As an individual with women parts….we spend about half our lives in a phase of menopause!!!
That’s a long time!! Most are completely unaware. I was too, until recently.
We are educated as pre-teens about puberty, our periods and what to expect.
We are coached and supported through pregnancy by sometimes a host of medical professionals providing us with tips, tricks, hacks and ways to deal and be more comfortable.
Most of us know that menopause is a ‘thing’, and many associate it with when vibrancy & worth as a woman ends. There are mostly assumptions, speculations, and lack of understanding.
Many women go through it thinking they have some sort of disease and are treated for symptoms aligned with clinical depression, anxiety, musculoskeletal issues & a host of other symptoms rarely deemed to be consistent with menopause.
We are dismissed and told what we are experiencing is consistent with ‘age’.
It’s time to be informed!! It’s time to advocate for women, as women and provide real solutions!
Knowledge is the beginning. So I’m starting there.
There are 3 true phases of menopause and it starts as soon as we get out first period. That’s about half of our lifetime! Of course dependent on length of life. Regardless, it’s a long time and most aren’t even aware. I’m 53 and I learned that in the last year!!
If you have female reproductive parts, menopause is inevitable – suffering is not!
Be informed!