All of this to say, menopause and the period leading up to it, perimenopause, can be incredibly stressful. “Happily,” Taylor-Swanson adds, “there’s a bunch of really good research showing at least moderate help from yoga, acupuncture, herbal medicine, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Those interventions have all been tested, and certainly, none of them show any kind of harm.”