Unlock Your Best Life: Mindset Shifts for Menopause

I do menopause very differently. So I want you to take a deep breath and just really settle in and know whatever you've been told, whatever society has told you, Whatever you're afraid of, there is another conversation that we are having because together we can master your menoppause transition and help you feel the best you ever felt.

This is Dr. Talks. Hey, I'm Dr. Sharon Stills and I am thrilled to be here with you to kick off Mastering the Menopause Transition Summit, hosting this globally important event to help all of you understand that menopausal is a beautiful time and doesn't need to filled with symptoms.

So we have all new interviews. I have done close to 50 brand new interview with you. So if you were here for the first summit or the 2.0 summit, stay tuned because I've got all the interviews and if this is your first time joining me, welcome around here.

I do menopause very differently. So I want you to take a deep breath and just really settle in and know whatever you've been told, whatever society has told you, what ever you're afraid of, there is another conversation that we are having.

I am a naturopathic physician. And I started working with menopausal women when I was in my early 30s. Suzanne Summers, rest her soul, she wrote a book about bioidentical hormones.

And, I as a brand new doctor, this was 2002, and a woman came in shortly after she had written the book and she has her book. And she said, I want what she's having.

And I was like, okay, that's Suzanne Summers, the dumb blonde Chrissy from Three's Company, but okay. I'll take metallurgical advice from her. If I have an open mind, let me read the book and I will get back to you.

And my open mind is what I credit with allowing me to help so many women because I read that book, I realized Suzanne Summers, the dumb blonde from Three's Company, wasn't that dumb and she was really on to something.

And then I took my medical knowledge of what And I said, I can make this even better because I'm going to really support the whole terrain. I am going make sure the liver is functioning and the bile is flowing and lymph is moving and fascia is unrestricted and emotions are happy and gut is balanced and all the things that we're going talk about during this entire summit.

So anyway I helped this woman. Her husband sent me flowers. She told two friends, she told to friends like the pert shampoo commercial from back in the day.

And here we are, I started helping menopausal women go through their transitions. I have patients who've been with me over 20 years. Hello, if you're watching.

And I've watched them age backwards, lose weight, have better sex, travel around the world, ride motorcycles, hang out on sailboats, like just live their dreams, contribute, Just all the things.

And so when I first started doing this, like I said, I was in my early 30s, and I wasn't supposed to be a child of balanced hormones. I had the worst premenstrual issues, probably ever.

People used to ask me if I were pregnant. One week out of the month. And so I thought, I need to practice what I preach because I really do that all the time.

And I better get this PMS under control because all these menopausal women who I'm helping, they're like having balanced hormones and I am struggling.

So I pre-gamed, I did what I was doing for them, but I didn't for a woman who is still cycling. So it's a little different when you do hormone balancing for cycling women rather than a women who's done with her cycles.

And voila. I got better, I felt better. No one ever freaking asked me if I was pregnant again. And by the time I get to menopause, so this was I, was in my early 30s, well, early mid, maybe 34, 35. I went through menoppause.

But I wasn't done when I 48, and I'll talk about that in a second. When I when through Menopaus I just sailed through it because I had pregained, because had taken care of my body.

So much so that I never even had a hot flash. And so I know that if I can feel amazing and better than I've ever felt before in menopause, I now you can too, because I'm not special.

I am a human being just like you. It's just I understand how the body works and I understood how to support it. And I was 48 when I went through menoppause and wanted to celebrate because Society tells us when you go through menopause, you're now a big fat cow and you are not important and your going way out in the fields to pasture and no one is going to pay attention to you anymore and this is the beginning of the end.

And I was like, not for me. Not for you. And so I decided to climb Kilimanjaro to celebrate, to say, menopause, I am coming for you. And I did. It actually worked out because UPS loxed my banners that said Red Hot Sexy Menopaus that I was going to hold at the summit.

Our climb started a day and a half late, but because of that, actually stood on the Summit. it was a year to the date. from when I had my last period, and that is the official medical definition of menopause, right?

So it's a year without your period. And I stood on top of the summit. I didn't do my photo shoot because it was rough and it hard to breathe and I was just happy to be there and happy 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. Now you don't have to climb Kilimanjaro. I'm not saying that. That's just like my thing.

Even if you'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, you know, i'm celebrating that two years ago, five years, ago 20 years.

I went through Menopaus and now I am this wise woman. In the Native American tradition, the women who go through MENOPAUS who are no longer losing their blood to the earth, are the wise women, they are The Crones and that is what you are.

You are wise and you have so much to give and if you're struggling with sleepless nights, with losing your hair, not having a libido, having urinary tract infections, with having burning tongue, with heavy muscle pain, all the symptoms.

