Homeopathy At Home with Melissa

The Hidden Power of Homeopathy During Menopause

• Melissa Crenshaw, RsHom, LCHE, IBCLC • Season 6 • Episode 9

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Have you ever wondered why menopause is treated as a problem to be fixed rather than a natural transition to be embraced? In this illuminating episode, Melissa and Brie challenge the medical establishment's approach to women's health and offer a refreshing perspective on navigating menopause with homeopathy.

Starting with a heartfelt response to a listener struggling with diminished libido during perimenopause, we explore how stress impacts hormonal balance and relationship dynamics. This leads us into a deeper conversation about menopause as a sacred transition rather than a medical event - one that women can move through with grace, strength, and even joy.

The episode unveils five powerful homeopathic remedies tailored to specific menopause experiences: Lachesis for the woman with intense hot flashes and emotional overflow; Sepia for the worn-out caregiver who's lost her spark; Sulfur for the intellectual with "fire in her veins"; Pulsatilla for the gentle soul craving connection; and Graphites for the sensitive woman feeling stuck in body and emotions. You'll learn how to match these remedies to your unique symptom picture and dosing strategies that can bring relief.

Beyond homeopathy, we discuss nutrition for hormone balancing, movement practices, sleep hygiene, nervous system support, and spiritual anchoring during this transformative phase. This isn't just about managing symptoms—it's about embracing what Melissa calls "the second spring of womanhood."

Ready to transform your menopause journey? Join our Inner Healing Circle for access to Melissa's comprehensive Navigating Menopause course, live Q&As, and a supportive community of women walking this path together. Remember, you were never meant to navigate this alone.

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Speaker 1:

Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa. Hey, Melissa.

Speaker 2:

Hey Brie Happy to talk tonight.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, me too. Before we get started with the podcast, we're going to do a fan mail. I love these and this one actually is a good segue into our content tonight. So this is from Port Allsworth, alaska. No clue if I pronounced that correctly, so I apologize if that's you and where you live. She says I am a 51-year-old mama to 10. I am in the midst of pre-menopause, almost to menopause. I've had a diminished sex drive for the past year. That has become almost non-existent the past few months. We've had tons of stress the last three years and our marriage is really struggling. So having no libido on top of all the other issues is very challenging. We've been married 30 years and 25 of them we had no issues in the bedroom department. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated be greatly appreciated.

Speaker 2:

You know this is such a great question and one that I have the privilege to talk to a lot of women about. And so the first thing and I'm just going to talk from a homeopathy aspect right now, just that piece of it, because there's several things to this so, as far as homeopathy, I would address the stress that you're under. So obviously, homeopathy is not going to take away the stressful events or the stressful things happening in your family or your community or whatever that stress looks like, but it can help you manage and respond to the stress differently so that you aren't so mentally, emotionally, plagued by this stress. Therefore, your body relaxes and you're able to sleep. You're able to. Maybe libido would come back some.

Speaker 2:

But the other thing I just want to say is I feel like you need to give yourself some grace and mercy and love and ask yourself if your best friend were to come to you today and say these things and and say you know what? What is wrong with me? What do I need to fix what? What can I do? What would you say to her? And I think you would encourage her and you would love her and you would tell her she's not wrong and she's not. You know her and you would love her and you would tell her she's not wrong and she's not. You know, this is not actually a bad thing, because stress is, um, it's a piece. What is my word? It's um, not piece like P-E-A-C, it's P-I-E-C-E, it's a, a phase. What is my word? I'm looking for? It's a a phase.

Speaker 1:

What is my word I'm looking for? It's a. I know what you're saying, like uh, it comes and it will come and go.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's past, yeah, yeah, we're going to. It's not something that usually will stay for forever, so give yourself, just love yourself. Give yourself some grace and mercy and um use homeopathic remedies that address how you are dealing with the stress, and then maybe even your husband needs some Outside of homeopathy. What would you say, bree, about the relational aspect?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I love that. I love everything you said. And then the giving yourself grace part is a lot when you look at somebody, if you're saying you had a very stressful last few years and your marriage is struggling, of course your sex drive is a little bit lower or almost non-existent, right. So stress can affect hormones. So it may be that you happen to be premenopausal and this is going on and those are not linked, right, like those are just the events of your life have led to this place, and so my input from a relational standpoint would be I do think a lot of times we make the focus in marriage that if like okay, let me start this over a healthy life of intimacy, whether that is sexual all the time or not, is a byproduct of intimacy in all the other areas, right, it's like a culmination of a shared experience. And so you've been married 30 years and for most of those you don't have an issue. So I'm sure part of that is getting older, you have 10 children. There's probably some depletion, the stress that Melissa talked about.

