Menopause - are we talking the same language when we communicate about ‘menopause’? Whenever I mention to women in my area that I offer workshops for women going through menopause, I get lots of comments like “Oh, I’m done with that!”. It seems most women relate menopause as an ‘event’ that is related only to the cessation of their menstrual flow.

My perspective is that menopause is a stage of life - as a woman begins to feel and sense changes in her body and emotions she enter this stage and it is formally / clinically called perimenopause or pre-menopause. Once the menstrual cycles have not occured for approximately a year, a woman can say truly that she is ‘ IN menopause’ - but not that she is ‘DONE’ with it! Sisters, this is when the interesting part begins!

If I were to tell women that I offer workshops on Marriage, do you think I would find women saying “Oh, I’m already married - did that 10 years ago!”? Yes, the wedding took place as an event you can pinpoint in time but the ‘marriage’, we hope, continues as a stage of life for many years. And a stage that continues to evolve and change the parties involved forever.

On a more shocking note, as I was searching the internet to see what other sites have as a perspective on the ‘change of life’, I came across a blog on a site actually called ‘Preventing Menopause’. Wow, this is a real twist on the whole concept. Women are so reluctant to go through this as a maturing process that they want to know how to prevent it! Of course the site is apparently about drugs and HRT (I only spent about a minute and a half and exited). The second item in the blog had in its title ‘ovarian failure (menopause)‘ - this to me seems to be the absolute extreme of the spectrum….not only are women fearful of the change but they are being buffaloed into seeing it as a FAILURE that their ovaries no longer produce eggs. Yikes!

My intention in this blog is to reveal a path of beauty and inner peace for women who are stepping into their power as women. A path of creative expression and wisdom that makes them glow in a way they have never known.

Menopause is only frightening to those that likewise fear death - to many other women, menopause is very freeing and liberating and yes means death, death to all the pretensions and illusions and pretending to be something that we are not. And in many cases, a true death of the ‘ego’ as we at last find connection with a wise inner self that does not need to compete or impress others. Ah, breathe in that breath of fresh air!

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