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Adulthood
Teens
Perimenopause
Anxiety Therapy Whitby
Perimenopause Therapy Whitby
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Contact
Speaking
Resources
Blog
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Attachment and Perfectionism
Perfectionism, Attachment Theory Kira Hensley 2022-06-30 Perfectionism, Attachment Theory Kira Hensley 2022-06-30

Attachment and Perfectionism

How did attachment influence your perfectionism? To make sense of “my needs are not met consistently,” your brain came up with the idea – ah, I must not be good enough, there must be something wrong with me. I know! I’ll become perfect!

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First panic attack in your 40s? Thanks hormones.

Estrogen and progesterone both regulate your stress response system. When they decline in perimenopause, the threshold for a full alarm response drops. No prior anxiety history required.

And hot flas Seeing straight through the bullshit.
A nervous system that picks up everything.
A kind of invisibility you never asked for.
And, occasionally, the strength to bend steel in the middle of a peri rage.

Not exactly what we expected.

But there is some You've been managing. Coping. Keeping it together.

And then perimenopause arrived, and suddenly the strategies that worked for years just...don't.

The focus is gone. The memory is unreliable. The emotional regulation that used to feel automatic now