Making Sense of Menopause

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Susan Willson, CNM, is a Yale-educated certified nurse midwife and certified clinical thermographer with more than 40 years of experience in the women’s health field. She has taught at Omega Institute and is a frequent lecturer for the American College of Nurse-Midwives, where she lectures on women’s health and the emotional work of menopause. With Sounds True, she has authored the book, Making Sense of Menopause: Harnessing the Power and Potency of Your Wisdom Years. In this podcast, Sounds True founder Tami Simon speaks with Susan Willson about her new book and her efforts to bring menopause out of the shadows and into the light, so we can learn how to embrace this passage to reclaiming our power and creativity as wise women and truth tellers. Susan and Tami also discuss: how our birth traditions reveal the heart of our culture, Susan's journey as a cross-cultural midwife, normalizing the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause, overcoming the shame associated with menopause, why we need to tell our stories in order to heal, the hormone estriol and its connection to the brain's creative centers, finding support for challenging symptoms so you can return to balance, key lifestyle changes to restore energy, reestablishing healthy sleep, good stress versus bad stress, how women and men's sex drive changes as we age, the croning ritual and other ways to mark our passages in life, the qualities and characteristics of a wise woman, and more

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by SoundsTrue.
0:05.5	My name's Tammy Simon, I'm the founder of SoundsTrue, and I'd love to take a moment to introduce
0:10.9	you to the SoundsTrue Foundation.
0:13.7	The goal of the SoundsTrue Foundation is to provide access and eliminate financial barriers
0:20.5	to transformational education and resources, such as teachings and trainings on mindfulness,
0:28.0	emotional awareness and self-compassion.
0:31.4	If you'd like to learn more and join with us in our efforts, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
0:43.6	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Susan Wilson.
0:48.5	Susan is a Yale-educated, certified nurse midwife, with more than 40 years of experience
0:55.5	in the women's health field.
0:57.6	She's taught at the Omega Institute and is a frequent lecturer for the American College
1:02.7	of Nurse Midwives, where she lectures on women's health and the emotional work of menopause.
1:10.0	With SoundsTrue, Susan is the author of a new book.
1:13.8	It's called Making Sense of Menopause, harnessing the power and potency of your wisdom years.
1:22.5	Susan helps us open up a real conversation about menopause, bringing it out of the shadows,
1:30.3	a place where it's a taboo topic, and instead embracing the passage through menopause
1:38.3	as an important passage, one in which we can come to claim our power and creativity
1:45.5	as wise women and truth tellers.
1:48.6	Humble and intensely intelligent, Susan is one such wise woman.
1:54.3	You can listen to my conversation with her here.
1:59.4	To begin, Susan, can you share with our listeners a bit about your journey
2:04.7	to becoming a certified nurse midwife?
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