Is It Hot in Here or Is It Just Me?

by Grace Oasis | Jan 7, 2025

Revisiting Menopausal Hormone Therapy When I was a new Nurse Practitioner (NP), the Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) evidence-based medicine guidelines scared the sh * t out of many prescribers. I was one of them. HRT went from being the miracle drugs for treating...

Menopause Resources Recommended by Forest

by Forest | Jan 7, 2025

Art by Betty Dodson No one is paying me for this compilation. I’m just sharing my bumbling around and what’s worked. I hope you find it helpful. I also don’t necessarily agree with 100% of what each source preaches. Please also take what resonates and leave what...

The Life Process of Menopause

by Forest | Jan 7, 2025

Menopause is a Life Process not a medical condition. And it’s not something that’s unfortunately wrong with 51% of the human population and toothed whales. I’m still learning how to menopause in a good way. The last four years have been the hardest health years of my...

Hemorrhaging

by Forest | Jan 7, 2025

As wild as they are, the hot flashes I’ve started having the past couple months are easier than the hemorrhaging I was experiencing the last couple years. Depending on who you talk to, hemorrhaging is a sign of perimenopause and also caused by environmental factors....

This Is How I’m Going to Do Menopause

by Carlin Ross | Jan 7, 2025

The only information I had about menopause came from vaginal dryness commercials, sit com punchlines, and Betty’s description of her “heat orgasms”.  At the stroke of 50, I started to feel like I was losing my grip on reality.  I felt angry all the time.  I woke up...

My Abortion

by Rachel Andrea | Dec 4, 2024

December 26th, 2007 was the day I found out I was pregnant.  I was a 22-year-old college student still living at home, so I took the test in a Walmart bathroom so I could easily destroy the evidence, as my mother was very much against elective abortion.  I knew from...