Celebrating Menopause

Why don’t we celebrate the transition to menopause? Melanie Faranello explores this question while reflecting on the stigma and shame surrounding both menstruation and menopause. When she learns from her tracker app that a whole year has passed since she last had a period, she reflects on how there is no public recognition -- much less celebration -- of the onset of menopause. Then she starts imagining what it might look like to rethink menopause, and mark that moment with joy.

Instead of thinking of menopause in terms of everything we are losing, can we embrace it as a time of empowerment? . . . Rather than a shedding of our youth and productivity, this transformation is an unburdening of that which no longer serves us, literally reshaping our brains, leaving us liberated, a distilled version of our most necessary selves. Instead of thinking of menopause in terms of everything we are losing, can we embrace it as a time of empowerment?

SOURCE: HuffPost • AUTHOR: Melanie Faranello • LAST UPDATED: July 24, 2024