You know what they say about hindsight, then again it wouldn’t take 20-20 vision to see an elephant in my living room. No, that would be impossible to miss. Yet when I first had the suspicion that I was going through the change I missed something that big for quite a while. One of the …
Topic: Journal
Investigating what do hot flashes feel like I had a defining moment that transformed my relationship to hot flashes forever. I am in awe at the capabilities of the human body, at my body!
From behind a camera filming instructors teaching, what was to become a paradigm shift for menopause developed simply and without fanfare.
I was surprised at how fuzzy my knowledge on the topic of human hormones is. Yet I have so readily agreed with the stereotypes and stigma society tosses out about menopausal women.
I experienced the perfection of menopause, the perfection of being a woman. In the afterglow of telling the truth, I felt like celebrating midlife.
The familiar paradigm that looking good is more important than feeling good was turned on its head.
I’d feel intense rushes of heat in my body at such random times and other less definitive feelings.
As tulips blossom, my desires unfurl and reach out psychically. As my body fills with energy…