
Women are busy living their lives one moment, and the next, BAM! Everything changes! The first reaction to peri/menopause is confusion, followed by the five stages of grief. Finally, the existential question: Is that all there is? The answer is an emphatic no, but we believe that women must have a plan to thrive through midlife. That's why we made it our mission to help women embrace life through peri/menopause with confidence.
A move towards peri/menopause brings specific challenges that women must plan for to thrive.
We've seen family, friends, and coworkers muddle through emerging stressors ad hoc.
Combining clinical factors with the social determinants of health is essential.
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SOURCES
[1] THOMAS SCHRAMME, HEALTH AS COMPLETE WELL-BEING: THE WHO DEFINITION AND BEYOND, PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS, VOLUME 16, ISSUE 3, NOVEMBER 2023, PAGES 210–218, HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1093/PHE/PHAD017
[2] https://www.who.int/about/governance/constitution
[3] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/menopause
[4] Harvard Business Review 2024 https://hbr.org/tip/2024/01/support-your-employees-going-through-menopause
[5] Woods, N.F., Mitchell, E.S. The Seattle Midlife Women’s Health Study: a longitudinal prospective study of women during the menopausal transition and early postmenopause. womens midlife health 2, 6 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40695-016-0019-x
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