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The wisdom of menopause: creating physical and emotional health during the change
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From the Book - Revised and updated.
Menopause Puts Your Life Under a Microscope
"Not Me, My Marriage Is Fine"
The Childbearing Years: Balancing Personal and Professional Lives
Why Relationships Must Change at Midlife
My Personal Fibroid Story: The Final Chapter
The Joy of Co-creative Partnership
The Forces That Change the Goose Also Change the Gander
Real Menopause Hits
My Marriage Goes Bankrupt
Armadillo Medicine: The Power of Vulnerability
Celebrating the Past While Creating a New Future
The Brain Catches Fire at Menopause
Our Brains Catch Fire at Menopause
Learning to Recognize and Heed Our Wake-Up Calls
Is It Me or Is It My Hormones? Debunking the Myth of Raging Hormones
The Multiple Roles of Your "Reproductive" Hormones
Embracing the Message Behind Our Menopausal Anger
Emotions, Hormones, and Your Health
How Our Midlife Brains and Bodies Are Set Up to Heal Our Pasts
Finding a Larger Meaning
Coming Home to Yourself: From Dependence to Healthy Autonomy
The Empty-Nest Syndrome
Boomerang Babies
Powerful Feelings, Powerful Healing
Caring for Ourselves, Caring for Others: Finding the Balance
Hitting Pay Dirt: Getting Clear About Money at Midlife
Coming Home to Yourself
Vocational Awakening at Midlife
A Road Map for Navigating Unknown Territory
This Can't Be Menopause, Can It? The Physical Foundation of the Change
What Is Happening in Your Body: Hormonal Changes
Perimenopause Is a Normal Process, Not a Disease
The Three Types of Menopause
Perimenopause and Hormonal Levels
Is There a Test I Can Take?
Menopause and Thyroid Function
Menopause and Adrenal Function
What to Expect in Your Transition
Hormone Therapy: An Individual Choice
A Brief History of Hormone Therapy
Bioidentical Hormones: Nature's Ideal Design
A Hormone Primer: Essential Information Every Woman Should Know
How to Decide Whether or Not to Take Hormones
A Dusting of Hormones
How Long Should You Stay on Hormones?
Foods and Supplements to Support the Change
Basic Principles of Herbal Therapy at Menopause
Foods That Help Perimenopause
Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture for Menopause
Start Somewhere
The Menopause Food Plan: A Program to Balance Your Hormones and Prevent Middle-Age Spread
Making Peace (Once Again) with My Weight
How to Train Your Mind to Release Excess Weight
What Should You Eat?
Six Steps to Midlife Weight Control
The Hormone-Balancing Food Plan
Optimizing Midlife Digestion
The Final Frontier: Accepting Our Bodies
Creating Pelvic Health and Power
What Is Yours, What Is Mine, What Is Ours? Reclaiming Our Boundaries
Hormonal Imbalance: Fuel to the Fire
Menstrual Cramps and Pelvic Pain
Heavy Bleeding
Fibroids
An Empowered Approach to Surgery or Invasive Procedures
Master Program for Creating Pelvic Health
Urinary Health
Sex and Menopause: Myths and Reality
The Anatomy of Desire
Sexuality at Menopause: Our Cultural Inheritance
Menopause Is a Time to Redefine and Update Our Relationships
Hormone Levels Are Only One Part of Libido
Secondary Libidinal Support: Estrogen, Progesterone, and Herbs
Testosterone: The Hormone of Desire?
Aids to Lubrication
Telling the Truth
Ten Steps to Rekindling Libido
Nurturing Your Brain: Sleep, Mood, and Memory
Enhancing Midlife Sleep
Depression: An Opportunity for Growth
Memory Loss at Menopause: Is This Alzheimer's?
Hormones and Alzheimer's
Nonhormonal Ways to Protect Your Brain
Maximizing Midlife Wisdom
From Rosebud to Rose Hip: Cultivating Midlife Beauty
Making Peace with Your Changing Skin
Preventing or Treating Wrinkles
Midlife Acne
Rosacea
Hair in the Wrong Places
When Good Skin Care Isn't Enough: Deciding on Cosmetic Procedures
Varicose Veins
Standing Tall for Life: Building Healthy Bones
Osteoporosis: The Scope of the Problem
We're Designed for Lifetime Sturdiness
How Healthy Bone Is Made
Are You at Risk for Osteoporosis?
Measuring Bone Density
What About Bone-Building Drugs?
Get Strong
Healing Your Fitness Past
The Sunlight-Bone Health Connection
Shore Up Your Earth Connection with Plant Medicine
Straight, Strong, and Flexible for Life: Master Program for Healthy Bones and Joints
Creating Breast Health
Our Cultural Inheritance: Nurturing vs. Self-Sacrifice
The Emotional Anatomy of Breast Cancer
Program for Creating Breast Health
Breast Cancer Screening
The Promise of Thermography
Putting Breast Cancer Risk in Perspective
The Breast Cancer Gene: Should You Be Tested?
The Effect of HT on Breast Health
Bioidentical Hormones and Cancer Risk
The Tamoxifen Dilemma
Living with Heart, Passion, and Joy: How to Listen to and Love Your Midlife Heart
The Heart Has Its Say at Menopause: My Personal Story
Cardiovascular Disease: When the Flow of Life Is Blocked
Palpitations: Your Heart's Wake-Up Call
Gender Bias and Heart Disease: Our Cultural Inheritance
Reducing Your Risk for Heart Disease
Refined Carbohydrates, Sugar, and Heart Health: What Every Woman Should Know
Cardioprotective Supplements
Foods for Heart Health
What About Aspirin?
Get Moving!
The Heart-Estrogen Link: What's Really Going On?
How to Love and Respect Your Midlife Heart
The Heart-Opening Effect of Pets
The Intellect Is Certain It Knows, but the Heart Always Wins.
From the Book - Revised and updated.
Introduction: the journey begins
Menopause puts your life under a microscope
The brain catches fire at menopause
Coming home to yourself: from dependence to healthy autonomy
This can't be menopause, can it? The physical foundation of the change
Hormone therapy: an individual choice
Foods and supplements to support the change
The menopause food plan: a program to balance your hormones and prevent middle-age spread
Creating pelvic health and power
Sex and menopause: myths and reality
Nurturing your brain: sleep, mood, and memory
From rosebud to rose hip: cultivating midlife beauty
Standing tall for life: building healthy bones
Creating breast health
Living with heart, passion, and joy: how to listen to and love your midlife heart
Epilogue: the calm after the storm.
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9780525486138
9780553386721
9780553386721
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