From a young age women are bombarded with messaging about the need for clear smooth skin, luscious hair, slim physiques, yet just the right curves, to fit into all the latest fashions. Sadly we’re not exactly bombarded with messaging about how to REALLY look after our health. Sure there’s plenty of advice to push fad diets, fad/unsustainable workouts, pills and potions, quick fixes, skin procedures and a plethora of pricey products to make us LOOK better, but how much of this really helps us FEEL and BE better on a deeper level?
The coronavirus pandemic has been a harsh blow to my former lifestyle. When I looked backed 12 months I can see a very different life: I had a heavy social life with dates and parties nearly every weekend; I travelled a lot, taking dozens of planes a year; and I was always in a hurry, as I needed to do a tone of things every day (work meetings, shopping, taking kids to ballet and drama, cocktails with friends…)
In Traditional Chinese Medicine the view of menopause is the decline of the Qi, the invisible force, the life energy. We have two Qi types: the inherited one from our parents, and the one received at birth from our first contact with air through the lungs, and also from food.
“I am enough, I am enough, I am enough.”
These words resounded like a slow echo in my ears after a few days of feeling not ENOUGH for what felt like a lifetime of stories strewn and scrolled written across my outside balcony.
Menopause is completely natural. In this transformative stage, to move forward is what we demand but whilst hormone production is diminishing, these surges of imbalance can be triggered by what we eat, say, or do.
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