“I Thought She Was Angry At Me All The Time” One husband described menopause this way:“I knew something was changing. I just didn’t know what it was.”At first, he thought it was...

The Stress Of Hot Flashes At Work  A lot of women can handle hot flashes at home.Work is different.Because it is not only the heat itself.It is trying to stay composed while you...

“You’re Just Getting Older” Is Not Always A Helpful Answer A lot of women already know menopause can cause symptoms.What catches many off guard is how quickly those symptoms are...

What Internal Support Really Means Most women think about vaginal dryness as something to deal with in the moment.Something temporary.Something external.Something you only think...

What Finally Helped After Sex Became Painful Recently, I sat down with Pam, 62, to talk about something many women quietly go through but rarely say out loud: what happens when ...

When Menopause Makes Your Body Feel Unfamiliar If you’re going through menopause, you may have noticed how easy it becomes to feel disconnected from your own body. Your clothes ...

What Women Wish They Had Known Before Menopause If you’ve ever suddenly felt anxious, exhausted, emotional, dry, forgetful, or just unlike yourself lately, many of us wish someo...

Dressing for Hot Flashes Without Losing Your Style  Hot flashes have a way of showing up at the most inconvenient times.In the grocery store. During a meeting. Halfway through d...

The Quiet Changes Menopause Can Bring Many of us don’t expect menopause to feel emotional at first.We expect the hot flashes. Maybe the night sweats. We hear about hormones and ...

The Conversation So Many Women Over 50 Avoid  Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Lisa, a long-time user of Pleage’s HydraHer, to talk about her experience navigat...

When Exercise Starts to Feel Like Too Much During Menopause During menopause, a lot of us notice the same shift.Workouts that used to feel manageable start feeling heavier.You f...

Menopause in Your 40s, 50s, and 60s: Why It Feels So Different at Each Stage One of the hardest parts about menopause is how confusing it can be.Because what it feels like in yo...

That shift in your body after a hysterectomy  There’s something a lot of us aren’t told before or after surgery.You’re told the procedure is done. You’re healing. Everything loo...

She Knew Everything About Intimacy… Until This Happened Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Juliette, a long-time user of Pleage’s HydraHer, to talk about her expe...

When your partner doesn’t understand your menopause  There’s a point where things start to feel off.You might not even say it out loud at first. You just notice you’re pulling b...

Why UTIs keep coming back and what dryness has to do with it If you’ve had more than one UTI, you know the feeling.You treat it. It clears. And just when you start to relax… som...

When your body doesn’t feel like home the way it used to There’s a moment that can catch you off guard.When your body doesn’t feel as easy to settle into as it used to.You might...

When your body feels quiet, even when you want more It’s a strange feeling when your own body doesn’t respond the way it used to.Not necessarily painful. Not always obvious.Just...

When Menopause Starts Interrupting Normal, Everyday Moments One of the hardest parts of menopause is not always the big changes.It is the small, inconvenient moments that catch ...

Rebuilding sensation after menopause, gently There’s a point where things start to feel different.Not suddenly. Not dramatically. Just different.If you’re post-menopause, you mi...

When Sex Feels Hard, Connection Doesn’t Have to Disappear There’s a quiet fear that shows up when sex becomes difficult.You start wondering if closeness is slipping away.You lov...

“I Thought That Part of My Life Was Over… Until It Wasn’t” Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Krupa, a long-time user of Pleage’s HydraHer, to talk about her expe...

Gaining Weight During Menopause? Here’s What’s Really Happening If your body started changing during menopause and you felt like it happened out of nowhere, you are not imaginin...

A Note for Women Moving Through Menopause Over the years, I’ve had the chance to hear from so many women about what menopause has really been like for them.One thing I hear from...

From Worry to Comfort Again: A Conversation with Liz Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Liz, a long-time user of Pleage’s HydraHer, to talk about her experience…W...

