Talking points
Your belly swells, your breasts leak, something moves inside you, and nobody tells you why. You'd think you were dying. You'd fight every symptom and go mad. That is where women are with menopause.
Puberty happens to both sexes. Pregnancy produces sons. Both were studied. Menopause only happens to women. It was never in men's interest to understand it. So the story became "nature made a mistake, you're going mad".
"You're hormonal." "You forgot." Telling the world only how bad it is gives every douchebag a list of reasons why all the problems start with us.
Symptoms as the cost of compromise, making do and sacrifice catching up with you. Anxiety isn't an affliction. It's an alarm bell.
My theory: a move from bearing and raising children to the wise elder. Resist it and two systems run at once. That's the fog. Let it in and the new one drops in.
Clarity. Memory. Energy. Intuition. Authority. And 2am, the one hour nobody needs anything from you, when the whisper of revolution comes.
Talking to your inner child. Active meditation, where the body moves on its own. Eye Release. Pleasure. All of them work with nature, not against it.
AI can replicate almost everything except life experience. A woman of 45 holds the one thing it can't. This is our power era.
The proof
48. Had the symptoms, now symptom free. Put away the HRT her doctor was pushing. "I have never been clearer. My memory has never been better."
Lines to quote
"Menopause and peri isn't our body doing the dirty on us. It's our body finally being exhausted with us not listening to it."
"Nature didn't make a mistake. Nobody bothered to understand it."
"Imagine fighting the symptoms of pregnancy. How far would you get?"
"A woman who listens to her intuition is a liability."
Who she is
Actress for 25 years: EastEnders, Twilight, Maleficent, Heroes Reborn, Apple TV's Foundation. From Gorton, Manchester, an area of poverty. Creator of The Shift, taking women from Survival Mode to their Second Act.
Free guide: Menopause Is the Best.
Site: theshift.one