This clip from the Baroness von Sketch Show is funny … and points out the confusion that exists around perimenopause and menopause.

On age and change and my desire for a headdress.

When menopause hits the news headlines, myths get thrown around. What hides behind the popular menopause myths? What do women need to know?

When Robert A Wilson, MD, a Brooklyn-based OB-GYN, argued that estrogen therapy allowed menopausal women to remain feminine forever, he had a certain idea of feminine in mind! Feminine Forever was the title of Wilson’s influential book, published in 1966, which convinced women and their doctors that menopause was a curable “hormone deficiency disease.” In the book, Wilson made grandiose promises of the multiple benefits of supplemental estrogen – promises that we now know are

When everything feels crazy out there, at least we can understand more about what’s going on inside. I discovered my womb is moving and yours might be too. My path to discovery started on the floor of my son's bedroom. I got stuck there when a sharp spasm of pain sped through my lower back as I attempted to pick up a pile of school books. Only by falling to my hands and knees, wiggling into a yoga cat pose and then gently arching and curving my back, was I able to release som

“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929) “It is the untreated [menopausal] woman – the prematurely ageing castrate – that is unnatural…. The mere fact that such women castrates are prevalent – and getting more so every day as the world fills up with older wom

When in life, and especially at midlife, we have thoughts that tell us: I should be / I could have / I’ve never / I will never / I can’t … We can acknowledge those thoughts without judgement and let them pass through us. After all, when we let thought be, its nature is to move through us, 100% of the time. Instead of fearing what has been or what might be, midlife offers us a chance to open ourselves up to a future of infinite possibilities. The story of Anita Moorjani is one

Always on the lookout for perimenopause news, last week I was intrigued to discover that an expert on women’s health, who’s also frequently in the media and a Board Certified Gynecologist, had released a new book on perimenopause and menopause. Right from the introduction, she writes about the need for scientific evidence (unfortunately, in the areas of perimenopause and menopause, that usually means research funded by drug companies); she compares understanding a woman’s bod

When women are faced with a dilemma in life (no matter how big or small), I encourage them to practice an awareness of thought. One part of this practice is to pay attention to which thoughts arrive in a sea of calm, and which thoughts arrive in a storm. Through recognizing where lies the calm and where rumbles the storm, we're more likely to reach the best solution for the problem before us. We can also reduce any additional negative impact that may arise from a dilemma we'r

Many women experiencing perimenopause and menopause today were teenagers in the 1980s. Fashion wise that was an interesting time to step into womanhood. Luckily, even if you were a teenager in the 1980s, your womanly parts didn’t spring up as fast as you could insert a pair of shoulder pads into a new shirt. Your transformation from a girl to a woman took years, as it has done for women in every decade before and since. Becoming a woman is an epic production. Hormones begin