Hello beautiful soul — and welcome to Calm Confidence Over 40, the podcast. I'm Melissa Portman, and this is a peaceful space created especially for women navigating perimenopause, menopause and beyond — where every episode is a guided meditation, affirmation, or sleep experience made just for you.

Tonight's episode is called Letting Go of Hormone Anxiety — a deep sleep meditation for the nights when your body is humming with that exhausted but restless feeling that so many of us know far too well.

If this is your first time here — welcome home. And if you're returning — I'm so glad you came back!

So...get comfortable. Let your eyes close. And let's begin.

If you've ever lain awake exhausted but unable to sleep — body humming with something that feels like anxiety but isn't quite fear — this meditation was made for exactly this moment. That feeling has a name: hormone anxiety. And it is one of the most common, most misunderstood experiences of perimenopause and menopause. Tonight we're going to work gently with your nervous system — not fight it, not push through it — just invite it to soften.

In this episode you'll experience:
🌬️ Box breathing to calm your nervous system quickly
💆 A full body scan releasing anxiety from where it lives in the body
🌊 A peaceful ocean cove visualization where anxiety dissolves into still water
❝ Gentle affirmations for hormone anxiety and midlife sleep
🌧️ Soothing rain sounds to carry you through the night

Best experienced lying down with headphones in a dark room.

This episode is part of the Hormone Harmony Sleep Series — guided meditations made specifically for women navigating perimenopause, menopause and beyond.

Not medical advice. Do not listen while driving.

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🌙Looking for a gentle bedtime story to drift off to? Find my other podcast: The Gentle Library — linked here: https://open.spotify.com/show/0347lvFI6KMDYSmxmRcIGf