Peri & Pause

01/25/2026

Three more days! 🎥
Check out the even on our page 🤗

01/23/2026

Here’s a sneak peek! 🎥

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone next Wednesday, January 28 from 6-9 PM at RBF, Your Authentic Champagne Bar in Cary for the screening of The M Factor 2: Before the Pause - Perimenopause 🩷🧡💛

We can’t wait to answer ALL THE QUESTIONS you bring! Bring a friend. Come alone and leave with new friends. Most importantly - leave much more informed so you can understand and advocate for yourself. Our nurse practitioners will be there to educate, inform and empower. Super honored to bring this to YOU!

Link in comments for tickets 🎟️

01/21/2026

In one week! The M Factor 2: Before the Pause - Perimenopause 🩷🧡💛

01/18/2026

“Your labs are normal”… but you don’t feel normal.
Let’s talk about that. 💬

In traditional medicine, clinicians are trained to treat disease, not always to optimize function - and this is where midlife women often get missed. 🩺

Lab “normal” ranges are statistical averages, not personalized targets. A value can be technically normal and still be suboptimal for you - especially during perimenopause and menopause, when hormones fluctuate and symptoms don’t always show up clearly on labs. 🔬

At our clinic, we don’t treat numbers in isolation.
We treat women. 💗

We look at:
• how you feel
• your symptoms and quality of life
• patterns over time
• labs in context - safely and evidence-based ✨

If you’ve ever been told your labs are “fine” but your body says otherwise, you’re not wrong - and you’re not alone. 🤍

We're here for you...💞

01/17/2026

✨ Book We 🩷🩷🩷 Right Now ✨

If you’re in PERIMENOPAUSE, this one deserves a spot on your nightstand. 💕
“The Perimenopause Survival Guide” by Heather Hirsch MD is a favorite of Kristen Nawyn, MSN, AGNP-C, MSCP - and for good reason. 📚

This book does an incredible job breaking down:
💫 What’s actually happening hormonally during perimenopause
💫 Why symptoms can feel confusing, overwhelming, or dismissed
💫 Evidence-based options for feeling better
💫 How to approach midlife with clarity instead of fear

It’s practical, empowering, and validating - the kind of resource that makes women say, “Oh… THIS makes sense now.”

This same education-first, compassionate approach is what Kristen brings to her care for women navigating perimenopause at our Raleigh location every day.

Swipe to see the cover ➡️
Have you read it yet? 💛

Heather Hirsch MD MS NCMP

01/16/2026

🎙️ New Podcast Episode — You’ll Want to Listen to This One 🎧

Jamie Gallagher, DNP, FNP-C, MSCP joins the What’s Up Wake Podcast for a powerful, easy-to-understand conversation on menopause - the what’s, the why’s, and the how’s no one ever explained to us.

If you’ve ever wondered “Is this normal?” or felt like your body changed without a roadmap, this episode is for you. Honest, informative, and empowering - exactly the conversation midlife women deserve.

🎧 Listen now and share with a friend who needs this. 💞

Understanding Perimenopause with Jamie Gallagher, NP | What's Up WakeIn this episode of 'What's Up Wake,' we focus on women's health, specifically perimenopa...

01/15/2026

Estradiol twice weekly patch PSA 📢

01/10/2026

Do you want to know?
Do you want to really understand what’s happening in your body?
To hear it directly from leaders in perimenopause and menopause care at the premier midlife women’s healthcare clinic, PERI & PAUSE?

Do you want to know if what you’re experiencing is normal?
What’s causing the changes in your mood, sleep, weight, energy, and health?
And...most importantly...what you can actually do about it to protect your health, your future, and your longevity?

Then now is your time.

We are hosting a special screening of The M Factor 2: Before the Pause - Perimenopause...a powerful documentary that brings clarity, science, and truth to the perimenopause conversation so many women are desperate to understand.

And we’re not stopping there. After the film, the nurse practitioners of Peri & Pause will host a live Q&A to answer your questions and help you connect the dots to your own experience.

