About
I'm an everyday 40-something wife and mom, who - like millions of women worldwide - has entered perimenopause. You can learn a bit more about my journey by reading my story. In the time I diagnosed myself and started creating my own unique roadmap to self-preservation during this time of life, I've also supported many women, in real life and online, by talking to them about my experience and helping them seek solutions, care and a sustainable path forward.
The ugly truth is that most medical professionals aren't schooled about perimenopause, and even fewer seem to take the time to self-educate. Women are silenced by (the wrong) prescriptions, often fobbed off to multitudes of medical specialists for irrelevant issues (perimenopausal fluctuations often masquerade as other conditions) and generally approached with shocking levels of medical malaise by those entrusted to care for us.
Times are changing, but not fast enough.
Until much progresses, the onus really is on us women to blaze a trail forward in our own interests and those of our sisters, sister-friends, loved ones and daughters. This means doing the research, asking questions, speaking out, taking unconventional routes to secure what's necessary and challenging what both alternative / naturopathic medicine and conventional medicine propose, often unilaterally and in contrast to each other.
I am but one member of a growing clarion call of women, standing up for proper acknowledgement, treatment and support of perimenopausal women. It's a shame that a man in our society need only suffer a few soft erections, and there's no hesitation to prescribe testosterone or little blue pills to pep him right back up to normal. But midlife women with night sweats, insomnia, hot flashes and never-before-seen anxiety are written off with guidance to "take long, hot baths, do some brisk walking, or dress in layers!"
We're not playing games anymore.
Doctors? Media? Society?
Get on board.
Click here to read more about my journey and how I got here,
The ugly truth is that most medical professionals aren't schooled about perimenopause, and even fewer seem to take the time to self-educate. Women are silenced by (the wrong) prescriptions, often fobbed off to multitudes of medical specialists for irrelevant issues (perimenopausal fluctuations often masquerade as other conditions) and generally approached with shocking levels of medical malaise by those entrusted to care for us.
Times are changing, but not fast enough.
Until much progresses, the onus really is on us women to blaze a trail forward in our own interests and those of our sisters, sister-friends, loved ones and daughters. This means doing the research, asking questions, speaking out, taking unconventional routes to secure what's necessary and challenging what both alternative / naturopathic medicine and conventional medicine propose, often unilaterally and in contrast to each other.
I am but one member of a growing clarion call of women, standing up for proper acknowledgement, treatment and support of perimenopausal women. It's a shame that a man in our society need only suffer a few soft erections, and there's no hesitation to prescribe testosterone or little blue pills to pep him right back up to normal. But midlife women with night sweats, insomnia, hot flashes and never-before-seen anxiety are written off with guidance to "take long, hot baths, do some brisk walking, or dress in layers!"
We're not playing games anymore.
Doctors? Media? Society?
Get on board.
Click here to read more about my journey and how I got here,