Menopause Brain Fog & Midlife Anxiety Almost Ended Her Business. Here’s How She Got Her Focus, Career & Life Back

If you’ve ever felt like menopause hijacked your energy, focus, and drive, you’re not alone.

For high-achieving women, menopausal brain fog, exhaustion, and anxiety don’t just disrupt daily life and physical health—they threaten careers, relationships, momentum, and self-identity.

This is exactly what happened to Melanie, a gifted entrepreneur, whose business and creativity stalled when midlife changes left her mentally foggy, depressed, and crippled with anxiety—leading to a true existential crisis.

Here’s how she turned it around—without HRT, without ‘pushing through,’ and without staying stuck.

Q: How did menopause symptoms impact your focus, career, and daily life?

💬 Melanie: I had hit a wall with menopause.  It was menopause brain fog, lethargy, and scattered-ness—a terrible lack of focus, and even pain in the body.  I just couldn’t get anything done…and the anxiety!  

I was scared I had dementia and others were noticing .  

My husband said “go to the doctor” but I didn’t want to do HRT or go that route because I saw my friends have bigger imbalances with it.  I was scared to get on HRT and I have other stories from my older friends.  I observed HRT bringing on MORE problems and I’ve always had other remedies work for me like herbs and a good diet.  Everything in my life was at a standstill–I couldn’t work, let alone develop my business or anything in my life. 

Menopause Brain Fog & Anxiety—Why It’s More Than Just Hormones

👉So many high-performing women hit this wall and wonder, “Is this just menopause? Will it pass? Why can’t I push through it?” But when brain fog, exhaustion, and anxiety start affecting work performance, decision-making, and even relationships, it’s more than just hormones.

✔️ Your entire cognitive + emotional system is struggling to adapt to this transition.

✔️ Menopause brain fog isn’t just forgetfulness—it’s a loss of clarity and confidence. 

✔️ Midlife anxiety isn’t just stress—it’s a signal that something deeper is out of sync. 

✔️ And when nothing seems to work—not diet, herbs, or even HRT—it’s a sign you need a different approach.

💡 The real issue isn’t just menopause—it’s how your mind, body, and identity are processing stress, responsibility, and self-doubt. Without the right framework, even the best solutions won’t stick.

Q: What menopause solutions had you already tried before working with me?

💬 Melanie:   I was doing Dr. Joe Dispenza meditation and some supplements, but they weren’t helping as much anymore because I wasn’t applying this to my life…I wasn’t integrated.  Meditation was helping me with some pain and female organ comfort, and day to day clarity was a little better, but I was missing that CORE DRIVE of purpose of being in my natural state as an artist and wanting to get back to that as my career and income source.  

I took your guidance from working with you years ago, to start with more subtle Ayurvedic herbs that you recommended and changed to a higher fat diet, but my life was not on track.  I didn’t have my own home, I had separated and gotten a divorce, but was considering reconciliation.  I struggled and decided that I had to do something–not HRT, but I was ready to tackle my life with a little more energy on board and some brain fog clearing so I reached back out to you again to see what you could offer for more supplement or herb suggestions—anything! 

Why Most Self-Help Fails in Menopause—And What Actually Works

👉So many women feel like they’re failing at self-help. But it’s NOT that you aren’t “doing the work”—it’s that most approaches only focus on one piece of the equation.

 ✔️ ️ If you’re only addressing symptoms (brain fog, fatigue, or stress) without looking at how your mind, body, emotions, and even external stressors (like your job, relationships, goals) are working together, you keep looping back into the same stuck place. 

✔️ If you’ve tried what worked before—but it’s NOT working anymore—there’s a reason. 

✔️ What if menopause isn’t just a hormonal shift, but a complete operating system upgrade?

💡 The (Re)Source (Re)Solution Method isn’t another tool—it’s a framework that helps you integrate everything you already know into a system that actually works. Supplements, meditation, mindset work—these CAN work, but only if your brain and body are aligned with the bigger shift happening inside you.

