A FREE GUIDE
What no one told you about midlife
And what actually works now
Your energy shifts. Your sleep stops being reliable. Your body responds in ways it never used to — and the first instinct is to wonder what you are doing wrong.
You are not doing anything wrong. You are in a different phase of life, and it asks for a different approach.
Where shall I send it?
What's inside
Twenty pages on the seven changes women name most in perimenopause — what is happening, and the MMM approach to each.
The 3am wake-up
Why you fall asleep easily and wake at 3am — and the cortisol timing behind it
The belly that appears overnight
Why more cardio and more core work is the wrong answer
The anxiety that doesn't feel like you
What oestrogen and progesterone do to a nervous system
The brain fog that descends
Why focus feels less consistent, and what steadies it
The heat that comes out of nowhere
What is really happening in your body's thermostat
The emotional surges
Why your stress tolerance changed, and how to build capacity back
The unexpected aches
Joints, stiffness, and the movement that protects them
What is the Midlife Movement Method
The Midlife Movement Method is Chrissy Sundt's approach to training and living in a perimenopausal body. It rests on five pillars: mindful movement, sleep, nourishment, rest and illumination, and connection. Rather than a harder version of what worked at thirty, it asks what this body responds to now, and builds the week around that.
Chrissy has taught barre and Pilates for over twenty-five years and is navigating perimenopause herself. The Method brings together movement, nutrition, sleep and recovery — the four things that have to work together in midlife rather than separately. Nutrition sits inside the programmes it belongs to rather than being sold on its own.
Five pillars, one method
The Midlife Movement Method is not five unrelated wellness categories. They are an interconnected system supporting a woman’s ability to thrive through midlife and beyond.
Intelligent strength, cardiovascular fitness, mobility, balance and restoration — adapted to the woman you are today.
Restorative sleep as a foundation for recovery, energy and long-term health.
Eating to support muscle, bone, brain, metabolic health and energy, without restriction or extremes.
Creating space to recover, regulate your nervous system, reflect and reconnect with what you need.
To ourselves, to other women and to the people and experiences that give our lives meaning.
Common questions
What is the Midlife Movement Method?
Five pillars: mindful movement, sleep, nourishment, rest and illumination, and connection. It is how Chrissy Sundt trains and lives in a perimenopausal body, and how the programmes are built. The question it starts from is not what worked at thirty, but what this body responds to now.
What is in the free guide?
Twenty pages on the seven changes women name most in perimenopause. It is not a plan to follow, it is a way of understanding what your body is doing, so the choices you make next actually fit this phase.
Is the guide really free?
Yes. Give me your first name and email and it arrives in your inbox, with a download link on the next page in case it does not. You can unsubscribe any time.
Who is it for?
Women in their forties and fifties who are functioning but no longer feeling like themselves. Periods are often still regular, so most readers have not connected what they are noticing to perimenopause at all.
Is the guide medical advice?
No. It is educational, and it is not medical advice. Anything that worries you belongs with your GP, and the guide is written to sit alongside that conversation rather than replace it.
A note from Chrissy
I have been there too — and what I have come to understand, personally and professionally, is that this phase is not decline, it is a transition. It's like being in your teens again but essentially in reverse.
This is why I developed The Midlife Movement Method™. This guide is here to help you understand what is happening, and more importantly, what to do about it.
Chrissy x