Sorry guys.\u00a0 I don’t mean to exclude you, but today’s topic just might not be something you want to stick around for.\u00a0 It might make you uncomfortable, so you are excused.\u00a0 Unless you want to learn about why we get so emotional, angry, crazy and sad sometimes.\u00a0 Then stick around.<\/p>\n
Ladies, gather round.\u00a0 Let’s chat about menopause.<\/p>\n
Actually, I don’t know that I have any knowledge on the subject.\u00a0 I really don’t know much about it.\u00a0 What IT is or if I’m IN IT.\u00a0 I don’t think I am.\u00a0 But just the fact that I have to wonder makes me realize that I can’t be the ONLY woman on the planet with questions.<\/p>\n
I picked up the book Menopause Manifesto a few weeks ago and have just started reading it.\u00a0 Because I have questions.<\/p>\n
Ladies, I don’t think we talk about things enough.\u00a0 I don’t see any Facebook posts about suffering with terrible PMS or hot flashes or FLUSHES as they are called in my new book.\u00a0 Mood swings.\u00a0 Anxiety.\u00a0 \u00a0Anger.\u00a0 Frustration.\u00a0 Overwhelming sadness out of the blue.<\/p>\n
I don’t think we talk enough about how our bodies change, and what we go through.\u00a0 The struggle of hormones.\u00a0 Weight gain.\u00a0 \u00a0Hot flashes.\u00a0 Mood swings.\u00a0 Are we uncomfortable having the conversation?\u00a0 Unless you have the symptoms, you just don’t understand the pain of it.\u00a0 And that can feel really lonely.<\/p>\n
My mom died when I was 18.\u00a0 She was only 41.\u00a0 \u00a0I am really not sure she ever got to the menopause stage in life. So I feel even more alone in the struggle to figure out what is happening to me as I approach the 50 mark in just over a month.<\/p>\n
Lots of stereotypes and jokes made at our expense over “that time of the month” or\u00a0 “the change”\u00a0 whatever people refer to these lifechanging events.<\/p>\n
I don’t know about you, but I would gladly trade it all in to be free of it all.<\/p>\n
I don’t like feeling out of control over my emotions, thoughts, and feelings.\u00a0 I don’t like feeling bloated and fat and gross and ugly.\u00a0 Hiding in sweat pants, eating peanut butter and chocolate chips to soothe and comfort.<\/p>\n
But I feel like with books like Menopause Manifesto, and a new online community that just launched to help us navigate these stormy grounds – it all helps to get the conversation going and help us feel not so alone.<\/p>\n
Introducing – Peanut Menopause<\/strong>, a digital community to help women navigate menopause, as well as perimenopause and postmenopause (the stages before and after it).<\/p>\n Peanut founder and CEO Michelle Kennedy says there’s a real need for women navigating all stages of menopause to be heard, supported, and prepared.\u00a0 No kidding.\u00a0 \u00a0I didn’t even need to know more.\u00a0 I just wanted to know how and where to sign up.<\/p>\n