Hi, I'm Dr. Meenakshi. I'm a doctor by education. Then I spent 18+ years in leadership roles in big corporates (Uber, Thuisbezorgd) in the Netherlands. And I hit the wall at the peak of my career.
Waking up at 3am with my mind racing. Anxiety. Thick brain fog. Forgetting things. Snapping at the people, and crying in the car afterwards. I told myself what so many of us tell ourselves: push through, it'll pass. It didn't. Because it wasn't "just stress." My hormones had started to shift, and my nervous system was paying the price. Then I started seeing it everywhere. In my team, my friends, on social media, in forums. Women losing their spark. Relationships going quiet. Careers shrinking. Capable women, all saying the same sentence: "I don't recognise myself anymore." Most of us are never told that Perimenopause can start years before our periods stop. Or that it can feel like this.
I went looking for something made for this phase. No hormones. No fillers. No big promises. I couldn't find it. So I made it. ShiLives Stress Support Matrix is what I needed and couldn't find. It's made by a woman who has been through this, for women who are in the middle of it. You don't have to push through alone.