27/01/2026
I thought I was ending. I was actually just beginning. šæ
Menopause hit me early. And if Iām being honest? It was torture.
As a journalist, I lived a life of high stress, deadlines, and adrenaline. I didnāt know it then, but I was borrowing time from my body. When the transition came, it wasnāt the graceful "spiritual awakening" I had read about. It was insomnia. It was brain fog. It was a heat that felt like it would burn me alive.
I felt like my body had betrayed me. Society told me that without my cycle, I was invisible. That I was "done."
But 40 years of Yoga Therapy taught me something different.
There is a paradox in menopause. The world sees a woman fading, but inside, I was becoming more real. Once the storm passed, I realised I felt more grounded, more sensuous, and more powerful than I did at 25.
We need to talk about the storm. But we also need to talk about the power on the other side of it.
The Invitation: I am starting a new circle. A place to pause. We will talk about the symptoms (and how to manage them without fighting your body). We will talk about the grief. And we will talk about the Second Springāthe life that waits for you after the pause.
https://tinyurl.com/pausemenopause
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