Menopause: A Self Help Approach

The Menopause Kit, put together by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC), includes information about menopause, its symptoms, herbal, non-medicinal, and self-help methods of alleviating the symptoms of menopause. The kit also includes a menopause chart, a list of resources on menopause available at the VWHC, information on hormone replacement therapy (HRT), hysterectomy, and sexuality in relation to menopause, and poems on women and menopause. Rather than treating menopause as a disease, the VWHC encourages women to see the positive and empowering aspects of menopause, through the self help approach to dealing with this phase of a woman's life.