Speaker 1:

But if I could just encourage from a marital aspect, reconnect in other ways, enjoy each other, go on a date, even if it's a date night in, right, if you have a lot of little kids or if you're able to get away. It doesn't have to be fancy, but spend some time together and reconnect and create intimacy emotionally, have good conversation, spend time together and you might be surprised at what that can do for your libido. Or even if it's less frequent than before, which is also a natural part of life as we get older, that doesn't mean that it's diminished. It could still be very good quality intimacy, just less frequent than what you've been used to in your younger years. So if you've had a lot of stress and your marriage isn't struggling, I think the libido part is like two steps down the line. I think the step A is to reconnect with your spouse and that's a. You know you can go deeper there, but I think I'll just leave it at that.

Speaker 2:

I love it. I love it. Yeah, you know, also, as we age, yes, I know that women can still have babies at 51. It's not ideal, you know, in our society, in our I don't know if society is the right word, but just the way we live. You know, life at 51, in your 50s, you can really have some complications, but as we age, we're not, you know, we're not having babies, we're not getting pregnant and um and so that really is the original design for intercourse is to have babies, to get pregnant and have babies and reproduce, and we're not doing that anymore. So it's natural for that to go down. What I hear you saying is there's a lot of stress. So do we address the stress in the different ways that Bree and I just talked about? So that's a great like you said in the beginning, Bree, a great segue into tonight's episode.

Speaker 1:

Yep. So tonight we get to talk about this will really be a teaser for a course Melissa's putting out on menopause navigating menopause. So of course, we're so glad you guys are here with us, as always. I know there's a lot we could unpack from just the fan mail. But moving forward to menopause, I'm looking forward to this because I'm a few years away still, but navigating this with people in my life and, I'm sure, with well, with some clients, and there's a lot of people in your you know your circle, melissa, the audience that want to know this information.

Speaker 1:

So this is something that affects every woman at some point in our life and that could be in your thirties and you start feeling those subtle shifts, which is where I'm at right In my ths, my sisters and I are now talking about. We're all starting like just little bits of changes in our hormones. Or you might be in the thick of it and having hot flashes and crazy mood swings or not sleeping well, or maybe you are past it and you're reflecting on your own journey or walking through that with other people in your life. Hopefully, today's episode will be helpful for you. I'm going to tell you what we're going to talk about and then Melissa's going to start getting into some of the real good content.

Speaker 1:

So we're going to cover what menopause is. So we're going to cover what menopause is, why this transition is more than just hormonal. We'll peek into some great remedies that can support you through menopause and then at the end we'll invite you to something very special and at the time of recording is very new where it's called the inner healing circle and you'll get access to Melissa's full navigating menopause course. There'll be downloads in there. There's a whole community of women already. We just launched yesterday and there's already I don't even, I actually don't know how many lots of women 50, 50 women. You remember yesterday? Yes, you literally just said maybe 50.

Speaker 2:

You're 50 on day one I was standing in the ocean and I'm talking to Bree and I was like I want 50.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, well, okay, but back up, you said you wanted 20 and 20 were signed up before it even launched. That's true, that's true. And then they're like, maybe maybe 50.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I said maybe I need to think bigger, make a bigger goal, and so and we just got started and listen, the community is so engaged and full. It's so fun to see all the engagement in there. We're just growing together.

