You’re not falling apart.
You’re in the pause.
Somewhere in your 40s, maybe quietly, maybe all at once, something shifted. Sleep stopped being reliable. Your mood had a short fuse you didn’t recognize. Your body felt like a different country. Your usual ways of coping stopped working as well as they used to.
And no one handed you a map.
That’s why this publication exists.
In The Pause Life is a weekly letter about living fully inside perimenopause. Not waiting it out. Not just managing symptoms. Not disappearing until it’s over.
Because the pause isn’t a dead zone between young and old. It’s the moment you stop running on old scripts. Overwork, people-pleasing, ignoring what your body actually needs. And you start building something that fits the woman you are now.
That’s what “life in the pause” means. A conscious, designed chapter. Where the transition is the invitation, not the problem.
We go into all of it here.
What's actually happening in your body, named honestly and without catastrophizing.
Strength training and movement as long-term investment, not punishment.
Nervous system regulation through breathwork, yoga, and small daily rituals.
Eating for stability, not perfection, and yes, wine as conscious pleasure.
Building a home, a daily rhythm, a life that genuinely supports you now.
And the inner work: renegotiating relationships, identity, and what you want the second half to actually feel like.
A little about me.
I’m Tew. I’m 45, based in Utah, which means mountains out my window and trail dust on my shoes more mornings than not. I’m in the middle of this transition alongside you, not on the other side of it pretending I have it figured out.
I’m a 200-hour certified yoga teacher. I practice breathwork, lift kettlebells in my home office surrounded by houseplants. I hike when I need to think, or when I need to stop thinking entirely. I’m completing my Menopause Coaching Specialist certification through Girls Gone Strong. I love good food, good wine, slow travel, and the particular peace of moving through something wild and quiet.
I’m not a doctor. I’m not your coach. I’m not an expert.
I’m a peer witness. Someone walking beside you, taking notes, and sending back what I find.
What I’ve found so far: this transition is asking something of us. And when we answer it with intention, with our bodies, our homes, our choices, our honest attention, it becomes something we’re actually living. Not just surviving.
What you’ll receive.
A free weekly letter, usually short and always honest, on one thread of the life we’re building in the pause. Movement, nervous system, pleasure, inner work. Or simply what I noticed this week that felt true.
No protocols. No optimize-your-life energy. Just honest company for the transition you’re actually in.
If this sounds like the letter you’ve been looking for, come in.
In the pause with you,
Tew Green
