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Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 by Lynette Sheppard
At the silent auction, nothing was appealing. Until I saw it. A small unassuming box. A magic box. Containing a device I did not own. I had to have it. Bypass the wine. Forget the trips. Scratch the jewelry. Go for the medical and health supplies.
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Posted on Thursday, July 22, 2010 by Lynette Sheppard
So many mental manifestations of menopause have plagued me and the goddesses at one time or another. And now, a new mental effect is afflicting me. I’m going to call it Menopause Demotivation Syndrome. After all, we seem to name everything these days to make it sound important at best and necessitating treatment at worst.
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Posted on Friday, June 04, 2010 by Lynette Sheppard
I clicked on a tweet (on Twitter) the other day promising to answer our questions about menopause. I got the same old rhetoric that I’ve read countless times. Finally, I gotta comment and re-answer each question as a true menopause goddess. I'm tired of the B.S. I'm not picking on any one site or author (which is why I won't link to this particular article.) I'm addressing all of them that put this kind of information out for women. Below are their questions and answers in plain text, my answer is in bold. And I do mean BOLD!
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Posted on Monday, May 10, 2010 by Lynette Sheppard
What I’m talking about is a weird sort of time distortion. ...I’m pretty sure this isn’t a manifestation of Menopause brain fog — my brain seems to be working as well as it ever doesn’t these days. Is there a tear in the space-time fabric?
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Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2010 by Lynette Sheppard
Estrogen Addiction Say What? Yep, Apparently our hot flashes are due to an estrogen addiction.
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Posted on Monday, February 22, 2010 by Lynette Sheppard
Do Hot Flashes Sufferers Live Longer? Wow. I believe that I will likely live to 210 years of age if this is true. Does depression affect menopausal symptoms? Which came first - the depression or the pause?
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Posted on Sunday, February 07, 2010 by Lynette Sheppard
That’s what happens when you live part-time in Procrasti-Nation. The important stuff waits while you do something less pressing, maybe even downright trivial. Like untangling your ‘ball’ of necklaces or reading your Facebook news.
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Posted on Friday, January 15, 2010 by Lynette Sheppard
We goddesses are well equipped for care taking and ill equipped for the necessary job of caring for ourselves. How will we cope with caring for aging parents, with unforeseen injury and illness to our significant others?
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Posted on Friday, December 18, 2009 by Lynette Sheppard
Menopause and Christmas. It's a combination guaranteed to have our stressmeters pegging the red zone. With that in mind, here are six tips for more joy and less pressure this holiday season.
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Posted on Friday, November 27, 2009 by Lynette Sheppard
If life is a dance, Menopause just might be an unwanted dance partner. But we can’t refuse to dance...
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Posted on Monday, October 19, 2009 by Lynette Sheppard
Menopause doesn’t discriminate and it takes no prisoners. It afflicts every woman in her own unique way while providing universal Menopause experiences; those Menopause Moments that remind us we are in the second half of our lives.
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Posted on Thursday, October 08, 2009 by Lynette Sheppard
Many physicians now believe that hypothyroidism should be diagnosed on the basis of symptoms rather than blood work.
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Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 by Lynette Sheppard
In this later season of our life, we find heightened appreciation for all that we are living with and through. Because we know it’s not forever and we don’t want to waste a single moment.
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