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3 Tips to Find More Joy with Less Stuff

You’ve made it! You’ve made it to a certain point in life, maybe a certain age where you have likely accumulated a lot of memories and a lot of possessions. I definitely have accumulated a lot of stuff, and a lot of really great stuff over time and over continents. My next big project is to clean up and clean out the things that have given me amazing happiness in the past, but don’t have the same context in my future. By researching strategies to work through this process of cleaning out the cobwebs, I’m tidying up, organizing and making place for new and happy experiences.

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Drawing the Veil, What is Behind the Symptoms of Menopause?

When we gather information about what menopause is, we usually find a physiological definition. Obviously, this definition conveys a list of symptoms that can occur in the body of a woman who reaches this stage. Typically we find the following definition: menopause is the time when the production of hormones in the woman’s ovaries ceases, and with it, the end of her fertile stage. Our bodies are designed to, one day, end the function by which we can have babies.