Wisdom · Lived experience
Stories.
First-person pieces from women who are in it right now. Not to fix you to remind you the room you are in is not empty.
On early menopause
Alone is the best way I can describe it.
Menopause at 40, with no name for the years before it. On carrying the blame, and wishing someone had said it wasn’t her fault.
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RaeCalgary, Alberta · 5 min read
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“Alone is the best way I can describe how I felt.”
On being heard
If someone had simply listened.
Years of heavy bleeding, dismissed at every turn, until a collapse forced the truth
open.
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Gayle F.Hamilton, Ontario · 7 min read
On recognizing it
I see you because I was you.
A nurse of 30 years who didn’t recognize menopause when it arrived in her own
body.
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Anna L.7 min read
On being dismissed
What I needed was validation.
Told it was “normal for her age,” she was left to Google her way through the
storm.
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F.S.5 min read
On brain fog
I thought I was going to break.
Exhausted, losing words, blaming herself, until she learned brain fog could be
perimenopause.
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L.B.Vancouver · 5 min read
On knowing
I didn’t have the language for what was happening.
A hysterectomy at 45, night sweats at 50, and no one ever said the word menopause.
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Mary Anne BlackburnHamilton, Ontario · 6 min read