Think of your emotional life as a tide.
For most of your life, it came in and went out naturally.
A rhythm. Feeling things, not feeling things, feeling them again.
Since menopause, the tide has been going out....
And here is the thing that nobody tells you about tides...
The longer they stay out, the more the sea bed dries up. The landscape changes. Everything runs dry.
This is not just a metaphor (which I'm hoping makes sense to you!). Its a neurological fact.
That's because the brain’s plasticity (the capacity to go back to the way it was before) is highest when the event is recent.
Meaning some fortunate women address this before the numbness becomes their new normal.
They act quick before ‘this is just who I am now’ stops being a fear and becomes a fact.
And these women recover more fully and more quickly.
However, every month this goes unaddressed is another set of moments filed under "grey".
It's the grandchild’s laughter that registered as background noise....
It's the dinner that was full of laughter but landed as nothing.
It's the holiday photograph you are smiling in but cannot actually remember enjoying.
It's the moment someone who loves you said something meaningful and you watched yourself mumble a response while feeling none of it.
Those moments sadly do not come back.
The danger here is not just the priceless moments you're missing out on right now.
No, no - it's way way worse.
This also about long-term damage - the permanent shrinking of your emotional range. Gone for good.
There's a woman who still feels things at sixty. Then there's her neighbour at 65 who cannot remember what it used to feel like.
The difference between them is not just age. It's whether one of them addressed the root cause.
But this is the crucial thing: remember the evidence on affron® - tested directly on the inability to feel pleasure?
Well it shows remarkable restoration of emotional response in the majority of women who complete the 90-day process.
This means that the tide CAN come back in. The pathway is not closed just yet.
Right now it's only blocked.
Blocked things can be unblocked if you act quick enough.