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Tub Glasses and the Quiet Art of Menopause War
I've been absent from Menotopia for quite a while. Long enough that I've questioned whether I should continue writing at all. Blogging can be a strange thing. You pour your thoughts onto a page, hit publish, and send them out into the web-iverse with very
Choosing Natural: How Women Are Easing Menopause Without More Pharma
If you are in perimenopause or menopause and your body is feeling hormonally out of balance, it can feel like the world is giving you two choices: 1. Suffer. 2. Take standard hormone replacement therapy (HRT) from a pharmaceutical company, through a doctor who may or may not really hear
Migraines in Midlife
I share my journey with hemiplegic migraines and hormones, from puberty to HRT, and invite women to share how migraines shape their midlife.
What 13 Years of Beige Walls and Bad Lighting Taught Me About Myself
For thirteen years, I lived with flat "millennial beige" walls and dim, builder-grade sconces in the living room. I told myself I’d change them soon, but I didn’t. Not because I didn’t care, but because I was too busy surviving. Too many higher-priority