Speaker 1:

It's on it, I'm loving it and it's fun. There's a lot of people who've taken classes before or different connections that we have. And it's also really special because we've tried some other platforms and Facebook is kind of been the only one that stuck around. But the love it's like next level because you know everybody there is like wanting, deeply, desiring that community. So I do think the way women are sharing in there I think it's mostly women right now the way they're sharing in there is, I mean, it's so like inspiring. And I'm not really like a, you know, like a person who I don't do a lot of stuff like that, but I'm loving it. I'm reading all the things. Okay, anyways, back to menopause. You're going to get to see the menopause course, but all the other courses talk with other women going through this. So let's dig in and kick us off with navigating menopause. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

So let's start with what menopause really is, and because it's not just a medical event. It's actually a life transition and it's one that that I don't know. Brie, I don't know if your mom ever talked to you about menopause, but my mom didn't, and I'm not blaming any of them. But it's not a common thing that women tend to talk to their daughters about. That I know of. Maybe it is, but that's a good point, it's not. You know, we talk about pregnancy.

Speaker 1:

We talk to each other like you're talking to your peers.

Speaker 2:

That's right, okay, mom to daughter.

Speaker 1:

And pause is I'm sorry I'm already going off on a rabbit trail, but you think of the. Usually moms do a lot of that when they're going pre-puberty. Yep, like you're talking a girl through what to expect, what this might be like. You might feel this way. I'm going to help you get prepared and menopause it's like this, free for all.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, pregnancy, labor, delivery, we, we, yeah, talk our daughters through all of these things and then right, that's what I'm, that's what I'm thinking Like, what? And?

Speaker 1:

then we just it's like it's a wild ride, just take it as it comes. You know, like it's not. I think a lot of women don't know what to do with it. They're like I don't have anything for you. It's crazy town, that's understanding.

Speaker 2:

Well, here's. The other thing is that most of our parents, or most of our moms, didn't know anything natural to do, so they went the allopathic medical route and it didn't really help.

Speaker 1:

Okay, and what they? So that was also a time period and I'm anxious to see how like my generation will move through menopause, because we were on birth control at puberty, most of us.

Speaker 1:

And those are things. Now I have some pelvic floor therapists and people in the medical world and female health telling me about some of these women and how they're now seeing the effects of these women who have been on hormonal birth control or were in their younger years and how that is now like they're seeing those patterns and these women moving through menopause. So you don't see that, though you don't know that when you're 20, taking birth control, what that's going to do for you moving through menopause 30 years later. Okay, man.

Speaker 2:

So much to it. There's so much. We are on a hormone journey from forever. I mean like the whole yeah, so there are some phases, though right, yeah, there's stages, and there's some really good ones and there's some really hard ones, but the natural route makes it all just better on a foundational level. But so you know, menopause in menopause you have the most significant shifts that you ever experience as a woman.

Speaker 2:

So technically, menopause is defined as going 12 full months without a period. So technically, menopause is defined as going 12 full months without a period, and then the average age of menopause is 51. But the truth is that the changes begin long before that, in perimenopause, and they continue for years after. So I remember being in my early 30s and a homeopath telling me she thought I was in perimenopause and I was like what I'm like in my 30s? Like you know, I'm not thinking menopause at all. At that point I couldn't believe it. But yeah, that's normal, that's normal. In your 30s you start perimenopause, so hormones like estrogen and progesterone start to fluctuate and decline and that affects everything from sleep to energy, mood, digestion, skin, memory and even your relationships which is basically what we just talked about.

Speaker 1:

This isn't sounding like a fun thing I want to do. I'm just going to say you know I haven't.

Speaker 2:

It hasn't been terrible for me, true? Yeah, I think it's because I've been using homeopathy for a long time. I've had a cleaner diet for a long time and I have spent time understanding homeopathy, what it is and how to move through it, rather than it just hit me one day that I'm oh, here I am and I'm having hot flashes and you know, and I don't know what this is.

Speaker 1:

Well, and do you think even the projection onto the process that it's a problem, like there's something wrong with me? It's going to? You know, like the outlook people have can drastically affect how you move through an experience. So, like if you're expecting it to be stressful and chaotic and horrible yeah, absolutely. Even if it's not that bad, you are going to believe that it is.

