Alanis Morissette on 30 years of ‘Jagged Little Pill,’ Sobriety, and Joni Mitchell | Talk Easy
Perimenopause as a Catalyst: She describes perimenopause as a time when survival mechanisms like appeasement and freeze responses fade away, allowing for more authentic expression and truth-telling.takeawayThe Empath's Survival Strategy: Morissette identifies herself as an empath (highly sensitive person) whose primary survival strategy was appeasement or freeze, leading to a life of contorting herself to make others comfotakeaway“My survival was always appeasement or freeze... So menopause goes, 'Yeah, you don't need it.' So it goes away. So all of a sudden, I say whatever I need to say.”quote