Q: What made this approach different from other perimenopause or menopause treatments or coaching you’ve tried? 

💬Melanie:  I was really in a dark space—depressed and the menopause anxiety was crippling…more than any other anxiety I had had before.  I was using all my vital energy to f-*(*^g worry.  I didn’t have enough time or space to do my art and design consultation to be energized and interested in myself to “never be good enough” to get my career back on track, especially as a menopausal woman in midlife.  Like, I’m frozen, so how on earth am I going to have a menopause transformation if I don’t want HRT or can’t even leave my house with these hormonal symptoms?  

I needed some extra boost to figure out where to start to be able to do art, make money, get into a better house.  I couldn’t move forward with a job, my art business.  I was really at a crisis point more than ever in my life.  I needed a change, some direction, because I’m foggy and in menopause, I just didn’t feel right, like constant “pissy-ness.”  I'll do anything. 

I had worked with you before as my acupuncturist for balancing hormones with PMS and perimenopause anxiety that I thought would go away because it wasn’t as bad earlier on. But you weren’t local to me anymore and I needed something. So, I reached out and you told me about your new work and framework, and because I trusted you and had results before, so I booked an appointment, and we had a [Co-Created Conversation] as the first step.  

Why Menopause Can Stall Even the Most Successful Women—And How to Move Forward

👉 Menopause transformation can paralyze even the most high-achieving women—not just physically, but in their entire sense of self. 

✔️ In midlife, if you're carrying outdated roles, unresolved stress, and an identity that no longer fits, your body and mind will resist forward momentum.

✔️ You don’t need to start from scratch in menopause—you need a way to refine and rework the tools you already have so they actually work for you now.

💡 The (Re)Source (Re)Solution Method is about shifting at the deepest level and enlivening new capacities—so the change actually sticks, without backsliding into old patterns.

Q:  What was the first session like?  

💬 Melanie:  I made a breakthrough that I was not in my natural state, and  in the first big session, you guided me to a place I didn’t know, I hadn’t been here in meditation exactly.  I was relaxed, but the session was more active and interactive than I expected. 

Menopause was the darkest time in my life. I’ve felt this way before, but this time, it really was an existential crisis. I had to do something. But depression and anxiety were consuming my energy—I needed to connect to myself at a deeper level.  

During the session, I was drawn to interact with and bump up against parts of myself [perspectives and values] that I didn’t even know were there. These new capacities opened up that I didn’t understand at first, but you helped me connect what was happening. It was way more active than any of the best meditations I’ve had. Very different.

I saw myself at the bottom of the ocean and I was chained down.  But I freed myself, and instead of being chained at the bottom, I saw myself come to the surface and saw that I’m like a dolphin in its natural happy habitat.  It sounds so corny, but it was profound. That shift to experiencing my natural state has kept giving; it changed everything from that moment and keeps morphing into better and better things over a year later. 

What Is There Beyond Menopause & Midlife Mindset Shifts?

👉 Breakthroughs don’t happen just by thinking differently—they happen when your body, emotions, bigger perspectives, more choice, and deeper capacities all align. That’s why deep Integral-based work creates transformation that actually sticks.

✔️ True shifts happen when you experience—not just understand—your own version of natural state.

✔️ You have untapped resources and capacities, what I call “Vision-Logic,” that moves you toward lasting resolution.  That awakened intelligence + the right approach to access it and framework to interpret it is the (Re)Evolutionize formula. 

✔️T hat's why mindset work alone falls short—your entire psychosocial-neuroimmunological system PLUS multiple perspectives must be part of the shift.

💡 The (Re)Source (Re)Solution Method isn’t about “fixing” you—it’s about unlocking the version of you that already exists beneath layers of stress, conditioning, and self-doubt

Q: Did you notice shifts after the session? What lasting results did you experience for menopause relief? 

