SE6:EP2 Want to Find Your Way Out of Feeling Blah? What you can do to recapture joy

Thriving Thru Menopause

How much do you enjoy your life?

Do you feel as if your emotions have flatlined?

In perimenopause, we often feel low, not quite like ourselves, even if there is nothing fundamentally wrong. We have supportive partners and friends, great kids, and a job we enjoy and yet life feels dull and grey. Can you relate?

This is anhedonia – a word only a few of us have heard of but one that explains why so many of us feel we are sleepwalking through life.

Anhedonia is from the Greek word for 'without pleasure' and describes a loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed. It explains why many of us spend our lives in a fog, feeling neither happy nor sad, just not very much at all.

This week my guest is British author and journalist Tanith Carey who joins me to talk about the missing grey area in mental health - blah- where too many mid-life women are living their lives.

Great news is that midlife women don't have to accept this as the status quo. Blah has a range of biological and environmental reasons that can be tackled to live up to your potential. Simple awareness that 'blah' is 'a thing' is the first step to addressing through a range of approaches and putting together a toolbox of resources that works for you.

With the help of world-leading experts and by digging into the latest research, Tanith shows you how your brain's dopamine reward system works and provides strategies to help you bring colour back into your life.

Specifically, we dive into:

* How did Tanith come across anhedonia - and why most of us haven't heard about it?

* How did she discover a way out of it - and what has it meant in her life?

* How other mid-life women find their reasons for blah - and find a way out of it.

This is the episode that will teach you how to kickstart your feel-good chemicals and start loving life again.

You can connect with Tanith on Instagram @no_more_blah_book, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn on @tanithcarey

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