VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIAL:
To the Women in Peri & Menopause Who Do not Feel Themselves… We See You!
Ladies, this Valentine’s Day, we are sending love to all the incredible women riding the peri/menopause rollercoaster, a ride none of us queued up for, but here we are, gripping the safety bar, sweating through our 'favourite' blouse and wondering why our emotions are doing parkour.
Whether you are single, married, a corporate powerhouse, a founder or a carer, here is your Valentine’s card from the universe.
To the Single Ladies:
You deserve flowers, chocolate and someone who understands that you are not “moody”, you are negotiating with your hormones like a diplomatic hostage situation. Also, if you cancel plans because you are tired, hot, bothered, or all three simultaneously… that’s called self-care, darling.
To the Married or Partnered Queens:
If your partner asks, “Are you okay?” at the ‘wrong’ moment.
No. The answer is always no.But love means they are still handing you the fan, the blanket, the water bottle and the remote, sometimes all at once.
To the Corporate Leaders:
You have conquered budgets, boardrooms and bias…
But nothing has prepared you for the midday hot flash that feels like a hostile takeover. Still, you deliver the strategy and the side-eye flawlessly. That’s leadership.
To the Business Women & Founders:
Running a business while your hormones run amok?
CEO = Chief Emotional Officer these days. But you are still building empires and remembering (eventually) what you walked into the room for. Absolute legend.
To the Carers:
You are juggling everyone else’s needs while your brain is buffering like a bad WiFi connection. Yet you continue to show up with heart, humour and probably a cooling spray in your bag.
You are the real MVP.
…..and to ALL women in this season.
Peri/menopause is a full-body, full‑mind plot twist. Some days you feel fierce. Some days you feel fragile and some days you feel like a character in a sitcom written by your hormones.
But you are still YOU, powerful, brilliant, funny, brave and beautifully human.
So, on this Valentine’s Day, we celebrate every version of you:
The overheating you
The tearful you
The laughing-you-don’t-know-why you
The “is this my memory or someone else’s?” you
The “I’m still showing up” you
You Are Not Losing Yourself, You Are Evolving.
This season may feel confusing, chaotic, sweaty, emotional, hilarious, overwhelming and empowering… sometimes all before noon. But do not mistake the turbulence for decline, this is transformation.
You are shedding old expectations, rewriting your boundaries, rediscovering your joy, reclaiming your power and stepping into a version of yourself that is wiser, bolder, softer where it matters and stronger everywhere else.
But honestly? Do not be so hard on yourself. You are doing it with style, sass, humour and resilience worthy of its own love story, the kind where the heroine triumphs not in spite of the plot twists, but because of them.
But here is the most important part. You do not need to navigate this chapter alone.
There is a whole sisterhood waiting to support you, laugh with you, cry with you and share real, no-filter conversations about everything from hot flashes to hope, brain fog to boundaries.
Join us at Menopause Talk
A safe, supportive, empowering space for honest conversations, expert insights and community care.
Step into the conversation at: https://www.nbwn.org/group/menopausetalk/discussion
Come as you are. Leave feeling seen, heard and held.
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