The Art of Caregiving or Managing Menopause Beautifully

The Art of Caregiving: How to Lend Support and Encouragement to Those with Cancer

Author: Michael S Barry

Helps caregivers find new joy in caring for those they love by equipping them with unique tools for supporting those with serious illness and through developing a mindset of joy.

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Managing Menopause Beautifully: Physically, Emotionally, and Sexually

Author: Dona Caine Francis

Some 38 million girls were born in the United States between 1946 and 1964, and now about 2 million of them each year are entering the menopausal phase of life. But these Baby Boomers are not docile, do-as-they-are-told, ask-no-questions women. They insist on full information, options, and participation in the decision-making process regarding how they will navigate this potentially challenging phase. In this breakthrough book, Dona Caine-Francis offers a reader-friendly primer on everything women need to know to remain physically, emotionally, and sexually vibrant before, during and after menopause. A certified sex therapist and psychiatric nurse practitioner, Caine-Francis challenges women to consider the menopausal years an era of opportunity, a chance to seize the day and "reinvent" the self in three dimensions - physically, emotionally, and sexually. *This book, be forewarned, contains adult material. Special features here include vignettes from therapy sessions for menopausal women and their partners, explanations of the five myths of menopause, a review of hormone therapy of all kinds, complementary and alternative medicine, insights into romance at midlife, and a chapter devoted to partners of these women to share an understanding and suggestions to keep the fires flamed. Strategies for sexual well-being of menopausal women may otherwise and elsewhere be neglected, but Caine-Francis provides a focus to such strategies here and offers practical solutions to enhance sexual connections with partners.

Table of Contents:

Foreword Judy Kuriansky Kuriansky, Judy

1 Menopause: Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Reinvention 1

2 Menopause Basics: What Is Happening to My Body? 8

3 The Changing Body of the Perimenopausal and Menopausal Woman 23

4 Hormone Therapy 38

5 Reinvent the Physical You 60

6 Reinvent the Emotional You 73

7 Complementary and Alternative Strategies for the Midlife Woman 95

8 Sexual Revitalization 110

9 Romeo Meets Juliet at Age 55 177

App. A Coping Techniques for Today's Busy Woman 183

App. B Negative Coping Skills 185

App. C Scale of Relationship Intimacy 186

App. D Resource Web Sites 188

Notes 191

Index 199