If you’re suffering from BAD menopause symptoms…

It’s time to wake the warrior within.

Bad Symptoms Warrior

Activate kickass inner strength to deal with your bad menopause symptoms.

*For those in peri or post menopause.

Feel empowered because of your bad symptoms.

Rather than defeated.

Your bad menopause symptoms are a portal to power.

And that’s no pollyanna “just think positive” obnoxiousness. We’re harnessing the grit and struggle to...

• Go from hijacked by your bad symptoms to empowered by the inner strength they activate.

• Amplify that inner strength with a group of fellow Bad Symptoms Warrior sisters doing the same.

• Direct that same strength into other areas of your life - it’s the key to your wildly fulfilling next chapter too!

Become the woman who can handle even this.

Who in fact becomes stronger because of it.

In Bad Symptoms Warrior, you will:

• Stop feeling hijacked by your symptoms and start feeling steady, grounded and capable again - even on the hard days.

• Stand unshakably in an inner strength that is an edge for you, and that is key for navigating your symptoms.

• Watch doors open to your most fulfilling next chapter because of this same inner strength.

• Embody a “this is MY era” attitude instead of “just coping”.

• Advocate for yourself with newfound confidence — with your partner, family, doctor, or anyone.

• Feel less alone, less “crazy” and deeply supported by a circle of women who get what you’re going through because they’re going through it too.

Note: This is not a treatment, exercise or medical advice program. That’s the domain of your health providers.

This is a personal growth container to access internal strength that is key for how you handle your symptoms.

“Uh, wait, so how does this happen?

I would never have thought of these heinous symptoms as a portal to strength lol…”

Hi, I’m Lisa Hunter, your Bad Symptoms Warrior guide.

Here’s how I stepped into kickass inner strength to navigate my symptoms.

It’s the same inner strength that has made my entire midlife so much more fulfilling than it was before I tapped into my Bad Symptoms Warrior...

My warrior story will be your story too.

Just with different symptoms.

And your unique inner strength activated.

My unique combo of bad menopause symptoms:

Hot flashes, brain fog, exhaustion, impaired digestion and major mood swings, but the one that takes the cake - vaginal changes that have made it nearly impossible to have sex.

Yeah, thank you menopause… you SUCK!!

Luckily, I knew that…

Menopause is a major passage from one life stage to the next, and that every major passage dishes out a seemingly-insurmountable challenge or trial.

The trial requires that, in order to swashbuckle the challenges, you must step into an internal strength that you’ve never before embodied.

The particular internal strength that my bad symptoms made me claim:

In order to even attempt to have sex again, I had to start telling my husband exactly what I did and didn’t need or want.

It changed my life.

Not just my sex life, but my career, my relationships with family and friends, and even my relationship with my body and voice.

The strength of speaking the hardest truths rather than stuffing them down - well, that is a skill I would have been too afraid to claim had it not been for my bad menopause symptoms.

But because of the symptoms, I had to.

Thank you, menopause??

(Never thought I’d hear myself say that!!)

So what is the inner strength that you are being called to claim in order to deal with your bad menopause symptoms?

Let’s listen for your Warrior Call.

Place one hand on your heart and one on your belly. Take a breath.

Now… think of one symptom that’s been driving you mad.

Feel the deep frustration that it causes.

And ask that symptom:

What strength are you demanding I claim?

What fire in me are you trying to wake up?

Then listen. Your body knows.

This right here is your initiation.

It isn’t a breakdown, it’s a breakthrough.

Because you, beauty, are not here to “just manage symptoms.”

You’re here to rise in spite of them.

Welcome to your Bad Symptoms Warrior era.

There is an inner strength unique to you, that you are meant to wield and are about to claim.

Your bad menopause symptoms are the portal to claiming that inner strength.

Bad Symptoms Warrior

4-Week Online Incubator

For Those In Peri Or Post Menopause

Over four weeks, you’ll go from feeling overwhelmed by your bad symptoms to rooted inner strength that changes how you handle menopause — and how you live the rest of your life.

*Anyone with challenging menopause symptoms can join. If your symptoms are affecting your quality of life, then your Bad Symptoms Warrior is key!

4 Zoom Sister Circle Sessions

• Experiential Activities

Group and individual activities that are cognitive, emotional and somatic to engage your mind, heart and body.

