Mindful Menopause Workbook: Daily Practices

"The workbook will help you to bring mindfulness to various day-to-day activities with teachings, exercises, and meditations that take you inward to achieve a more balanced, peaceful, and joyful orientation to whatever you experience at menopause and beyond. Each day's teaching is followed by space to journal what comes up for you. The aim of the daily entries is micro self-care and self-development mentally, physically, and spiritually, in keeping with the mindfulness tradition. The illustrated section of yoga exercises includes sequential poses that foster greater ease and awareness of the body, while the guided meditations and breath exercises promote body-mind unity through expanded peaceful awareness. The exercises and reflections all help to support and deepen your practice, allow you to assess how the practices are working, and can be used to make any needed adjustments and maintain your mindfulness practice as a way of life. The issues common to women at menopause are addressed sensitively, with recommendations for dealing with insomnia, fatigue, low energy and libido, anxiety, depression, hot flashes and physical discomfort, and poor digestion and weight gain. To enhance your work, we include a list of mindfulness communities that you can connect with"--
Teachings, exercises, and reflections to help you be mindful during menopause from a respected psychologist.The Mindful Menopause Workbook will help you bring mindfulness into your day-to-day activities during menopause with teachings, exercises, and meditations. Learn how to recognize and achieve a more balanced, peaceful, and joyful orientation to menopause and beyond. The Mindful Menopause Workbook provides a year’s worth of daily teachings and prompts that offer you moments for self-care and self-development—mentally, physically, and spiritually.  Each daily teaching includes space for you to write about the thoughts, emotions, or sensations that are arising for you. This is followed by guided meditations and breath exercises that promote body-mind unity through deep relaxation and expanded peaceful awareness. The book also includes an in-depth illustrated guide to yoga postures and outlines sequential poses that foster greater ease and awareness of your body. Mindful Menopause sensitively addresses issues that commonly arise during menopause, and gives recommendations for managing symptoms such as insomnia, fatigue, low energy and libido, anxiety, depression, hot flashes, physical discomfort, poor digestion, and weight gain.  Together, these teachings, exercises, and reflections will help you approach menopause mindfully and joyfully, allowing you to deepen your practice and transition gracefully into this new stage of your life.