Changing Conditions, Changing Terms™
A Three-Session Offering for Black and Brown Women Navigating Perimenopause and Menopause
Working Within Periods Of Ongoing Change
Midlife can change the terms under which you live, work, care for others, and care for yourself.
For many Black and Brown women, perimenopause and menopause are where those changing terms become more noticeable. Changes in the body, energy, sleep, health, cognition, and capacity can make it difficult to continue in the same ways we always have. At the same time, the responsibilities of life remain. Work continues. Family continues. Caregiving continues. Expectations continue.
What I do not assume is that this experience is inherently negative.
For some women, this season may feel disruptive. For others, it may feel liberating. For many, it may be both, often at the same time. Every woman's experience is her own.
What I have noticed is that many women also encounter another kind of pressure. Beyond living with what is changing, they begin to feel pressure to:
•Understand what is happening
•Adapt to what is happening
•Fix what is happening
•Learn from what is happening
•Make something of what is happening
The experience itself becomes another thing to carry.
The Kind Of Support I Offer
During perimenopause and menopause, you will make important choices about your health, wellbeing, and the support you receive. At the same time, you may question what you need while feeling as though you should already know.
You may have spent time learning, reflecting, seeking support, and trying to understand what you're experiencing. You may have more information than you know what to do with.
Sometimes what is needed is not more information or another opinion.
Sometimes what is needed is the opportunity to make sense of what you're experiencing before choosing what comes next.
Changing Conditions, Changing Terms™ begins with your experience. Your questions. Your observations. What matters most to you. From that place, you are better prepared for the conversations and choices that often accompany perimenopause and menopause.
What You Can Leave With
Because this work begins with your experience, no two women will move through it in exactly the same way.
Where you begin, what matters most to you, and what unfolds through our conversations will shape what you leave with. It may include:
• Hearing yourself again.
• Recognizing your own experience as a valuable source of information.
• Developing greater compassion for yourself.
• Stopping the fight with your body.
• Beginning to trust yourself in a new way.
• Seeing possibilities, not just problems.
• Feeling better prepared for the conversations and choices that often accompany perimenopause and menopause.
Together, these shifts are intended to place you in a stronger position to make informed, empowered choices about your care, support, and wellbeing.
Getting Started
If you're navigating perimenopause or menopause and are looking for a place to make sense of what you're experiencing before choosing what comes next, the next step is a 15-Minute Conversation.
We'll talk about what's bringing you here and explore whether this is the right fit for you at this time.