Menopause is more than just heat or the end of the fertile phase, it is not a slope, but a natural process that is part of change and in which time always plays for women: it is a stage full of opportunities and personal growth where wisdom and dreams give light to the mind and strength to the heart.
Today, the social image of menopause has changed. If anthropologically this step was seen as the moment when they cared exclusively for grandchildren, women today still have a very active role in society that contradicts many of these classic stereotypes.
- In menopause.
- Every woman.
- Every body is a world.
- But the world is much more than rules and hormones.
- Inner balance and daily construction of happiness are.
- After all.
- Our only goal.
Although the role of women has changed in recent decades, there are still false beliefs about menopause that need to be highlighted, below we invite you to discover some interesting and useful perspectives on the subject.
There are women who experience early menopause, others should start taking it at the root of a hysterectomy, it is obvious that every woman is a world, that the symptoms are not the same in all bodies and that not everyone accepts the process in the same way. Way.
However, according to an article published in the journal “Menopause and Perimenopause”, there are a number of false myths around menopause that give an air of doom at this stage, which should not be seen as the end of a cycle, but as an evolution: a continuity in our life cycles.
Women are the emotional legacy of the world, where consensus, flexibility and empathy live. Are your language skills also accompanied by your intuition, to see beyond the lock of conventions, a logical and structured thought?
A decrease in estrogen production won’t change that. In addition, Helen Fisher, a renowned biologist and anthropologist, defines postmenopausal women as a “living library,” a figure who, in many traditional societies, could acquire the same political, social, or economic values. power as a man.
Menopause is known to cause age-related problems such as osteoporosis or joint pain, but women’s personal growth at this stage is so remarkable that authors such as psychologist Francis Fukuyama argue that the figure of the “solidarity woman” is changing and that in the coming years they will play a very important role in our societies in the public spheres (which we are already witnessing).
Time is not against us, it is something that we must internalize in our thinking and in the way we face every change and every step, menopause is first about understanding every process we go through, and then harmonizing each change to take care of more. Ourselves.
Each cycle has wonderful aspects to learn, and the advent of menopause certainly marks a new state in which we can continue to have personal and professional achievements: creative tasks and feminine spirit, now looking for new opportunities.
Times have changed and are also part of the expected roles of women at this stage. Therefore, and if the reader wishes, we invite you to discover Helen Fisher’s book “The First Sex”. A refreshing and interesting approach to the classic essay in which Simone de Beauvoir promorated the role of women under the title “Second Sex”.
A woman is not perfect for her body, nor for her youth: her true beauty lies in her feelings, her ability to overcome, to be strong in times of adversity and to attract smile and good humour in the days of sadness.