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Memories, all alone in the moonlight

I don’t know what I’m doing here, or why I came

All is fuzzy as I wander from room to room

Talking to myself, once again.

Daylight, I awake from my stupor

Wishing I could remember, what day is today

Who am I? What is my name and what do I do?

Let my memory please be renewed.

Every day is a new adventure of confusion and befuddlement

I continue to mutter and my husband shutters

At our mid-life predicament.

Touch me, it’s so easy just read my lips

We’ll grow old together, hand in hand

As we tread these unknown waters of mid-life

I’ll remind you hey, I’m your wife

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Jan Menopause, Mid Life Madness

Oh my goodness! I have learned so much about my own health and hormones levels in the last year while building this DVD, “Blitzed by Menopause” and I would like to share a few tips with those of you encountering mid life and menopause.

My appetite of late has been insatiable. When I was pregnant, I was told I actually had a condition called “Insatiable Appetite”…and with this condition, I gained over 65 lbs. with my first baby 85 lbs. with my second. I was starving all the time and could not feel the sensation of fullness…even after single handedly consuming a large pizza! The minute my babies were born, this condition ceased…except for a couple days during my cycle.

Hormones!!
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Jan Menopause

I presently am wasting a bit of time at work and yet ask myself am I? Listening to my ipod in my office while the people above me sound like elephants stomping on the floor (I have no idea what they do up there but it makes me nuts),I experience one of those precious moments.

So I’m listening to John Denver sing “My Sweet Lady” and am remembering a certain someone from college, 1972, that took me to Denver’s concert. At this memory, I smile, laugh, even get a tear.

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Jan Menopause

The definition of wisdom: “Accumulated knowledge of life or in a  particular sphere of activity that has been gained through experience”.

Well let’s see, here are just a few mid-life tidbits of wisdom I have accumulated through my life’s experiences thus far:

• When everyone looks younger than you it’s because they are.
• It’s OK to trust your life into the hands of a doctor that looks like your youngest child. And it’s OK to ask if they brushed their teeth and washed behind their ears. They understand.

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Jan Menopause, Mid Life Madness

I couldn’t feel my life. My body felt disjointed from my head; like my limbs were strewn about, each functioning but independent of each other; like my head was in command but the rest of me not listening. I couldn’t feel me. Each day working, conquering, climbing, battling be it in the office or in the grocery store, I was on 21st century autopilot.

I drove to the coast. I took off my shoes leaving behind my blackberry, computer, phone, the unanswered texts and e-mails and all the daily annoying, friendly, demanding chattering voices grabbing at me.

My goal was to walk on the beach and clear my head. I mastered this for about 30 seconds. Catching myself several minutes later planning my next business meeting, I realized I was totally unaware of the majesty of my surroundings. I had to break it down:
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Jan Menopause

With all the ways and means to connect, interact and socialize with people online, why is it sometimes, the more I tweet, Facebook, blog, e-mail, myspace, I feel a sense of growing aloneness?

I once heard that the social networking available to us today is causing a sort of dehumanization. I sometimes wonder. I can tweet with the best of them and while it is entertaining to find out what Matthew Perry is cooking for dinner, I often wonder what happened to the art of letter writing or phone calling. Online social networking is admittedly quicker, easier and more effective but I’m not sure it nourishes the human soul as much as tickles the curious mind.

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Jan Menopause, Mid Life Madness

Ever have the feeling like you want to wrap your arms around something and just hold on for awhile? And with that, a deep unexplainable sadness?

My life couldn’t be better. At 55, a great career, wonderful husband who loves me dearly and makes me laugh, healthy and happy grown daughters….then why so sad?

I miss, so much, my babies who needed lullaby rocking; my little girls who needed their hair brushed and noses wiped; my young adolescent girls who were finding their way…
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Jan Menopause

You thoughtfully compose and write your e-mail or blog, waxing eloquent, and your browser quits…happens all to often. Will try again some other time.

Jan Menopause

For some of us, finding balance is an on-going challenge, be it in our work, relationships, health, etc. I, for some reason take the ‘all or nothing’ approach to life, joy riding the swinging pendulum from the “I can do it all” to the “I’m so wiped out I can’t move” mentality.

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Jan Menopause