Peri? Pah!

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Peri means "around" or "about"
What is peri-menopause?

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A mythical state no woman ever experiences. 

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There is no "peri-puberty."
And definitely no "peri-menopause."

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If we accept this term, then we are never in menopause. 
We are "peri-" or "post-" menopause. 
But never in its midst. 
Never in our Passage to Power
(a term coined by Leslie Kenton).
Menopause is erased. 
Eliminated. 

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You bleed. 
You don't. 
That's it. 
Holy magolies 
That's not true at all. 
Even for women who experience surgical menopause. 
Menopause takes time.
 
If we don't have time as menopausal women, 
Then we are prone to think that the normal
natural changes, problems, upsets, flashes, flooding, acne, bloating, aching, crying
Of menopause
Are wrong
And need to be fixed. 
They need time. 

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My book "New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way" has sold over a million copies because it gives women power. 
Because it encourages women to spend time in menopause. 

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Yes, there are ways to ease our problems
Green blessings abound. 
And there are new stories
New ways of viewing menopause
As powerful,
Important,
Critical even
To your full emergence as a Crone. 
Woman of Wisdom.
Woman of Power. 

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Anyone who uses the term "peri-menopause" is stealing your access to power. 
Anyone who uses the term "peri-menopause" is deluding you about the sources of women's wisdom.

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Menopause is time in the chrysalis. 
Menopause requires some "time-out."

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No longer a caterpillar. 
But not yet a butterfly. 
Melting down and reforming. 

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Not one day 
The day of last blood
But years of effort and change. 

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Embrace menopause. 
Let it turn you inside out. 
Let it melt you and reform you. 
That takes time, butterfly. 
Nothing "peri" about it.