Speaker 2:

And this, my Navigating Menopause course, is really designed to strengthen you in this and help you really lift you up and make you stronger and and it's and help you understand the way you really it really should be looked at. I think the world and the enemy have turned it to be this big, fat, terrible thing, when actually we are the wisest, like you know, most mature or not, that we've arrived, but that we're. We can actually move through this with grace, strength and even joy, and I want to encourage you in that. But, um, because this phase is not a disease, you know it's, it's just a natural process and when we approach it with the right support especially with homeopathy, in my opinion right and a clean diet, we can do this well.

Speaker 1:

So go ahead. I'm so sorry I'm getting us on so many tangents. I'm just seeing so many links to the way female health is approached. I don't know about the rest of the world, but in America everything is like a problem to be fixed. When you're going through puberty, instead of looking at these big fluctuations and like, oh, it is intense, how can we support your body and health? Let's put you on birth control. And then, when you're pregnant, well then you're a medical event for a year of your life, when this is something that has been happening for thousands of years without medical intervention and obviously not all great experiences, but we're made to do that Now. Moving into menopause, again treated like a problem, like I don't know about men's health, but like I feel like we get the short end of the stick here For sure. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 2:

Or it's one big problem. Yeah, one big medical walking event. Walking medical event? Yeah, okay, I created the course because I saw how many women were confused and overwhelmed and even dismissed during this time. And overwhelmed and even dismissed during this time, like I mean, I've heard of women being told suck it up, keep going, and it's just so sad. And now listen, please don't hear me say that we need, you know, we need to focus on it, because y'all know me, I don't want you to focus on it because y'all know me. I don't want you to focus on it. I want you to focus on Jesus and acknowledge that menopause is a natural part of your journey and we can move through it. So homeopathy offers hope and it meets you exactly where you are. So, bree, what are some symptoms of menopause?

Speaker 1:

Okay. So a lot of you might recognize some of these. I think they can start in perimenopause and move all the way through. So there are things like hot flashes that come out of nowhere, night sweats where you're waking up with your sheets soaked with sweat, brain fog, so I mean that can even be like memory issues, so you forgetting where you put stuff, walking into a room, forgetting why you're there, extra irritability or weepiness that feels out of character for you.

Speaker 1:

Weight gain, I think, is a common, very common one, even when you're eating the same as you always have been, and it might not be excessive, I think more often it's like a pound or two a month.

Speaker 1:

So over the course of a year, you know, it's not like you're always 20 pounds heavier in a year, but I hear that a lot. Where it's, I'm doing the same thing I've always done, but gaining weight. A lot of times it can include dry skin, that can also be thinning hair, vaginal dryness, low libido or just overall feeling like your spark is gone. So those are common, but they're not things you just have to live with, and so in the course we'll talk more about each symptom and how to naturally support those, and that is where homeopathy shines, because it's tailored to you, it's specific to your symptoms. It may not be a general blanket. I mean no remedies are just general blanket remedies. Remedies are gentle, they're not overriding your body's natural hormonal process, but they're giving you just a little nudge back to a balance. So, speaking of some remedies, give us some good menopause homeopathic remedies.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I love it. Let me introduce you to a few of the remedies that I cover in the course, and these are just glimpses, but they might already start lighting your path. So I don't want you to think that it's useless to listen to this podcast episode because, like all of our podcast episodes, you are going to get some nuggets in here that you can go and use today. But if you want to dig really deep, I'm going to tell you a little bit more about the course at the end. So lachesis Some people say lachesis Either way is fine. I want you to think intensity, heat, congestion and emotional overflow. So the menopause themes of lachesis are hot flashes that rise up like a wave, often starting in the chest and flushing the face. This person is, this woman is worse with heat, tight clothing and especially around the neck or the waist. She's better once menstruation begins, of course in perimenopause. So when you're still having periods, when you have these symptoms, as soon as the lachesis woman, as soon as she starts, the flow starts, she feels better, everything feels better. That's a really big keynote of lachesis. She has strong emotional responses. So she might be jealous, passionate, sarcastic or suspicious. She can feel mentally sharp but physically miserable, and she's often worse when she wakes up in the morning. So the emotional state of Lachesis is talkative, expressive and sometimes dramatic. She might feel pent up both emotionally and physically. She might have a history of grief, betrayal or loss that has never been expressed fully. Some of the body clues that show you that lachesis could be a good remedy are flushed face during a hot flash, palpitations, insomnia and headaches around menopause, left-sided symptoms or complaints that begin on the left and move to the right. I really like LACUS's 200. You can start with 30 if you feel. If you're not sure, you could start with 30C. I think that's perfectly fine too.

