A friend was talking to me about the “doldrums”.
She was recounting a story about a group of women who were sailing from Hawaii to California, and while out in the middle of the Pacific they experienced the doldrums.
Now not being much of a sailor, as well as someone who rarely lets a word that I don’t understand go by me, I asked her for further explanation.
It turns out that to sailors, being in the doldrums means being out at sea with NO wind…..NO movement.
So these women waited 10 days for a wind to carry them along. Just sat and waited.
And as it turns out, when the doldrums come, garbage also just sits and waits for a breeze. So while they were waiting for the doldrums to pass more and more garbage piled up all around their boat.
I was fascinated by this story. Always in search of a great metaphor, I couldn’t let this one float by me.
How many times and how often during menopause do we feel in the doldrums?
Hot flashes, lack of energy, lack of motivation, lack of joy, lack of fun and playtime……..these challenges and feelings strike us all at one time or another.
And when this happens our own garbage starts stewing and we can feel stuck waiting for that breeze to carry us forward.
One of the reasons I launched this blog was to create a community of women who would encourage each other when the wind seems out of our sails and we’re in need of a fresh breeze!
It’s only natural that the doldrums visit us all from time to time.
So if you’ve been in the doldrums lately, post a comment on the blog and let us know.
There are so many ways we can get going again and I am here to help you launch those sails!
Let’s learn to use the doldrums as a signal to perhaps rethink, recreate and reenergize ourselves so that we keep the wind at our backs!
shelli
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