💬 Melanie:   YES! Immediately. [Emphatic]  I'm not anxious.  I’m anchored in myself with more curiosity and satisfaction than in my entire life.  I’m still working on other creative projects and clear in the head–clearer with what I’m going to do and not worry about external storms–just doesn’t matter as much anymore.  Just to sit and be peaceful and not go to get anxious and not make stuff up and get rattled.  

I don’t take it to heart because my heart is who I am, and I feel more whole and grounded more every day.  I have stability now that I don’t go crazy with crippling anxiety.  

I couldn’t get to the store because I was crippled with so much anxiety–isolated and worrying.  And I didn’t even know there was anything wrong until we did that first session [Co-Created Conversation Foundation Session].  

I knew something was uncomfortable all the time, and that started in perimenopause–mentally physically on pins and needles all the time–and after that session, immediately, I knew I was in my natural state.  I was big and Godly and it was a pivotal point.  I don’t feel the urge to do any external fixes anymore.  

Also, it’s easier to stay fine tuned with diet, meditation and supplements that you have also recommended after the first session.  My body and energy became stronger– I had been “flappy” from laying around so much before, depressed and anxious.  I’ve lost weight, leaned out.  

And my relationship with my husband is better (I got remarried!), and we have big plans together.  Really fun!  People are even asking me, “What are you doing?!”  I’m magnetic!  My session with you kicked all this off— it was a juggernaut.  

Why Midlife & Menopause Feel So Stuck—And How to Shift Everything at Once

👉Deep transformation isn’t about willpower. But how can you recalibrate an entire framework so that change happens naturally and effortlessly?

✔️With the (Re)Source (Re)Solution Method, one Co-Created Conversation session can be enough to shift from survival mode to creating your life again.

✔️When anxiety, fear, and self-doubt stop running the show, clarity and confidence take over.

✔️This isn’t just a quick fix—it’s a fundamental shift in how you operate in the world.

💡 Why do so many women feel “stuck” even after years of self-work? Because that “stuck problem”?  It’s not the problem.

Most people try to fix issues one at a time—overwhelming themselves with piecemeal midlife coaching and motivational strategies.

But what if those problems were never separate?

The contrast you feel—the frustration, the exhaustion, the stuckness—isn’t a motivation issue.  It’s a signal calling your attention to untie problems that have been holding hands with other problems for years.

With the right Integral framework, cutting-edge communication technology, and awakened capacities, you don’t have to chip away at problems individually. You can shift all at once—for immediate and lasting change.

Q:  And the (Re)Source (Re)Solution method like for you?  How are you noticing your own progress or handling midlife challenges and choices within a bigger framework after the first [ Co-Created Conversation Foundation] session? 

💬 Melanie: It  depends on what’s going on in my life to inform if I need another “package” or a one-off session but it’s far and few between because before the foundation session, I didn’t know where to find out what was even wrong since I didn’t want to do HRT.  I would just start spinning out.  Life comes at you so you need a tune up as a follow up like changing oil in your car.  I find a full blown session is good every 6 months depending on what’s going on–like a mini tune-up every month and a bigger session every 6 months or more. 

I’m going to keep using a car metaphor…the first session starts the engine, and it doesn’t turn off.  The engine has finally been turned back on and not turning off, but you may need an oil change to get it to the shop real quick if you feel a shimmy so just want to get stabilized a lot more quickly.  So, it’s about enhancement, not about survival needs anymore.  

I know what to do now when I feel dis-regulated–all those tools I had but they weren’t sticking before, like meditation or I’ll remember to take a supplement.  And, if I start feeling an old fear, I catch it and you and I have pinpointed that whole movement now.  

I know where to track it so I don’t steer over the cliff to full blown dis-regulation.  Knowing this feels way way better and I can handle more and make really good decisions.  I can connect with what I want and what I can create because of being aware and integrating my natural state where I need to, and it keeps on giving, more and more subtle and catching things quicker.  Sleep is better by the way! 

My main issues were totally addressed and also the smaller things that I wasn’t paying attention to or didn’t know were a problem, or knew were things I wanted to change, but I didn’t know how to tackle all of it at once and the things I used to do weren’t working. 

