🌸 Nurturing Through Perimenopause & Menopause: A Sacred Return to Self

By Sharon Cassar Galea
Menopause expert
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Functional Nutritionist
Holistic Health Coach
Herbalist

✨ The Call of Menopause: Reconnection, Roots and the Sacred Passage

Somewhere along the way, we were told that perimenopause and menopause meant the beginning of the end — the fading out.

But I see it differently.

To me, this is the beginning of a deeper becoming.
A sacred homecoming.
A return to self.

This is a time to soften, to stop pushing, and to start nurturing.
Not in the way we’ve always done for everyone else…
but for ourselves.

🌿 Nurturing the Body — With Soul

In midlife, the body whispers — or sometimes screams — for rest.
Real rest.

Not just sleep, but pause. Digest. Exhale.
This is not weakness.
This is wisdom.

Nurturing now looks like:

• Slow mornings with herbal tea

• Wholesome soul food made with love

• Carving out space for quiet

• A piece of good-quality dark chocolate savoured slowly under a blanket

The gut, the liver, the adrenals — they all need time to reset and breathe.

So let your meals feel grounding,
your breath feel full,
your pace feel gentle.

This is the medicine.

This is not your decline.
This is your divine unfolding.

🌸 Nourish gently. Heal deeply. Honour fully.

📚 Nurturing the Mind & Your Growth

This season isn’t just hormonal — it’s transformational.

You’re not who you were.
And thank goodness for that.

Now is the time to check in:

• What am I ready to release?

• What’s been sitting in my heart, waiting for space?

• What do I want the next part of my life to feel like?

Set soulful intentions.

Feed your mind with books, ideas, and courses —
not out of pressure to “fix” anything,
but because you’re allowed to keep growing.
You’re allowed to dream new dreams.

Let stillness become your teacher.

💖 Nurturing Emotion & Spirit

This chapter invites you to feel it all —
the grief, the rage, the joy, the softness.

Nothing is off-limits.
You are safe to feel here.

Honouring your emotional health doesn’t mean holding it together.
It means letting yourself unravel when needed —
and then wrapping your own arms around that messy, beautiful becoming.

Spiritually, menopause is the great unveiling.
You get to ask:
What really matters now?

• Create rituals

• Light candles

• Dance barefoot

• Talk to your ancestors

• Write letters to your younger self

Connect with your values —
they are the roots that hold you steady.

You’re not here to shrink.
You’re here to expand — soul first.

🌼 This is the age of unmasking, not fading.

🔥 Reclaiming Your Midlife Magic

Menopause is not the end.
It’s the rewiring of everything you thought you had to be —
so you can finally become who you truly are.

• Celebrate your wins

• Honour your boundaries

• Let yourself rest without guilt

• Rise without apology

This is a season of deep reclaiming.
A sacred pause.
A wild remembering.
A soft, fierce, beautiful return to you.

You don’t have to hold it all together.
You just have to hold yourself with love.

By Sharon Cassar Galea
Menopause expert
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Functional Nutritionist
Holistic Health Coach
Herbalist