I live in this same bubble! And no, women in midlife don't have the time or the energy to make the 2pm webinar on what is supposed to "fix" them. Or they think they have the time and sign up for the webinar, and then forget about it because of brain fog (or they are overwhelmed dealing with 10 other things). Plus, many women don't have access to certified menopause practitioners so they turn to chatbots for answers out of desperation, which is not the best strategy because a chatbot can't screen for other diseases that may overlap with menopausal symptoms.
I agree that it's wonderful that menopause has been brought to the forefront of many conversations, but I think opening the conversation to include younger women (including our daughters) is where the real shift will eventually happen as menopause will be hopefully be normalized as a life stage like pregnancy, and there will be easy access to treatment for all women.
It will be great when we can finally see this life stage in the same light as other life stages of a woman. I agree about talking to younger women about this. Lauren Tetenbaum has a great book called The Millennial Menopause, and including daughters (and sons) in this conversation will only help normalize this for future generations.
Still so much work to be done. The gap of understanding our own bodies is sad and frustrating. What little research we have on women taking into account the fullness of the cycle phases is bare to extremely limited. And the biological and physiological information we have is not reaching the majority of women.
I've been writing about this for 3 years and feel there is so much more work to be done and still feel my reach is so limited. And yet the lives that my education is reaching is having a transformational impact even if in my sphere. My hopes is that the women who get it are telling their friends and teaching their daughters. Meanwhile I'm teaching my husband who is blabbing about it to coed coworkers and strangers and my son is observing his peers with a better understanding of how women operate and all of this is giving me hope.
I live in this same bubble! And no, women in midlife don't have the time or the energy to make the 2pm webinar on what is supposed to "fix" them. Or they think they have the time and sign up for the webinar, and then forget about it because of brain fog (or they are overwhelmed dealing with 10 other things). Plus, many women don't have access to certified menopause practitioners so they turn to chatbots for answers out of desperation, which is not the best strategy because a chatbot can't screen for other diseases that may overlap with menopausal symptoms.
I agree that it's wonderful that menopause has been brought to the forefront of many conversations, but I think opening the conversation to include younger women (including our daughters) is where the real shift will eventually happen as menopause will be hopefully be normalized as a life stage like pregnancy, and there will be easy access to treatment for all women.
It will be great when we can finally see this life stage in the same light as other life stages of a woman. I agree about talking to younger women about this. Lauren Tetenbaum has a great book called The Millennial Menopause, and including daughters (and sons) in this conversation will only help normalize this for future generations.
Still so much work to be done. The gap of understanding our own bodies is sad and frustrating. What little research we have on women taking into account the fullness of the cycle phases is bare to extremely limited. And the biological and physiological information we have is not reaching the majority of women.
I've been writing about this for 3 years and feel there is so much more work to be done and still feel my reach is so limited. And yet the lives that my education is reaching is having a transformational impact even if in my sphere. My hopes is that the women who get it are telling their friends and teaching their daughters. Meanwhile I'm teaching my husband who is blabbing about it to coed coworkers and strangers and my son is observing his peers with a better understanding of how women operate and all of this is giving me hope.
Keep doing the good work!