Thank you to netgalley for the arc of “Making Sense of Menopause”.
Do you embrace or resist menopause? How has your culture, your childhood, your upbringing had an affect on how you view and approach menopause? This book takes you back to the very beginning, inside the womb and embarks you on the continuum of life and how it has an influence on your future and views of yourself. This book provides a background and view I had never heard before. Genetics, experiences and exposure all influence who we are and who we will become later in life, who knew? Being from a western culture myself, menopause is feared and given the reputation as something to resist and run away from! After reading “Making Sense of Menopause”, my attitude is to EMBRACE and CELEBRATE this transition. Instead of growing old and looking at wrinkles as signs of aging, I now will appreciate how and why those wrinkles appeared.
I was hoping for a bit more information on the symptoms of menopause and hormone balance as opposed to the in depth explanation of what happenings influence who we are and how menopause will affect us individually. This book definitely fulfills the title of the book and provides an explanatory view of “why”. I will share my history with the women who follow behind me and those who are enjoying and navigating with me. If you are transitioning into a new phase in your life and feel apprehensive or uncertain, pick up and embrace this book! Keep an open mind and be optimistic to change and how we got where we are today and where we will go in our near future!

This is not only a very informative book, but a workbook at the same time - with lots of questions to investigate your own being. Even when not menopausal (yet), I learned a lot in general about being true to yourself, appreciating yourself, the way hormones and stress work, and even (thank you very much for that) about environmental health hazards such as plastic, toxins, and the pace with which we live our lives.
Nope, no bashing of being online, but a gentle and well-thought through vision on how for instance the TV has an affect on the brain.

Also very well written, urging you to hang on, hold on to what it is important to you, and make you realize you are enough: 'you carry the seed of your essential self.'
According to the author we are living 'in a society that is based on desire.' Can we learn to let that go? We all are a work in progress, there is so much we can still learn, change, and love about ourselves.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of the book.