WHAT IS POSPAUSE?

We believe in understanding menopause, redefining midlife, breaking it open, owning it, and in so doing, changing it and changing the road ahead.

The term Menopause is a heavy, scratchy blanket; it covers but it doesn’t comfort. 


PosPause is the curated collective, the wellness and lifestyle hub for all women – and particularly for Milestone women: those who are post-fertility.

Our goal is to demystify and de-marginalize Milestone women and menopause, and lift each other through it.  Let’s enjoy the ride!

 

Milestone Women

The new you.

Lifestyle

Oh, the places you’ll go

wellness

Be well. Get well. Stay well

Connect

Let’s travel this road together, it’s more fun.

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Milestone Women

A Milestone woman is or will be every woman with longevity.

A Milestone woman is what is also referred to as a menopausal or post-menopausal woman. We think Milestone is a term that much better expresses who these women are in relation to their post-fertility reproductive status.  Menopause is a term that has become too loaded with negatives to express how amazing Milestone Women are.

This Milestone is one that must be earned through physical life experience and is the body’s earned respite and the launching point for many rewarding life experiences and the chance to enjoy a new beginning.

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Real Science

Menopause and post-fertility. What is actually going on and why?

Real Solutions

What can you do to make a difference in how you feel?

People who know

These are the experts in the fields that effect you.

Fearless Lives

Using the Milestone as a springboard

Lift

Lift others; lift yourself.

Your Systems

Each of the body’s systems is affected by Milestone changes.  It’s actually pretty amazing (nerd alert – we love this stuff!) and not too far off of the systemic changes that occur in teen years or childbearing years.  Learn how and why these things change and effect one another and what you can do.

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Essential Oils and Menopause Symptoms

As the Milestone of Menopause imprints itself onto life as we know it, be it too soon, late in the day, fast, slow, gently or with great impact, it helps to know that some time-honored, simple solutions can actually be effective and right at hand.  My dear friend...
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Expert Insight: Pilates: Lighten the Load of the Menopause Milestone

The Wellness section of this site goes into great detail on why exercise is a great (dare we say, critically important) remedy for the symptoms of menopause, as well as against the effects of aging itself.  Whether we exercise, how often and how we exercise are all...
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To Sleep or Not to Sleep

This is the latest section I've written for the Wellness, "The Rest of the Well" part of PosPause. Brought on by a series of conversations with my bestie, it is yet another example of how the Milestone effects each of us differently and potentially deeply.  Sleep...
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PosPause and The Milestone Woman – let’s jump in.

So this is PosPause – designed to give you all of the information that we can give without making it ugly, silly or overly simple.  It is curated and yet complex, just all of the women we know.  It is designed to give you answers and solutions and access.  But mostly, PosPause’s intention is to change the word and association of menopause to Milestone.  To make the term Milestone Woman emblematic of the woman who carried and raised a generation, who has overcome everything to be where she is and is the ultimate apex of who we all want to be.  The journey of Milestone Woman forks here, and the road she takes and who she becomes and who helps her lead that way is impressive, exciting and awe-inspiring.

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Wellness

Wellness is holistic.  It’s your emotional and mental well-being; your physical strength and immune system; your confidence and self-worth; your support system; your personal fulfillment and financial safety.

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Lifestyle

It is the opinion of PosPause that Milestone women are beginning what can be the best part of their lives.  Enjoying the fruit of a life’s labors.  We encourage you and each other to live fearlessly, boldly, unapologetically and with purpose.  How?  Travel. Explore new things.  Meet new people.  Say ‘yes’ more often, or ‘no’ even!  Your body is letting you off the hook a little bit, so enjoy your freedom and your life.

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Products We Love

(And they’re useful too!)

SLEEP

Sleep is when your body heals and recovers.

* Try Melatonin: start with lowest dose, 1mg:

&nbsp* Magnesium Glycinate at bedtime: 300-400mg

* A silk pillowcase that zips is gentle on skin and hair, like this one:

* Dream cool:

Moisture

Yup.  Milestone women experience personal global warming and climate change.  Use better products so it can be painless.

* Try Good Clean Love Brand cleanse and lube

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Skin

Moisture and balance.  Hydrate from the inside.  Use gentle exfoliants, lasting hydration and great sunscreen.

* Try gentle and Timeless skin products:


* wonderful Elta MD skin protection:

Comfort

You be you.  What makes you comfortable?  We like cooling bedding, great sunglasses and Shearling slippers.

* Try a cooling pillow and mattress pad:


* RayBan aviators

*Oakleys won’t snag on hair:

* Birkenstock shearling sandals = year-round comfort:
 

Nourish

Inside out.  Really, it counts.  Eat your veggies, they’ll take care of you.  Take a good omega capsule and get your vitamin D.

* Try Nordic Naturals Complete Omega:

* critical Vitamin D:

*Cook for health and longevity:

Confidence

Read empowering books that relax you and fill you up.  Do a puzzle or sudoku.  Spend time with your girlfriends.  Go on date nights.  Take a walk with light handweights every day.

* Try Lusome’ Alexia nightie or Kerry Lace slip

* Bhldn Valdis dress

* Mark & Graham monogrammed tunic

* Puzzle your wonderful mind:

* Walk and talk with purpose:

A millstone… or a milestone? A burden… or a gift? An end… or a new beginning.

One thing we can be sure of is that it unites us.  It’s a road we all must travel.  And it may be a long road.

I,  for one would rather walk down that road with a posse of incredible women, arm in arm, laughing, joking, drinking a cocktail and telling all.  Life is about the journey. 

So here’s where we begin together to ‘Pause Positively: Understand it.  Redefine it, break it open, own it.  And in so doing, change it and change the road ahead.

And, as the friend next to you on the road, who wishes to undo all the trivialization, stigma and distaste that this part of a woman’s purposeful life has inherited:  this does not make you less you, or depreciate your value, substance, meaning or purpose or extinguish your amazing light.  Let’s agree instead say it makes you you, to the nth power.

– PosPause

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Where we are

Loveland, OH

Contact us

info@pospause.com