navigating the hard moments without being swallowed by them. Feeling genuinely close and connected to your partner again. Moving through your day with energy, not just willpower. Loving parts of midlife you never expected to love. Looking ahead with hope instead of dread.
This is not wishful thinking. This is what becomes possible when you finally have the tools, the knowledge, and the support to address the mental and emotional reality of perimenopause, not just the physical side.
About the Program
Built with the reality of a busy woman’s life in mind, this program features eight short video modules you can watch or listen to whenever it works for you, like during a quiet moment at home, on a walk, or in between everything else on your plate. No dedicated quiet time required. Just press play and let it meet you exactly where you are today.
Total course time: under two hours, and designed for women who don’t have time to waste.
The goal of this program is for you to:
- Feel like yourself again: centered, grounded, and more at peace.
- Move through perimenopause with more confidence and less self-doubt.
- Feel a deeper emotional connection with your partner.
- Finally understand what is happening within you during this season of life.
- Stop just getting through the day and start genuinely thriving in midlife.
What’s Inside: The Eight-Module Curriculum
Eight in-depth modules built around your life. Short, bite-sized video lessons. Each module includes expert video lessons, downloadable handouts, and reflection questions and journal prompts to help you go deeper on your own time. Plus, instant access, lifetime access, and all future updates. Log in any time to watch again.
Module One: Deep Dive into Perimenopause
A thorough, compassionate look at what is really happening in your mind and body during perimenopause, including the emotional and mental shifts that so many women experience but rarely talk about out loud. This module gives you the clarity and language to finally make sense of what you are going through right now.
- Defining Perimenopause
- Your Perimenopause Story
- Grief and Your Perimenopause Experience
- A Mind That Won’t Quiet Down
- A Heaviness You Can’t Quite Shake
- Less Common Emotional Shifts
Module Two: Transitioning into Midlife
Perimenopause is not just a physical transition. It is an identity one too. This module explores how to navigate this life chapter with clarity instead of fear, including the grief that so often comes with it.
- Life Transitions
- Perimenopause, Menopause, and Post-Menopause Transitions
- Grief and Loss
Module Three: Creating Space for Feelings and Emotions
Your emotions are not the enemy. They are important information. This module builds your emotional intelligence and creates space for the feelings that often go unspoken during perimenopause. This includes the unique role of anger and the deep, quiet loneliness so many women feel right now, so you can process them in healthy, empowering ways.
- Emotional Intelligence
- Anger in Perimenopause
- Loneliness
Module Four: New Normals
Life in perimenopause isn’t a return to what once was, it is the beginning of something new. This module guides you through identifying the internal and external stressors making things harder, then supports you in making the shift from surviving to actually thriving.
- Internal and External Stressors in Perimenopause
- Surviving versus Thriving in Perimenopause
Module Five: Mental Wellness
Your thoughts shape your entire experience of perimenopause. This module helps you rewrite the inner critic and challenge the thinking patterns that are quietly making everything harder, so you can relate to yourself with more kindness and compassion.
- Mindset and Thinking Patterns
- Self-Criticism and Self-Judgment
Module Six: Perimenopause Mom Life
This module doesn’t shy away from the full complexity of this season. From mom guilt and shame to exhaustion, perfectionism, raising kids at home, and launching them out into the world, your experience is acknowledged here with honesty and without judgment. You will also find practical support for how to show up for your kids without disappearing yourself.
- Mom Guilt and Mom Shame
- Raising Kids at Home
- Launching Kids and Empty Nest Challenges
- Perimenopause Fatigue
- Motherhood Overwhelm
- Motherhood Busyness
- Motherhood Perfectionism
Module Seven: Strengthening Relationships
Perimenopause reshapes every relationship around you. This module helps you rebuild emotional connection where it has been strained, and draws on what the research says about happy families and connected partnerships, and how to get more of both.
- Parenting
- Your Partner
- Traits Found in Happy Families
- The Research
Module Eight: Taking Good Care of You
Self-care is so much more than what it looks like on the surface. This module invites you into a deeper, more honest version of caring for yourself, one that is sustainable, authentic, and genuinely restorative, with permission to finally make yourself a priority. Here, you will find nurturing for your whole self: body, mind, heart, and spirit.
- Boundary Setting
- Basic, Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Self-Care
$59 for Full Program Access
Who created this course?
I’m Heidi McBain, a licensed therapist with 25+ years of experience specializing in women’s mental health. I hold a Menopause Mental Health Provider Certification through BRIA and have been featured as an expert in 350+ articles. I’m a Texas Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC).
Supporting women through their perimenopause transitions and challenges has shown me one thing above all else, that recovery is possible. With the right support, you can feel back to yourself again soon.
Perimenopause Mental Wellness Student:
As a mental health professional, I am always looking for legitimate experts who can speak to my clients in a compassionate, practical, and targeted way. I very much value Heidi’s expertise on women’s health and have directed my clients to her resources for many years, with great results.
— Meghan, Mental Health Professional
You have taken good care of everyone else. It’s time to take good care of you.