What is the homeopathic approach to the transition of menopause? How can you feel empowered and at your best at this time of life? As a medicine that supports and does not suppress, homeopathy for menopause is about embracing a holistic approach that sees you welcome symptoms, and work towards their natural resolution, rather than their suppression. Find out more about menopause through a holistic lens, and how the amazing system of healthcare, homeopathy, can support you at every stage of life, and specifically through menopause.
Menopause is a natural, sacred phase of life.
Many women today get hung up on the symptoms of menopause and try to prevent those from occurring at all costs. The feedback we get is that there is something very wrong with us. If instead, we can change our mindset about this phase, we can start to see it as a natural, normal, sacred, transitional period.
I like to call menopause our second puberty and in this way, it is a natural part of life. If you’re a mum, you wouldn’t tell your daughter to be afraid of puberty, or suppress the changes she is about to go through, would you? You would say to her:
“This is normal, this is natural. Your emotions are going to be all over the show. Your body’s going to be changing, but it’s a beautiful period to be embraced and celebrated”.
So can we please start celebrating the same for ourselves? It’s our second puberty. It is not a disease. I’m not saying it’s always pleasant, but it’s still natural and we should celebrate that we’re going through a significant transition.
The menopausal phase is the natural transition from The Mother, to the Wise Woman, or Crone.
This is not conditional on whether you’ve given birth. You might be mothering colleagues, friends or family members. You nurture, you build a community. You might nurture a business. We will always find ways to procreate. It doesn’t have to be children, and it doesn’t change the fact that we need to go through all of these transitional phases in life.
When we change our outlook on this phase we’re moving into, and see this as a sacred time that was designed into us by something greater than us, that can hopefully take a lot of the fear out of it. The more you embrace menopause and the less you fight it, the easier it’s going to be.
Homeopathy for menopause welcomes symptoms
It’s important in this phase not to hate the symptom, however unpleasant it may be. Rather, working with the symptom, not suppressing it. Our symptoms are messengers, and they are telling you you’ve got more to let go of. So in fact, I’d encourage you to thank your body, and use the symptoms to work out what needs clearing from your system – physically, mentally and emotionally.
In an ideal situation, we would transition to menopause baggage-free, but in our modern society, this is almost impossible. We live in a first world western society and we are reaping the rewards of multiple generations of poor living choices. Our food is contaminated, our water is contaminated, our air is contaminated. Our bodies are contaminated. Our psyche is contaminated because we decided to throw out religion and threw the Spiritual baby out with the bath water, so we have little or no true Spiritual practice on a regular basis.
We have no containers to process the really tough stuff in life, leaving us trying to do it on our own. On top of that, we’ve got epigenetics passed down from multiple generations, including the supermarket generation where we focused on cheap food, regardless of the cost to our bodies.
So here we are, and what can we do about it? We can either sit in a corner and suppress it all and then pay it all forward to our daughters and sons, normalising this psyche and this behaviour and this level of health. Or we can do the hard work to resolve it.
Letting go of stuck energy
Detoxification is a common process as part of homeopathic treatment. When people think of detoxing the system, they often think of taking something like special supplements, foods, charcoal or clay.
This may be appropriate when addressing material dose toxicity in the body, where you would use binders to help eliminate it. However, in the case of heavy metals and other toxins, they will often sit in the endocrine system and in the skeletal system, where they reside in perpetuity until lifted out homeopathically.
Ultimately, everything breaks down to energy and therefore we always run a homeopathic detox to ensure any residual energy is lifted from the body. The body will metabolise until ultimately it has an energetic metabolic interchange with the cell. Homeopathy is the energetic medicine that meets it at that level.
The principle underpinning this, is that we are energy, our Spirit is energy. That energy animates the emotional body first, then the mental body and then the physical body; by the time you’ve got liver congestion, it has already run the energetic course from vital force to emotional body to mental body to physical body. So there’s a deeper reason it’s congested and it’s not just what you’ve ingested, it’s the holistic aspect of that.
Moving away from mental and emotional dysregulation.
The big, big issue in our culture is stress. We live a ridiculously paced life. We all know it. We have way too much on our plate. We are never not stressed. We are constantly “on” in our sympathetic nervous systems. How many of you know somebody with adrenal fatigue or thyroid issues? I have seen children under the age of ten with hypothyroidism. We are burnt out.
Can the change please start with us? Can we decide, “I’m not doing this to myself anymore”? Unsubscribe, or whatever you have to do. What does that look like for you? Of course that’s going to be unique to each person, but how about we just say “no” more. Occasional stress is a part of life. We know that there are periods where we go through really tough stuff, but we should move through it. We shouldn’t live in it 24/7, which in turn leads to more junk building up in us: physical, mental and emotional sludge that all comes asking to be released when we transition into menopause.
Embrace your wise woman era!
As you move through menopause, and enter The Crone, you are becoming a Wise Woman, you can step into that Elder role with grace. By letting go of what doesn’t serve you, you open up more space for your personal power, your own blend of magic. You also have space to help make the changes you’d like to see around you in your community and amongst your circle. You can step into your own way of being and of guiding those around you. You don’t need anybody’s permission. You are the permission. Be the “Karen” – as they say – because you know what? The world actually needs more of them!
Personalised treatment
If you could benefit from personalised and holistic support during the phases of menopause, reach out for a personalised homeopathic consultation.
Supportive remedies
You may also find our combination homeopathic remedy kit “Return to Self” helpful at this time. Targeted to supporting busy women on all levels.
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