145. Navigate Menopause Well

The Mindful Healers Podcast with Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang

Mindfulness and coaching can help make health challenges, especially menopause less stressful.

Accepting health situations, and aging associated physical and emotional changes - as they are - is a practice that is both hard and helpful.

Why make menopause, perimenopause, and other health challenges harder on yourself?

What can you do to make it easier?

What are you doing that is making it harder?

15 tips for navigating menopause, perimenopause and other health uncertainties with grace

• Trust the process - believe It is all playing out as it should

• Don't be angry with your body - the journey is better if you and your body are friends

• Slow down enough to listen to your body

• Pause to notice your thoughts and notice whether they are helpful or not helpful

• Support yourself well - practice mindfulness and get coaching

• Tell yourself good stories

• Choose your path through using intention, attitude, attention

• Step out of victimhood

• Stay in the moment

• Stay out of comparative suffering, urgency, rumination, and worry

• Focus on what is in your control and let go of what is not

• Remember there is no right way (even when others tell you what you “should do.” )

• Accept and allow how you feel and validate your own experience

• Treat the situation with loving amusement

• When you make a decision, have your own back

A well coached mind is essential to navigate menopause and health challenges well.

Reach out to Jessie for coaching if you want to navigate your own health challenges and/or menopause with more grace and ease. www.jessiemahoneymd.com/coaching

If you are a healer and are not already a member, join mindfulhealthcarecollective.com and our Facebook group here: www.facebook.com/groups/mindfulhealthcarecollective

If you want to develop a mindfulness practice, reach out to Dr. Liang www.awakenbreath.org

*Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice.