The Mindful Menopause Workbook: Daily Practices
Teachings, exercises, and reflections to help you be mindful during menopause from a respected psychologist.

The Mindful Menopause Workbook will help you bring mindfulness into your day-to-day activities during menopause with teachings, exercises, and meditations. Learn how to recognize and achieve a more balanced, peaceful, and joyful orientation to menopause and beyond.

The Mindful Menopause Workbook provides a year’s worth of daily teachings and prompts that offer you moments for self-care and self-development—mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Each daily teaching includes space for you to write about the thoughts, emotions, or sensations that are arising for you.

This is followed by guided meditations and breath exercises that promote body-mind unity through deep relaxation and expanded peaceful awareness.

The book also includes an in-depth illustrated guide to yoga postures and outlines sequential poses that foster greater ease and awareness of your body.

Mindful Menopause sensitively addresses issues that commonly arise during menopause, and gives recommendations for managing symptoms such as insomnia, fatigue, low energy and libido, anxiety, depression, hot flashes, physical discomfort, poor digestion, and weight gain.

Together, these teachings, exercises, and reflections will help you approach menopause mindfully and joyfully, allowing you to deepen your practice and transition gracefully into this new stage of your life.
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The Mindful Menopause Workbook: Daily Practices
Teachings, exercises, and reflections to help you be mindful during menopause from a respected psychologist.

The Mindful Menopause Workbook will help you bring mindfulness into your day-to-day activities during menopause with teachings, exercises, and meditations. Learn how to recognize and achieve a more balanced, peaceful, and joyful orientation to menopause and beyond.

The Mindful Menopause Workbook provides a year’s worth of daily teachings and prompts that offer you moments for self-care and self-development—mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Each daily teaching includes space for you to write about the thoughts, emotions, or sensations that are arising for you.

This is followed by guided meditations and breath exercises that promote body-mind unity through deep relaxation and expanded peaceful awareness.

The book also includes an in-depth illustrated guide to yoga postures and outlines sequential poses that foster greater ease and awareness of your body.

Mindful Menopause sensitively addresses issues that commonly arise during menopause, and gives recommendations for managing symptoms such as insomnia, fatigue, low energy and libido, anxiety, depression, hot flashes, physical discomfort, poor digestion, and weight gain.

Together, these teachings, exercises, and reflections will help you approach menopause mindfully and joyfully, allowing you to deepen your practice and transition gracefully into this new stage of your life.
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The Mindful Menopause Workbook: Daily Practices

The Mindful Menopause Workbook: Daily Practices

by Francesca Dupraz-Brossard
The Mindful Menopause Workbook: Daily Practices

The Mindful Menopause Workbook: Daily Practices

by Francesca Dupraz-Brossard

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Overview

Teachings, exercises, and reflections to help you be mindful during menopause from a respected psychologist.

The Mindful Menopause Workbook will help you bring mindfulness into your day-to-day activities during menopause with teachings, exercises, and meditations. Learn how to recognize and achieve a more balanced, peaceful, and joyful orientation to menopause and beyond.

The Mindful Menopause Workbook provides a year’s worth of daily teachings and prompts that offer you moments for self-care and self-development—mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Each daily teaching includes space for you to write about the thoughts, emotions, or sensations that are arising for you.

This is followed by guided meditations and breath exercises that promote body-mind unity through deep relaxation and expanded peaceful awareness.

The book also includes an in-depth illustrated guide to yoga postures and outlines sequential poses that foster greater ease and awareness of your body.

Mindful Menopause sensitively addresses issues that commonly arise during menopause, and gives recommendations for managing symptoms such as insomnia, fatigue, low energy and libido, anxiety, depression, hot flashes, physical discomfort, poor digestion, and weight gain.

