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Loss of Libido in Perimenopause: It’s Not Just Hormones—It’s Your Desire Awakening

Physical Body & Menopause
April 03, 2026•2 min read

Loss of libido is one of the most commonly reported symptoms of perimenopause. You have no interest in sex. No desire. No spark. And if you are in a relationship, this can create tension, confusion, and distance.

Doctors will tell you it is hormones. Declining estrogen and testosterone. And it is. But it is also your Sacral Chakra.

The Sacral Chakra governs sexuality, creativity, pleasure, and desire. It is located just below your navel and it is the seat of your creative life force.

When this chakra is out of balance, you lose access to desire. Not just sexual desire, but desire in general. You stop wanting things. You stop feeling excited. You stop feeling creative.

Perimenopause often coincides with a time in life when you have been giving and giving and giving for decades. You have been taking care of everyone else. You have been meeting everyone else’s needs. You have been productive and responsible and selfless. And your Sacral Chakra, which governs your pleasure and your desire, has been starved.

I lost all interest in sex during perimenopause. And I felt broken. I felt ASHAMED. I felt like something was wrong with me. For a long period, I thought that I was less than other younger women.

But when I started doing Sacral Chakra work, when I started asking myself what I actually wanted, not what I was supposed to want, I realized I had been disconnected from my own desire for years. YIKES! It was tied to heartbreak and that needed repairing, which I did.

Medicine can help with hormones. But medicine cannot reconnect you to your desire. That is creative work. That is pleasure work. That is learning to ask yourself what you actually want and giving yourself permission to want it.

When your Sacral Chakra comes back online, so does your desire. And look, it’s not going to be on your mind’s timeline. It’s not going to be because you forced it… But it will be because you remembered that you are allowed to want things in your heart, soul, and body.

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Crystal Lynn is a spiritual life coach who helps midlife women transform financial collapse into wealth, identity crisis into sovereignty, and the Dark Night of the Soul into their most powerful era. She's the founder of the Midlife Woman Wealth Society, where women learn to step into their Higher Self identity, build multiple income streams, and claim the moxie they were always meant to have. She lives in Paris, France, writes with brutal honesty, and believes that midlife is where the real wealth revolution begins.

Crystal Lynn Bell, Founder of Badass Butterfly Alchemy

Crystal Lynn is a spiritual life coach who helps midlife women transform financial collapse into wealth, identity crisis into sovereignty, and the Dark Night of the Soul into their most powerful era. She's the founder of the Midlife Woman Wealth Society, where women learn to step into their Higher Self identity, build multiple income streams, and claim the moxie they were always meant to have. She lives in Paris, France, writes with brutal honesty, and believes that midlife is where the real wealth revolution begins.

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