05/22/2025
🛁 Self-care isn’t always spa days and scented candles (though yes, please).
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Sometimes self-care is:
🥦 Eating a real meal before your blood sugar crashes
📵 Putting your phone down and going outside
🧴 Taking your vitamins (and your menopause support!)
🛏 Saying no to things that drain you
💬 Letting yourself feel instead of powering through
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Menopause is a season that demands more care, not less. More listening, more softness, more grace.
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And no—you don’t have to “earn” rest. You don’t have to justify taking care of yourself. You just get to. 💗
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Here’s your reminder: You are not too much. You are just enough. And you deserve to feel good in your body, your mind, and your life.
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05/21/2025
This is a hill that I'll die on. There's no such thing as "balancing" hormones.
Your body was designed to STOP making estrogen at a certain age. No more ovulating, no more estrogen. Because I mean, come on. Who has the energy to have babies over 50?
We are meant to be grannies or badass old ladies or ride off into the sunset with our significant others. Now is when you get to QUIT taking care of everyone else and START taking care of yourself. And loss of estrogen will help you get your priorities in line real quick.
But I still want all the things estrogen does for me—like keep my heart healthy and bones strong and my s*x drive driving! You can REPLACE that estrogen with Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), but that's the only way it's coming back.
Eat healthy, exercise, check in with your doc. Get some mental health meds, hot flash medication, and anything else you need to feel better. Take HRT if it's right for you, but don't think you're failing because you can't balance your hormones. No one can. This was part of the plan all along.
05/19/2025
✨ Menopause doesn’t send a calendar invite—but it will crash your 10am Zoom. 😅
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Brain fog, hot flashes during client calls, insomnia before big presentations… menopause can make your career feel like an uphill climb in heels. And yet—here we are. Showing up. Speaking up. Powering through.
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Midlife isn’t the end of ambition—it’s the beginning of owning what we bring to the table. Experience. Wisdom. Resilience. Empathy. Humor. (And snacks in our desk drawer.)
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If you’re navigating menopause and a career at the same time, just know:
You are not alone. You are not less capable. You are not done.
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🔥 You are just getting started.
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05/18/2025
Seeing Thunderbolts this evening! What fun stuff do you have coming up this week?!?
05/18/2025
I know I’ve been AWOL lately, but I’ve been thinking about you girls! Just had an incredible family vacay to Disney World, in the midst of starting a brand new job. I’m feeling so lucky that I’ve got an accommodating workplace and a supportive extended family!
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Menopause stinks but it does put things in perspective. When you accept that you won’t live forever, you get really clear about how you want to spend your time and money! What has menopause clarified for you?!?
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(I know this pic is Disneyland, but cut me some slack!)
05/17/2025
Finally got my feet under me with the new job! How you doing, menopause warriors?!?!
05/17/2025
🍷→🔥 The thing about wine and menopause?
They don’t exactly get along. 😩
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I used to love winding down with a glass of red… but now? One sip and suddenly I’m a sweaty disco ball, wide awake at 2 a.m., rethinking every life choice.
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Here’s the truth:
Alcohol can make hot flashes hotter, sleep worse, and moods wilder. And during menopause, our bodies process booze differently. (Rude, honestly.)
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So lately, I’ve been choosing:
✨ mocktails over martinis
✨ hydration over hangovers
✨ feeling good over forcing old habits
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Not saying I’ll never cheers again—but I’m being way more intentional about what I put in my body. Because balanced hormones > buzzed regrets. 💁♀️
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Anyone else feeling the shift?
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