Introduction: The journey begins -- Menopause puts your life under a microscope -- The brain catches fire at menopause -- Coming home to yourself : from dependence to healthy autonomy -- This can't be menopause, can it? : The physical foundation of the change -- Hormone replacement : an individual choice -- Foods and supplements to support the change -- The menopause food plan : a program to balance your hormones and prevent middle-age spread -- Creating pelvic health and power -- Sex and menopause : myths and reality -- Nurturing your brain : sleep, depression, and memory -- From rosebud to rose hip : cultivating midlife beauty -- Standing tall for life : building healthy bones -- Creating breast health -- Living with heart, passion, and joy : how to listen to and love your midlife heart -- Epilogue: The calm after the storm.
Introduction : The journey begins -- Midlife : redefining creativity and home -- Why I'm writing a menopause book now -- Blazing a new trail -- Menopause puts your life under a microscope -- "Not me, my marriage is fine" -- The childbearing years : balancing personal and professional lives -- Why marriages must change at midlife -- My personal fibroid story : the final chapter -- Feeling the joy of co-creative partnership -- The forces that change the goose also change the gander -- Real menopause hits -- My marriage goes bankrupt -- Armadillo medicine : the power of vulnerability -- Celebrating the past while creating a new future -- The brain catches fire at menopause -- Our cultural inheritance -- Our brains catch fire at menopause -- Learning to recognize and heed our wake-up calls -- Is it me or is it my hormones? Debunking the myth of raging hormones -- The multiple roles of your "reproductive" hormones -- Embracing the message behind our menopausal anger -- Emotions, hormones, and your health -- How our midlife brains and bodies are set up to heal our past -- Finding a larger meaning.
Coming home to yourself : from dependence to healthy autonomy -- The empty-nest syndrome -- Boomerang babies -- Powerful feelings, powerful healing -- Caring for ourselves, caring for others : finding the balance -- Hitting pay dirt : getting clear about money at midlife -- Coming home to yourself -- Vocational awakening at midlife -- A road map for navigating unknown territory -- This can't be menopause, can it? The physical foundation of the change -- What is happening in your body : hormonal changes -- Perimenopause is a normal process, not a disease -- The three types of menopause -- Is there a test I can take? -- Menopause and thyroid function -- Menopause and adrenal function -- What to expect in your transition -- Hormone replacement : an individual choice -- A brief history of hormone replacement -- Bioidentical hormones : nature's ideal design -- A hormone primer : essential information every woman should know -- How to decide whether or not to take hormones -- A dusting of hormones -- How long should you stay on hormones?
Foods and supplements to support the change -- Basic principles of herbal therapy at menopause -- Menopause healing foods -- Traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture for menopause -- Start somewhere -- The menopause food plan : a program to balance your hormones and prevent middle-age spread -- Making peace (once again) with my weight -- Six steps to midlife weight control -- The hormone-balancing food plan -- Optimizing midlife digestion -- The final frontier : accepting our bodies -- Creating pelvic health and power -- What is yours, what is mine, what is ours? Reclaiming our boundaries -- Hormonal imbalance : fuel to the fire -- Menstrual cramps and pelvic pain -- Heavy bleeding -- Fibroids -- An empowered approach to surgery or invasive procedures -- Strengthen your urinary health and pelvic floor muscles.
Sex and menopause : myths and reality -- The anatomy of desire -- Sexuality at menopause : our cultural inheritance -- Menopause is a time to redefine and update our relationships -- Hormone levels are only one part of libido -- Secondary libidinal support : estrogen and progesterone -- Testosterone : the hormone of desire? -- Aids to lubrication -- Telling the truth -- Ten steps to rekindling libido -- Nurturing your brain : sleep, depression, and memory -- Enhancing midlife sleep -- Depression : an opportunity for growth -- Memory loss at menopause : is this Alzheimer's? -- Estrogen and Alzheimer's -- Nonhormonal ways to protect your brain -- Maximizing midlife wisdom -- From rosebud to rose hip : cultivating midlife beauty -- Making peace with your changing skin -- Preventing or treating wrinkles -- Midlife acne -- Rosacea -- Hair in the wrong places -- When good skin care isn't enough : deciding on cosmetic procedures -- Varicose veins.
Standing tall for life : building healthy bones -- Osteoporosis : the scope of the problem -- We're designed for lifetime sturdiness -- How healthy bone is made -- Are you at risk for osteoporosis? -- Measuring bone density -- Bone-building program -- What about bone-building drugs? -- Get strong -- Healing your fitness past -- The sunlight-bone health connection -- Shore up your Earth connection with plant medicine -- Creating breast health -- Our cultural inheritance -- The emotional anatomy of breast cancer -- Lifestyle and breast health -- Eating for breast health -- Breast cancer screening -- Putting breast cancer risk in perspective -- The breast cancer gene : should you be tested? -- The effect of HRT on breast health -- Bioidentical hormones and cancer risk -- The tamoxifen dilemma.
Living with heart, passion, and joy : how to listen to and love your midlife heart -- The heart has its say at menopause : my personal story -- Cardiovascular disease : when the flow of life is blocked -- Palpitations : your heart's wake-up call -- Gender bias and heart disease : our cultural inheritance -- Arteriosclerosis : reducing your risk -- Carbohydrates, sugar, and heart health : what every woman should know -- Cardioprotective supplements -- Foods for heart health -- What about aspirin? -- Get moving! -- The heart-estrogen link : what's really going on? -- How to love and respect your midlife heart -- The heart-opening effects of pets -- The intellect is certain it knows, but the heart always wins -- Epilogue : The calm after the storm.
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