Black Women After Menopause: 5 Ways to Feel More Powerful

Sistas of a certain age now is your time. You have worked hard and sacrificed. You succeeded in jumping through hoops just to get what you need while doing more with less or sometimes without altogether. You were successful in raising the bar and breaking through glass ceilings, leaving things better for daughters in the struggle and all people of color. Nevertheless, you still have certain unresolved feelings as you go through menopause. Biologically, it marks the passing of reproductive years. Personally, it can mean (re)claiming power to thrive for decades to come and continuing to bloom where you’re planted or choosing to move on.  1. More free, less restricted There are no people you must please other than yourself.  At this stage, you’re done with putting restrictions on yourself to do or be who and what others think you should be. There’s freedom in this. You repossess control of your life and yourself by limiting others’ influence, supposed constructive criticism, or even hard, cold judgment. This makes you stronger and braver: a force to be reckoned with. Embrace this new you!  If not now, then when?  If never, why not? 2. More open, less inhibited As ladies with this...