Perimenotastic
Thrive in Your Midlife
Understanding Perimenopause. Empowering Women. Building Community.
Perimenopause is one of the most significant yet least understood transitions in a woman's life. It can affect physical health, emotional wellbeing, relationships, career, confidence, and daily life—often years before menopause itself.
At Perimenotastic – Thrive in Your Midlife, we believe every woman deserves access to trusted information, compassionate support, and a welcoming community where she feels seen, heard, and understood.
Our mission is to empower women through education, coaching, creativity, and meaningful connections, helping them navigate perimenopause with knowledge, confidence, and hope.
Whether you're just beginning to notice changes or have been struggling with symptoms for years, we're here to help you better understand your body, advocate for your health, and discover practical strategies that support your wellbeing.
Because understanding your body is the first step toward thriving in midlife.
Our Four Pillars
🌿 Learn
Knowledge is empowering.
We translate current scientific research into practical, easy-to-understand information through workshops, webinars, articles, research briefs, and educational resources, helping women make informed decisions about their health.
💛 Thrive
Every woman's journey is unique.
Our coaching and wellbeing programmes provide practical tools, lifestyle strategies, and personalised support to help women navigate the physical, emotional, and mental changes of perimenopause with greater confidence and resilience.
🤝 Connect
No woman should go through perimenopause alone.
Through community gatherings, support groups, conversations, and events, we create safe spaces where women can share experiences, learn from one another, and realise they are not alone.
🎨 Create
Creativity can be a powerful part of healing.
Through creative wellbeing experiences and expressive art, we encourage reflection, emotional expression, stress reduction, and self-discovery. Sometimes words are not enough—and creativity becomes another way to understand ourselves.
What We Offer
🌿 Perimenopause Education
Evidence-informed workshops, webinars, seminars, and educational resources that explain the hormonal, physical, emotional, and cognitive changes associated with perimenopause.
💛 One-to-One Coaching
Personalised coaching designed to help women gain clarity, confidence, and practical strategies for navigating this stage of life.
👭 Group Coaching & Community
Supportive group programmes and community gatherings where women learn together, share experiences, and build meaningful connections.
📚 Research Briefs & Resources
Easy-to-understand summaries of current scientific research, practical guides, workbooks, and educational tools that make complex health information accessible.
🎨 Creative Wellbeing
Creative workshops that combine art, reflection, and mindfulness to support emotional wellbeing, self-expression, and personal growth.
🏢 Workplace & Corporate Programmes
Educational talks and workshops that help organisations better understand perimenopause, support employees, and foster more inclusive workplaces.
🎤 Speaking & Awareness
Public speaking engagements, panel discussions, collaborations, and awareness initiatives that encourage informed conversations and help reduce the stigma surrounding perimenopause.
Meet Your Coach
Mary Grace Kroiss
Founder of Perimenotastic – Thrive in Your Midlife
Mary Grace Kroiss is a certified menopause coach, speaker, and founder of Perimenotastic – Thrive in Your Midlife, a wellbeing initiative dedicated to supporting women through education, coaching, creativity, and community.
After experiencing the challenges of perimenopause herself, Mary Grace became passionate about helping women better understand the physical, emotional, and cognitive changes that accompany this stage of life. Her mission is to ensure that women feel informed, supported, and empowered to make confident decisions about their health and wellbeing.
Professional Credentials
Certified Menopause Coach
Licensed Menopause Champion (MEG)
Member, European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS)
Founder of Perimenotastic – Thrive in Your Midlife
Founder & Managing Director of The Story Garden UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Professional Background
Mary Grace brings more than a decade of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, specialising in global regulatory affairs and clinical operations. Her professional background has strengthened her ability to understand scientific information, critically evaluate research, and communicate complex health topics in a clear and practical way.
Through Perimenotastic, she combines current scientific knowledge with compassionate coaching, practical lifestyle strategies, creativity, and meaningful community support to help women navigate midlife with greater confidence.
Our Philosophy
We believe every woman deserves to thrive—not just survive—through midlife.
We believe in empowering women through knowledge.
We believe in compassionate coaching that meets every woman where she is.
We believe in supportive communities that replace isolation with connection.
We believe creativity can help us reconnect with ourselves, reduce stress, and embrace change with confidence.
Above all, we believe that perimenopause is not the end of something—it is the beginning of a new chapter filled with wisdom, strength, resilience, and possibility.
Our Promise
At Perimenotastic, we are committed to creating a safe, welcoming, and evidence-informed space where women can learn, ask questions, connect with others, and feel empowered to make informed decisions about their health and wellbeing.
Because no woman should have to navigate perimenopause alone.
Perimenotastic
Thrive in Your Midlife
Learn. Thrive. Connect. Create.
My Story
Why
Perimenotastic Exists
No one ever told me about perimenopause.
Not my mum.
Not my aunts.
Not my grandmothers.
No one.
I had never even heard the word.
All I knew was that I was becoming someone I didn't recognise.
I was angry—so angry that I often joked I could eat someone alive. (Most of the time, that someone was my husband.) Looking back, it wasn't funny. It was confusing, exhausting, and frightening.
I felt overwhelmed by everything.
My marriage.
Parenthood.
Work.
Life.
I felt incredibly lonely, as though no one understood what I was going through.
From the outside, my life looked wonderful.
I was married to a loving husband, raising an amazing daughter, working in the pharmaceutical industry, travelling internationally for work, flying business class, and spending time in airport lounges that many people dream of.
By all appearances, I had every reason to be happy.
So why did life suddenly feel so heavy?
Why couldn't I find joy?
Why did I feel like I was losing myself?
There were days when I cried for no obvious reason.
Days when I questioned my marriage.
Days when I called in sick because I simply couldn't cope mentally.
I was exhausted, overwhelmed, and carrying a weight I couldn't explain.
Then I met Katie.
She introduced me to something I had never heard of before:
Perimenopause.
For the first time, everything began to make sense.
I met other women whose stories sounded just like mine.
I realised I wasn't weak.
I wasn't failing.
I wasn't "going crazy."
I was going through a completely normal biological transition—one that far too few women are prepared for.
That moment changed everything.
I immersed myself in learning, determined to understand what was happening to my body and why so many women were suffering in silence.
I became a Certified Menopause Coach, a Licensed Menopause Champion (MEG), and a Member of the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS). The more I learned, the more I realised that knowledge has the power to replace fear with understanding—and confusion with confidence.
That journey inspired me to create Perimenotastic – Thrive in Your Midlife.
My mission is simple:
To ensure that no woman has to navigate perimenopause feeling confused, dismissed, or alone.
Through education, coaching, creativity, and community, I want women to know that what they are experiencing is real, that support is available, and that this chapter of life can be approached with knowledge, strength, and hope.
Because when women understand what is happening to their bodies, they don't just survive midlife—
They thrive.
