Ask Dali Mama

DEAR DALI MAMA:

I’m in my early forties and might be getting signs of early menopause. I have been very emotional the past 15 months though I put this down to emotional release through healing—I live in Brazil and get healing from John of God. I cry at the silliest thing and an annoying thought can spiral me into an internal emotional drama for the remainder of the day.

I have also periods every three weeks now, sometimes twice a month (before it was every 28 days).

Do you think it could be early menopause? Or is some of it healing related (physically and emotionally)? I know nothing about how to balance my hormones…

Also, is there any way my fertility can be prolonged? (I want to have a child in the not so distant future if possible). Thank you for helping.

– Completely Clueless (Brazil)

DEAR COMPLETELY:

Probably the first thing you might want to do is consult your doctor and get an exam and possibly a blood-chemistry test so that he/she can look at your hormone levels and make sure nothing else is going on. Once you do that, if you like, I can point you in the direction of some websites that can give you information on alternative treatments based on your blood-chemistry results. I don’t want to recommend phytoestrogens or anything like that because they might be contraindicated for you, depending on what all is going on.

Irregular periods and mood swings can certainly be signs of perimenopause, but your doctor can give you a better idea from your blood tests. The emotional sensitivity can be part of your growth period from being down in Brazil and getting healings over as well in terms of releasing energy and shifting your vibration. Some of your physical symptoms could be a result of the energy work you’ve been doing as well since sometimes healings cause occasionally exacerbate existing symptoms.

And since you’re down in Brazil, perhaps you could ask for healings on hormone balance and fertility as well as finding the right person to have a child with if you haven’t already.

As far as the energetic aspects of your questions, here are some things to consider. Hormone imbalances are related to the need to balance the male and female energies that run within each person. For example, when we need more female hormones for an optimal balance, that can correspond to either/both needing to expand our energetic receptiveness/havingness/passive creation energy (a more yin energy) with our active male creative energy (yang energy). Both energies are necessary for balanced hormones as well as in the conception of a child.

Here is a link that might be helpful: http://www.webmd.com/menopause/guide/guide-perimenopause. I also recommend you check out some of Dr. Christine Northrup’s books as well.

Feel free to write in again when you get your blood-test results from your doctor and perhaps I can give you more detailed suggestions at that point.

NOTE TO READERS: SORRY I’VE BEEN GONE SO LONG. HAVE BEEN WORKING ON SOME DEADLINES. SHOULD BE MOSTLY BACK TO MY REGULAR SCHEDULE NOW.