LEADER 03848nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910968726103321 005 20080422102702.0 010 $a9798400682261 010 $a9780313348259 010 $a0313348251 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400682261 035 $a(CKB)1000000000707410 035 $a(OCoLC)646790190 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10271281 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000377028 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11282917 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000377028 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10336985 035 $a(PQKB)10852199 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3001267 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10271281 035 $a(OCoLC)923561422 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400682261BC 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3001267 035 $a(BIP)105230421 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000707410 100 $a20080421e20082024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aManaging menopause beautifully $ephysically, emotionally, and sexually /$fDona Caine-Francis 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger,$d2008. 210 2$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Publishing (US),$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (219 p.) 225 1 $aSex, love, and psychology 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9798216114338 311 08$a9780313348242 311 08$a0313348243 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMenopause: physical, emotional, and sexual reinvention -- Menopause basics: what is happening to my body? -- The changing body of the perimenopause and menopause woman -- Hormone therapy -- Reinvent the physical you -- Reinvent the emotional you -- Complementary and alternative strategies for the midlife woman -- Sexual revitalization -- Romeo meets Juliet at age 55!. 330 $aSome 38 million girls were born in the United States between 1946 and 1964, and now about 2 million of them each year are entering the menopausal phase of life. But these Baby Boomers are not docile, do-as-they-are-told, and ask-no-questions women. They insist on full information, options, and participation in the decision-making process regarding how they will navigate this potentially challenging phase. In this breakthrough book, Dona Caine-Francis offers a reader-friendly primer on everything women need to know to remain physically, emotionally, and sexually vibrant before, during, and after menopause. A certified sex therapist and a psychiatric nurse practitioner, Caine-Francis goes beyond the standard explanations and suggestions for menopause. She challenges women to consider the menopausal years a time of opportunity, a chance to seize the day and reinvent the self in three dimensions--physically, emotionally, and sexually. *This book, be forewarned, contains adult material.Special features here include vignettes from therapy sessions for menopausal women and their partners, explanations of the five myths of menopause, a review of hormone therapy of all kinds, complementary and alternative medicine, insights into romance at midlife, and a chapter devoted to partners of these women to help them share an understanding and offering suggestions to keep the fires flamed. Strategies for sexual wellbeing of menopausal women may otherwise and elsewhere be neglected, but Caine-Francis provides a focus to such strategies and offers practical solutions to enhance sexual connections with partners. 410 0$aSex, love, and psychology. 606 $aMenopause$vPopular works 615 0$aMenopause 676 $a618.1/75 700 $aCaine-Francis$b Dona$01795741 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968726103321 996 $aManaging menopause beautifully$94337179 997 $aUNINA