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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...