Oct 26, 2025

#BookReview #ThePerimenopauseSurvivalGuide #HeatherHirschMDMSMSCP #Balance #GCPBalance

 

Dr. Heather Hirsch, renowned founder of the Menopause Clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and featured expert on Oprah Winfrey’s The Life You Want series, offers a groundbreaking, expert-led guide to not only navigate—but truly thrive—through perimenopause.


Perimenopause, the transitional phase before menopause, can feel like one of the most disorienting and unspoken chapters in a woman’s life. From hot flashes and brain fog to anxiety, back pain, and sleep disruption, the symptoms are real, but the guidance often isn’t. Too many women between the ages of 35 and 50 find themselves confused, dismissed, or unsupported by their providers.


The Perimenopause Survival Guide is a clear, compassionate, and evidence-based resource from one of the most trusted voices in women’s hormonal health. Dr. Heather Hirsch draws on her years of clinical experience to help women understand what’s happening in their bodies, and how to take charge of their care.


In this essential guide, you’ll learn:

  1. What’s really driving your symptoms and how to decode them Proven, FDA-approved treatment options—plus how to evaluate what’s right for you
  2. The importance of managing perimenopause now for long-term health
  3. How to advocate for yourself and build a care plan around your individual needs and goals

Whether you’re just starting to notice subtle changes or already deep in the hormonal rollercoaster, The Perimenopause Survival Guide empowers you with clarity, confidence, and the tools to feel like yourself again. 


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Confused about what to expect in midlife? Wondering how to treat mysterious symptoms like night sweats, ringing in your ear, or stubborn weight gain? Or how best to treat annoying hot flashes and insomnia? I got you. I’m Dr. Heather Hirsch, a board-certified internist, nationally accredited menopause specialist, NAMS provider, and founder of the menopause and midlife clinic at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and faculty at Harvard Medical School. Through my decade-long history in treating women in perimenopause and menopause, I have made it my mission to expose the gaps in midlife women's healthcare through my work. I currently see patients in my private telemedicine practice and you can learn more about me at heatherhirschmd.com


The Perimenopause Survival Guide
Written By Heather Hirsch MD, MSCP 
Review By Heidi Lynn’s Book Review 

First I want to thank Heather Hirsch MD, MS, MSCP and Balance for providing me with this book so I can bring you this review. 


Thank you Heather Hirsch MD, MS, MSCP from the bottom of my heart for writing this guide!! Too many women like myself are wondering what is going on with our bodies that our health care providers seem to keep blowing off. It is extremely frustrating to know something is wrong with your body but you can’t pinpoint what it is exactly. But thanks to Heather she is now opening up the conversation that we women need to start talking about and that is Perimenapause.


Heather would like to dedicate this book to her daughter Demille, Margaret Hirsch, and all the future generations of woman. May we all receive the care we need throughout our lives. 


In the beginning of this book there was a very well written forward by Avrum Bluming MD, MACP who is a Medical Oncologist. 


Heather wrote this book to help you develop a plan to address your symptoms and protect your long term health that combines medical treatments, prescriptions, labs, etc. 


By explaining how to treat your symptoms and why doing so is so important to your health today and long term. She wants you to be seen and know she understands what you’re going through and that you are not alone. 


What was eye opening to me was that during in Perimenapause our long term care can decline with our GI system, muscular system, pelvic floor, cardio and brain function can go downhill as well. 


Heather Hirsch shows you how to use the book to your advantage before outlining it for you:

Part 1:  “Understanding the hormonal hijacking"

Part 2:  “Pinpoint your Perimenapause pausal set”

Part 3:  “Set yourself up for smooth menopausal sailing”


The Perimenopausal Survival Guide is designed to help you understand what’s happening with your body, find and make shared decisions with knowledgeable about treatment and know what you can do on your own. 


Heather defines the differences between Perimenapause, Menapause, and Postmenapause for us readers. For me personally I am on the crazy stage of Perimenopause which is why I took a personal interest in reading this book. But after reading this book I am not looking forward to 10 years of this lmao!!! 


There is a great chart that Heather includes in the book of all the stages, symptoms, hormonal hallmarks and durations of them all as well. 


Heather educates her readers on what she calls her cast of characters that make up what is going on within your body. Within these cast of characters she elaborates on what they do for the body cut as Estrogen, Progesterone, Testosterone, Follicle Stimulating Hormone, Thyroid Hormone, ETC.


