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Inspiration, Intuition and Action - Wisdom for Meno Moms

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Greetings beautiful Meno Moms! Thank you so much for being here!! I missed my March post but here I am in early April writing to you and hoping you are all having a wonderful start to the Spring. The title of this post came to me as I was in bed thinking about the different experiences I had during the winter. One of the practices that I have been cultivating for many years now, on and off, but more intentionally for the past couple of years, is the practice of Qi Gong. For those of you who haven't heard of Qi Gong, here's a definition according to Qi Gong Master Lee Holden:   “Qi” means “life-force energy.” Everything that takes place within the body is a reflection of this mysterious energy. Your thoughts, feelings, and physical experiences are all manifestations of Qi within you.  “Gong” means “to work with.” Therefore, Qi Gong means “to work with life-force energy.”  In Qi Gong, working with life-force energy often focuses on letting go of stress, cultivating joy...

The Empowered Meno Mom

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  Hello beautiful people! This is your friend Adriana and I want to welcome you all to my new blog “The Empowered Me no Mom”. I want to start by saying that I am not a health professional and the purpose of my blog is solely to share my own personal experiences and to reach out to an audience of women who are going through challenges and joys during the transition into menopause. If you are experiencing symptoms that are preventing you from performing your daily job or tasks, please contact your family doctor so you can be referred to the right practitioner to help you. First, I want to tell you that, like many of you, I have always been inspired by many women who are doing so much in their daily lives to help their families, their friends, their communities and themselves, giving the best of them without even realizing that their contributions create a huge impact in the lives of so many people.  I grew up in Colombia and I have lived outside of my native country for more tha...

New Year, New Understanding from a Self Compassion Point of View

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Hello dear Meno Moms! I know we're already in February 2025 but I still feel like it's the starting of 2025. It is still the New Year and I am excited to see what this year will bring. I hope you are too! Going through Menopause is certainly a challenging time in our lives. Some of us experience more physical symptoms, some others experience more mental symptoms and some of us experience a good deal of both. One thing is for sure, every woman experiences Menopause in their own unique way and with various degrees of intensity. In my case I went through many challenges during the years in my perimenopause journey. At the beginning of perimenopause, which I cannot pinpoint exactly when that was, I felt vey lost and lonely. Trying to figure out exactly what was happening to me and thinking that I was having a very serious condition of some sort, I felt like my family doctors were not listening to me and I felt hopeless. It was when I had turned 50 when I was so desperate that I wen...