The manual you should have been given twenty years ago.
ADHD and Perimenopause
Pause and Unmask: A guide for high-achieving women whose brains and bodies stopped cooperating with the strategies that used to work.
The eBook, plus a 20-minute clinical hypnotherapy audio, written and recorded by a coaching psychologist and clinical hypnotherapist.
Instant download: PDF and MP3.
You used to be able to do anything.
You built a career on a brain that worked. High output, late-night productivity, deadline pressure as fuel, hyperfocus when something interested you enough to demand it. You were the woman everyone counted on.
Somewhere between your late thirties and your mid-forties, the brain stopped feeling like yours.
You can’t focus. You can’t follow through. You walk into the kitchen and forget why. You cry at things you wouldn’t have cried at in your twenties. You wake at three in the morning and can’t get back down. You’ve tried every productivity system, every supplement, every podcast, and you’re still moving like you’re underwater.
You’ve been told it’s burnout. Or anxiety. Or perimenopause. Or stress. Or just the season of life you’re in.
Every one of those is partly true. None of them is the whole picture.
The whole picture is in this book.
The bundle, in full.
The eBook (PDF, around 78 pages)
Nine chapters covering the chemistry of ADHD-plus-perimenopause, why your old strategies stopped working, the infrastructure to build instead, the regulation work that makes it stick, four real client stories, and the toolkit you’ll keep coming back to.
The bonus hypnotherapy audio (MP3, 24minutes)
Wind Down Your ADHD-Perimenopause Brain. A clinical hypnotherapy track for sleep onset, written and recorded by Jennie. Designed for the ADHD-peri brain that can’t switch off at night.
Use it nightly.
Both delivered to your inbox the moment you buy. Yours to keep.
Here’s what’s really going on.
When estrogen drops in perimenopause, dopamine signalling drops along with it. For a brain that was already running on dysregulated dopamine, which is the ADHD brain at baseline, perimenopause isn’t a slow shift. It’s a chemistry crisis that affects all areas of your life.
Your focus, your follow-through, your sleep, your emotional regulation, your sense of who you are. All of it can go out the window at once. The strategies that built your career stopped working because the chemistry they were running on stopped showing up.
This is biology, not character and it’s not your fault. And no, you’re not going crazy!
The book lays out the science, in plain English, and then gives you the operating manual for the brain and body you actually have now.
Inside the book.
Intro: Hey, I’m Jennie
Chapter 1: Chemistry, Not Character
Chapter 2: The Hidden Face of ADHD in Women (And the bit nobody tells you about perimenopause)
Chapter 3: The Re-evaluation
Chapter 4: What Used to Work Doesn’t, and Here’s Why
Chapter 5: Infrastructure for the Brain You Actually Have
Chapter 6: Regulation as the Mechanism
Chapter 7: Four Women, Four Resets
Chapter 8: The Toolkit
Chapter 9: What’s Next: Sharper
Who wrote this.
Jennie Watson is a coaching psychologist and clinical hypnotherapist. She has been coaching women privately for more than ten years, including throughout her three years as COO and co-founder of a tech company she exited in 2025. Her own ADHD was diagnosed at 34 and she has since dedicated her time to learning everything she can about ADHD, AuDHD and late diagnosed neurodivergence in women.
She wrote this book because two years ago, a client asked her what to read on ADHD in perimenopause, and there was no book she could in good conscience recommend. The general ADHD books didn’t understand the hormonal layer. The perimenopause books didn’t understand the ADHD layer.
This is the book she wished she could have handed her.
A few things this book isn’t.
It isn’t a clinical guide. Nothing in it diagnoses you, treats anything, or replaces medical care. Conversations about HRT, ADHD medication, or any other clinical decisions belong with your GP or specialist.
It isn’t a soft book. The promise here is power, not calm. The point isn’t to soothe you into accepting a smaller life (though the accompanying sleep hypnosis is designed to soothe you to sleep). It’s to give you the manual so that the woman who used to be able to do anything can do it again, on the chemistry she has now.
It isn’t a quick fix. The work in here is real work. You won’t be a different woman next month. What you’ll be is recognisable to yourself again.
This is for you if…
You’re a woman roughly between 35 and 55.
You have ADHD, formally diagnosed or strongly self-identifying.
You’re in perimenopause, post-menopause, or close to it.
You used to be high-functioning, and lately you aren’t.
You’re done with productivity systems built for brains that aren’t yours.
You want strategies that respect both your chemistry and your ambition.
And it isn’t for you if…
You want someone to soothe you into accepting a smaller life. The work in here goes in the opposite direction.
You’re looking for medical advice. Talk to your GP or specialist; this book runs alongside medical care, not in place of it.
You want gentle. The voice in this book is direct. Warm, but direct.
Frequently Asked Questions
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The audio is a 20-minute clinical hypnotherapy track for sleep onset. It’s designed to be used nightly, separately from the reading. The book teaches you the framework; the audio is a tool you use inside the framework.
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No. One payment of €37, and the book and audio are yours forever.
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If you genuinely can’t get on with the book within 14 days of purchase, write to hello@jenniewatson.ie and I’ll refund you.
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The final chapter of the book explains the September founding cohort of SHARP, my twelve-week group programme. There’s a waitlist link at the back of the book. Joining the waitlist costs nothing and puts you in line for the September cohort.
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Yes. The book runs alongside whatever medical care you’ve chosen, or haven’t. It’s a behavioural, psychological, and somatic protocol that complements medical treatment. It doesn’t replace it. If you’re considering HRT or ADHD medication, those conversations belong with your GP or specialist.
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That’s fine. Many readers are formally diagnosed, many are confidently self-identifying, many are somewhere in between. The book works regardless of where you sit on that spectrum.
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Symptoms often start in the late thirties, sometimes earlier. If you’re feeling that something has shifted, you’re probably right. The book works with your experience, not a hormone panel. There’s a chapter specifically on the cycle-aware infrastructure that helps before full perimenopause.
The manual was missing.
Now it isn’t.
You can keep trying to white-knuckle through it. You can keep reading productivity books written for brains that aren’t yours. You can keep doing what you’ve been doing.
Or you can spend €37 on a book that actually explains what’s happening, written by someone who’s in the middle of it with you, and start building the infrastructure for the chemistry you have now.
Not softer. Sharper.
Instant download: PDF and MP3. No subscription.