Speaker 2:

Sepia everybody knows sepia right. Think the worn out caregiver who's lost her spark. The menopause themes of sepia are overwhelmed by life feeling emotionally flat or numb, low libido and vaginal dryness, often with a dragging sensation in the pelvis, irritable and snappy, especially with family or those closest to her. She might feel better with exercise, dancing or alone time and she might be worse from consolation. And maybe she might push loved ones away. The emotional state of sepia might say so. The woman might say I love them, but I just want to be left alone. I hear that really often. I love my family, but I don't want them to be near me. She might feel like she's doing everything for everyone else and has nothing left for herself. She might cry from frustration but resist emotional connection. And the body clues of sepia are a sensation of a heavy uterus or fullness in the pelvic region, facial discoloration or colasma. Cloasmaasma. Which one is it? Brie, let's see? Oh, asthma. I always thought you know what. I always thought it was colasma it is cloasma or melasma.

Speaker 1:

Melasma, that's the dark. It's the dark suns like sunspots, but itonal yeah.

Speaker 2:

Especially during perimenopause, so those spots can show up, and then chilliness alternating with flushes of heat, so it's like hot, cold, hot cold. Covers on off, on off, sweater on off on off. I see this in church sometimes.

Speaker 1:

You're like aw.

Speaker 2:

I know she's like take it on, put it on, and I'm like, oh, I know exactly what she's feeling right now. Um, also like sepia. I like to start with a 6c in sepia and then you can work your way up. Sulfur think intellectual with fire in her veins, right, that sounds interesting. So the menopause themes of sulfur are hot flashes and burning sensations, especially heat in the feet, head or hands. Night sweats that make her toss the covers off, often sleeps with one foot out. So something you notice about yourself or you think about when you're helping somebody else is how they sleep.

Speaker 1:

I wonder how many of you guys are listening right now Like these are all me. I ain't ever seen one.

Speaker 2:

So fun, all the remedies or all these symptoms.

Speaker 1:

Well, kind of both. And I remember, I think, when you're first kind of looking through them I do that every time I'm like I think I have all of these. But over time you kind of learn to identify how to differentiate. But when I remember, I remember looking back and hearing remedies. I'm like I'm every single one, yep.

Speaker 2:

So you make a list, you write the remedies at the top and you write your specific symptom in each column and then the longest list is where you start. Yeah, that's good, all right. So night sweats Sulphur might have night sweats, that oh, I already said that. So brain fog, poor concentration and mental fatigue during menopause can feel spiritually restless or obsessed with theories, books or big ideas. Or obsessed with theories, books or big ideas. The emotional state of sulfur she might appear disorganized or careless, but deeply philosophical or idealistic, can be egotistical or righteous about opinions, especially in debates, alternates between brilliance and burnout. And the body clues of sulfur. She might have itchy skin, rashes or eruptions. She might have digestive issues like heartburn, cravings for sweets and spicy food and tend towards constipation, bloating or hemorrhoids. I like sulfur in a 30C to start with. All right, pulsatilla, you want to do?

Speaker 1:

Pulsatilla, brie Sure yeah, Pulsatilla, think, the gentle, changeable soul who craves connection. Pulsatilla likes people, likes consolation. The menopause themes of Pulsatilla are mood swings. So think changeable. They cry easily, crave affection and want reassurance. She may be sensitive to warmth so maybe gets overheated easily, especially during hot flashes. She might have a mild, gentle temperament and may suppress her needs for the sake of others. And pulsatilla may have vaginal dryness and erratic or late menstruation and perimenopause. So I do have a question about that, because that is kind of a part of menopause, right Is that you're having spread out period, that's right. So are we taking pulsatilla? Obviously not to re-regulate your periods.

