One of the best ways to take care of your body during this time is to move it.

Dancing in your room counts. Walking with a friend counts. Stretching in your pajamas? That counts too.

When you move your body:

• You feel more confident

• You sleep better

• You handle stress better

• You start to feel more like you again

Perimenopause is not the beginning of decline. It’s a call to shift. To pay attention to your body, your needs, and your energy in ways you might never have before.

It’s a reintroduction to your power.
It’s permission to prioritize yourself.
It’s the start of a deeper relationship with the body that has carried you through everything.

At Behanem, we don’t believe in “anti-aging.”
We believe in pro-living—through every phase of womanhood.

We’ve been taught to push through, hustle harder, and ignore the signals our body sends us.
Cramps? Power through.
Low energy? Push harder.
Mood swings? Hide them.

But the truth is—your body was never meant to be the same every single day. You’re not broken. You’re cycling.

When I started this journey, it wasn’t because I had it all figured out. It was because I was deep in the middle of learning how to come home to my own body—while raising tiny humans, managing big feelings, and trying to remember the last time I drank water that wasn’t in someone else’s cup.

Let’s pause for a moment and think about everything your body has done.

It has carried you through long nights, hard days, and moments of joy that cracked you wide open. Maybe it’s grown life. Maybe it’s nurtured it. Maybe it’s held space for the little ones who call you Mom.

Your body is not the before photo or the bounce back project.
It’s a masterpiece in motion. A living, breathing love story of resilience.

But here’s the part we don’t talk about enough:
Your kids are watching.

These tiny seeds do big work.

They’re plant-based, easy to digest, endlessly versatile—and they fuel the strength you’re building from the inside out. At Behanem, we believe food should nourish, empower, and taste good. Pumpkin seeds? Check, check, and check.

Look, we get it. Gen Z has made avocado toast the butt of every "overpriced brunch" joke on the internet. If they’re not dragging millennials for paying $12 for it, they’re roasting us for posting it like it’s a personality trait.

But let’s be honest:
Avocado toast still slaps.

And if loving it is wrong, we don’t wanna be right.

We all feel stressed sometimes. Whether it’s school, work, relationships, or just a busy week—stress shows up in the body whether we notice it or not. But did you know that when you're stressed, your body releases a hormone called cortisol?