Menopause journeys: one woman’s panic and another’s triumph when facing life without HRT

The most influential “role models” in the menopause space are taking medicine for symptom relief. Many of them believe women need to take HRT for life.

The glorification of a medicalized menopause transition has consequences.

Why is it considered desirable to tie your long-term health to a pharmaceutical (or even supplement) supply chain?

Why do so many women no longer expect healing during midlife, and instead believe menopause without HRT is a path to suffering?

Last week, I was in a public discussion with a woman, let’s call her Irene, who was livid that her doctor recommended that she come off HRT. Irene had just undergone a type of operation that increases the risk of blood clots, which could lead to a pulmonary embolism. HRT taken many years post menopause, as Irene was doing, also poses more significant risks of pulmonary embolism, stroke, coronary heart disease and more.

Irene suggested the doctor’s recommendation was rooted in misogyny and ageism. She believed menopause, and the symptoms often associated with it, go on forever. Medicine was supposed to “save her” from the ravages of her own biology, or even an asylum.

Irene and many of her enraged 20K+ followers compared menopause to chronic diseases and even death. Irene believed that rather than HRT increasing her risk of a serious adverse event, it offered her protection.

It doesn’t. The most robust research doesn’t say that. Influencers do.

Each woman can choose how she wants to journey through the menopause transition, but what happens when women who have chosen to take HRT, need to stop the meds? What do they have to fall back on if they believe menopause is a disease and that symptoms are inevitable?

Ruth (not her real name) recently wrote to me about her journey with HRT. She gave me permission to share her story.

Ruth took one of my courses almost 6 years ago. After the course, she felt much more relaxed and positive about perimenopause. Ruth had started trusting her body and felt it knew how to help her through the sensitive years of change.

Ruth lives in the UK, where a few years ago, a so-called “menopause revolution” was started. Such revolutions are nothing new. They have been triggered in cycles since the 1960s.

Just like the previous “menopause revolutions,” the current one convinces midlife women that they are deficient, prone to malfunction and in need of a medical fix. Of course, this is not actually revolutionary. It is, however, a proven business plan.

Promoting fear combined with a promise of a “wonder drug,” which supposedly offers disease prevention benefits, has convinced many women to try HRT.

Ruth was one of them.

She had friends who were swearing by HRT and Ruth didn’t want to miss out on any possible benefits.

She started using combined HRT patches earlier this year having recently become postmenopausal. Soon after she commenced the treatment, she began bleeding – 20 days one month, 21 days the next month. She returned to the doctor who wanted to change the form and doses of HRT, and also sent her for a uterus scan.

Ruth wasn’t satisfied with this path. She decided to stop HRT and let her body calm down. She’s now relieved that, in her words, her body rebelled against the HRT and showed her the path that was right for her.

Ruth was called to reconnect with my work. She read my book and was thankful to read my open letter to the head of the FDA (wherein I detail how research on HRT does NOT show disease prevention benefits for women in natural menopause).

Ruth wrote:

“I’m so glad to have been in touch with your work again, at a time when I really needed reminding of it!”

Ruth was lucky that she could fall back into trusting her body once more. We can all embrace that possibility, but the longer we rely on boxed pharmaceutical products, and the more we buy into the dominant narrative on menopause, the more impossible it appears.

Trusting in the body reduces the stress that we create around symptoms. With time, this trust also creates an important shift that helps reduce the symptoms themselves. From anxiety to night sweats and hot flushes, from migraines to exhaustion, no symptoms are inevitable. Just as the body creates them, the body can also heal them.

If you would like to embrace a smoother and more harmonious journey through perimenopause and menopause, one that is free of fear and which will allow you to become free from a dependance on boxed products, check out my course, The Divine Path Through Perimenopause and Menopause. The next round of the course will start soon, on Sunday 14 September.

After experiencing my own spontaneous healing of perimenopause symptoms a decade ago, I have since helped hundreds of women to naturally transform their experience of midlife change.

These years are sensitive but we can turn the sensitivity into a superpower, and allow the body to guide us brilliantly, when we learn to listen in.

During The Divine Path 12-week LIVE course, I share information on natural health and healing that no-one else is talking about in the menopause space. The course also includes two individual one-hour coaching calls.

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