05/06/2011 It's been quite some time since I've made an entry. So where am I with this little experiment of mine? Well, in order to go forward, I must go backward. I need to share a little story. When my youngest son was in his pre-adolescence period, I remember my fears of failure. He was such a challenge. He was powerful, fierce, intense and unbridled. I feared that if I didn't teach him to harness his energy, that he would end up like his out-of-control father. (Big, really big story there) Anyway, I used a lot of imagery. One in particular comes to mind. I remember sitting with him and asking him to visualize. Mijo, I said, can you remember seeing the way a helium balloon madly screams across the sky when it's air is released? Now think about one with a long ribbon. That ribbon is doing nothing other than hanging around for the ride. Mijo, I said, your emotions are that balloon, and you my dear boy are the ribbon.

The power surges of Menopause are similar. We have a choice. We can choose to be the ribbon and cope, endure or medicate, or we can be the balloon. We can believe that we can live in the space of that balloon, and through awareness, change the experience.

Thus far we gone from not talking about it to mitigating it. I still believe there are other possibilities and am still trying to define them??????