The Perimenopause Journal: Unlock Your Power, Own Your Well-being, Find Your Path - Rilegato

Codrington, Kate

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ISBN 10: 1446313581 ISBN 13: 9781446313589

Casa editrice: David & Charles, 2024

Riassunto

The Perimenopause Journal is created for the bold, curious women who are interested in personal growth and who want to understand and care for themselves while they go through the process of perimenopause. They go to yoga, but might cringe at the chanting. They get the giggles in a gong bath and close out their mindfulness class with a glass of prosecco. They are sharp, they’ve busted glass ceilings, they’ve burned out and (hopefully) recovered and are now longing to learn how to live their lives sustainably and stylishly. They don’t want to be patronised, they need a reassuring guide to understanding themselves, managing their symptoms and allowing them to blossom into a creative life postmenopause. They bought period pants and moon cups are now entering perimenopause and finding that there is no one there who speaks their language or gets their situation. The perimenopause journal is for those women.

This undated journal can be started at any point in the year, and guides readers through the phases of perimenopause, allowing them space and time to really engage with their symptoms, and how their changing lives can be a source of excitement and joy. Written by artist and facilitator Kate Codrington, The Perimenopause Journal is a year-long experience of this unique time of a woman’s life that helps to chart the course to a smooth and fulfilling “second spring”. Based around the seasons and the lunar year, the journal shows readers how to recognise and track their symptoms of perimenopause, and how to care for themselves, and embrace their energy over 52 weeks.

Also included are four seasonal Yoga Nidra meditations, with an accompanying audio guide shared via QR code to give readers a chance to slow down for 20 minutes and truly feel where they are at that moment. The easy-to-use journal pages make keeping track of symptoms a natural process, and Kate’s kind and encouraging voice is there on the page to make the reader feel supported as she explores this new way of being in the world.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Kate is a mentor, author, speaker, facilitator, artist and podcaster. She is the author of Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause, which is part of the 'menopause cannon' according to the New York Times. Kate mentors people in perimenopause and beyond, 1-2-1 and in groups, is a nature-based Yoga Nidra meditation guide, hosts Life - An Inside Job podcast, has been a therapist for more than 30 years and creates multi-level art textile projects. When she’s not doing these things you’ll find her playing in her compost heaps.

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Perimenopause is not a hormone deficiency, it’s the time before your last period, a normal life stage and transition to a more liberating time of life. Perimenopause need not be a crisis, but lots of people talk up a fearful narrative that creates stress and confusion, which will make symptoms worse. Lots of people can make lots of money by suggesting that your body is failing and falling apart. Perimenopause is a time of growth that is asking you to love yourself more. But there’s not much money to be made in us blossoming on our own terms. So what’s going on?

It is clear that we have not been living in a sustainable way: our exhaustion, the planet’s crisis, the lack of care for our wellbeing, especially in perimenopause, the endless misogyny and the way we fear ageing show us clearly that we are working out of step with the natural rhythm of life. It’s not us malfunctioning here, it’s the system that’s at fault. We know this in our bones, but nevertheless we resist and fight against the natural ebb and flow, and continue to suffer.

Living with the seasons, known as cyclical living or cyclical awareness, brings us into a more caring relationship with the earth and with ourselves. The seasons also appear as ‘inner seasons’ through our reproductive lives in the menstrual and moon cycles. We become increasingly expansive through our inner Springs and Summers, and more reflective and inward-looking through our inner Autumns and Winters. Since your first period you’ve been in an expansive Spring and Summer phase, and the more reflective Autumn and Winter of your perimenopause has likely come as a shock because we were told the expansion was limitless: we should keep on giving and multi-tasking forever. But there has to be a time of reflection, releasing and rest before we can emerge into postmenopause, also known as your Second Spring, with the energy to start a fresh cycle. To put it simply, if you want to emerge into a badass Second Spring, you’ll probably need to drop some less helpful habits and beliefs.

These same inner seasons are present in the menstrual cycle, and paying attention to what trips you up and what supports you in your premenstrual phase will show you how to care for yourself in perimenopause.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: David & Charles
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1446313581
• ISBN 13: 9781446313589
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 196
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile