So likely you are in Menopause or Peri-menopause which is the time just before Menopause actually happens.  Yeah for you!  You are about to embark on an incredible new journey in your life.  It's not too late to make sure you are healthy and balanced moving forward!

 

IF you aren't quite in full menopause yet, It’s most likely pre-menopause  or peri-menopause syndrome.  Did you know pre-menopause is not a natural or inevitable part of life but one that’s created by our lifestyle and our environment. Pre-menopause is something that most women know about but very few people have a name for it. Did you know that about 50 million women are going through pre-menopause right now and experience some form of this? And did you know there is a bunch of symptoms that can happen 10 to even 20 years before actual menopause?

Menopause is not just one event that happens and boom we are in menopause. The formal definition is marked by one year of no menstruation.  But, the ovaries still make certain hormones it's just that they no longer produce the high levels of hormones associated with ovulation.  

Menopause is a lot like the opposite of puberty according to Dr. Sara Gottfried.

I know it’s hard to talk about because many women don’t want to think about it because it means that we’re getting older. However, we need to switch our mindset. Why not make this the best time of our lives! 

Ponder this... before puberty we had the freedom of living without hormone cycles and a pretty steady physical and emotional balance. During puberty we had to ride the ups and downs of our body getting used to the surges of different sex hormones and menstrual cycles and all the growth that happens. Then if we are lucky we get some great energy in our 20's and even into our 30's and then we start to reach a point where our hormones reach their maximum best.  Bummer...Sometime between our mid 30s and mid 40s our vibrant cycle become a little more influenced by outside factors in our lifestyle choices then we start to notice some serious changes again. It’s like we are back in puberty, Yuck!   Good news is there is a calm at the other end of this.  That is if we do the right things now! We can change it!  We just need the right knowledge and the right plan. Just imagine... a balanced woman is confident, she knows herself and has enough experience to be moving around in the world with self-assurance, a wonderful level of confidence and she knows her own body. 

One of the big keys to a easing into menopause smoothly is to make it a wonderful time to move around in our life and become more emotionally and spiritually powerful! So, if you take care of yourself now you’re aging process will happen later in life and will be more gradual and less debilitating.  If you do your best to maintain your physical, mental and emotional balance through this cycle of your life aging will be more graceful and less painful. So do you notice that BALANCE is the key concept here!