Perimenopause For Neurodivergent Hypermobile Women | Bright Raven Press
Bright Raven | Non-Fiction
A Gentle Guide to Menopause & Perimenopause
For Neurodivergent and Hypermobile Women | Book 2 in The Somadivergent Support Series
Nobody warns you that perimenopause doesn't arrive alone. If you're neurodivergent, hypermobile, or both, it turns up already tangled with everything else your body has been quietly managing for years.
The standard advice, written for nervous systems and connective tissue that fits in the square hole designed by society, stops making sense right when you need it most.
This it the book that finally joins the dots.
It's the second title in Claire's Somadivergent Series, following The Little Book of Somatic Healing, and it goes deeper into the specific place where a neurodivergent brain, a hypermobile body, and a shifting hormonal landscape meet and amplify each other.
About The Book
Neurodivergence, Somadivergence, and the Change
Not three separate problems. One coherent system, doing its best under a genuinely demanding set of conditions medicine has only just begun to join up.
Inside, you'll find plain-language science on why oestrogen's decline hits an ND brain harder, what's actually happening in a hypermobile body as hormones shift, and the convergence between the two that almost nothing else addresses. Alongside it: grief, parts work, relationships, somatic regulation, and a full chapter of gentle, hypermobility-safe exercise, including specific practices for the pelvic floor issues so many of us are quietly carrying and rarely told the truth about.
This isn't a book written to be finished a quarter of the way through and left on the shelf. There's no padding here, just what you actually need, in language that trusts you.
A Gentle Guide to Menopause and Perimenopause is written by Claire Buttrum, somatic therapist, and author of the novella Little Bird.
“Our emotions are connected to our senses – very much so. If you are happy or sad, you can display it by a stim.”
Emma Dalmayne
Meet Your Author
Claire Buttrum
Author, Coach, and Therapist
“For much of my life, I’ve existed in fragments. As a neurodivergent, hypermobile woman, my journey has been peppered with the specific, heavy shame that comes when your way of being doesn't align with the world's expectations.”
Claire is a therapeutic coach based in St Ives, Cambridgeshire. Her therapeutic work with families and her own lived experience navigating neurodivergence, disordered eating, and mental health is the living foundation of Little Bird.
Little Bird is published under her own imprint, Bright Raven.
She is available for readings, Q&As, and events at bookshops and schools across Cambridgeshire and East Anglia.