Speaker 2:

You're taking pulsatilla because that's part of your picture, just like when somebody has what's that?

Speaker 1:

Okay, sorry, you go first. Then I got to finish. I have another question.

Speaker 2:

Just like when somebody has a fever, we're not giving a remedy to reduce the fever. We're giving a remedy because the fever is part of the picture. Same thing.

Speaker 1:

Is that sporadic period not a part of everybody's menopause? Yes, this could be new information to me. That's right. No, it is, it is yeah. So then wouldn't everybody like that would be. Everybody's symptom is changeable periods, okay, okay, I see what you're saying. Or do some women literally just stop? Women do actually just stop. Okay, that's yeah. And I don't.

Speaker 2:

I don't know the other part to this could be that maybe you are having changeable, you know, menstruation, kind of coming and going, but it's just this slow thing, this, what am I trying to say? So it might be that, well, I think I can use, use myself. I mine wasn't this big long drawn out back and forth, back and forth start, stop, start, stop it was. I felt like it was a good transition, but it was transition.

Speaker 1:

And then like your body wasn't stuck in this, like I'm not quite sure how to move to the next thing and okay, I do hear some women yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I do feel like this is the pulsatilla, could be good for that woman who might be stuck in that. She's really just back and forth and back and forth. It's like the, like the waves, that, or the, the or the lake stream.

Speaker 1:

It's just going back and forth right here. They're just not sure where they're going. Okay, that makes sense. And I have heard that. Or I've heard like it'll be a really, really heavy, painful period and the next one will be like spotting the whole time and then they'll skip three months and then they'll have another one, so kind of that, where it's just all over the place. Erratic, that's the word. Erratic. That makes sense. Okay, thank you. Back to pulsatilla. The emotional state of pulsatilla feels better when they're listened to, touched, comforted. They like to be hugged. She may have a deep need for companionship, so it doesn't want to be alone. Your dog needs some of this, I'm thinking your dog.

Speaker 2:

Here's my pulsatilla dog.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, pulsatilla is emotionally open but very easily influenced. Body clues may be constant change. So the pain moves, moods change, the sensations wander. Maybe what we were just talking about, like the periods look really different. Pulsatilla often has poor thirst, prefers cool air, so they like the wind or the windows open, they like the fresh air. She may have digestive sluggishness or bloating fresh air.

Speaker 2:

She may have digestive sluggishness or bloating. So I'll give you an interesting way to look at this. I am so far from the mental emotionals of pulsatilla, that emotional state. I am absolute opposite. But during menopause I had some skin issues where I broke out right and I was having itchy skin and pulsatilla was the remedy that got me through that physical symptom and I used low potency, I used 6C because it was a physical symptom. And so it's not that you cannot use a remedy because you don't match all the things right. I've never matched a pulsatilla. I don't think I've ever been a pulsatilla mental emotional state. But it matched some physicals and it worked.

Speaker 1:

Well and so similar to me, I'm not in menopause but I use sulfur because I had some sulfur picture, but not really as much of it as I would have thought I needed, and you suggested it to me, game changer, nice emotionally, the sleep stuff I was dealing with and I never would have thought I mean, maybe eventually I probably would have gone through the regular, you know, sepia or pulsatilla first I can tend to be a little more pulsatilla but I had tried it and it was not moving much for me, so.

Speaker 2:

So the last remedy I want to teach you about for menopause is graphites, and some people say graffitis. Either way, think the sluggish, sensitive woman who feels stuck in her body and emotions. The menopause themes of graphites is dryness, so that can be dry skin, hair, vagina, bowels, everything feels sluggish. Weight gain even with a normal diet, especially around the middle. Itchy or cracked skin, especially behind the ears, on the scalp or the eyelids. She may feel emotionally low, indecisive or withdrawn. The emotional state of graphites tends to be quiet, melancholic and inward focused. She might struggle with making decisions or initiating change and she might feel easily overwhelmed by demands or clutter.

