This Week at The After Party: The Body Rebellion

 🥂 Opening Toast 

To the flushes, the fog, the fierce new clarity. Our bodies are not breaking; they’re broadcasting a new frequency.

When your body starts talking back, listen.

Perimenopause has been branded as decline; the fog, the flushes, the fatigue, when in truth, it’s your body calling for a full-scale rewrite. This isn’t rebellion against you; it’s rebellion for you.

Our hormones are messengers, not mutineers. They’re saying: slow down. Shift priorities. Reroute energy toward what actually matters.

Some days it feels like chaos, other days like clarity. But make no mistake — this is power reassembling itself.

Nearly 1 billion women worldwide will be in menopause this year, according to the World Health Organization, that’s about 12% of the global population. 

Yet for most of us, the medical system still treats this transition as an afterthought. No wonder so many of us are taking matters (and magnesium) into our own hands.

To the women waking up drenched and defiant, to the ones Googling “why am I so tired?” at 2AM, and to every woman learning to inhabit her changing body with grace and grit, this rebellion is your reminder: you’re not unraveling, you’re realigning.

So raise a glass (or magnesium mocktail) to the uprising happening under your skin. It’s not the end of youth, it’s the start of embodiment.

💋
— Robyn Cohen & The After Party Crew

🎤 Mic Drop

Balance isn’t found — it’s negotiated daily.

Every day is a recalibration. One night of disrupted sleep, one skipped workout, one stressful meeting, and the entire hormonal orchestra responds. The myth of “balance” suggests there’s a perfect point to reach and hold.

The truth? It’s a dance. Some days you lead; other days, your body does.

🔍 Ask Yourself

• Where am I still trying to control something my body is asking me to surrender

• What might happen if I stopped chasing balance, and started practicing alignment?

✍️ Challenge of The Week

Track how your energy, focus, or mood shifts throughout the week, not to “fix” it, but to observe it.

👉 Download the Balance app and note what your body’s telling you.
Then, swap one act of depletion (scrolling, saying yes when you mean no) for one act of replenishment.

📚 Want To Go Deeper?

Here are a couple of great articles that reinforce this week’s theme:

• Menopause Needs a Societal Rethink — DW explores a series of studies from the Lancet that says we need a new approach to how society views menopause.

• Women Have Been Mislead About Menopause — The New York Times discusses the evolving science of menopause, hormone therapy timing, safety, and benefits for managing symptoms and improving long-term health outcomes.

• After Decades of Misunderstanding, Menopause is Finally Having Its Moment — Yale School of Medicine calls for a more accurate understanding of menopause as a complex biological process rather than an abrupt change, and stresses the importance of rethinking medical approaches.

🪞 Note to Self

“I’m not losing control; I’m gaining fluency in my own chemistry.”

👑 The Guest List

Dr. Mary Claire Haver — Physician. Author. Menopause Revolutionary.

She’s leading a movement to reframe menopause as a medical frontier, not a mystery. Her work gives women evidence-based tools to navigate perimenopause and beyond with science, strength, and self-respect.

When Dr. Mary Claire Haver first began treating patients in midlife, she noticed a pattern that couldn’t be ignored. Smart, successful women—CEOs, teachers, mothers, marathoners—were suddenly struggling with fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, and a sense that their own bodies had turned against them. Yet most were being told to “just exercise more” or “wait it out.”

That wasn’t good enough.

So, she did what every great disruptor does: she built something better.

From that frustration came The Galveston Diet, a science-based nutrition and lifestyle program designed specifically for women in midlife to manage inflammation, metabolism, and hormonal shifts. What started as a small pilot with her patients exploded into a global movement, now helping hundreds of thousands of women reclaim their energy, clarity, and confidence.

In 2021, she founded Mary Claire Wellness, one of the only medical practices in the country devoted exclusively to menopausal care. Her philosophy is clear: women deserve more than vague advice and outdated assumptions. They deserve medical precision, data-driven solutions, and providers who listen.

Her “Menopause Toolkit” integrates lifestyle medicine, hormone therapy when indicated, nutritional guidance, and strength training, an evidence-based, personalized approach that treats women as complex systems, not symptoms to suppress.

Dr. Haver holds board certification in obstetrics and gynecology and is a Certified Menopause Practitioner. She earned her M.D. from Louisiana State University Medical Center, completed her residency at The University of Texas Medical Branch, and today is a sought-after speaker, educator, and advocate. Her bestselling book, The New Menopause, is both a manifesto and a manual for the next generation of midlife medicine.

With more than three million followers across social platforms, Dr. Haver has become one of the most influential voices in women’s health. She’s changing how the world talks about menopause — replacing stigma with science, silence with storytelling, and shame with sovereignty.

“Menopause isn’t an ending,” she says. “It’s your body’s evolution toward wisdom — a stage that deserves celebration, not survival.”

Through her clinics, courses, and community, she continues to prove that knowledge really is hormonal power, and that this new era of medicine belongs to women who refuse to be invisible.

🔍 Want to Learn More About Dr. Mary Claire? Check out the links below! 

📚 The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts — Take charge of your health with this invaluable guide to everything a woman needs to know about menopause

🎧 How to Navigate Menopause & Perimenopause for Maximum Health & Vitality — Dr. Mary Claire Haver discusses with Andrew Huberman, the biology and symptoms of perimenopause and menopause, and their effects on body composition, cardiometabolic health, mental health, and longevity.

🎥 Your Top Menopause Questions—Answered by Dr. Mary Claire Haver! — This is a previously recorded live Q & A that Dr. Haver offered on social media, answering all your burning questions!

 🎁 Party Favors

This week’s favors are all about helping you kickstart your power era.

📚 Try it! Relizen: Hot flash & night sweat relief by Bonafide — Relizen® is a safe, hormone-free solution that’s clinically tested to relieve menopausal hot flashes and night sweats, improving daytime comfort and quality of sleep.

🧴 Use it! Press Pause by Synergie Skin — This specialized serum is formulated for women over 40 to address hormonal skin changes associated with perimenopause and menopause. It features active ingredients that support collagen production, hydrate, and protect against aging signs while calming sensitive skin.

👚 Wear It! Menopause Soft Pajamas Set by Postures Shop — This pajamas set is designed to provide cooling and comfort for women experiencing menopause. Made from moisture-wicking, silky materials, it offers an immediate cooling sensation and a comfortable feel.

📣 Last Call…

Before we turn the lights up...

You’re part of a growing circle of women rewriting midlife—and that’s worth celebrating. Here’s how to keep the movement alive:

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Until next week,