How To Handle Homeschooling And Hormones

Homeschooling and hormones can be very challenging, and is a combination no one warns us about! Many homeschooling moms struggle quietly with hormone change that make their plans or routine feel impossible. Whether it’s PS, peri-menopause, or full-on menopause, those hormone changes can bring mood swings, brain fog, and exhaustion that bring frustration into your homeschool life.

Realize, though that you are not alone, and you’re not failing.

With some knowledge, grace, and some practical adjustments you can keep homeschooling steady even when your body isn’t feeling into it. Let’s look at how to handle homeschooling and hormones amid the very real physical struggles you are dealing with.

How To Handle Homeschooling And Hormones

If you have been fortunate enough to never suffer from a hormone imbalance, PMS, or menopausal symptoms, you may have trouble understanding those who struggle with these issues. I hope this post will help you be more aware of what some are going through due to their crazy hormones.

I had hormone problems for many, many years. I was fortunate enough to finally find a doctor who put me on bio-identical hormones, which balanced things for me.

However, I STILL remember how rough those years were when my hormones were so out of balance.

If you DO suffer from hormonal problems, perhaps you can relate to this description I wrote about how I was feeling when PMS had a grip on me. (At the time I didn’t know what was going on!)

I woke up this morning to find that the “real” me had gone somewhere, and my body was inhabited by a stranger. To be quite honest, I wasn’t at all happy about it, because I didn’t care for this stranger AT ALL! She wasn’t very nice, and tended to growl and snarl a lot. The least little thing seemed to set her off — whether it was an innocent request from her kids or a little teasing from her husband. She just couldn’t seem to stand any noise, and just wanted to be left alone.

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When someone would ask, “Is something wrong?” she’d snap, “No!” and run from the room in tears. She didn’t seem to know why she was crying, but yet she couldn’t stop. If someone asked, “How are you?” it took all she had to smile and say, “Fine,” when she felt FAR from fine.

This stranger stayed with me throughout the day and just seemed to control me. I’d try to fight her, but she seemed to overpower me, and I was too weary to struggle. A terrible feeling of depression hung over me like a dark cloud. Things that had once seemed easy, or routine, now seemed to be more than I could handle.

What I discovered about homeschooling and hormones

By the end of the day, I KNEW – I was positively mentally sick! What else could explain my awful behavior, disinterest in life, and uncontrollable emotions?

If you’re able to identify with some of these feelings and thoughts, more than likely you’re of the many women who suffer from PMS, or some other hormone imbalance. You have probably struggles with feeling of guilt for the times those hormones caused you to be moody, impatient, and irritable with your family. Perhaps you have worried about how your actions and mood swings are affecting your children and your husband.

Let me assure you that there is hope for you, and that you can een find joy when struggling with hormone imbalances. The posts below will give more information about hormone issues and reassurance that the problems are biological, not psychosomatic, as you probably often wonder! You really aren’t crazy!

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