You thought menopause was over… until dryness showed up Some women move through menopause without too much trouble.Life settles into a new rhythm. Your body feels stable again. ...

Topical Relief vs Internal Support: Why It Might Feel Like You’re Always Managing Dryness Can we talk about something frustrating?You use lubricant.It helps during sex.And then ...

When Menopause Changes How You Feel About Yourself Have you ever caught yourself thinking lately,“I just don’t feel like myself anymore”?Not in a dramatic way. Just quietly.Meno...

When Sex Has Hurt and Your Body Doesn’t Trust It Anymore Let’s talk about the part that is hard to admit.When sex has hurt, even once, something changes.You may still want close...

When Your Body Changes and You Start Blaming Yourself Can I say something out loud that most of us keep to ourselves?When our bodies change in midlife, we take it personally.The...

When Intimacy Starts to Feel Like Pressure Have you noticed that the word intimacy can feel heavy now?Not romantic. Not exciting. Just… loaded.If you are in menopause, you may b...

When You’re So Tired of Trying Things That Don’t Work Have you ever bought something for dryness and not even felt hopeful anymore?You just think, “Fine. I’ll try this too.”That...

Why Stress Changes Intimacy More Than We Realize Have you ever noticed that when life feels heavy, intimacy is the first thing to disappear?Not because you don’t love him.Not be...

Before You Reach for Another Cream… Read This If you’ve already tried a few creams and the dryness keeps coming back, it’s worth pausing.But what if the dryness isn’t just dryne...

How to Start the Conversation When You’re Afraid It Will Hurt Can I be honest?Sometimes it’s not the pain that scares us the most. It’s the look on his face if we tell the truth...

Why Internal Hydration Matters, and Where HydraHer Fits In If you are reading this because dryness keeps coming back, even after you have tried creams, gels, or quick fixes, the...

Karin’s Story: “I Thought I Just Had to Accept This” Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Karin, a long time user of Pleage’s HydraHer, to talk about her experience...

The Changes That Don’t Announce Themselves One of the most frustrating parts of menopause is not knowing whether anything is actually improving.There is no clear moment where yo...

When Healing Isn’t Linear, We Need a New Definition of Progress If you’ve ever wondered, “Am I actually getting better, or am I just stuck?” you’re not alone.For many of us, dis...

What the First Month on HydraHer Can Really Feel Like If you have just started HydraHer, or you are thinking about it, you might be wondering what you are supposed to notice fir...

When intimacy starts to feel harder, self blame often comes first If intimacy has started to feel complicated, you have probably already tried blaming yourself.Maybe you told yo...

When Discomfort Turns Into Distance and How It Slowly Happens If you have ever found yourself avoiding closeness, not because you do not care, but because your body feels unreli...

How to Bring This Up at an Appointment Without Feeling Embarrassed If you have ever left an appointment thinking, “I should have said something,” you are not alone.You might hav...

The Little Words That Can Change Everything Sometimes it is not the big conversations that change intimacy.It is the tiny moments where something feels off and you decide whethe...

It usually starts with avoiding the topic For many of us, embarrassment does not look dramatic.It looks like avoiding.Not finishing an article. Skimming past certain words. Feel...

When Dryness Has Been Your Normal for Years If you’ve been dealing with dryness for years, not months, not a short phase, this probably isn’t new information anymore.You’ve trie...

When trying starts to feel heavy If you’ve ever stood in the supplement aisle or scrolled another product page and felt your shoulders sink, you’re not alone. Not hopeful. Not c...

When “Not Tonight” Starts Feeling Safer Than Trying If you’ve been saying “not tonight” more often than you ever thought you would, you’re not imagining things.For many of us, i...

What’s Actually Changing Down There (And Why It Feels So Sudden) If you’ve ever had that moment where you think, “Why does this suddenly feel different?” you’re not imagining it...

The Conversation We Keep Putting Off (And Why It Matters) There’s a moment many of us recognize.You want to say something to your partner, your doctor, even a close friend, but ...