Menopause Chicks with Shirley Weir

12/12/2024

“It’s the friends we meet along the way that help us appreciate the journey.”

💙🦋🙏

08/12/2024

I keep staring at this picture and the year written above it.

I’m listening intently to what my 2014 self is trying to tell me.

It’s a short command; as bold and audacious as ever.

She knows it’s been a dozen years since “cracking open the conversation,”
 and while the mission remains the same, so much around us has changed.

I feel the same. 
My head ambitious. My heart committed. 

But these wings?
They’re twitching, stretching,
morphing into a shape I could never have sketched for myself a decade ago.

Time moves fast. It doesn’t wait. This 2014 photo reminds me of that. My next decade will surely unfold, even more quickly as the last.

Today, I accept the invitation again—
to invest in my health, and yours. 
To dig deeper, and fly higher
into the next phase of this menopause chick’s life.

And to carry YOU—and your health goals—with me.

Heads up.
Wings out.

Soaring together.

Music: by Zen

07/12/2024

This one hit so poignantly yesterday, so I have to share and here’s why:

(Go watch the full video featuring Chris Martin & Dick Van D**e on his 99th birthday)

🎂We often talk about “living to 100” but 99 is a great goal too; every year is a fantastic reason to kick off our shoes to dance and celebrate the opportunity to grow older.

💃🕺Dick was born in 1925…right between my dad (1923) and my mom (1927) and that just made my cry…happy tears knowing they still dance in a parallel universe.

💕And finally, I love “I’m acutely aware that I could go anyway…and I have that feeling… that I’m gonna be alright.”

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“I’m one of those lucky people who got to do for a living what I would have done anyway.” (Me too, Dick. Me too 🦋)

07/12/2024

Before we catch ourselves in the dichotomy of the season of indulgence vs. the season of “new-you-marketing messages,” please take a minute for this:

By

Today I asked my body what she needed
Which is a big deal
Considering my journey of
Not really asking that much.
I thought she might need more water
Or protein
Or greens
Or yoga
Or supplements
Or movement.
But as I stood in the shower
Reflecting on her stretch marks
Her roundness where I would like flatness
Her softness where I would like firmness
All my conditioned wishes
That form a bundle of
Never-quite-right-ness
She whispered very gently:

Could you just LOVE 💕 me like this?

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I actually did this. On New Years Eve 2015, I laid in my 🛁 bathtub and for the first time in my life, I looked down at my body and I thanked it. I talk about this experience here: TinyUrl.com/ShirleyWeirTedTalk

Try it and let me know how it feels for you.

Also follow:

06/12/2024

You have options:

🫸 WAIT n SEE

🙈 NOT yet

🤞🏼CROSS your fingers & HOPE

OR…

🦋GET INFORMED, and then feel CONFIDENT making the health decisions that are right for you

Your weekend WATCH 💻 MenopauseChicksMasterclass.com is only $25 🇨🇦 (approx $17.70 🇺🇸) and you are invited to watch, re-watch, keep it forever, share with your friends… even your doctor!

Then if you have questions or you want for your next health appointment, my last ASK ANYTHING of the year is Monday (you’ll automatically get an evite on Monday if you’ve watched the masterclass!) 💥 Let’s end 2024 strong!

05/12/2024

MC = Menopause Chicks, of course. But it also = Morning ☕️ Coffee! JOIN me via at 7 am PT/10 am ET for a conversation with

Last week both of us were panelists at separate screening events for documentary (Me in BC with and Dr Laurie in Ontario)

Tune in for our rapid fire recap & takeaways from the film!

04/12/2024

Do you have lived experience* with (hot flashes or night sweats)?

Do you live in 🇨🇦Canada?

*Lived experience can mean currently experience, or used to experience but now have sought treatment.

I may have 1-2 openings for participants in this research roundtable today at 4 pm PACIFIC/7 pm EASTERN

If you are able, please message me with your email address.

If selected, an honourarium will be offered for approx. 2.5 hours of contribution.
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I am looking for Canadian members interested in participating in a panel discussion on the topic of Vasomotor Symptoms.