• Rituals, Ceremonies & Spiritual Guidance

To discover the unique internal strength that is awakening in you - not only the key to navigate your bad menopause symptoms, but also the key to live your most wildly fulfilling midlife.

• Session Length & Group Size

Sessions are 2 hours each, with a max group size of 13 for intimacy and the richness of varied experiences.

Action Pack

Digital download to guide you between sessions to live by this new inner strength in your daily life.

Online Incubator

Log in to our incubator portal for discussion threads to share between sessions, plus be supported by others who understand your experience and cheer you on.

Session 1: Awaken

Feel the relief of being truly seen, heard, and understood as you share about your challenging symptoms with women who are struggling too. This frees up energy you’ve been spending just “holding it together”.

Reframe your symptoms as part of a meaningful life passage, one that’s calling something powerful forward in you. Without pretending the symptoms don’t suck.

Name the exact inner strength your symptoms are awakening — the one that not only changes how you deal with symptoms, but that betters your life.

Session 2: Break Free

Release the fears, habits, and internal patterns that have kept you from this awakening strength.

Activate the courage to break rules so you can stand solidly in this strength as you manage your symptoms.

Begin feeling like you again, even with the symptoms in play - a newer, stronger you.

Session 3: Become Unshakeable

Practice living this strength in real-time, so it’s rooted in your body, natural and unshakeable.

Feel empowered by your symptoms - even if they suck, they have awakened something unstoppable in you, and that changes how you live your life.

Feel the strength so solidly within that you start to live it in every area of your life, not just while managing your symptoms.

Session 4: Live The Strength

See how this strength transforms not just symptom navigation, but your relationships, purpose, creativity, and daily life.

Take concrete steps toward your most desired life changes, now feeling the internal power and strength to create them.

Mega-Cool Bonus

Access To Our In-Person Summer Retreats

Whenever we have them. Typically it’s a day retreat in Boulder, Colorado once a year in a beautiful indoor space on wild land to roam.

Meet your Free Your Menopause sisters in-person, and deepen all that you’ve been cultivating in our Free Your Menopause programs. Your retreat ticket is free — just take care of food and lodging.

There’s nothing like in-person!

It’s optional, but oh babe, we really want you there.

Hi I’m Lisa, Your Guide

If you read my own bad symptoms story above, you know that I’ve walked the fire of the Bad Symptoms Warrior firsthand. 

As an Interspiritual Minister with a specialty in life passages, I was lucky to know that every major life passage presents a defining trial that requires us to claim strength we’ve not yet claimed. I was also lucky enough to realize: “Ah! One of the ways the big trial shows up during the menopause passage is via bad menopause symptoms.”

Which puts a completely different spin on bad symptoms: an opportunity to claim strength that you would have been too chicken to claim otherwise ;) 

Let’s take this opportunity by the storm! I know the path and will guide you to this life-changing strength that is awakening in you right now.  

Sign Up Here!

FAQ

If you’ve still got questions, here’s a bunch more intel about the program!

General FAQ’s

  • Yes! If you are having bad symptoms that are affecting your quality of life and in any stage of your menopause journey. Perimenopause is if you’re having menopause symptoms and you’re still getting your period, even irregularly. Post menopause is if you’ve reached 12 months without a period. The Bad Symptoms Warrior process is powerful for women in perimenopause and also for women in post menopause.

  • Great question! And nope, this isn’t a health or medical course. This program is for the inner personal growth work that makes all the difference in how you approach snf nsvigate your menopause symptoms. To address your symptoms on a physical health or medical level, please reach out to your health providers. 

  • Yes, all sessions are online for this program. It’s amazing how much connection we can foster even in Zoom meetings. It’s all about the experiences and activities provided - these will ensure that you experience real connection. 

    AND a cool in-person bonus: If you participate in a Free Your Menopause 4-week or 6-week program on Zoom, you automatically receive a ticket to our once-yearly in-person retreat. These usually happen in the summer in Boulder, Colorado USA. The retreat is a day-long immersion and all you have to do is pay for your food and lodging - the retreat itself is free for you. This is a wonderful way to meet your program sisters in person, plus also other participants from other Free Your Menopause programs.   

  • That’s another important question, glad you asked. And yes, to participate, you are required to show yourself on video during our Zoom meetings. This creates the safety that we need to have a container where we can go deep. If one or more participants aren’t showing themselves on Zoom, it will feel as if there are strangers in the room and it will be hard to open up. So yes, we definitely want to see you!

