Take it from someone going through it, menopause is no joke. But, just like anything worth doing, menopause shouldn’t be boiled down to good or bad. It’s all about perspective. What happens if you choose to view it as an adventure? What if you took every night sweat, anxious thought, body change, and every crazy thing you experience and make it into a game where each time you get through the symptom-of-the-moment you move a step ahead on the board. Each new symptom you get is a badge your earning on this quest to embracing the crone. When you empower yourself this way and say I GET to do this, the whole process might just get a little easier to go through.

Or, at the very least, you might get a laugh and a feeling of solidarity. Who can’t use a little humor to get through what is described as treacherous? Go to your doctor for physical help, go to your therapist for emotional and psychological help. Come here for your moments of levity and your little nudges of peace.