The Truth About Menopause: Reclaim Your Power

What frustrates you most about how society treats menopause?

For me, it's the generalisations. Society tends to think everyone experiences the same symptoms like hot flushes and moodiness, making menopause seem like a universal hard time. 

But that’s not always the case. 

We each have unique expressions of menopause.

 "Talking with women, I often hear that they believe their sexuality and desire die with menopause. It’s almost accepted that if you're going through menopause, you won’t want intimacy anymore. 

But I believe it’s a time to rediscover what we truly desire.

 Menopause isn't the end of our sexual life—it’s a new chapter."

What's really important is finding what truly fulfills us now. 

This isn’t about giving up on intimacy; it’s about redefining it in a way that honours our inner wisdom and power. Let's create a better story.

Key Points:

Many women buy into the narrative that hormone replacement therapy is the only way to cope with menopause. But there’s so much more.

I love introducing the concept of archetypes, helping women realise who they’ve been and envisioning who they want to become.

If you’ve been the nurturer and motivator, imagine calling upon your inner visionary or truth-teller.

"Menopause can be an empowering time if we allow ourselves to step into it. It's about asking... 

'What do I want now?' How do you envision your life and sexual intimacy?"

Knowing yourself deeply, nurturing your well-being, and understanding your body's messages can help you reclaim your power and flow through this transition.

Your host:

Tarisha Tourok is the founder of the Sexually Empowered Radiant Woman movement where women learn how to become radiant, confident and own the power and beauty of their sexuality no matter their size, shape, age or race.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What frustrates you most about how the society
treats menopause?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I guess generalizations that everyone
has the same things.
We know about hot flushes andmoodiness, and so I think people
then come to expect thatthey're going to get this menu
of symptoms and it's such a hardtime, and I don't think that's
always the case.
I think people have a differentas Jackie talks about different
expressions of menopause, andit's important to see the other

(00:27):
side of it as well.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
For me, talking to my women, they say that their
sexuality and sexual desire dies.
It's almost like that's givenIf I'm going through menopause.
That's why I don't want itanymore.
I feel like what's reallyimportant that women start to
desire different things, butit's not that it's time for us
to give up on a deep intimacyand sexual life.
Actually, we need to find whatwe truly desire now.

(00:49):
Menopause desire dies andthat's how it is and we can't do
anything about it.
I think that's a piece offeeling disempowered through the
process that really frustratesme it is actually losing that
power and I talk about thisthrough every hormonal
transition.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
It should be a time that we're celebrating and
honoring our inner wisdom andour power as we transition
through the beautiful phases,that we go through the cycles of
life with the rhythms of nature.
Let's create a better storythan that but women so buying
into the.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
That's the piece where it's like this is how it
is.
That's why women go into thehormone replacement therapy.
Right, because it's not.
This is how it is and we, thisis the only way, and we accept
it and we just buy into itsomehow.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
I agree.
That's why I feel like theylaser focus on symptoms and I
love to introduce the concept ofarchetypes, which many people,
all of us have heard about but alot of people haven't, because
it's not something that getsreally talked about.
And really for women at thisstage to realize who they've
been being, who they've beenbusy being, for most of their
life, or maybe the years leadingup to the menopausal time, and

(02:02):
then for them to think, well,who would I become if I called
upon these other aspects ofmyself, so if they've been busy
being the nurturer and themotivator primarily, and I would
say so, how would life look toyou if you called on?
Because you've got it alreadywithin you, your inner visionary
right and your inner truthteller, Because a lot of women

(02:23):
in their older years you knowwhat I'm done with putting
everyone else first.
I'm ready to actually stand upand be seen, or I'm ready to
speak more of my truth aroundhow I deserve to be treated or
how, or boundaries that I wantto live by, and I think it's
such a time of empowerment forwomen if they allow themselves

(02:45):
to step into that.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
That's so beautiful.
I love it because, like it's inmy field, right with sexuality,
it's almost like women used togive sex as a.
That's what I have to do for mypartner to keep the family
together and was menopause.
What do I want from it now?
How do I vision my life andwhat do I want out of this?
How do I see the sexualintimacy that's going to fulfill
me rather than doing it for mypartner?

Speaker 3 (03:07):
and knowing yourself.
This is this intrinsic,awakening this intrinsic,
knowing that we all have deepwithin ourselves and really
coming back to that power, ourcore power and who we are, and
having tools to actually feedourselves well, nurture

(03:29):
ourselves well, so that we don'texperience these symptoms,
because these symptoms right,they're just our body's way of
talking to us.
So our body's talking to usthrough these symptoms and when
we know what the symptom is andintrinsically know our own power
, to come back to our peace withthat, because it's often that

(03:52):
we're blocking and we haven'tgot that flow.
So, coming back to really ownthat power and flow through it,
we invite people to join ourmedical menopause Challenge.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
It's a five-day challenge and it starts on 20th
May 12pm New Zealand time.
We'll see you there.