So what go- like, what do you do when you work with people? And when you're talking about somatic work and getting into the body, like, how do those sorts of things help us at this time?

To answer this question, I just wanna take us back to, to, you know, to this U-shaped initiation, because for me, I had always been very disembodied, actually.

I was living very much in my head.

You know, I've always been very brainy, very nerdy, you know, like, uh, loved science and was, like, very existing pretty much here for a long, long time.

When I went through this initiation, I did not have any choice but to reconnect with my body.

Even though it was, like, the most painful thing, I had to reconnect with my body because everything was happening in my body.

And at one point, I realized, wow, you know, I'm so disconnected, and I'm so scared of feeling.

Yeah

So what could you say about that?

That's a fascinating topic.

And what I have read in the literature is that as estradiol starts to dip, certain parts of the brain that are, you know, for lack of better words, holding on to these kinds of traumas and memories and unresolved stress patterns, that holding starts to loosen up.

It's almost like when we're in our fertile years, there's this thick, beautiful carpet that is covering all of that stuff.

And as estradiol starts to dip, the carpet starts to become more and more threadbare, and then there's holes going.

And so all these things come to the surface.

And it surprised me when it happened to me.

So do you have an example of working with a client perhaps, or your own example of how you worked through the menopause?