Sasha Davies

SASHA DAVIES has been (among other things) a restaurant owner, barista, cheese monger, and cave manager. She has written two books about cheesemaking and also self-published Menopause: An Imperfect Guide.

Tori Hudson

TORI HUDSON, MD, is a naturopathic physician, clinical professor, and nationally recognized expert on menopause. She is the medical director of A Woman’s Time, founder/co-director of Naturopathic Education and Residency Consortium, and author of Women’s Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine.

"The book grounds us in a deep understanding of the menstrual cycle so that we can understand what’s happening as the body transitions from ovulatory cycles into menopause. It offers a wide range of resources, from how to understand hormone replacement terminology to asking the big questions like, 'who am I now?' Moving quotes from women experiencing or having already experienced the transition from peri to post are interwoven throughout, punctuating the pages with a feeling of companionship and solidarity. I will be recommending The Menopause Companion widely!" —Nicole Jardim, certified women’s health coach and author of Fix Your Period

"Due to the misogynistic period stigma of our society, menstruation is often seen as an indicator of a menstruator’s utility—labeling their sole purpose as being the ability to reproduce. Thus, menopause is then framed as when that person might lose that usefulness. To battle this stigma, we need a fundamental shift to radically change how we consider, think, talk, and educate ourselves about periods/menopause, and also eradicate the way we value humans simply by some sort of patriarchal understanding of ‘utility’ in the first place. Reading The Menopause Companion is an amazing tool to aid in this conversation and to support reframing the experience around menopause to be a more empowering and understood one." —Nadya Okamoto, CEO and cofounder of August and author of Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement