Your Inner Climate Change Report: Understanding perimenopause mood-swings, and what do about it.

Let’s be honest here, sometimes you wake up feeling like the sunshine version of yourself: calm, motivated, clear-headed, productive.

And then… two days later, you’re crying over a IG reel.

Welcome to perimenopause climate change ☀️⛈️🌪️

Your emotions aren’t random. They actually follow hormonal patterns, little biochemical weather fronts that come and go.

And once you start tracking them, you"ll realize: you’re not crazy, you’re cyclical.

Your Brain Is Just Recalibrating

The mood swings of perimenopause aren’t “you being dramatic.” They’re your internal regulators - estrogen, progesterone, and cortisol - doing a hormonal dance that changes how your brain interprets the world.

When estrogen is high, the world feels beautifully manageable.

You’re patient, focused, kind, and grounded, the woman who remembers peoples birthdays and drinks her water.

But when estrogen dips, everything suddenly feels louder, heavier, and somehow personal.

When progesterone is balanced, you feel calm and collected, like you can handle whatever the day brings.

When it drops, and it’s usually the first hormone to do so in perimenopause, it can feel almost impossible to keep your sh!t together (yes, that’s the scientific term 😅).

This creates what I call your “emotional climate change.”

Sometimes the sun’s out.

Then, without warning... thunder.

The trick isn’t avoiding the weather. It’s learning how to read your own forecast:

🌦️ When the storm is coming

🌬️ What it feels like

☔ And how to shelter without shutting down

The Inner Bermuda Triangle

If your moods feel all over the place, there’s a reason. It’s not you, it’s chemistry!

Estrogen doesn’t just look after your cycle. It also keeps your brain’s chemical crew in balance. Think of it like the team captain who keeps everyone calm, focused, and working together.

Here’s what happens inside your Inner Bermuda Triangle:

• Dopamine is your motivation and “let’s do this” drive.

• Serotonin is your calm, steady, “I feel okay” vibe.

• Estrogen is the captain, the one keeping the peace between them both.

But in perimenopause, estrogen starts to act… unpredictable. One day she’s all in, leading the team like a boss. The next, she’s MIA on a yoga retreat, and everyone’s running around in circles.

That’s when moods shift. One moment you’re unstoppable, and the next you’re crying over coffee or snapping at your partner for chewing too loud.

It’s not moodiness... it’s your Inner Climate Change at work.

Ok, so once you understand it, you can start to work with it instead of feeling lost inside it.

Here are the 5 Emotional Internal weather conditions of Perimenopause:

These patterns often repeat in 2-3 week loops, especially during perimenopause. So if you start noticing which state you are in, you can notice, adjust, without guilt or panic.

How to track you inner clime change?

Here are the steps:

1. Download this basic tracking chart

2. Use the symbols daily (keep it simple):

   ☀️ = clear mind

   ☁️ = grey skies

   🌧️ = down pour

   ⚡ = thunder

   🌀 = hurricane

3. Note your sleep from 1-10

4. Note your energy 1-10

5. Write a short 5-7word summary: "didn't eat enough / didn't drink enough water"

If you do this for 30 days you'll start noticing patterns for example;

• you feel really anxious around days 22-25

• triggers (poor sleep leads to emotional spirals)

• Mood = or not just sleep alone. Maybe even with 8 hours of sleep you still feel cloudy, it means that sleep is not the only factor

• You will see recovery is possible; after 2 "off days" you see things improve, maybe with walk or rest. Simple habits can reset your mood.

• A bad day does not = a bad week

And you’ll also start to see your sunny days, what helped them happen so you can build around that.

This becomes your emotional climate map, so you're not waking up wondering what kind of day it is going to be and you can navigate each day with awareness instead of surprise. It helps you dress according, it's ok if it rains and you just have to grab your coat and an umbrella, or if its hot and sunny, that you show up in a wool jersey.

You prepare. You adapt. You stop blaming yourself for the weather, and instead, you learn how to move with it.

That’s the power of awareness.

The goal isn't perfect moods, its how to understand them and navigate them, that brings real change.

It’s learning to meet yourself with grace in every one of them.

With love and grace,

Karin 🤍