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Unlock Your Best Life: Mindset Shifts For Menopause

Mastering The Meno(Pause) Transition Summit 3.0

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I was like, not for me, not for you, not for us. I decided to climb Kilimanjaro to celebrate, to say, menopause. I am coming for you. I did, and it worked out because UPS locked my banners that said Red Hot Sexy Menopause, and I was going to hold at the summit. Our climb started at, like, a day, and a half late. But because of that, I stood on the summit. It was a year to the date. From when I had last had my last period. That is the official medical definition of menopause. It&#8217;s a year without your period. I stood on top of the summit. I didn&#8217;t do my photo shoot because it was rough and it was hard to breathe. I was just happy to be there and happy to turn around and get down because there was a huge storm coming in, and my hair was turning to ice, literally. But that was how I marked it to remember that menopause is an amazing time. 
You don&#8217;t have to climb Kilimanjaro, I&#8217;m not saying that that&#8217;s just like my thing. But even if you&#8217;ve gone through menopause, I want you to go back and just think about something. You can do in your mind or right now to say, I&#8217;m celebrating. That two years ago, five years ago, 20 years ago, I went through menopause and now I am this wise woman in the Native American tradition. The women who go through menopause, are no longer losing their blood to the earth are the wise women. They are the Crones. That is what you are. You are wise. You have much to give. If you are struggling. with sleepless nights, losing your hair, not having a libido, having urinary tract infections, having a burning tongue, having muscle pain, with all the symptoms there are over a hundred symptoms of menopause. You can be experiencing mood swings, depression, and anxiety. I could go on and on, and I will because I have a whole summit for you. 
If you are suffering from those things, I&#8217;m here to tell you that there is hope. That with the use of bioidentical hormones, which I&#8217;m going to go deep with because that is my expertise, but also with making sure you&#8217;re eating right, moving right, thinking right, sleeping right, getting in touch with your community, right with nature time, with all the things. 
Hormones are amazing. I get to see amazing things with my patients. whether or not you. Become a patient of mine, that&#8217;s not the thing that&#8217;s going on. Whether or not you become a patient of mine, I want to give you all the information you need to share with your healthcare practitioner so you can be your best menopausal advocate. Because I can tell you, I&#8217;ve been out in the field a long time, and there are a lot of hormone experts out there who aren&#8217;t experts. I want to arm you with all the knowledge you need. You can be smarter than your doctor. Or hopefully, you can find a doctor who can help guide you. I&#8217;m excited. I am in the middle. about when menopause happens we can no longer birth physical children. If that was something that had to do with. But now we can birth our creative passions and our creative projects. I&#8217;m currently walking my talk and practicing what I preach, and I am birthing a 7,000-square-foot clinic in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona when a lot of people are winding down. I&#8217;m 56. I am like, nope, it&#8217;s another chapter. I feel great, and I&#8217;m ready to be of more service. I want to inspire you to bring that into your own life. It could mean I&#8217;m just going to start cooking my meals, I&#8217;m going to become an amazing chef, or I&#8217;m going to start writing, or I&#8217;m going to take a poetry class, etc. It can mean so many different things. Just because something is large, like my new clinic, doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s more important than something small. Like I am going to start a garden in my backyard. The most powerful things in our lives are what bring us joy. What brings you joy may be different from what brings me joy, or what brings her joy, or her joy. I want you to spend this week getting in touch and tune. With what your Kilimanjaro is, even if it&#8217;s not standing on top of Kilimanjaro. Now, if you&#8217;re interested in that, I could start a group project and we could climb together, just kidding. 
I&#8217;m excited even though I have so much going on, this is such a passion project for me to be gifted with the opportunity to help educate you when the education out there on menopause women&#8217;s hormones, and the aging process is so lacking. I don&#8217;t say anti-aging around here. I used to say, I&#8217;m an anti-aging doctor. Then I thought, Why would I be anti-something that is happening whether I&#8217;m against it or not? We are all aging. We&#8217;re all a little bit older than when we first started watching this video. Time is marching on, so we might as well harness our power, enjoy the process because it is part of the human condition, and feel great about it. I plan on living to 130. Maybe in the last ten years, I&#8217;ll be rocking on the patio, not doing much. But if we take care of ourselves, our bodies are designed to support us. We have to get rid of these beliefs that as we get old we get crumpled over. we get achy, and we don&#8217;t feel good, and we don&#8217;t matter. I&#8217;m here to change that conversation and by joining me in this conversation, I need you. I can&#8217;t do it alone. You can change the conversation for your loved ones and your family members. I&#8217;m so committed to my two little granddaughters seeing me and having a different understanding of what aging is. Then when I look at my elders, I am so excited for you to be a part of that with me. 
We are going to learn how to reinvent our health, how to explore our spirit, and how to discover our sex. In my talk tomorrow, I&#8217;m going to dive deep into hormones because I know we all need it 101. We need the lowdown on the truth about hormones I&#8217;ve got it for you. Then every day I&#8217;m going to start by giving you a little hangout with Dr. Still’s time. Learn something that you can implement right away. Get you thinking, get you curious, get you questioning, and get you feeling the best you can feel. From the bottom of my heart, because one, that your time is precious. Two, that a lot is going on out there, you can just Google and have a thousand podcasts and a thousand YouTubes. We can get information from so many places, so I do not take it lightly that you&#8217;ve chosen to come on this journey with me. I&#8217;m so committed to natural methods for women to heal and to make your hormonal journey one that you look back on and go. That was Amazing! Buckle up. Enjoy this summit, and enjoy the aging process. 
If you&#8217;re like, no, I&#8217;m not there yet. It’s okay because I like to keep it real. It&#8217;s not enough to just obey what Dr. Stills said. I need to enjoy aging, so I&#8217;m going to enjoy aging. But then all the mindset is going, but it&#8217;s scary. But I don&#8217;t like this wrinkle. But now I&#8217;ve got some gray hair, so, just be real. Just start the experience. finding out what you feel, and what menopause means to you. Maybe you&#8217;re like, I have this thought, this belief. But I don&#8217;t believe that. It&#8217;s just that I&#8217;ve heard it so many times from my doctor, my mother, or my neighbor. Just start exploring. It&#8217;s a great time to journal. I highly recommend getting your menopause memo pad, because there&#8217;s going to be a lot of information, and I want you to be introspective as you&#8217;re writing down what&#8217;s the best vitamin to take and how should move your body, and what estrogen going to do for me, and does it cause cancer? No, it doesn&#8217;t. and I want you to, like, take this time for yourself, because when we say you were meant to pause. This is a beautiful time. Often we just go through our lives and we&#8217;re just on autopilot, slowing down. Pausing is a beautiful thing. I am ready to do it all with you. To educate, to laugh, to cry, to go “Oh wow!” and to pause. Because together we can master your menopause transition and help you feel the best you&#8217;ve ever felt. 
I&#8217;m Dr. Sharon Stills. You&#8217;re going to be seeing a lot of me over the week. I&#8217;ll kick off every day with a talk just like this from me on different topics, and I&#8217;ll see you in all the interviews. Stay tuned after this summit, because there&#8217;s always an after-party, and I have a lot of fun at the after-party. I&#8217;ll be sharing webinars with you and coming live and answering your questions. Thank you for being a part of my journey, and I look forward to being a part of yours.

