For too long, menopause has been treated as an isolated life event—a sudden shift rather than a progression along a typical timeline forecast at conception.*

A Menopause-friendly future

We imagine a world where a person who menstruates can wake up each day feeling confident in their physiology, curious to learn more, and know there is a safe and supportive space to ask for help wherever they are on the menstrual health timeline. 

We believe the best way to do this is to create a global collective of Menopause Doulas, who will enable and empower others with the relevant and meaningful knowledge needed to make an informed choice on hormone health. 

Why do we need Menopause Doulas? (with menopause health experiences)

1. There is no lesson on menstrual health or menopause in any school Biology book. This massive lack of knowledge sets up every menstruator for a collection of surprises throughout their lives. Menstrual health physiology, beyond the bleed, gets totally overlooked.

2. Common sense would indicate that if there have been no biological or environmental facts taught about the wider topic of menstrual health (beyond fertility), how is it possible to know how to manage the experience? Plus, if you do not understand menstrual health, it’s simply not possible to understand menopause health.

3. How do we expect people to understand the biochemical shifts, each day of a menstruators life that contribute toward negative or positive mental health, unless you teach the essentials first?

We need more touch points in the life of menstruators, across all age groups, to learn about menstruating and menstrual health.

Menopause Doulas are the future of great Menopause Care

Once people know and understand the essential menstrual health know-how,  they will still need someone to guide and support them with great choices.

The time traveled from puberty to postmenopause is a long one, and without guidance and support we are witnessing health outcomes that could be so different from the ones people could be experiencing, if they had the knowledge.

These mentors and advisors need to be accessible in all the different places where you will find all the different types of people who menstruate. In other words - everywhere.

Menopause Doulas are the perfect people to be both the teachers & mentors

Conclusions

There is a missed generation of people who have little or no idea how their physiology works. You can't manage what you don't understand.

Learning about menstrual health should be easy, but mostly it’s not. The more people we have in the world who can be there to guide, nurture and support others, the better.

Tomorrow's menopause-friendly future is only a click away.

*There are of course circumstances where menopause happens almost instantly due to surgery or when using therapies to treat other health challenges.