Nope!
You aren’t losing your marbles.
Menopause just makes you feel that way sometimes.
Names skip away.
Car key escape.
The brownies decide to burn.
For years, women nicknamed this condition “menopausal fog.”
The results of a recent research study confirm that menopausal brain fog is for real.
And the best suggestion for working through the fog seems to be to cut down on distractions and multitasking.
I learned to multitask as a young children’s librarian when I had bunches of kids asking me for books at the same time.
I could grab A Wrinkle in Time with one hand and Beezus and Ramona with the other while heading toward the biographies to find Helen Keller and Hank Aaron.
I carried on my multitasking tradition as a mom, when we all become Multitask Queens.
But menopause seems to be a time to let up a bit.
I find I no longer want to rush.
In fact, rushing doesn’t give me the happy rush it once did.
And not rushing helps me hold onto a few more marbles.
What about you?
Any tips for keeping your marbles in the jar?
Read more from Barbara Younger on her blog, Friend for the Ride
Barbara Younger
Barbara Younger's blog, A Friend for the Ride: Encouraging Words for the Menopause Roller Coaster, takes an upbeat look at menopause and midlife. She welcomes guest posts! Shoot her an email at the address on her "About the Blog and Me" page. The author of over twenty books for adults and children, Barbara holds an a MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Barbara lives in a 180-year-old house in the small town of Hillsborough, North Carolina with her husband Cliff and collections of everything from dolls to Golden Books to butter boxes. She's the mother of two grown daughters and grandmother to one adorable baby boy.
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Karen
Friday 17th of January 2014
I'm past that uncomfortable phase, thank goodness, but I remember it well. My solution was coffee. It didn't make me think better, but man, was I zippy!
Barbara Younger
Friday 17th of January 2014
Ha! Mine was tea and then a sometimes beer.