<h6>Sharon Stills, NMD</h6>
Hi, I&#8217;m Dr. Sharon Stills, and I am thrilled to be here with you to kick off Mastering the Menopause Transition Summit 3.0. My third year hosting this globally important event to help all of you understand that menopause is a beautiful time and doesn&#8217;t need to be filled with symptoms. We have all new interviews. I have done close to. 50 brand. New interviews. With you, so if you were here for. The first summit, or the 2.0 summit. Stay tuned because I&#8217;ve got all the interviews, and if this is your first time joining me, Welcome around here. I do menopause very differently. I want. You take a deep breath, just settle in, and know whatever you&#8217;ve been told, whatever the society has told you, whatever you&#8217;re afraid of there is another conversation that we are having. I am a naturopathic physician. I&#8217;ve been in practice for 23 years, and I started working with menopausal women when I was in my early 30s. Suzanne Somers, rest her soul. She wrote a book about bioidentical hormones, and I was a brand new doctor. This was 2002, and a woman came in shortly after she had written the book, and she had her book, and she said, I want what she&#8217;s having. I was like, that&#8217;s Suzanne Somers, the dumb blond Chrissy from Three&#8217;s Company, I&#8217;ll take medical advice from her. I have an open mind. I was like, Let me read the book, and I&#8217;ll get back to you. My open mind is what I credit with allowing me to help so many women. Because I read that book, I realized Suzanne Somers, the dumb blond from Three&#8217;s Company, wasn&#8217;t that dumb, and she was on to something. Then I took my medical knowledge of what I knew, and I said, I can make this even better because I&#8217;m going to support the whole terrain. I&#8217;m going to make sure the liver is functioning, the bile is flowing, and the lymph is moving in; the fascias are unrestricted, the emotions are happy, and the gut is balanced. all the things that we&#8217;re going to talk about during this entire summit. Anyway, I helped this woman; her husband sent me flowers. She told two friends, like the part shampoo commercial from back in the day, and here we are. I started helping menopausal women go through their transitions. I have patients who have been with me for over 20 years. I have watched them age backward, lose weight, and have better sex. Travel around the world, ride motorcycles, hang out on sailboats, just live their dreams, contribute, have passion, and do all these things. When I first started doing this, like I said, I was in my early 30s, and I was not the poster child of balanced hormones. I had the worst premenstrual issues, probably ever. People used to ask me if I was pregnant. I only felt good one day out of them. one week out of the month. I thought, I need to. practice what I preach. Because I do that all the time. I thought, I better get this PMS under control because all these menopausal women who I&#8217;m helping, they&#8217;re like, having balanced hormones. I am struggling. I pre-gamed, and I did what I was doing for them, but I did it for a woman who is still cycling. It&#8217;s a little different when you do hormone balancing for a cycling woman rather than a woman who&#8217;s done with her cycles. Voila, I got better. I felt better. No one ever freakin asked me if I was pregnant again. By the time I got to menopause. This was where I was in my early 30s. I must have been a bit, early-mid maybe 34 or 35. I went through menopause. I was done when I was 48, and I&#8217;ll talk about that in a second. But when I went through menopause, I just sailed through it because I had pre-game. After all, I had taken care of my body, so much so that I never even had a hot flash. If I can feel amazing and better than I&#8217;ve ever felt before in menopause, you can too. Because I&#8217;m not special. I&#8217;m a human being just like you. It&#8217;s just that I understand how the body works and I understand how to support it. I was 48 when I went through menopause, and I wanted to celebrate because I thought, society tells us when you go through menopause, you&#8217;re now a big, fat cow, and you&#8217;re not important, and you&#8217;re going way out in the fields to pasture, and no one&#8217;s going to pay attention to you anymore. This is the beginning of the end.