Together, these teachings, exercises, and reflections will help you approach menopause mindfully and joyfully, allowing you to deepen your practice and transition gracefully into this new stage of your life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781614296492
Publisher: Wisdom Publications MA
Publication date: 11/09/2021
Pages: 472
Product dimensions: 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Francesca Dupraz-Brossard is a psychologist and clinical sexologist in private practice in Geneva, Switzerland. She uses a third-wave cognitive-behavioral approach and mindfulness, hypnosis, and schema therapy to help her patients find their happiest and healthiest self. Of Spanish-French heritage, she was born and raised in London, where she obtained bachelor's degrees in modern languages and in psychology. Her interests took her to Egypt, then Madrid; at twenty-three, she left to live in Cyprus, then Saudi Arabia, and finally to Geneva, Switzerland, where she obtained a second master's in psychology and where she has been since 1995. She is a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS), the Swiss Society of Psychologists (FSP), the Swiss Institute of Hypnosis (IRHyS), the Swiss Society of Clinical Hypnosis (SHyPS), the Swiss Association of Complementary Medicine (ASCA), the Swiss Association of Cognitive Psychotherapy (ASPCo), the Swiss Society of Sexology (SSS), the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST), L'Institut Sexocorporel International (ISI), and the European Society of Sexual Medicine (ESSM).

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Journal

Daily Practices: January-December 5

Meditations 405

Positions for Meditation 405

Common Obstacles and Challenges to Meditation 407

The Raisin Exercise 407

Abdominal Breathing 408

Three-Minute Breathing Space 409

Five-Minute Mindful Breathing Meditation 409

Five-Minute Self-Compassion Break 410

Walk the Mindfulness Walk-Ten-Minute Walking Meditation 410

Metta (Loving-Kindness) Meditation 411

Body-Scan Meditation 411

Guided Meditation to Get to Sleep 412

Yoga 415

Standing Poses 418

Mountain Pose (Tadasand) 418

Neck Rolls (Kantasanchalasana) 419

Side Bend in Mountain Pose (Parshva Tadasana) 419

Shoulder Shrugs 420

Torso Twists in Mountain Pose (Parivritta Tadasand) 420

Palm Tree Pose (Talasand) 421

Upward Salute (Urdhva Hastasana) 422

Five-Pointed Star (Utthita Tadasana) 422

Extended Triangle Pose (Utthita Trikonasana) 422

Tree Pose (Vrikshasana) 423

Eagle Pose (Garudasana) 424

Equestrian/Low-Lunge Pose (Ashva Sanchalanasanaa) 424

Warrior Pose I (Virabhadrasana I) 425

Warrior Pose II (Virabhadrasana II) 426

Warrior Pose III (Virabhadrasana III) 427

Standing Forward Bend (Uttanasana) 427

Revolved Wide-Legged Forward Fold (Parivritta Prasarita Padottanasana) 428

Sitting Poses 429

Staff Pose (Dandasana) 429

Revolved Head-to-Knee Pose (Parivritta Janu Shirshasana) 429

Cow-Face Pose (Gomukhasana) 430

Half Spinal Twist (Ardha Matsyendrasana) 431

Cobbler's Pose/Bound-Angle Pose (Baddha Konasana) 431

Head to Knee Pose (Janu Shirshasana) 432

Lion Pose (Simhasana) 433

Prone Poses 433

Downward-Facing Dog Pose (Adho Mukha Shvanasana) 433

Plank Pose (Phalakasana) 434

Cat-Cow Pose (Bidilasana-Marjaryasana) 435

Sunbird Pose (Dandayamana Bharmanasana) 436

Backbends 436

Cobra Pose (Bhujangasana) 436

Upward-Facing Dog Pose (Urdhva Mukha Shvanasana) 437

King Cobra Pose (Raja Bhujangasana) 437

Half-Locust Pose (Ardha Shalabhasana) 438

Locust Pose (Shalabhasana) 439

Bridge Pose (Setu Bandha Sarvangasana) 439

Fish Pose (Matsyasana) 440

Camel Pose (Ushtrasana) 441

Supine Poses 442

Wind-Relief Pose/Knee-to-Chest Pose (Apanasana) 442

Reclined Spinal Twist (Supta Matsyendrasana) 442

Straight- Leg Raise (Eka Pada Uttana Padasana) 443

Side-Reclining Vishnu Couch Pose (Anantasana) 444

Inversions 445

Plow Pose (Halasana) 445

Headstand (Shirshasana) 445

Restorative Poses 446

Half-Inverted Pose, Legs Up a Wall (Viparita Karani) 446

Wide-Knee Child's Pose (Utthita Bahsana) 447

Child's Pose (Balasand) 447

Reverse Corpse Pose (Advasana) 448

Corpse Pose (shavasana) 448

Shopping List 451

References 453

About the Author 457

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