Protecting Yourself in a Menopause Information Vacuum: Learn AboutMenopause and Where to Find Evidence-Based Care for Your Health
This is an educational session for women over 40, transitioning through menopause or in postmenopause, who received limited education on what happens to their bodies in this stage of life. It will offer tips for how to leverage everyday habits and self-care to optimize their midlife health, how to navigate healthcare options, and how to protect oneself from exaggerated health claims and discern the best evidential strategies for them. The objective is for women to leave feeling empowered and trusting their own bodies and minds, to confidently advocate for their health and what they want for themselves.
Participants will learn:
• Foundations: the education you didn’t get from your mom or sex ed;
• Why menopause leaves many women vulnerable to false/hyped claims;
• How to spot health claims and find credible health information;
• A method to discern correct health strategies for you using your intuition;
• Who is qualified to support your midlife health and beyond;
• Evidence-based high-impact lifestyle hacks for optimal aging women’s health, notably strength training
Exercises/Practices:
• The session will work through a simple example of searching the evidence behind a health claim.
• Participants will be guided in a 5-10min meditation to experience filtering their health decisions through their intuition.
• Participants will be led in a mini strength training workout (15min) to experience the feeling of challenging their muscles with resistance.
• Participants will receive a cheat sheet outlining the key principles and take-aways of the session, along with local menopause certified health practitioners and various health professionals to meet women’s midlife needs.
About Sarah Lussier
Sarah Lussier is a Menopause Health Mediator and Strategist, a Personal Trainer (NASM), Certified Women’s Coaching Specialist and Menopause Coaching Specialist (GGS), and a health economist and researcher (MA Econ). She believes that every woman’s life, health, understanding and experiences are their own, and what will work for a particular woman will not be a template for all women. She teaches a responsible process of discerning, vetting and challenging the research, claims and opinions surrounding menopause and women’s health. She was a health economist and researcher for 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry, before creating her business during COVID, reconciling her own health experiences with her understanding of the healthcare field to educate and empower women.
Duration & Fees
2 hrs
$45 per participant
Event Venue
1891 Merivale Rd, Ottawa, ON K2G 1E5, Canada
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