MAVEN OF THE WEEK! DR HEATHER BARTOS!

You Should Know This About Heather:

* She’s an OBGYN surgeon and has delivered over 5,000 babies.

* She joined the Navy and left with both Navy and Marine Corps Commendation (among some others).

* Named one of the nation’s top five menopause experts by Oprah Winfrey and Maria Shriver.

* She’s a mom and she is married with lots of pets.

* She’s on a mission to change the conversation about menopause.

* She’s a co-founder of the nonprofit Institute for Women’s Futures.

* She is a Reiki Master and energy healer.

Our conversations have been a lot of fun!

You can see that in our interview above. But, menopause is serious for all of us experiencing its symptoms.

Do you feel yourself getting far more angry more often about issues you didn’t used to loose it over? Short fused? Brain fog? What? The same goes for aching joints, who knew that was a symptom? Does your vagina feel like it’s lined with barbed wire in the Sahara Dessert? And your hair, and your skin, and your weight and your motivation to do anything. At all. ALL OF THESE SYMPTOMS DON’T HAVE TO BE A PART OF YOUR LIFE. BUT….

You do need to be willing to talk to your doctor or to a menopause specialist like Heather and look into treatments if peri/menopause is bringing you down.

Heather says there are 33 symptoms (and counting) due to menopause. Knowing that there is potential help for most symptoms can flip the script of how we feel about ourselves now. Menopause should be seen as a ticket to ride life’s highways, not a death-to-fun sentence.

HEATHER SUGGESTS:

Baselines! She suggests starting in January getting appointments because then you can do them all in the same insurance year! Get to your doctors and get your baselines for things like:

* Gastro/gut doc

* Dermatology-get the moles checked

* Cardiac-very important! EKG & calcium score

* Bone density

* and don’t neglect your teeth

* Want to know more about menopause and the potential medications? Please check out Dr. Heather’s course in the Mothership that goes through all of it!

* Can you think of anything else? Put it in the comments and Dr. Bartos will see it!

Want to know more about menopause and the potential medications? Please check out Dr. Heather’s course in the Mothership that goes through all of it!

FIVE MAVEN QUESTIONS!

What did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a disco roller skating queen!

What are you excited about now? I’m excited about…the halftime show!

What books are on your bedside table? The Change, Dragons and Serpents

What do you do to relax? Relax: in my greenhouse: it’s quiet, there are plants and I can drink coffee by myself without bugs!

What category/subject would you add to the Guide? History of female rock!!!

Dr Heather’s Favorite Recipe!

Elote dip!

Actually I love any chip and dip but this one is pretty good!

It’s cream cheese, a can of corn, Trader Joe’s Elote seasoning (the short cut) and sharp cheddar cheese (1 cup): bake at 325 for 15-20 minutes and sprinkle green onion on top!

MORE GOOD STUFF ABOUT HEATHER!

The Empress, Alisa Kennedy Jones has recently done a fantastic interview with Heather, much in her own words. I recommend you check it out!!

DID YOU KNOW….

Dr. Heather Bartos is coming out with a sexy little book? It’s called Quickies! I am providing a link from The Empress web site…

”Join the exclusive waiting list for the midnight release of Quickies and be entered into a giveaway to receive a personally autographed copy of the book along with a $500 gift bag from Empress Editions. New giveaways to be added as the waitlist grows.”

“For me, Quickies isn’t just a book about sex; it’s a manifesto for unapologetically owning your desires and transforming intimacy in midlife. And if you’ve ever thought midlife marked the end of passion, think again—this book is here to reignite the fire and bring the fun back to intimacy. Because we all need to forge more pathways to joy when we’re in the messy middle.”

Coming this Spring! Join the exclusive wait list for VIP giveaways now!

AND…WE ALL NEED TO THINK ABOUT THIS…Heather’s article in DailyOm!

How to Have Great Sex During Menopause

NEXT WEEK!

An interview with a Midlife Pivot Maven, Melissa Fetter, founder of Beacon Hill Books and Cafe. The most gorgeously decorated and well stocked bookstore and epicurean cafe you’ll ever see. Melissa had no retail background, never worked at a book store, but she saw a need in a city she had just moved to at the age of 60. She bought a building in a historic district, gutted it, rebuilt it to code, hired a book sommelier, all during covid. A fascinating woman and an incredible success.

Yours in menopause and books,

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