Tag: surgical menopause
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Menopause Is Not a Quiet Thing (Even If We’re Forced to Carry It Quietly)
Menopause isn’t quiet. It reshapes the body, silences you, and can destroy the life around you when pain, intimacy, and survival are misread as betrayal.
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2025: The Year I Learned How to Live Inside Myself
In February, my body crossed a line I didn’t know how to prepare for. Surgical menopause didn’t arrive as a single event; it arrived as a reckoning, layered with a complexity no one had fully warned me about. Looking back now, I realize I’d been moving through perimenopause for years, unknowingly carrying its subtle shifts,…
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When the Mask Cracks, the Heart Speaks
A quiet unraveling led me to parts of myself I’m only just beginning to meet. This piece is for the parts we’ve silenced, the children we’re raising, and the versions of ourselves we’re still becoming. I used to think I was managing.Not thriving, maybe, but coping.Functioning. I kept routines in place like scaffolding, each task,…
Perfectly Imperfect 