September is Menopause Awareness Month

If you can help just one woman who might be looking for a place to start or looking for some encouragement and support, you should feel really good about yourself!! This is just one of the thousands of emails I have received over the years and it helped remind me that there will ALWAYS be someone who is searching for information and, most of all, reassurance regarding menopause.

"I want you to know that your website was so instrumental in helping me to laugh at myself and realize I was not alone.  You will never quite understand or realize how much your website helped me and many others that I told about it.  God should only bless you continuallly for all you've done to make women aware of the possible nightmare they may have to embark upon.  Mine was the nightmare.We've never met but I want to say thank you so much.  Your site has been GOD inspired, just in case you don't know that already."  Margarita Monteleone, A Devout Minnie Pauzer For Life

Do you know who "Minnie Pauz" is? She's a woman, much like you if you are a woman with hormones, if you are a babyboomer, if you are single, married or divorced, quite simply, she's "everywoman". She is a little bit (or a lot) of all of us, depending on how you see her. She's not a doctor or an expert on menopause, but she gets letters that ask about medical issues all the time. That's when she sends people to real experts, like the ones listed on this page. "Minnie" is very happy to respond to questions about weight gain and chocolate though!

The main thing that "Minnie Pauz" brings to the table is a sense of humor about the whole subject of aging and feeling like the fun has gone out of our lives just because we're "changing". She only likes to be photographed from the back because she's feels that is her best "asset" and she's not so proud of her double chins and those dark hairs that keep popping out on her chin(s) and upper lip! The aging process is inevitable but some do it better than others so we've GOT to laugh about it or we're doomed to feeling miserable for the next 30 to 40 years! Hey, that's a lot of time to do things we always wanted to do and still time to take care of ourselves and have FUN!