Making sense of menopause : harnessing the power and potency of your wisdom years
With Making Sense of Menopause, renowned women's health practitioner Susan Willson offers a powerful guide to experiencing perimenopause and menopause as a natural gateway into a new, exciting, and meaningful phase of our lives. Beginning with an eye-opening examination of the falsehoods we've absorbed about ourselves as women, Willson helps us reframe and embrace the enormous potential of this journey into elderhood-from the changes in our bodies to the profound opportunities we have for growth, creativity, strength, and authenticity
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- ISBN: 9781683647447
- Physical Description viii, 243 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2022.
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Table of Contents
Making Sense of Menopause : Harnessing the Power and Potency of Your Wisdom Years
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Introduction Menopause: It's Not What You Think | p. 1 | |
Part 1 | It Begins at the Beginning | |
Chapter 1 | The Continuum | p. 15 |
Chapter 2 | What Does It Mean to Be Male or Female? | p. 27 |
Chapter 3 | Your Menstrual Cycle | p. 33 |
Chapter 4 | Perimenopause | p. 43 |
Chapter 5 | Menopause | p. 57 |
Chapter 6 | Caring for Ourselves at Midlife | p. 69 |
Part 2 | Sexuality and Relationship | |
Chapter 7 | The Continuum, Continued ... | p. 99 |
Chapter 8 | Becoming a Lover | p. 107 |
Chapter 9 | How Our Relationships Form | p. 117 |
Chapter 10 | Sex and Culture | p. 125 |
Chapter 11 | The Body Electric-the Energetic Nature of Sex | p. 135 |
Chapter 12 | Sex at Midlife | p. 149 |
Chapter 13 | Creating Good Sex | p. 157 |
Part 3 | Midlife Course Corrections | |
Chapter 14 | Finding Our Way Home | p. 173 |
Chapter 15 | Coming into Present Time | p. 185 |
Chapter 16 | Becoming the Wise Woman | p. 211 |
Part 4 | Moving Through | |
Chapter 17 | Engaging and Sharing Your Wisdom | p. 221 |
Chapter 18 | Becoming the Memory Keeper | p. 229 |
Chapter 19 | Begin It Now | p. 237 |
Acknowledgments | p. 241 | |
About the Author | p. 243 |