Dr. Sue Varma

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Train Your Brain To Thrive Through Menopause · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

Progressive muscle relaxation.

It's like...

tensing and releasing muscle group by muscle group.

So you're basically allowing for a vagal parasympathetic flow.

And there was a book written in the, I think, 70s called The Relaxation Response.

And I feel like there's so many different roads that can help, like basically dampening the sympathetic fight or flight norepinephrine.

Our bodies are constantly in feelings of threat.

And I don't know why.

I can definitely see in the peripenopause phase I'm going through,

I'm on edge and I can't even tell you why.

I don't know what the threat is, right?

There's no bear coming after me, right?

Like I'm not in school and I'll sometimes have dreams that I've missed the bus or there's an exam.

We carry the certain sense of like, and also surveillance and self surveillance, right?

Like we start to internalize this idea.

So when people, when we feel like we're being watched and people don't realize this, it's something I'm thinking about and writing about now is this concept of open kitchen plan.

And then now we have an open plan in our offices, right?

So this idea that we're going to be productive and it all comes from, it's really funny, it was meant as a prison design where the prison guards are watching you and they could be watching you.

Maybe they are, maybe they're not.

But the idea is that you're going to internalize this surveillance and then you're just going to act and do the right thing because you feel like you're being watched.

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