Hi, I’m Jen Kunkel & in my early 20s, I escaped teen depression through a deep interest in fitness, personal growth, meditation & yoga (before yoga was trendy again… I actually learned it from a book.}
I bought into what was being hyped in the fitness & nutrition industry. I was naive enough to believe I was learning cutting edge stuff… the fat free trend (it was the 90s)… which actually meant more SUGAR & more processed, unrecognizable ingredients.
I now know this is terrible for us & still, almost all packaged foods are filled with ingredients that disrupt our endocrine systems & our gut health… which ties to our physical AND emotional health… especially when menopause comes on.
In my 40s, I thought I was having a mental breakdown… I was clueless about the emotional symptoms of perimenopause. I just thought I was losing it! Since meditation and similar practices helped me overcome depression in my teens, that’s what I went to & thankfully, it worked.
It also led me down this path I’m on now. I delved deeper into the mind-body-emotion connection, learning other modalities and creating my own based on intuition and divine inspiration.
I recognized how much this work was helping me escape from the ruts I found myself in due to menopause and how it ultimately allowed me to minimize the negative impact of my overall menopause journey. When I discovered this connection, I saw dramatic improvements in my quality of life, my physical well-being and especially my emotional state.
As I entered this world of menopause, I could see that we don’t talk about it enough. Women feel confused, lost and alone. Too many doctors are either clueless about it, give conflicting info, only want to push cookie cutter meds, or all of the above.
I believe we put too much faith in an establishment that puts $$ over health.
I’m tired of seeing so many women struggling, hating life and barely getting by. Or feeling they have to resort to meds they don’t really want to take, worrying about potential side effects or not being able to ever got off them.
Because of this, I am on a mission to empower women to take control of their own physical, mental and emotional well-being, to make sure they have the BEST quality of life possible. I mean, it’s menopause, we’re not frickin’ dead, so we don’t need to stop living.
We can THRIVE and we can do it the way we want to… no meds, no HRT, we don’t even have to take supplements, if you don’t want to.
