Sue Richards, regular Canadian gal, heats up as her reproductive Best Before Date expires.
This will be the last post on The New Menopause Book for the time being. It is not my nature to read non-fiction from front to back in one long haul. I prefer to flip around over a period of time, selecting my learning as I face the need. Otherwise stuff goes in one ear […]
I purchased an anatomy book on the weekend. Not the ‘play doctor’ serious type of effort that any library worth their salt would own. Mine is more of an owner’s manual with big drawings of all my working parts. ‘Atlas of the Human Body’ offers 500 full-color illustrations covering the entire anatomy from head to toe.
Upon mentioning my foggy menopausal mind to a friend, he wasted no time recommending several brain exercises. Of course my first thought involved some kind of strange face planting push ups and beads of sweat dripping from my ears. What he had in mind was less physical strain and more cross-brain training.
A person could go nuts trying to implement all the advice offered up in my latest two reads, Menopause and the Mind and How to Make a Good Brain Great. Since nuts is not a destination I want help finding, I’ve decided to employ a more practical approach to boosting my brain on it’s final leg of life. I’ll pick three things to be mindful of, give myself a pat on the back whenever I remember to be mindful, and trust that I’ve done good.
Here’s number one.
Hot flashes, dry hair and itchy bits can get under my skin so to speak. Compared to my minds distinct move into la la land, they are but minor, manageable moments.
My mind is changing.