Our Mission
To be the woman at the table who finally tells you the truth about what's happening to your body and what might actually help.
Michele’s Story
I am Michele, a Certified Menopause Coach through Girls Gone Strong, and the founder of NovaPause.
I was 45 when it started. Sky-high blood pressure. A neurological condition that made the ground move beneath my feet. Sudden hemorrhaging that sent me running to the car. Each symptom treated like a separate mystery.
No one said the word menopause.
I come from a family of strong women. My grandmother, who was in every way my mother, and my Aunt Denise were the women I turned to for everything. When this happened I sat at their kitchen table and told them all of it. They listened the way only they could. They told me about their own struggles at my age. They called it normal woman suffering.
They weren't wrong. It was also menopause. Neither of them knew that. Neither did I, not until years later, watching a documentary, when everything finally connected.
I lost them both before I could tell them what I'd figured out. I feel that loss every day.
What I know now is that the silence wasn't their fault. No one told them either. And that chain of not knowing — grandmother to daughter to granddaughter — is exactly what NovaPause exists to break.
I was 45 and no one said the word menopause.
You deserve better than that.
— Michele