Good morning! Good afternoon! Good evening! Wherever you are in the world, would like to say thank you for showing up here and, most importantly, showing up for yourself. If you are reading this, I can tell that I am finally not alone in what I am thinking and feeling. See, I have felt alone for a while. If you watched my first webinar, you may remember me mentioning that part of my life when I felt that abrupt and drastic change once I hit menopause. I didn't even know I was there until I sat down and thought about it after I was in an accident. (Long, totally different story that I MAY share later. Lol) Being a mental health professional for over ten years, I was aware of all the symptoms. I was depressed, extremely anxious, and had tempestuous mood swings. The weirdest part was, I found myself all of a sudden looking backwards and remembering things from childhood and everything that happened before the accident. I felt somewhat more vulnerable than usual and it was beginning to throw me off. I tried everything I knew that helped my own clients. Some worked, some not so much. But throughout all that I discovered some things that I never thought would be more valuable than the science itself. I leaned into it and decided to work on my relationship with this part of me. This is perhaps the MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP we, as women, will ever have to maintain. It is the ultimate form of SELF-CARE! Long story short, this is why I decided to establish a community of women that are experiencing this part of menopause. We can learn all the reasons why we are experiencing such discomfort based on science. The truth is, no one will ever know what really happens to us mentally and emotionally because the experience is so personal that even science cannot explain it. So what better way to navigate this than to discuss it amongst ourselves and help each other strategize or, at the very least, be in a community that JUST GETS IT. I could go on and on...but that's the idea. It can't just be me. I want to hear from you! This is only the beginning of this conversation.