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Menopause Mondays: Menopause is the New Puberty
Menopause Mondays: Menopause is the New Puberty™ If you’re in your 40s or 50s and you have kids in the house, you’re probably familiar with what I like to call “dueling hormones.” I’ve also seen this...
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Menopause Mondays: Hot Flashes? 7 Simple Strategies – Stay Cool with Robin...
If hot flashes weren’t bad enough, the summer of 2012 is turning out to be one for the record books. Six cities in the south central region reached temperatures over 110 on August 1. As I write this,...
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Menopause Mondays: A Menopause Crash Course with USF Dr. Barry Verkauf
In our July 23rd post, Dr. Julia Frank said something profound in relation to the options available to treat menopause-related depression, “Some women will respond better to one [treatment] than...
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Menopause Mondays: Designing Your Life/Style with Jessica Cline, Riviera...
Last week I had the tremendous pleasure of interviewing Jessica Cline, Publisher of Riviera Magazine San Diego. I anticipated that our conversation would be a fun opportunity to explore the current...
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Menopause Mondays: Happy Menopause Awareness Month – Be Your Own Caregiver!
September is Menopause Awareness Month! We’re so glad there’s a month to bring attention to the needs of perimenopausal and menopausal women. Here at ellendolgen.com, we do this all year long and will...
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Menopause Mondays: What’s new, Hot Flash?
The weather was not hot. In fact, it was a beautiful spring day, and I was wearing a lightweight pantsuit. All of a sudden, I felt a flush of heat come over my entire body. Perspiration began...
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Menopause Mondays: A Different Kind of “Change”
“Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones that look best are often a bit wilder. Thinking about age all the time is the biggest prison women can make for themselves.” ~...
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Through the looking glass to a new vision of You!
Photo by Chanel Raisin This is the last Menopause Monday of Menopause Awareness Month. In the past three weeks, we’ve discussed caregiving for yourself and others, what’s new on the perennial subject...
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Menopause Mondays: Ask Ellen! Step 1: Don’t Wait!
Today’s Menopause Mondays kicks off an exciting new section of the EllenDolgen.com blog. I’ve created Ask Ellen as a way for my readers to benefit from more stories from the sisterhood. Our strength...
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Menopause Mondays: Do You Know About Vaginal Atrophy?
Before we get to this week’s post, I want to remind everyone that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Towards my mission as a health and wellness advocate, may I make a simple request? If you are...
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Menopause Mondays: Ellen’s 5 Steps to Hormone Happiness, Step 2: Find A...
Thursday, October 18th is World Menopause Day. This is like a worldwide birthday party for the big M! This year, the sponsoring organization, the International Menopause Society (IMS), is launching a...
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Menopause Mondays: Ellen’s 5 Steps to Hormone Happiness, Step 3: Chart Your...
Are you awake at 3AM? Forgetting the names of your own children? Suddenly losing your keys, your temper and your mind? Did you recently become a member of the sisterhood of the shrinking pants? Would...
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Menopause Mondays: Ellen’s 5 Steps to Hormone Happiness, Step 4: Menopause...
Tests….the mere word conjures memories of long-ago school days, folding myself uncomfortably into a tiny desk, preparing to wrangle with a grueling standardized test, my number two lead pencil cracking...
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Menopause Mondays: Ellen’s 5 Steps to Hormone Happiness, Step 5: Stay on the...
We’ve come to the end of our journey and finally arrived at Step 5. After weeks of being diligent, opening up, finding a specialist, tracking your symptoms, and getting the right tests for a complete...
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Menopause Mondays: Women and the Prevention of Heart Disease
My father experienced his first heart attack at the age of 42 in 1963. He was a very strong, dynamic, and accomplished businessman, loving father, and husband. In those days, doctors could only...
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Menopause Mondays: Happy Nutritious Holidays! from Ellen and guest...
I recently had a great conversation with Keri Glassman, nutrition expert, founder of NutritiousLife.com, and author of 4 books including her latest, The New You and Improved Diet: 8 Rules to Lose...
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Menopause News Flash: Ellen Dolgen’s Recipe for a “chill” and Happy Thanksgiving
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and then the holidays officially begin! The grocery stores have sold out of turkeys, urban pumpkin patches have been converted to Christmas tree lots, and everyone is talking...
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Menopause Mondays: Hurricane Sandy Relief
A gift that you (and they) will remember Have you made your list and checked it twice? The stores are jammed with holiday shoppers looking for just the right gifts for all of the special someones in...
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Menopause Mondays: Re-decorate my what? Is hysterectomy the right theme this...
By now, you’ve probably crawled into the attic or dug through the hall closet to retrieve your family’s Christmas decorations to prepare for trimming your home and tree. Maybe you’ve picked up a few...
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Menopause Mondays: Home For the Holidays- Got the Blues?
The holidays are often a bittersweet time of year. Amid all of the parties, family gatherings, and general joyousness, there can be some strong feelings of loneliness, financial stress, and annoyance....
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