It’s an exciting time for two local Jain monks whose goal as filmmakers is to help women everywhere understand perimenopause.
Beginning Jan. 30, the filmmakers’ docuseries “BALANCE: A Perimenopause Journey” is available across all major digital platrofms including Apple TV and Prime Video.
“BALANCE” follows the two millennial Jain monks, Sadhvi Siddhali Shree and Sadhvi Anubhuti, on a journey to find answers on the long-ignored global health crisis of perimenopause through intimate storytelling, expert insight, and deeply personal, unfiltered conversations.
“I feel like we’re riding a wave of perimenopause, which is a conversation that is so long overdue,” said Siddhali.
Their quest for answers started more than three years ago when both women said they started perimenopause in their late 30s.
Symptoms like high anxiety and insomnia, wreaking havoc on their normally stress-free lives at their spiritual home in Windom, about 90 miles north of Dallas.
As their docuseries took shape, they hosted screenings, aptly named “peri-parties,” at homes across North Texas.
“One thing really has to change, and that’s the education that medical providers go through so that they can better understand us women, and they can better give us treatment and just give us better guidance during this transition,” said Anubhuti.
“Women are feeling validated, they’re feeling less alone, and they’re just expressing so much gratitude because we vulnerably share our stories in the series,” said Siddhali.
Now with celebrity backing, like the docuseries executive producers Alyssa Milano and Jeannie Mai, the conversation on perimenopause heads to the small screen and beyond.
To learn about “BALANCE: A Perimenopause Journey,” you can visit the website.