Reevaluate, restore and reinvent
You will reach menopause when a full year passes without a cycle. Menopause is a metamorphosis. It's a time of reevaluating your life, letting go of the things you've outgrown, restoring your body, mind, and spirit, and reinventing yourself.
When you reach actual menopause, many of the symptoms associated with your wildly fluctuating hormones in perimenopause (estrogen dominance) will be behind you as estrogen levels decline. Estrogen deficiency requires your attention now.
While this phase of your journey might seem easier to navigate, the “silent symptoms” of declining estrogen levels require your attention now. In menopause and beyond, it's time to focus on bone and heart health and nurturing your thyroid and adrenal glands. It's time for you to focus on you.
"The joy of menopause is the world's best-kept secret. Like venturing through the gateway to enter an ancient temple, to claim that joy, a woman must be willing to pass beyond the monsters guarding its gate.
As you stand at the brink of menopause, it appears that only darkness, danger, and decay lie beyond. Yet, as thousands of women from all cultures throughout history have whispered to each other, it is the most exciting passage a woman ever makes."
Leslie Kenton