Why Did I Walk into This Room?: Finding the Humor When Perimenopause is Kicking Your Ass

Has perimenopause commandeered your brain?

Wiped you of energy & motivation?

Wreaked havoc on your sleep & sex drive?

Left you feeling isolated, stuck, exhausted, and misunderstood?

Like many middle-aged women, Christy Heitger-Ewing felt confused, frustrated, angry, and worried when, in her mid-40s, she found her life hijacked by brain fog, joint pain, night sweats, mood swings, dreadful insomnia, and sinking self-esteem. If you answered YES, DAMMIT! to any of the questions above, this collection of relatable and hilarious essays will leave you saying, "Same," "Amen," and "OMG, yes!"

Why Did I Walk into This Room? will make you feel seen, supported, and slightly less crazy as you laugh so hard you pee your pants.

Author: Christy Heitger-Ewing
Publisher: Braughler Books, LLC
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9798893900965

About the Author
Heitger-Ewing, Christy: - In the "Would You Rather?" game, if asked, "Would you rather solve a difficult equation or wrestle a hungry alligator?" Christy would have to think long and hard about her answer because while she used to have a recurring nightmare of falling into the alligator pit at the zoo, she also has lived real-life nightmares of breaking her brain trying to solve for "X."If asked, "Would you rather wrestle a hungry alligator or tell the whole world your most embarrassing stories?" that one is a no-brainer for her because she has been sharing her life with readers for the past forty years.It all started with publishing her article "Diary of an Anorexic," which ran in Campus Life magazine. Since then, Christy has published 3,000+ articles in magazines such as Woman's World, Pregnancy, Cat Fancy, The Huffington Post, Cabin Life, Scary Mommy, Haven Homes and many more. She has contributed to twenty-eight book anthologies, including Laugh Out Loud: 40 Women Humorists Celebrate Then & Now...Before We Forget.Christy has won multiple writing awards, including first place in the Featured Magazine writing category in Writer's Digest's Annual Writing Competition. She also placed in the Inspiring the World Journalism Competition, was a finalist in the humor category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards competition, and was the grand prize winner of the Greyden Press national non-fiction book writing competition, which resulted in the publication of Cabin Glory: Amusing Tales of Time Spent at the Family Retreat.Christy has written about life's precious moments and heartbreaking meltdowns. She has shared nostalgic memories and horrific tragedies. She has documented the belly laughs and ongoing hurts. She writes about it all because she recognizes that life is made up of peaks and valleys. Christy thinks it's important to find humor when we are in the midst of a valley, which is what prompted her to write this book about perimenopause.For the record, Christy's not stupid. She would choose solving the equation over wrestling the alligator because a) she has a better chance of surviving math (just barely), and b) she would bat her eyes and ask her smart engineer husband to work the equation for her. Ideally, she would feed the math equation to the alligator.