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Welcome to Mind Your Being.

Today's episode is a solo one.

And before we get into it, I just wanted to shout out listeners from a few areas around the world.

And they are Sachse in Texas, Santa Rosa in California,

and Madrid in Madrid.

Thank you all for taking the time out to listen today.

I hope you're enjoying the content on Mind Your Being.

So today's episode is inspired by conversations I had earlier in the week when I attended a peri and menopause expo here in my local community.

So I had an exhibitor stand with Mind Your Being and many women were generous enough to come up and share a conversation.

And I asked them what they really wanted to know about peri and menopause, what topics they'd like to hear on the podcast, what topics they found it hard to get information on.

And while everyone's experience is different, there were a few common themes.

And one that came up quite frequently was a number of women told me that they felt like they didn't quite know who they were anymore.

And it struck me that this stage of life invites us to pause and ask,

What actually matters to me now?

What are my priorities?

What gives me meaning?

How do I want to live my life going forward?

As I was reflecting on these conversations, I was thinking that rather than see menopause

just for what we lose, I thought that it also presents an opportunity at this time of life to gently begin to see it as a reset of sorts, a natural transition point, a moment for us to reflect and to consider how we want to live our lives in this next chapter.