Your work expands and holds up all of that–any area where I was off.  I’ve always been a sugar-holic.  That’s my thing, and made my hot flashes worse. My urge to eat sugar has gone away.  And I was depressed and anxiety-ed out, so I ate a lot of junk food and it took a lot of energy to cook and feed myself well.  

Before the session, I found an emotional quotient that had been missing across my work, my health, my purpose like a pilot light had gone out.  Depression and anxiety were consuming my energy and I needed to connect to myself at a deeper level.   My shine was not there, and that session day just opened that up that it was okay to live beyond what was missing. 

I have had some setbacks, but when I know my purpose, it changes everything.  I’m engaged with my own life in menopause–not lost to it.  I have daily life back, and things like meditation and taking care of myself are back, like energy to clean my house and take care of my rescue animals. 

I would pay this all over again and more knowing what all changed that I didn’t expect and you continued to help me with after that big core shift was done in the first session.  It really helped for me to check in with you for some tweaks, but that deep stuckness moved in that first session and changes came from that. 

(Re)Evolutionizing Life Beyond Menopause—No More Midlife Setbacks

👉Follow-ups aren’t about “fixing” or reprocessing the past.  They’re about expanding into what’s possible. 

Life doesn’t stand still–it evolves too.  Unexpected challenges (loss, business upheaval, unexpected health events) can push you into unfamiliar territory.  

But with the right framework, you don’t just react.  You adapt, recalibrate, and keep evolving in real-time.

What if clarity came faster than confusion—because your system naturally aligned itself before things felt “off”?

(Re)Evolutionize Your Mind, Self & Future with the (Re)Source (Re)Solution Method: ✔ Co-Created Conversations → Keep your core shift stable so you catch habits faster, make better choices instinctively, and recalibrate effortlessly when new challenges arise.

✔ Vision-Logic →  Develop the capacity to see beyond the immediate problem—connecting patterns, perspectives, and possibilities in real time arresting negative reaction and fostering adaptability. 

 ✔ (Re)Source (Re)Solution Grid Mapping → Pinpoint blind spots before they trip you up so you adjust without backtracking.

💡 This isn’t “more work”—it’s a cutting-edge framework for next-level growth. You’re not “fixing” habits or repeating cycles—you’re expanding into what’s next, one shift at a time.

Q:  Where are you now in your post-menopause Evolution?

💬 Melanie:  This is a year and half later and the changes have stuck!   Immediately out of the session I started painting and then ideas came to me that I wanted to express.  I had canvases stored and I thought where can I put a studio?  I'm just going to start in my sunroom!  I took photographs of my animals and thought why not also just paint what you love?!--it has to come from my natural state. 

I was usually hesitant to follow that voice to do what I want, but something changed

immediately.  I started a series–very colorful, creative, my style, coherent– and landed a gallery deal that I had not been confident enough to do.  My art and career sprang back to life after the session immediately and within a month, I was reaching out to this gallery based on my natural state as an artist with a mini show in a prestigious gallery.  And then I got a national exposure from their website, and it was the best feeling I have ever had showing my work. The gallery manager was asking me into other galleries in the larger region which I’m still pursuing. 

A year later, I’m in a new house, my own.  I was stuck in inertia, in a poor home. I couldn’t get any forward momentum and as I started painting, my energy came back and I could start thinking about bigger goals that I couldn’t even get to…renovating and a hard move, but using my energy in a way that I want to (make a studio, have a place for my rescue animals, being in a more convenient place for me and my husband).  I bloomed!  

From Surviving to Thriving: The Post-Menopause (Re)Evolution

👉Menopause isn’t an ending and post-menopause isn’t a death sentence—it’s a doorway.  When you know how and where to rebuild yourself from the inside out, midlife can be the most powerful, creative, and successful phase of your life.

Before: 

❌ Stress triggers hijacked focus keeping you in survival mode. 

❌ Environmental obstacles —brain fog, business setbacks—felt impossible to change. 

