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    Menopause, our midlife transition is our most powerful and empowering secret!

    Together with coach Julia Seal, find out why it's our best opportunity to evolve ourselves at the deepest level, using our negative emotions, our unhappy thoughts and our difficulties at home and at work. It's time to use Menopause to fuel you, to fuel your courage to look deeply inside, to fuel your commitment to your own self-care and to fuel new thoughts, feelings, actions and habits in how you show up for yourself and for the world.

    With coaching tips and free tools to download, we consider how best to respond to the midlife Bardo, the menopause midlife transition, and especially how to use the 4 different types of negative emotions we experience as our inner guidance systems.

    We also explore current Menopause thinking worldwide. We look at the biochemical, physical symptoms and emotional difficulties we experience and how they affect us at work. Then, we consider the Nature-Culture divide in our cultural narratives in shaping how we experience Menopause differently worldwide - from USA, UK and Japan to Italy, Sweden and India - deterioration and decline to a time of liberation and wisdom. All essential knowledge as we navigate multi-cultural working environments and celebrate our diversity.

    We look at what's happening in the working world, including policies and guidelines currently in use that support the menopause conversation and we challenge the Work-Life distinction as we consider our Wholebeing Happiness, our happy and successful, no matter what.

    Sign-up today for Julia's blog where she talks more about the Bardo, the transition time of Menopause and Midlife and how to use it to kick start your life going forward. Book a free 20 minutes consult session with Julia to look at your Menopause experiences and how we can coach together.

     

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