What Is Menopause and Other Menopause Questions (part 1)

For centuries middle life was viewed as an honorable, sacred time. Women traded their working and childbearing roles to then be crowned the matriarch of the family; elder, storyteller, healer. And yet somehow, somewhere in history’s fabric, midlife lost its prestige. Age a burden and menopause, feared or dreaded. But what is menopause?