Dear Pausers,

Welcome to the latest Launch Your Pause experiment:

Notes from Menopauseland.
 

In my experience of this life-changing transition, the constant truly is change. Menopause, The Transition, The Upgrade… even the name for the experience is shifting and changing. It’s like a trip that I’ve been on, to many different places, and I am changed a little bit by each of them.

Who I was 6 years ago when Laura and I started Launch Your Pause is different from who I am today. There is no Google Maps for menopause yet, and medical research and advice leaves many of us adrift in unfamiliar waters. The connections that I experience hearing about other women’s experiences of menopause is so grounding and reassuring to me. Laura and I thought it might be cool to use our newsletter to open up a dialogue and do some informal qualitative research of our own. We want to hear from you.

Where are you right now on your menopause journey?

What does it look like, feel like, sound like, smell like?

Where are you in your development as a woman? 

We’ll begin by sharing a snap-shot of where/who we are right now, and then we’ll invite you to share your experience by survey. In next month's newsletter, we'll reflect back to you what we've learned. Then, we’ll pose some new questions and gather more information from you, our community of experts. It will be like we’re reporting back to each other from our foreign posts, collectively mapping this experience in real time! As always, thank you for travelling this menopause journey with us. It's so much better when we're together.

In solidarity,

Laura & Kate