the journey of menopause, this changing in the wheel of a woman's life, should be joyful. Celebrated!!! Yet we are taught and trained to loathe it's impending arrival. We are shamed by the existence of our period. We are taught that we maintain constant vigilance else we look like "a hag." We dread being "on the rag." We run in embarrasment dare we GASP have a leakage. RIDICULOUS!!! All of it.