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Dr. Sharon Stills, a licensed Naturopathic Medical Doctor with over two decades of dedicated service in transforming women’s health has been a guiding light for perimenopausal and menopausal women, empowering them to reinvent, explore, and rediscover their vitality and zest for life. Her pioneering RED Hot Sexy Meno(pause) Program encapsulates her philosophy: to Reinvent your Health, Explore your Spirit, and Discover YOUR Sexy. This unique approach has revolutionized the way women experience their transformative years, making her a sought-after expert in the field.
A proud graduate of The Sonoran University, class of 2001 with a rich background in European Biological Medicine, pro-aging therapies, and Bio-identical Hormone Replacement, Dr. Stills has successfully guided thousands of women through gentle transitions using all-natural methods. Her expertise is recognized globally, evidenced by her invitation to take part as the Co-Lead North American lecturer for the Paracelsus Academy in Switzerland when the Academy was up and running. She also is a long time contributor as a physician expert at Women’s Health Network. Her influence is also felt in academia and professional circles, sitting on the boards of the Bio-Regulatory Medicine Institute and the Archive of Healing at UCLA. Dr. Stills continues to share her knowledge through the annual Mastering your Meno(pause) transition summit and as the former host of The Science Of Self Healing podcast.
The opening of Stills Health Clinic, her new 7,000 sq. ft. clinic in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona, in late fall 2024, marks another milestone in her mission to provide unparalleled naturopathic care. There along with her son, Dr Ben Stills, they will be providing unique diagnostic and therapeutic options addressing all forms of chronic illness including but not limited to cancer, autoimmunity, covid-20 and of course Meno(pause) concerns. This venture follows her previous success in founding and running one of the largest naturopathic clinics in the country.
Dr. Stills’ personal journey of overcoming her own serious health challenges underscores her commitment to the wellness path she advocates for her patients. Her life is a testament to the principles she teaches: from embracing a healthy Paleo diet and a rigorous vitamin regimen to prioritizing restorative sleep and physical movement through yoga, hiking, and dancing.
Whether meditating in solitude, cheering for the NY Jets, baking paleo cookies, or exploring the world collecting passport stamps with her family and adorable granddaughters, she embodies the RED-Hot life she champions for others.

Unlock Your Best Life: Mindset Shifts For Menopause

Sharon Stills, NMD

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