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Menopause - the Wise Woman
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by: Susun Weed
WHAT IS
MENOPAUSE?
To the MD, menopause is the last drop of blood a woman
sheds. A woman can be peri-menopausal (around menopause) or post-menopausal
(after menopause) but she can never be menopausal, according to this
definition.
To most women, however, the years between the first
suspicion of change and the final menses constitute the menopausal years,
and we are menopausal throughout that time. This decade of transition is
compared by some to non-stop PMS, by others to an extended pregnancy. I see
it as a second puberty.
Menopause is puberty prime, and the change from a
familiar, known self to new and unknown self is the same: amazing,
difficult, rewarding, exasperating, and momentous.
"Do not become alarmed when
you experience yourself in totally new ways," sighs
Grandmother Growth tenderly. "You are changing,
getting ready to be initiated into the third stage
of your life. Are you ready for the ride of your
life?"
Susun Weed, Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way,
Woodstock: Ash Tree, 2002
THE STORY OF MENOPAUSE
The onerous physical/emotional changes that accompany
puberty and menopause are strongly influenced - both positively and
negatively - by cultural, familial, and personal beliefs.
If we expect our new self to be more powerful, more
exciting, more interesting than our old self, we willingly undergo
discomfort, pain, sleeplessness, emotional variability, and a host of
annoyances and distresses. In America today, this is may be the case when we
experience puberty, pregnancy, birth, and lactation.
If we expect our new self to be a weaker, less
interesting, grayed-out version of our older self, we will naturally resist
changing and find the normal abnormalities of change intolerable. This is
often the case when American women encounter menopause.
The purpose of this article is not to examine why this is
so, or how it came to be so, but to offer a different view of menopause. I
want to share with you the teachings I have received from the Ancient Ones,
the ancient grandmothers who tell the women's mystery stories. That your
journey may be made richer.
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