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This is gonna be an email that costs me subscribers, but there's something you need to hear, whether you like it or not....you DESERVE to hear it...
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The only problem you have, is that you think you have a problem.
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It’s my experience that most women in midlife are struggling from essentially the exact same issue: they’re having an identity crisis.
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Sometimes, in certain situations, with certain people, while engaged in certain activities (usually work/professional/creative stuff) they’re confident.Â
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They appreciate themselves. They believe in themselves, and are positive, hopeful and happy. They identify as a capable, strong has-her-shit -together grown ass woman.…..They LOVE themselves.Â
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But at OTHER times, in certain situations, with certain people, while engaged in certain activities (usually personal “tough” conversations, decision-making with partners, navigating “how to” stuff with family members, and also in so...
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I’m embarrassed to admit that I didn’t know shit about my period until my early 40s.
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Obviously, I knew that I HAD a monthly menstrual cycle that made wearing white pants inconvenient. And I knew that in the days leading up to my period, I was a carb-craving, emotionally unstable, hyper-sensitive, crampy, bloated raw bundle of nerves.
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And of course, I had a basic understanding that my body operated in a 28 day cycle that involved all sorts of hormones that worked to construct, and then deconstruct, my womb for creating, growing and birthing a Life.Â
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This smidge of knowledge was congealed from sex ed classes in the 80s, limited and painfully awkward conversations with my mother in middle school, a few Cosmo articles, conversations with girlfriends, and my own observations.
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Everything I was “taught” about my cycle could be neatly wrapped up in one word: ENDURANCE.
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My period was something I just had to “deal with” and “get through” for a week each month.Â
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