#018: Feeling Like a Slab of Meat? Stick with me on this...

I feel like a slab of meat between two slices of bread. And it’s a lot.

Ok, I probably need to give some more context.

I have now firmly found myself in the sandwich stage of life. So many of us are juggling the needs of ageing parents while also trying to raise the next generation in an Andrew Tate world, and after watching Adolescence on Netflix, I’m even more terrified about it.

Plus, I am trying to do all the things that keep life functioning, the things that are good for my overall health and well-being, and all the things that I have to do now that I am in perimenopause, seriously, has anyone cracked this protein thing?

I am in a state of perpetual exhaustion. Running on fumes.

I find myself with a thousand tabs open in my brain wiring through things, running scenario after scenario staring at the ceiling whilst laying in bed at 3 a.m. when I can’t sleep.

It seems like this is yet another chapter of life that I am grossly unprepared for, and that very few people are talking about.

I don’t have an answer, I am really just using this as a platform to have a little bit of a cathartic cry and to say if you are also feeling like a slab of meat, you are not alone.

Come and join the Valerie community and be surrounded by your people. Our next event is on Sunday April 27th, a day retreat with a bunch of epic women, as we firmly believe that no one should face this alone.

The legend that is Jolie Brearley MBE, founder of ​​’Pregnant Then Screwed’, a charity dedicated to ending the motherhood penalty. She is now traversing the murky worlds of masculinity and boyhood, and addressing all the questions that are keeping many of us up at night.