Kristin Markell MD · A mastermind for eight women
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You didn't come this far to spend the second half of your life running on empty.
You didn't come this far to spend the second half of your life running on empty.
You have built something real. A career. A practice. A family or community. A life that, from the outside, looks exactly like what you worked for.
And somewhere in the last few years, you started noticing that the woman doing all of this doesn't feel like herself anymore.
Not because something is wrong with you. Because something is happening to you, and no one in your life or on your medical team ever told you it would feel like this.
Perimenopause is not a slow decline. It is a threshold. And the women who cross it consciously, with the right support, with their pleasure and their power intact, come out the other side transformed.
This is that moment.
"Perimenopause is not a deficiency state. It is a longevity inflection point. The women who treat it that way change everything."
The Peri Portal is an eight-month mastermind for eight women navigating perimenopause who are ready to do it differently. Not symptom management. Not a course. A real container, with real support, and real women alongside you.
You will receive integrative perimenopause coaching grounded in twenty years of hormonal health experience, with somatic stress release practices, intimacy and empowerment coaching, and real guidance on your next steps in life, business, and wellbeing woven throughout.
We will look at your hormones, your nervous system, your joy, your pleasure, and your vitality. Not as separate categories. As one living system that has been under extraordinary pressure.
We will also look at what you actually want your life to feel like. Because that is not a soft question. It is the question. And I have twenty years of evidence that women who answer it honestly change everything.
This is for your business, your transformation, yourself. The whole you.
This is the space for that.
Real answers about what is happening in your body, your hormones, and your nervous system. We layer in somatic stress release practices, intimacy and empowerment coaching, and guidance on your next steps in life, business, and wellbeing. Not a pamphlet. A full, living conversation.
Not a mindset problem. Not a productivity issue. Burnout prevention is built into the architecture of this container. We address it with the seriousness it deserves, with evidence, with embodiment, and without the hustle framing.
Embodiment, sensory aliveness, and the deliberate pursuit of experiences that make you feel like yourself again. These are not rewards for doing the work. They are the work.
There is something that happens when eight women who are honest about where they actually are meet regularly for eight months. It is not group therapy. It is not a mastermind in the business sense. It is its own form of transformation.
Perimenopause is the gateway to the second half of your life. What you do with it shapes everything that follows.
Everything designed to work together, not stack up against your schedule.
We begin with a deep welcome. You share where you are, what you need, and what you are hoping to feel like on the other side.
Two calls per month for eight months. One is an AMA focused on perimenopause as a portal. Think hormones, somatic stress support, sexual health, brain health, sleep, mood, body image, identity, movement. The other is a Heart Seats call, where we go deeper into what is actually happening in your life and how this season is reshaping you.
Three dedicated calls with me over the eight months to go where the group cannot. Your specific questions, your specific season, your specific life.
The container does not close when the calls do. Group voice and text access keeps all eight of you connected between sessions, and gives you a place to ask the question that showed up at 11pm on a Tuesday.
Twelve tenets covering vision, embodiment, nourishment, sacred cycles, pleasure, joy, and more. The operating system for a life that actually belongs to you.
Full access to the She Bares All community and archives, where I write about perimenopause, hormonal health, pleasure, and what it looks like to live in a body you have actually made peace with.
An experience in Paris with all eight of us. 3 days exploring the next version of you together. Leaving Paris with what she wanted to show you about yourself. Accommodations included at a favorite boutique hotel. Travel arranged separately. Guidance provided.
In May 2027, the eight of us gather in Paris. It is 3 days and exploring the next version of you together.
Leaving Paris with what she wanted to show you about yourself.
Paris is not a backdrop. It is a collaborator.
A practice that supports women with real wellbeing and longevity tools, made for them and for what they actually need and desire.
I am a double board-certified OB-GYN and Integrative Medicine physician, and I built a high-volume practice that I was genuinely good at. Once my practice shifted toward more women in their 30s and 40s, I realized I needed to learn more than my training had given me.
Not more procedures. More understanding. Of hormones, yes, but also of the nervous system, of stress and its physiological fingerprint, of what intimacy and embodiment and pleasure actually have to do with how a woman feels in her body at 42.
So I pursued a Somatic Stress Response and Sexual Health Certified Practitioner certification, trained in intimacy and empowerment coaching, and opened my own boutique hormonal health and wellbeing practice. I write about all of it on She Bares All, my Substack.
The Peri Portal is everything I wish had existed for my patients a decade ago.
Dr. Kristin Markell MD, FACOG, MSCP, ABOIM, RYT
"Once my practice began to focus on women in their 30s and on, I realized my training had barely touched what they actually needed. I went back and learned. That changed everything about how I practice, and how I live as a woman in midlife."
Payment plans available.
This is not a program you will finish and then go back to the way things were. It is eight months of arriving at the version of yourself you have been building for a lifetime.
Currently accepting applications for 8 founding members.