There are like over 100 symptoms of menopause you can be experiencing. Mood swings, depression, anxiety. I could go on and on, and I will because I have a whole summit for you.

But if you are suffering with those things, I'm here to tell you that there is hope. that with the use of bioidentical hormones, which I'm going to go deep with because that is my expertise, but also with making sure you'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 and I get to see amazing things with my patients. And whether or not you become a patient of mine, that's not what's going on. Whether or you not become patient a 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've been out in the field a long time and there are a lot of hormone experts out there who really aren't experts. So I want to arm you with all the knowledge you need so you can be smarter than your doctor or hopefully you find a doctor who can help guide you.

So I'm really, really excited. I am in the middle. So, I think about when menopause happens, right? We can no longer birth physical children, if that was something we chose to do.

But now we can birth our creative passions and our created projects. And so I currently walk in 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'm 56, i am like, nope, it's another chapter. I feel great. and I'm ready to be of more service. And so I want to inspire you to bring that into your own life.

It could mean I am just going to start cooking my meals, I will become an amazing chef, or I'll start writing, take a poetry class, it can mean so many different things.

Just because something is large, like my new clinic, doesn't mean it's more important than something small. Like I am going to start a garden in my backyard.

The most powerful things in our life are what bring us joy. And what brings you joy may be different from what it brings me joy, or it bring her joy or her or joy her.

I want you to spend this week really getting in touch and in tune with what your Kilimanjaro is. even if it's not standing on top of Kilimanjaro. And now if you're interested in that, I could start a group project and we could climb together.

No, just kidding. Anyway, so I'm really 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 and women's hormones and the aging process is so lacking.

And I don't say anti-aging around here. I used to say, oh, I'm an anti aging doctor. Why would I be anti-something that is happening, whether I'm against it or not?

We are all aging. We're all a little bit older from when we first started watching this video, right? Time is marching on, so we might as well harness our power, enjoy the process because it is the human condition, and really feel great about it.

I plan on living to 130. Maybe the last 10 years, I'll be like 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 gets crumpled over and we got achy and don't feel good and it doesn't matter. I'm here to change that conversation and if you join I'm here to change that conversation.

And by joining me in this conversation, I need you. I can't do it alone. You can change the conversation for your loved ones and your family members. i'm so committed to my two little granddaughters seeing me and having a totally different understanding of what aging is than when I looked at my elders.

and I am so excited for you to be a part of that with me. So we are going to learn how to reinvent our health, how do explore our spirit, and how discover our sexy.

In my talk tomorrow, I'm going dive deep into hormones because I know we all need the 101, right? We need to low down on the truth about hormones and I've got it for you.

And then every day I am going start off by giving you a little hang out with Dr. Still's time. Learn something that you can implement right away. get you thinking, get your curious, gets you questioning, and gets your feeling the best you can feel.

So, from the bottom of my heart, because I know, one, that your time is precious, I now two, there's a lot going on out there, right? You can just Google and have a thousand podcasts, a 1000 YouTubes, I know that we can get information from so many places.

And so I do not take it lightly that you've chosen to come on this journey with me. I'm so committed to natural methods for women to heal and to make your hormonal journey one that look back on and go, that was amazing.

So buckle up, enjoy the summit. Enjoy the aging process. And if you're like, no, I'm not there yet. That's okay. Right. Cause I will. I like keep it real.

It's not enough to just go, okay, doctor still said I need to enjoy aging someone enjoy ageing, but then all the mindset is going, it's scary, But I don't like this wrinkle, So just be real, just start experience and finding out what you feel, what menopause means to you.

And maybe you're like, oh, you know, I have this thought, this belief, but I don't really believe that. It's just I've heard it so many times from my doctor or from mother or my neighbor.

So just start exploring. It's a great time to journal. I highly recommend getting your menopause memo pad because there's going to be a lot of information and I want you to introspective as you're writing down what's the best vitamin to take and how should I move my body and what is estrogen going do for me and does it cause cancer?

No it doesn't. I want you to really like take this time for you because when we, I say you were meant to pause. This is a beautiful time. So often we just go through our lives and we're just on autopilot.

Slowing down, pausing is a beautiful thing. So I am ready to do it all with you, to educate, laugh, cry, go, oh, wow, and to pause because together we can master your menopause transition and help you feel the best you've ever felt.

I'm Dr. Sharon Stills. You're going to be seeing a lot of me over the week. I'll kick off every day with a talk just like this from me on different topics, and I will see you in all the interviews.

And of course, stay tuned after the summit because there's always an after party. I have a lot of fun at the after-party. I'll be sharing webinars with you and coming live and answering your questions.

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