21 modules · self-paced
Understands and advocates for herself.
A word before you begin
Welcome to the Certified Integrative Menopause Champion. This level makes you a woman who understands what is happening to her and advocates for herself. Those five words are the scope of it, and they are exact. It does not qualify you to take responsibility for another woman's menopause. You can tell her what you learned, hand her the source rather than your conclusion, and go with her as yourself. What this level does not give you is the authority to do it as anything other than yourself. And it does not make you your own clinician. It exists to make the conversation with a clinician a good one, not to replace it.
The Curriculum
Each of the five parts opens with a written introduction. Every module has a clear reading written to you rather than about you, and three knowledge checks you mark yourself. Completing them opens the next module.
Part A
What is actually happening to your body — the parts, the hormones, the cycle, and the map of the transition.
The Parts, and Where They Are
Nine parts of your own body, where each one sits, and what it does. There is no menopause in this module at all.
What Menopause Actually Is
Three words get used as if they were one. Perimenopause, menopause, postmenopause. Nearly every confusing conversation you have ever had about this, including the ones with yourself at four in the morning, starts right there.
Am I In It? Reading Your Own Signals
You want to know whether this is it. That is the question underneath almost every search you have made, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a shrug.
The Silent Decade, 35 to 45
Between about thirty-five and forty-five something is already under way, and almost none of it gets attributed correctly at the time.
What Is Not Menopause, and How Fast to Act
The next two modules are a long guide to symptoms. This one comes first on purpose.
Part B
The symptoms, honestly. What each one is, what else it could be, and when to act.
The Symptom Field Guide, Part One: The Five It Causes
Five symptoms. Only five, and that is the point of the module.
The Symptom Field Guide, Part Two: Everything Else
Everything that gets attached to menopause and did not make the list of five.
Hot Flushes, Night Sweats and the Broken Thermostat
Module 5 gave you the mechanism in a paragraph. This module gives you the whole thing, because it is the symptom most women come for and the one where the market takes the most money for the least effect.
Sleep
Ask a woman in this decade what she would take first if she could only have one thing back, and it is usually sleep.
Mind and Mood
This is the module where the market is loudest and the evidence is most careful, and the gap between those two things has cost women a great deal.
Brain Fog, Honestly
Most women in this transition report it, and a great many of them are quietly frightened that it is the beginning of dementia.
Sex, Intimacy and the Change That Does Not Settle
This is the module most women skip, and it is the one where skipping costs most.
Bones, Heart, and the Years After
Everything so far has been about symptoms. This module is about the things that are not symptoms at all, which is exactly why they get ignored.
Part C
Treatment, claims and the appointment — evidence, options, and how to get what you need.
Treatment: What Exists, What It Does, What It Does Not
This is the longest module in the course and the one you may have skipped ahead to.
The Appointment: Getting Treated Properly
Everything in this course arrives at a fifteen-minute appointment. If that goes badly, none of the rest of it happened.
Supplements, Herbs and How to Read a Claim
You are going to be sold things. A great many things, by people who are warm and confident and often sincere.
Part D
Living in it — eating, movement, work, and the story you were handed.
Eating, Honestly
There is more nonsense written about food and menopause than about anything else in this course, and it is the area where you are most likely to be sold a plan.
Moving: Strength First
Two claims, and they are both true at once, which is why this module has to be careful.
Work, and the Cost of Saying Nothing
The whole of this module turns on one word, and it is not menopause.
Culture, Family and the Story You Were Handed
Nobody arrives at this with an empty head.
Part E
Your plan — pulling everything together into one page you can actually use.
What Now: Your Plan on One Page
Twenty modules, and if none of it turns into a page you can carry, it was reading rather than learning.
Parts
5
Modules
21
Lessons
21
What's included
01
A written introduction opens each of the five parts. Learn on any device.
02
Editorial writing written to you, not about you. Read at your own pace.
03
Symptom tracker, red-flag card, referral template and more.
04
Awarded on passing the forty-item final assessment at 70% or better. That assessment is marked by AI against the course's model answers. Every borderline result is reviewed by a person before it stands, a sample of the rest is reviewed as well, and you can ask for a human review of your own result at any time, at no cost. How AI marking works
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