Speaker 2:

The body clues of graphites are constipation, with large, dry stools, craving for carbs and sweets, and often cold and prefers warm environments. So, graphites, I would start with a 30, you know, and just you could work your way up from there. You could work your way up from there. These are just a handful of the remedies that I talk about and that we'll teach about in the Navigating Menopause course. So we go deeper into dozens of remedies, case examples and how to match the right one to your symptom picture and experience. So what else can women do breathe besides?

Speaker 1:

homeopathy. So I mean, just like everything else we don't, I mean we always wanted you to know homeopathy is not the only thing. We will talk in that course about some nutrition for hormone balancing, movement that supports your lymphatic system and your mood, sleep rhythms, how to restore them. I know, melissa, you're really good at reminding me of sleep. You did a whole sleep hygiene podcast. So sleep is huge for the hormones, nervous system care.

Speaker 1:

So anxiety and stress can hit really hard in this stage, just like I mean the woman who wrote at the beginning, and that can affect relationships, communication We'll talk about that. That time of life can bring a lot of strain on your marriage and parenting. And then some spiritual anchoring. You know that, above everything else, melissa and I are passionate there. So this is a sacred transition as a woman. It's something that is, I mean, it's something that we all go through. So being able to spiritually see through a lens that is focused on the Lord there We'll talk about grief, identity shifts I mean I already feel that one creeping in as I'm getting older and how to embrace the second spring in quotes of womanhood and not be afraid of it.

Speaker 1:

So here are some things. Here's maybe a few things. You could just start now, just like with remedies. We gave you a few options. You could look into A few very simple things.

Speaker 1:

I actually encourage a lot of clients to do some things like this. As you're using remedies, even have a journal or a person. Sometimes maybe journaling is not your thing you could talk into your phone. You don't even have to go back and listen to it, but sometimes the acknowledgement and getting that out. So what's happening in your body? What emotions are you feeling with? What's going on in your relationship or relationships around you? The awareness of that is very powerful and acknowledging those and getting them out somewhere.

Speaker 1:

The second thing get one remedy Maybe you heard pulsatilla sepia sulfur and read about it. See if it fits your picture, see if it resonates anywhere, if you want to try using that and then build community around you. Nobody is meant to do any of this life alone, even if it's one person or a couple women who have gone before you, who are in this phase of life with you, bring people in. And okay, what else? Melissa, I think this is time for a little more. We talked about it some in the beginning, but something that's really special to us. What do they need to know? Melissa?

Speaker 2:

So if you've been listening to this and thinking, yes, I need this, I want to understand my body, find my remedy, feel whole again, then I want to invite you into the inner healing circle. This is my private membership space where you get access to the full Navigating Menopause course all 10 modules 10 modules, handouts, downloads, remedy charts, spiritual reflections. You'll find community with other like-minded women, with other like-minded women, and also in there yes, the Navigating Menopause course is there, but also my whole library of courses, every course I've ever created and all future courses are in there. We meet at least once per month for a live Q&A. Sometimes it's going to be more than once per month, but you can count on um. You can expect once per month live q? A and this is a place where you'll have a safe faith, rooted space to heal, grow and feel heard.

Speaker 2:

So in this inner healing circle we go deep, we laugh, cry, pray and share, and it's the circle I wish every woman had during menopause, just like we were talking about earlier. If our moms had talked to us about this, if our, if our moms had talked to us about this, but also, even if your mom did talk to you about it, did she talk to you about going to the doctor and getting on. You know, hormone replace HRT, so we're going to talk about HRT in the in the course also. You were just never meant to navigate this alone, so I want you to come, be supported, be seen and join the community. It actually is a community of women who are like-minded, who, some of them have been through it, some of them are going through it and then some are going to go through it. So we're all in different stages and we'll support each other.

Speaker 2:

You can join this inner healing circle by going to joinmelissacrenshawcom, and the link should also be in the show notes. So I want to just thank you all for spending the time with Bree and I tonight. If this episode blessed you, I ask that you would take a moment to subscribe to the podcast, subscribe to the blog, leave a review, share it with a friend. Menopause isn't the end. It's a beginning, and I want to walk this path with you, with grace, wisdom and the healing power of homeopathy. Thanks for being here.

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