Heather educates her readers on heavy periods, symptoms of Anemia, polyps, fibroids, adenomyosis, endometrosis, uterine cancer, and medications that can cause heavy bleeding. 


One procedure she mentioned that I had personal experience with was an endometrial ablation. It was not an easy decision to make but being a Mom wasn’t in the cards for me. However, I am a very proud Auntie to four amazing kids. 


Oh the lying awake and worrying chapter I felt like that was written just for me!!! I am an overthinker, a worrier, and an insomniac!! I have racing thoughts and there are days when I wish I could just shut off my brain!! Even a low dose of sleeping pill does not help! 


She gives us advice about estrogen therapy options such as a transdermal patch (that is the one I am on the Dotti Patch), transdermal gel/spray, oral pills, vaginal ring. However, she also gives you non hormonal options as well. 


If you are wondering if you have Perimenapause but not sure of the symptoms have no fear Heather has a list of symptoms for you to check to see if you match with. I have 10 of the 34! 


Oh and if you wonder if any of the myths are true about Permenapause she has a list of them that she will give you the correct answer for too. 


Heather thinks of everything in this book even down to the diet and gives a list of high protein and high fiber foods with portion size. She also gives exercise advice as well. 


Heather Hirsch needs to be commended for all the time and effort she put into educating herself to educate her readers on this topic. Her medical knowledge, her attention to detail, and how she had a heart for what we women were going through during all of this. Amazing read! Definite 5 star read!! This needs to be on every OBGYN shelf!! 





Oct 17, 2025

#CoverReveal #TheOtherMother #HeidiField #ZoolooBookTours #TulePublishing

 

Suzannah is pregnant with her third child. The first is in prison. The second is dead. How far will she go to keep her unborn baby safe?

When Suzannah learns she is pregnant, she feels like safety and happiness are finally within reach. Her handsome, successful fiancé, Alec, is over the moon about the baby. He proposes and pampers her. He thinks this is Suzannah’s first marriage and first child, but she’s keeping a few secrets. 

Actually, a lot of secrets. 

And they are dangerous…putting Suzannah in a position where she must choose who and what she’s willing to sacrifice to keep her baby and her freedom.

Drowning in her lies, Suzannah is desperate to bury her past, but her ex-husband, who abandoned her years ago, returns, stalking her and demanding to know what really happened to their daughter. 

 

When the imprisoned serial killer who lured and groomed her son, threatens to sell his story to the press, Suzannah feels like the life she’d built and the precious one she’s growing, teeter on a precipice. Now the two children she’s hidden from Alec may be the least of her worries.

 


Heidi Field was raised in the beautiful countryside of the South of England with her parents and her two sisters. In her twenties she was a freelance Sports Massage Therapist. She achieved a Degree in Zoology at the age of thirty and then went on to raise two boys and became the stepmother of three more young children. She still lives near her family home with her partner, their Great Dane and the children that have yet to fly the nest. 

 

In her early forties Heidi completed a Masters in Creative Writing at Winchester University. She entered the course hoping she would become a children’s fantasy writer and left with a burning desire to write contemporary mysteries and thrillers. 

 

Heidi wanted to put relatable people in extraordinary situations, challenge them, push them to their limits and watch them fight for their sanity. The Other Boy is her first novel.

 

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Oct 15, 2025

#BlogTour #TheSecretsBetween #CyanMichaels #Inkubator ZoolooBookTours

 

Amy is married to her dream man. She’s about to wake up.

Amy Taylor thought she knew her husband Craig. A quiet tech expert, devoted father, 

reliable partner in their suburban life.

But then she finds the photo that changes everything. The image shows a boy identical to 

their son – but taken at a school he doesn’t attend. Is it possible Craig has another child?

Craig is away on business for the weekend. So Amy has 72 hours to figure out who she’s 

living with. And it’s so much worse than anything she could ever have imagined.

Yes, he does have a second family. But as she digs further, she realizes that’s the least of her 

worries.

Because it’s what Craig does on Mondays that is truly terrifying. And the weekend is nearly 

over.

Will Amy even make it to Monday?

The Secrets Between Us – the chilling psychological thriller perfect for fans of Gone 

Girl, The Woman in the Window, and twisted domestic suspense


Book Links

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242025388-the-secrets-between-us

Purchase Link: https://mybook.to/secretsbetweenus-zbt


Who is Cyan Michaels?

