Krisha’s Boldest Life Initiation
Full-Length Testimonial Story
Before the program, every time I would trip and fall figuratively, I would blame myself for some perceived shortcoming. Or I would feel imposter syndrome. But then the tools we’ve learned remind me that I’m so much more. Instead of automatically thinking every shortcoming or perceived failure is devastating, our practices remind me to use a different lens and to remember that I’m powerful and a badass and all those amazing things about me that I can focus on instead. From there, I can see more clearly what is in my way - sometimes it’s myself, or a boundary that I need to set with another person, or a circumstance that is outside of my control. As someone who grew up people pleasing and fawning and making sure everything’s okay for everyone else, the program has really caused me to see how clicking back into all those old ways of being is bullshit.
Before I used to believe that bullshit, but not now. I used to hear a tape run in my head, but I’ve come to: “Oh no, we did this for the first half of life already, and we are so done doing this.”
Also, being with the group has caused me to see myself through the lens of these beautiful women and to hear what they would tell me instead - how they would point out where my self-berating logic is flawed, and tell me to use my badassery to lift myself up out of those old tapes running in my head. Plus they would lift me up too.
Now if I feel stuck or a way I don’t want to feel, I give myself permission to really feel into what I need and desire. Before I would deprive myself of what I needed the most. But now when I feel like I’m running on empty, I heaven forbid “selfishly” think about what I need and desire and want and how to get it and ask for it. Rather than stuffing that down.
And honestly, along the way, as this self-care was beginning to take root, for a time I was like a phoenix of rage with napalm eyes that wanted to burn everything to the ground - I had to uncover and unearth that, which didn’t feel great, but it was necessary to discover the new balance.
I speak up now when I’m not getting what I need. And I allow myself to notice in the first place..

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