December 4, 2024 at 4 pm PT/7 pm ET | Virtual

Co-moderated by me & the research lead

Please RSVP via DM if this contribution to women’s health research interests you, and if the above date & time works for you.

Selected participants (approximately 6 depending on availability) will receive further details & communication around consent and honourariam.

Please note: We will most likely receive more responses than we can accommodate for this one event—thank you for your interest!

Only a few will be selected from the Menopause Community for this opportunity. One of the criteria is that you must in Canada. Additional opportunities are likely to come up in the future.

03/12/2024

DRAWING a line between chaos…and calm. This is my reminder to breathe. And a reminder to get my : supplement + the season’s limited daylight/sunshine. ☀️

02/12/2024

I was influenced early by this one:

Life is not an arch. It’s a staircase.

01/12/2024

Share now if you

30/11/2024

I had a hard truth highlighted for me today at the Focus on Women’s Health event: Humans have a negativity BIAS.

We do.
Media does.
Marketers do.
And yes, even the medical community does—and it’s not their fault—they just happen to nothing but fix problems all day every day.

I understand how enormous this paradigm shift is. And I understand how our health outcomes can be significantly changed when we begin with the end in mind. WE deserve to FEEL AMAZING 🦋

Conversations about menopause CAN include conversations about addressing symptoms and suffering…AND they must also include conversations about preventing and investing in our future. 📈

29/11/2024

You are the driver of your own HEALTH BUS 🚌

29/11/2024

In the last four years, the list of Naturopathic Doctors (NDs) who are certified by the (North American) Menopause Society (Menopause.org) has grown substantially!

Dr. Kara Dionisio, ND was one of the first in 2020. Since that time, Dr. Kara and Dr. Jordan Robertson ND, through the Confident Clinician program, have supported their colleagues and helped to grow this list to the extent that ~30% of all MSCPs (Menopause Society Certified Practitioners) in Canada are NDs.

You can search at this directory: https://confidentclinicianclub.com/places/category/menopause-focused-practitioner/

Posts related to Category: Menopause Focused Practitioner

29/11/2024

I’m re-imagining GREETING Cards.

I’m thinking about what we would do if a friend was sick or recovering from surgery…we’d send a card or bake a casserole, of course!

But WHAT IF we also started honouring our loved ones who have avoided these events too?

What if your boss didn’t have to send you a card…but actually encouraged you to & to take a few minutes to make that health appointment today?

What if instead of sending bouquets of 💐 flowers, we made each other’s appointments? The sentiment would last way longer!

What if our kids could high five 🙌 us for investing in our or preventing re-occurring …(and reducing the chances they will have to take time off work to look after us!)

What other ways can we reinvent the get well soon, congratulations, anniversary, thank you & sympathy card market?

27/11/2024

I got the BEST text message yesterday, and it reminded me of THIS FAVOURITE QUOTE from

She wrote: “I went to see my family doc last week and Shirley was in my head. I usually start with chit chat and I cut that out to get right to the point of why I was there. That was such good advice!”

💥

Fierce conversations (about our health) take time (to prepare for.) EVERYTHING else takes longer.

Watch the masterclass today at www.MenopauseChicksMasterclass.com and join my next ASK ANYTHING Q & A + “script tips” session on December 9 (you’ll automatically receive the e-vite if you’ve watched the masterclass!)

27/11/2024

"We don't track how many times our windshield wipers don't turn on in the rain…or how many times a tire looks flat…"
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Here's why you will never hear me recommend that you "track your symptoms:"
https://www.menopausechicks.com/post/symptom-tracking

Any change to our health or adverse health experience is an invitation to find and treat the root cause.

A “symptom” is the same thing as the “check engine light” coming on in our vehicles = it's a signal not for you to track, but to take action!

We don't track how many times our windshield wipers don't turn on in the rain…or how many times a tire looks flat…we simply take action; we investigate all the possible reasons why and what all of our available options are for treating and/or preventing.

Let's be the generation who moves our health from the bottom of the list to the TOP!

A “symptom” is the same thing as the “check engine light” coming on in our vehicles = it's a signal not for you to track, but to take action

24/11/2024

ASK ANYTHING: Live in OR virtual from anywhere! T O M O R R O W

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