After a few detours as a graphic designer, webmistress, painter, and rock singer, Cyan is now 
focused on writing novels that examine the fragile, resilient, and twisted parts of the human 
mind. (Honestly, most of us are barely held together with emotional duct tape!)
She enjoys reading psychological and domestic thrillers, sci-fi, spec fic, and bizarro comedy 
fiction. Cyan lives in southern Ontario in a beautiful little town by the river, with a cute guitarist 
husband and not quite enough house plants.


Where can you find them?
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The Secrets Between Us 
Written By Cyan Michaels 
Review By Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews 

First, I want to thank Cyan Michaels, Inkubator Books, and Zooloo Book Tours for providing me with this book so I can bring you this review. 


OMG! Cyan Michaels I have trust issues with men as it is but now that I read The Secrets Between Us I am on full alert!!!! Seriously, the more psychological thrillers I read, I wonder if I should stay single lol! This book totally messed with my head but it was so good!


This book was a fast paced, totally addicting, mind blowing, onsitting binge read that you won’t be able to put down. 


Craig was not my favorite character in this book. He had two families that neither of them knew existed! But the icing on the cake for me was he had sons with both of them and named them both Asher. Now why would both of your kids that look similar to you have the same name? Wouldn’t that confuse you? If you think that is bad, oh the storyline gets deeper and darker as the story goes on. 


It was cute how we would get newsbreaks about the weather, how it was always raining, and what was going on in the world. 






Oct 14, 2025

#BooksonTour #HomeThisChristmas #SueRoberts #Bookouture #NetGalley

 

After leaving her childhood village heartbroken, chef Ruby hasn’t been home in years. But could a chance trip down memory lane be the secret ingredient for a magical holiday season?

Ruby hasn’t been back home since she made the heart-wrenching decision to leave her childhood sweetheart, Nathan, for a career in London. But when she’s invited to judge the charity gingerbread competition, she decides it’s time. And it seems there’s Christmas mischief at work. Because Nathan is joining her as a gingerbread judge.

But it’s clear he would rather she’d stayed away, from his icy silence when they are alone, to the snarky comments and his accusing glare as they prepare for the event with other members of the community. And all Ruby wants to do is get back to London.

Then bad weather leaves her snowed in the village until after Christmas, with nowhere to stay. And things go from bad to worse when she slips on the ice… And falls straight into the arms of Nathan.

The pain of her injured ankle is nothing when, her heart aflutter, Nathan surprises her. As he scoops her up and sweeps her off to the hospital, it seems like the frost between them is finally thawing. But could the magic of Christmas mean a second chance is possible? Or is it too little too late?

Grab a blanket and curl up by the fire with this completely addictive and absolutely gorgeous festive romance, which fans of Sarah Morgan, Tracy Rees and Heidi Swain will love!

Sue Roberts lives in Lancashire with her long term partner Derek and has had a lifelong love of writing, encouraged by winning a school writing competition at the age of 11.

She always assumed that ‘one day’ she would write a book, always having a busy household and a job, the idea remained firmly on the back burner but never forgotten.

The inspiration for her first novel came to her on a holiday to a Greek village. Her daughters had left home and suddenly the time had come to write that book!
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Home This Christmas
Written By Sue Roberts 
Reviewed By Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews


First, I want to thank Sue Roberts, Bookouture, and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I can bring you this review. 


Tis the time of year when the weather slowly starts to change and the requests for Holiday books come in. As long as reading one does not jinx the Buffalo Winter Storms/Blizzards I am all for reading them!! Home This Christmas by Sue Roberts was one of those feel good books that kept your attention the whole book by keeping a smile on your face. 


The graphics design team did such a cute job with the cover of Home This Christmas! They were fun and eye-catching and made me want to know more about the book. 


If you know me you know I love reading and reviewing books. I also enjoy all things celebrities and or reality tv shows. So, when I found out that the characters in this book were food critics that were going to be in a celebrity cook off for a charity I thought this was so up my ally!! Not only how cool was it to have this as a career but to have this event and raise money for a good cause. This piqued my interest in where the story could go. 


Needless to say, since this book revolved around food critiques all the mention of their food dishes made me hungry. Now I am wanting a BLT (well Sue mentioned a bacon sandwich on sourdough which made my mind wander to BLT). 


My heart absolutely broke when right before the big event she was looking forward to she got sick. She never gets sick and BAM she gets hit with a massive one! I felt so disappointed for her.


If you are looking for a fun easy read you should put this on your TBR list! 








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