What if menopause isn’t a graceful transformation… but a full-body rebellion?

In this raw and deeply personal episode of Voice After 50, Beverley shares the unfiltered truth about her seven-year journey through menopause — the crash landing at 50, the insomnia, the brain fog, the rage (especially in traffic), the weight gain, the aching joints, and the quiet grief for the body she used to know.

This isn’t an episode wrapped in empowerment slogans or spiritual metaphors.

It’s honest. It’s messy. And it’s real.

Beverley opens up about:

• The shock of symptoms that felt like “falling apart”
• Seven years of trying to push through alone
• The emotional whiplash — tears one minute, fury the next
• Why it took so long to ask for medical support
• The experiments with diet and lifestyle (including keto) — what helped and what didn’t
• Her powerful “BS Detector Theory” — is menopause exposing decades of swallowed “no’s”?
• Why “embracing your crone years” doesn’t always land at 3am in a hot flash

If you’ve ever stood in your kitchen in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, wondering why no one talks about this part… this episode is for you.

This conversation is an invitation to drop the performance of grace and lean into radical honesty instead.

Because sometimes transformation doesn’t look serene. Sometimes it looks like saying, “This is really hard.” And meaning it.

If you’re navigating menopause — tired, confused, angry, grieving, and still somehow showing up every day — you are not doing it wrong.

You’re just doing it.

And that is enough.

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