Do you have to use such bad language?

I do.

WhoTF is this Carrie Murphy person?

I am a doctor of Chinese Medicine living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

WTF is this site????

I made this for you and your friends because perimenopause and menopause suck, but we don’t have to do it alone, and we don’t have to go in blind.

WTF is the goal of this?

To share information and forge community. Also, to come up with a more useful definition of menopause than “Twelve months without menstruating” which doesn’t really tell the story. Let’s tell the story.

WTF is your current working definition of menopause?

A healthy and normal but often uncomfortable and confusing years-long hormonal transition, like puberty in reverse, at the end of which we will be a changed but recognizable version of ourselves.

Should I be taking hormones?

I don’t know, man. There is a different answer for every person at every turn of this thing. What I want is for you to get geared up with facts and thoughts so you can ask some great questions and partner with the doctor and medicine of your choice in creating the health you want.

Who are some other hot geniuses I should know about?

Karen Arthur of Menopause Whilst Black is the A-number-one real deal. Absolutely great work.

I love Jessamyn Stanley and appreciate her all day every day. Her book is amazing and she teaches naked yoga on Only Fans and just generally lights up every space. Authentic and hilarious.

Catherine la O’ is an extensively trained and unusually skillful yoga teacher and life coach who is masterful at shadow work and getting you out of your stories and into your body. Couldn’t love her any more.

Whose land are you on?

"Land acknowledgement is about listening, it is about remembering, and it is about rejecting invisibility. It's about acknowledging the voice of creation, a voice that will continue to speak whether we listen or not. And if we are learning anything in America in the twenty-first century, it's that restoration and healing are desperately needed." - Kaitlin Curtice, citizen of Potawatomi Nation

We in Milwaukee live and work on land seized from Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee people. Along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet, the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida, and Mohican nations remain present.

What else have you got to say?

I talked with the brilliant Alka Bromiley on her wonderful podcast “Changing Platforms” on Spotify. You can listen here.