    And yes, you’ll be sharing personally. It’s really what makes the program so powerful. Sharing your own truths and having them witnessed by others is empowering and cathartic. Hearing others’ truths will give you insight into yours, plus there is also healing and catharsis in being the witness. 

    Most find that once they see how real and judgment-free this space is, they want to share. There’s something magical that happens when you realize everyone else is navigating the same wild ride, and that our collective sharing creates a “whole is greater than the sum of its parts” synergy for all. 

  • Lisa Hunter, founder of Free Your Menopause. Read all about the Free Your Menopause mission and Lisa here :)

  • Important question. No, this is not therapy. 

    This is guided life passage work facilitated by Lisa who is an Interspiritual Minister. This work guides you to understand menopause as a major life passage, and within that context helps you navigate the various challenges and opportunities that surface during a major life passage, which not coincidentally are the main topics of each program ;)

    In some cases you might find that emotions or issues that come up would be best helped by therapy, in which case you can work with a therapist too. 

    Bottomline, this program can beautifully complement therapy, but it is not a substitute for therapy.

  • Nope. You just have to be navigating peri or post menopause. You’ll hear words like “rite of passage” and “sacred,” but there’s no dogma, religion, or belief system to sign onto. This work IS spiritual in that you will feel deeply and connect with your own important truths, plus also feel connected with others. You can do that whether you see yourself as a “spiritual” person or not, and whether you’ve been in programs like this before or if this your very first one.

  • Yes — absolutely. This space honors the full spectrum of identities, bodies, and lived experiences. If you are a person navigating menopause, you belong here.

    We do use the word “woman” on this site, which does not apply to all in peri or post menopause AND we welcome everyone who is experiencing this transition.

  • If you sign up, then attend the first session and decide it’s not for you, then let us know via email within 24 hours of the end of that first session and you can have a full refund, less the transaction fees to receive and refund your money (usually around $25 total).

  • Yes, all sessions are recorded. You’ll have access online for one year, and then you’ll be given the option to download the videos when the year of access comes to an end. So you can revisit the process any time you need a refresh. You can also download the videos to keep on your own devices at any time, not just when the year is up. 

    And if you miss a session, it will be posted in the online portal within 24 hours. You’ll also have all the Action Pack between-session prompts and support inside the group space — you won’t miss a beat.

Bad Symptoms Warrior FAQ’s

  • There are four sessions on Zoom. Each session is 2 hours in length. You’ll use your downloadable Action Pack between sessions to guide you in an in-real-life practice, and you’ll share about how it’s going in the discussion thread in your group’s online portal. 

    Each group is small and cozy — minimum of 5 women and max of 13 women — so that we have the benefit of intimacy and really getting to know each other, while also varied experiences and perspectives.

    If you haven’t already, earlier on this page you can read in-depth here about how the sessions are facilitated.

    And earlier on this page you can read in-depth here about the focus and outcome for each session.

    Each week builds on the last, guiding you out of cultural conditioning → personal clarity → confident change & choice → celebration. 

  • The symptoms don’t matter — the strength they are calling forward is what matters. Each participant’s symptoms act as the doorway to unique power. Every story is welcome here.

  • This program is not a medical or symptom-treatment program. Your healthcare team supports your physical body. This program supports your power, your voice, your emotional resilience, and your ability to navigate what’s happening with clarity and strength. Many report feeling less overwhelmed and more in control — not because symptoms disappear, but because they become stronger.

  • That’s exactly what we discover together. You don’t need to know ahead of time — the process itself reveals it. It tends to show up clearly and powerfully once we name the pattern your symptoms are pushing you to address.

  • If your symptoms are no longer just physical — if they are affecting your confidence, relationships, work, self-worth, sense of identity or simply your quality of life —then this is for you and it’s time. You don’t have to be “ready.” You just have to be done doing this alone.

  • Everything we do is designed to give you energy back, not take more from you. Sharing your experience, being understood, and getting grounded in your strength actually lifts the emotional load you’ve been carrying alone.

  • You don’t need to be suffering at a certain level. You just need to have a strong sense that is more of you ready to come forward, and something important for you in this process. If you feel a spark, a pull, a curiosity, that’s your warrior calling. You’re already in.

Sign up for Bad Symptoms Warrior!