Can we talk about menopause for a minute?

Whether you're going through it, dreading its arrival, or have moved through it unscathed, or whether you have a sister, mother, spouse, colleague, or friend who’s navigating it, we are all affected by menopause.

And let’s get one thing straight:
💡 Menopause is not a disease.
It’s not a condition.
And it’s definitely nothing to be ashamed of.
It’s a universal biological transition, and we need to start treating it that way.

👉 While not all women are currently experiencing menopause, virtually 100% will go through it if they live to midlife.
With the average age of onset around 51, that’s 480–600 million women globally who are currently in the menopausal transition or postmenopausal. *

*Reference: World Health Organization. “Menopause.” 2024. WHO Menopause Fact Sheet

And yet, it’s still not readily talked about.

Far less than puberty or pregnancy. Why?

• Cultural taboos: It’s associated with aging, loss of fertility, or even invisibility.

• Workplace silence: Women hesitate to speak up for fear of being seen as less capable.

• Medical gaps: It’s under-researched, under-taught, even in medical school.

• Lack of language: Many women don’t even recognize what’s happening to them.

Now consider this:
🌀 Perimenopause often begins in your 40s, right when life is already full-on.
You might be raising teens.
Caring for aging parents.
Leading a team.
Building a business.
Holding everything together.

And then your body starts to change:
You forget names.
You can’t sleep.
Your heart races for no reason.
You’re anxious, exhausted, and wondering:
“Is this burnout? Am I losing it?”

Chances are, it’s perimenopause.
And that’s not something to fear, it’s something to understand.

This is not the end of anything.
It can be the beginning of something stronger:
💛 Clarity
💛 Confidence
💛 Deeper self-awareness

Let’s stop tiptoeing around it.
Let’s name it, talk about it, share our stories, and understand it better, together!