❌ Habitual responses left you exhausted, procrastinating, and doubting yourself. 

❌ Cultural conditioning told you “this is just menopause, just aging.”

After:

 ✅ You see the patterns beneath the patterns–problems aren’t isolated anymore, so when you shift one thing, multiple areas improve. Momentum builds effortlessly—because you’re no longer forcing change in any one area, you’re allowing it to unfold everywhere.

 ✅ Be and Become beyond what once felt like personal struggle.   What used to pull you back and limit you is now part of a dynamic intelligence unfolding through you—pulling you forward. Energy rises—not just physically, but in your work, purpose, relationships, and the way you move through the world.

 ✅ You move forward with clarity, confidence, flexibility–tapping into multi-perspective intelligence. Instead of staying stuck, decisions, creativity, and career momentum start flowing again.  

 💡 This isn’t just about menopause or midlife mindset shifts.  It’s (Re)Evolutionizing—unlocking an advanced way of thinking and functioning that changes everything.  This is your time—now. 

Q: How is this different from menopause health coaching or therapy?

💬 Melanie:  Your work and that first session [Co-Created Conversations] goes deeper than those others [modalities] which don’t penetrate. Something about this technique that my resistance was non-existent, so it went in.  You have a way that you know it’s truth and you will open up and let it in.  

It’s way more interactive than acupuncture or anything I’ve tried.  Acupuncture feels more clinical to me now–feels like a doctor probing you whereas this new technique is better and subtle.  I don’t have to move the energy around with the acupuncture needle.  

I have my own sovereignty.  I’m in control and I don’t have to depend on anything in the session or afterwards, like therapy or coaching or motivational exercises or even wait for meditation to kick in.  That feels really good and solid that I didn’t have before and that hasn’t gone anywhere. 

Why One-Size-Fits-All Approaches Fail in Menopause & Midlife

  👉Breakthroughs don’t stick when they only happen at the surface level.

You don’t need another mindset shift—you need a full-system recalibration method that makes real change automatic and seamlessly integrated into how you function.

Most methods work within a single framework.  But, with menopause and midlife, life is complex.  You need something that keeps up with all of it. 

The (Re)Source (Re)Solution Method integrates multiple perspectives and dimensions, creating shifts across your entire experience—not just one part of it.

✔️Coaching is goal-based, action-driven, and often stays on the surface (mindset-focused).

✔️ Therapy looks at the past, often reinforcing an identity that needs “fixing” rather than activating untapped capacities in the present.

✔️ Performance hacks focus on persuasion, productivity, and reframing—not deep structural change.

✔️Meditation, Mindset, and Mindfulness can help you relax—but zoning out isn’t the same as honing in and responding in real-time.

💡 Ever tried to hammer a nail with a screwdriver? You might get some kind of result—but it’s not ideal. Most of what you’ve tried has been a tool, not a system.

If you don’t have a way to track and evolve your growth over time, you’ll keep feeling like you’re starting over–even if you have very good tools.

These tools aren’t the problem—they just work best when you know exactly how, when, and where to use them.

That’s why (Re)Evolutionizing isn’t about forcing change.

It works at the structure of perception itself—not just “hammering” new thoughts or habits into place with sheer willpower without the whole picture. 

Instead of constantly applying effort, action becomes natural, aligned, and effortless—because you’re operating from a more evolved intelligence.

Your (Re)Evolution Starts Here. Let’s Begin.

So many trailblazing women are frustrated. 

Not because they aren’t trying hard enough, but because they haven’t been given the right framework to evolve beyond effort.

And no one is hearing you ask for something new.  

But I am.  I hear you.

You’ve invested in personal growth, tried every tool, and yet you still feel stuck. 

Not because you’re failing—but because no one has shown you how to integrate everything you already know into a system that actually works—so you don’t have to keep starting over or stay lost in overwhelm.

💡 You don’t need another tool.

You need a framework that makes your tools work together.

Integrate where you’ve been.  

Reclaim where you are.

(Re)Evolutionize where you’re going next.  

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