Menopause is the hardest thing that has ever happened to me. And it’s the best thing I’ve ever gone through.
Menopause is shit. Menopause is amazing. #menopause #perimenopause
Menopause is shit. Menopause is amazing. #menopause #perimenopause
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What if #menopause is a dive into the self to explore the myths of what we're supposed to be at this stage of our life, what "success" is, what "milestones" to celebrate or regret. And to then wreck them.
A necessary wreckage.
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A necessary wreckage.
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Is #menopause harder when you’ve ticked off milestones that have become reminders of how few of them lie ahead still; are they reminders, in other words, of how little time is left?
Or is it harder when you eschewed those milestones and now you have less to show for your life, and perhaps even less to regret?
What is #menopause for those of us who opted out of the milestones and is menopause the great leveler because we end up at the same place anyway?
What is #menopause for those of us who opted out of the milestones and is menopause the great leveler because we end up at the same place anyway?
Like undersea volcano whose eruptions take time to bubble to the surface but when they do,you swear you thought you were done with that shit yrs ago but here it is, the past drenching you all over. Is that what hot flashes are, remembrance of regrets past? feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa…
The Mona I once was has been loosened, shaken free.
It may be difficult to believe but there was a time I was good at obeying, many decades ago.
She comes back to me, that younger Mona, during eruptions of those underwater volcanoes. #Menopause
It may be difficult to believe but there was a time I was good at obeying, many decades ago.
She comes back to me, that younger Mona, during eruptions of those underwater volcanoes. #Menopause
Sometimes, it erupts as I’m diving into the wreck and I know it is her rage at the fuckery that at times flummoxed her.
“I KNOW, I KNOW!” I tell her, and hold my breath longer so that I can further destroy the wreck before I come up for air. #Menopause
“I KNOW, I KNOW!” I tell her, and hold my breath longer so that I can further destroy the wreck before I come up for air. #Menopause
There have been mornings when I am overwhelmed with an impending sense of doom. And I wonder if my anxiety–brand new, I was never an anxious person–is my despair at that fuckery that once flummoxed younger me. feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa… #Menopause
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