{"id":14,"date":"2025-05-20T01:17:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T01:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eprokashoni.com\/menopause\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-07-15T01:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:37:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eprokashoni.com\/menopause\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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About<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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\u2018The only thing predictable about menopause is its unpredictability\u2019<\/span> Dr Jen Gunter, author of <\/span>The Menopause Manifesto<\/span><\/i> .\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Could not have said it better myself. I was 44 when I had my first menopause symptom. But I didn\u2019t know it was a menopause symptom. It was a severe night sweat, and when I spoke to my girlfriends, <\/span>they dismissed it as the start of menopause, because \u2018I was too young to be in Menopause\u2019. And I was, but I was in Perimenopause.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

However, NOONE even knew about perimenopause back then. Therefore, NOONE warned me about it. NOONE was even talking about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

I did a lot of research online and talking with women who had just gone through it, trying to get my head around it. All the while, the physiological changes and symptoms were debilitating. They affected every aspect of my life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

This lasted for 6 years. Then I was in Menopause\/Post Menopause and EVERYTHING about the woman I knew had changed. How do I navigate through this? How do I feel ME again?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

So, what did I do differently once I arrived in Post Menopause? NOTHING! Yes, nothing, because I had no idea that these biological changes meant changes for my entire body, not just my ovaries.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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What I found out was truly eye-opening in the sense of being a woman and ageing.\u00a0 Due to the declining circulating oestrogen in our bodies, post-menopause increases the risk of:<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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I needed to find out why and what I could do about it, so I went on a weeklong, well-being retreat to find some answers.<\/span><\/p>

It was a whole week of education on ageing well, which made me realise that everything I was doing prior to menopause in relation to nutrition, exercise, mental health, sleep, etc was now not going to cut it if I wanted to live a long healthy life while I aged. A life that allows me to keep doing the things I want to do, right up until I fell off my perch.<\/span><\/p>

Here is what I learned:<\/span><\/p>

    1. First, we have to <\/span>change the way we<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>think<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>about aging\u2014so we can change the way we<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>live<\/i><\/b>. <\/b>If we are so stuck in the past, we will never be able to pivot our brain and body to the next 40 yrs.<\/span><\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>

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        1. Me living my best healthy life meant changing how I did things to match the biological changes of menopause and midlife.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>

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            1. Life span does not equal Health span. <\/b>Life span is about how long we can expect to live as a female in Australia.\u00a0<\/span>Health span is\u00a0<\/span>a concept that focuses on the number of those years that a person remains free of significant illness or disease<\/span>.<\/span><\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>

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                1. Post menopause really is one of the most powerful and pivotal times of midlife and needs to be embraced to make real change. It is an opportunity to reset, reevaluate and reestablish ourselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>

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                  And that\u2019s when I got really excited. What if I could bring this information to other women by conducting workshops, not weeklong retreats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

                  Let\u2019s be real, we will spend at least 30-40 years in menopause. We want to live those years healthy, strong, mobile, cognitive and vibrantly.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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                  Menopause is not a Life Sentence;
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                  My workshops are about understanding how menopause affects ageing and introduce measures to help prevent frailty and cognitive decline as we age.<\/span><\/p>

                  A Life Reset workshop focuses on:<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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                  About Andrea Cozens \u2018The only thing predictable about menopause is its unpredictability\u2019 Dr Jen Gunter, author of The Menopause Manifesto .\u00a0 Could not have said it better myself. I was 44 when I had my first menopause symptom. But I didn\u2019t know it was a menopause symptom. It was a severe night sweat, and when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprokashoni.com\/menopause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprokashoni.com\/menopause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprokashoni.com\/menopause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprokashoni.com\/menopause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprokashoni.com\/menopause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"https:\/\/eprokashoni.com\/menopause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/eprokashoni.com\/menopause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprokashoni.com\/menopause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}