📍 RBF, Your Authentic Champagne Bar
210 E Chatham St, Suite 10, Cary, NC
🗓 January 28
⏰ 6 - 9 PM

🎟 Tickets are on sale now
👉 Link is in the comments

Let’s learn. Let’s talk. Let’s take our health back - TOGETHER.
Let’s do this. 💗🥂


RBF, Your Authentic Champagne Bar

01/08/2026

✨ An evening for women in midlife - learning, connecting, and feeling seen. ✨

Join us for a special screening of The M Factor 2: Before the Pause – Perimenopause at RBF, Your Authentic Champagne Bar 🍾 at 210 E Chatham St, Suite 10 in Cary, NC on Wednesday, January 28 from 6pm-9pm.

Your ticket includes:
🎟️ Admission to the screening
🥂 A drink ticket - alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages
🎥 The film
💬 A live Q&A with the nurse practitioners of Peri & Pause

We’ll unpack everything perimenopause - what’s happening, why it matters, and why so many women are left with questions during this stage of life. Come learn, laugh, nod along in recognition, and maybe even make a new friend or two with women who are experiencing the same changes you are.

If you’ve ever thought “Why didn’t anyone tell me this?”...this night is for you.

👉 Grab your ticket via the Eventbrite link and join us.

Join us for a screening of The M Factor 2: Before the Pause. After the viewing, we will chat all things perimenopause with Peri & Pause.

01/07/2026

🎬 Coming January 28, 2026!

We’re thrilled to announce a special screening of
The M Factor 2: Before the Pause - Perimenopause

Hosted by Peri & Pause, with a live Q&A afterward led by our owner, Jamie Gallagher DNP, FNP-C, MSCP, and our nurse practitioners.

📍 Location and ticket access will be shared later this week
💗 We’re incredibly grateful for the enthusiasm and support already pouring in

📅 Mark your calendar
📢 Details dropping soon

This conversation is long overdue—and it’s happening here.


Tamsen Fadal

01/06/2026

🔥TL;DR: This isn’t about hormones.❌
It’s about preventing the disease you’re told to wait for.

Perimenopause is not just a phase.
It is a physiologic shift that changes how women’s bodies function, how disease risk evolves, and how health should be evaluated.

And yet, this is the exact time when women are most often dismissed.

Subtle changes begin - energy, weight, sleep, mood, labs that quietly drift.
Women are told their results are “normal,” that labs can be repeated in a year, or that they should just try harder to eat better and exercise more.

But biology doesn’t pause for a year.

Critical markers of metabolic and cardiovascular health often move slowly, long before a diagnosis is made. Waiting until something is “abnormal enough” - diabetes, heart disease, overt dysfunction - is not prevention. It’s reaction.

At Peri & Pause, we don’t practice that way.

We look at patterns, trends, and lived experience, not isolated numbers.
We assess cardiometabolic risk, metabolic health, hormone changes, and how they intersect - because longevity doesn’t begin after something breaks.

It begins today.

This isn’t just about lifespan.
It’s about HEALTHSPAN - and midlife women deserve care that protects both.

New patient visits are available. 🗓️
📞 Fuquay-Varina office - 984-265-2101
📞 Raleigh office - 919-341-5042

01/05/2026

READ THIS SLOWLY ... and notice what lands. ✨

You’re doing the workouts.
You’re eating better than you ever have.
You’re sleeping enough - at least on paper.

And yet:
• The weight won’t budge
• Your energy feels unpredictable
• Your sleep is lighter, broken, or suddenly fragile 🌙
• Your anxiety feels new - or unfamiliar
• Your labs are called “normal,” but you don’t feel normal 🧪

You’re told to wait.
To repeat labs in a year.
To try harder. To do more.

Here’s what matters:

Perimenopause changes how women’s bodies respond - to food, exercise, stress, and hormones. These shifts don’t happen overnight, and they don’t always show up as bold red flags on standard labs.

They show up quietly.
Incrementally.
In ways women are taught to ignore.

At Peri & Pause, we don’t ask women to wait for something to break before we act.
We look at trends, patterns, and lived experience - because prevention doesn’t start after disease. 🫀

✨ If this sounds familiar, you’re not imagining it.
✨ And you don’t have to keep guessing.

New patient visits are available. 🗓️
📞 Fuquay-Varina office - 984-265-2101
📞 Raleigh office - 919-341-5042