Wow, this is not your run of the mill menopause blog, and Caryn Franklin is not your average woman! In this gritty (very) and inspiring (very) forthright article for Refinery 29, Caryn recounts her experience with menopause and shares her revelations. At first, she felt she was in crisis mode, and worried that dementia had set in early. Then she took stock, and made a life-changing realisation:
“I was medicating myself with generous amounts of Cabernet Sauvignon each evening. Anesthetising anxiety and panic attacks this way helped me limp on for a bit longer, clinging to the remnants of my previously ordered existence. Then I made an important decision. I stopped and stood still. “What do I need to understand?”
She suddenly saw that despite being hugely successful in her career, she routinely put others first, which meant she was racing through life over acheiving – and under prioritising herself.
Her experiences and raw recounting of how she reached her turning point and made a new way to live more authentically make great reading – you’ll never think of menopause in quite the same way.
Read the article here – we hope you enjoy it too!
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