Welcome to the You Are Not Broken Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kelly Casperson, a board-certified

jurologist, thought leader, and conversation starter on midlife living, hormones, and sexuality.

Enjoy the show. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the You're Not Broken podcast. And I'm like literally

laughing because I just told Tamsson that she can swear. And I don't know if I've even heard Tamson swear in my life. So now I'm feeling bad about it. How dare you? Of course you have. Dude, Tamsin, we're here to talk about your book, which is called How to Menopause. you literally like turned it into a verb.

So it's like next level.

I'm like, have other told you, How to Menopause. You literally like turned it into a verb. So it's like next level.

I'm like, have other people told you you turn menopause into a how to menopause? You've turned it

into a verb. You're like Uber smart. So you're calling it a verb. I didn't even know I did that.

She verbed menopause, the first person to have done it. So the book is called How to Menopause. And it's really,

really effing good. Thank you. I finished it this weekend. Well, you're in it. And I'm in it.

I've had such a good time writing it now that it's over. And now that I'm done writing it,

as you know, that is quite the process. I think writing books is like, it's mostly torture torture and then you forget about it and then you want another one. But I want to do it again. I want it on my ankle. It wasn't that bad. Was it that bad? It wasn't that bad. It wasn't that bad. This one was fun though because, you know, I was a journalist for 30 years. So I love interviewing people. I love asking questions. And so that's what

this was. I got to ask like a gazillion questions. And then I got to really grab everybody from

social media and ask their questions of all these brilliant, brilliant doctors and experts and

people from all fields, including yourself, questions that I wish I had the answers to. Like, I wish I knew this. I wish I knew I was in peri menopause. I wish I knew what to do in menopause. And so it was really kind of this how-to. And when I came up with that, you know, I struggled with the title, remember? Like a year plus ago, I was like, I don't know what to call it.

You're at my house.

I was like, people are telling me to call it like hot. And like, I don't know what it's new. And you're like, you can't do that. And so anyway, when I was like, this is a how to book. And then I went, oh, the most obvious answer is the right one, right? 100%. I think a big barrier is that a lot of people still don't think that perimenopause is real.

Right, right.

It's a huge barrier.

It's like most people will accept menopause as a thing.

Yeah.

But like do they just think like the, you know, gets swapped on Tuesday and now you're in menopause?

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