by LynetteSh | Apr 5, 2010 | Hot Flashes, Menopause & Emotion, Menopause in Community, Menopause websites |
Menopause the Musical would not be so successful if the whole transition weren’t so laughable. And the Venuses would be the first to say that humor has saved us. Humor and girlfriends. Sometimes, though, the whole Menopause journey is so sucky that it’s hard to...
by LynetteSh | Oct 18, 2009 | Menopause, Menopause & Emotion |
One of my girlfriends is newly in the throes of perimenopause. And she has just experienced her first full-on Menopause Moment. Yep, one of those mental lapses that previously would have been simply unthinkable and would cause a woman to doubt her very sanity. I...
by LynetteSh | May 25, 2009 | Emotional Menopause Symptoms, Menopause & Emotion, Menopause in Community, Positive Changes |
Once we’ve passed the hurdle of Changeophobia, we head down the tract to the next one. Before we even have time to congratulate ourselves on our flexibilty, up looms New Learning. I had always thought of myself as a curious, interested, open kind of person. I...
by LynetteSh | Apr 11, 2009 | After the Pause, Life Changes & Stages, Menopause & Emotion |
When Karen Leland first approached me about a Huffington Post piece on The Big M, she asked a series of questions. She’s also the Life-Balance Examiner for Examiner.com, so her first question was appropriately "How do peri-menopause and menopause affect a...
by LynetteSh | Dec 19, 2008 | Life Changes & Stages, Menopause & Emotion, Positive Changes |
Boundaries. They are an issue that we menopausal goddesses have dealt with all our lives. We’ve explored our boundary problems over and over again at our Venus meetings. Years of excessive pleasing, helping, and giving have made us all too permeable and...
by Lynette | Oct 14, 2008 | Men and Menopause, Menopause & Emotion |
One of our favorite pre-menopausal goddesses, Saskia, shares this bit of wit from cyberspace. And younger women can substitute "PMS" for Menopause, because it is still relevant. Q: How many women with MENOPAUSE does it take to change a light Bulb?...