Midlifepower Zen-Weekend

Many women ask themselves “what's the big deal about menopause?” Hot flashes, sleeplessness, mood swings, stigma, embarrassment......  Why do modern women want to deny the menopause is happening to them? After the menopause, the mind clears and the moods stabilise — you’d have thought women would want to shout about it from the rooftops.

Perhaps, as the theatrical fear of not revealing your age in case it kills your career spreads down into wider society, so too is it becoming virtually impossible to read about well-known 50-something women going through the menopause.

For many women, menopause is either borne in quiet suffering or else over-medicalised as nothing more than a hormone deficiency requiring oestrogen replacement. Menopause is a natural part of ageing that affects 50% of the population. Yet, this fact is not reflected in many societies, and their health systems. The long-standing neglect of menopause and silence around it must change.

Doctors divide this period of hormonal change into three phases: perimenopause, the period shortly before the cessation of menstruation, which begins on average at the age of around 45 years. This is followed by menopause, the time of the last menstruation and then postmenopause.

Basically, menopause is not an illness, but a natural transition period in midlife. And yet they are obviously associated with a lot of suffering. For a third of women, the hormonal change is quick and painless, but two thirds experience symptoms for a few years, half of them so severe that their quality of life decreases significantly. Why this is the case is not scientifically clear.

But why has so little been said about it so far? If you google the topic “menopause” you will find complaints and losses. Menopause is usually associated with aging and there is a bigger problem behind it: the way we view aging in our society. Even women often argue that they “have nothing to do with menopause”. So it's not just about biological processes, but also about social values. Does the “value” of women decrease with increasing age – keyword youth madness? The role of women may have increased in power, independence and self-confidence in recent decades - when it comes to getting older, it still seems to be in the Stone Age. All too often, even well-meaning advisors uncritically adopt the image of women's declining “desirability” due to age. They give recommendations on how to deal with this “decline in values”, but do not question it.

We would like to break these and other prejudices and taboos and give you tools through coaching and yoga to shed a positive light on these changes and to show opportunities and potential for us women. The word “menopause” contains the word “break” for a reason. After the phase of life in which motherhood is possible, a new phase follows. The key to a happier menopause lies in appreciation, calmness and the opportunity to discover new freedoms in living your life. We would like to help you, alongside all the omnipresent self-optimization, to change your perspective and turn your view of menopause and aging into a positive one. We want to help you help yourself by supporting you with our expertise and experience.*

We look forward to seeing you

Fatima & Ariane

Your midlife power team

* Of course, we always recommend a consultation/examination with your doctor first. There are also many things you can do to relieve menopausal symptoms.