Lynette Sheppard Registered Nurse

Hoolehua, Hawaii
I'm a Registered Nurse, but these days my job (read passion) is connecting with and disseminating... Full Bio
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Pausitive Changes by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause My husband once remarked that it was a wonder that more couples don’t get divorced during the Big M transition. And certainly it’s true that if we who are undergo ... Read on »
I’m Not Depressed, I’m Just Hot, Sleepy, and Crabby by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause My friend, M (you’ll remember her as the Menopausal Squirrel), felt pretty good about her health care practitioners. She liked and trusted her gynecologist right up unti ... Read on »
Finding Your Passion…Or Just Passionettes by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause “I LIKE it but I just don’t know if it’s my PASSION.” Finding a life’s passion was a theme for some of our early (and recent) discussions at the ... Read on »
Menopause Makes Us Squirrely by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause I’ve started collecting Menopause Moments; real-life vignettes of all the wild and weird sequelae of the Big M. Why? Because when these RIDICULOUS things happen, we mis ... Read on »
Dancing with Menopause and Midlife by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause If life is a dance, Menopause just might be an unwanted dance partner. But we can’t refuse to dance, so we just have to find new steps or laugh when we can’t remem ... Read on »
Menopause Moments by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause One of my girlfriends is newly in the throes of perimenopause. And she has just experienced her first full-on Menopause Moment. Yep, one of those mental lapses that previous ... Read on »
Welcome to the New Menopause Goddess Blog – Woo Hoo by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause A while back, a number of Menopause Goddesses responded to our online survey about revamping the Menopause Goddess Blog. And I’m happy to report that we have launched th ... Read on »
New Menopause Goddess Site Is Online by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause A while back, a number of Menopause Goddesses responded to our online survey about revamping this blogsite. And I m happy to report that we have launched the new site at www.m ... Read on »
Low Thyroid Hormone in Menopausal Women by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause When I was dragging my weary bod around like a lead weight during perimenopause, I figured it was just part of the Change. But when my hair began thinning, my hands and feet ... Read on »
Menopause Goddesses Are Seasoned Women by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause The weather has just turned here in Lake Tahoe and it’s colder than a witches thorax outside today. The lake is frothy whitecaps on rough indigo, the aspens are shaking ... Read on »
Can We Take a Do-Over? What We Wish We’d Done Differently by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause “If I knew then what I know now……” my elders often said when I was growing up. They never finished the sentence that I can remember, but nodded wise ... Read on »
sons Ferritin level came back <1. What does this mean do i NEED to give him iron drops by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Questions & Answers in Children's Health Wellsphere member KimberleeDallmann has sent you the following message:I just posted a question regarding iron levels in my son. Do you know anything about this? It would be a ... Read on »
Menopause Goddesses Are Seasoned Women by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause The weather has just turned here in Lake Tahoe and it s colder than a witches thorax outside today. The lake is frothy whitecaps on rough indigo, the aspens are shaking like ... Read on »
Can We Take a Do-Over? What We Wish We d Done Differently by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause If I knew then what I know now...... my elders often said when I was growing up. They never finished the sentence that I can remember, but nodded wisely at one another as if ... Read on »
What We Wish We’d Known Sooner About Men II by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause Men and Women Are Not Equal I’m not talking about equal rights or equal pay, although those issues are still not completely resolved. The Venuses grew up during and af ... Read on »
What We Wish We d Known Sooner About Men II by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause Men and Women Are Not Equal I m not talking about equal rights or equal pay, although those issues are still not completely resolved. The Venuses grew up during and after th ... Read on »
What We Wish We’d Known Sooner…About Men by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause Sigh. No matter how old we are, it seems that men are a hot topic whenever women gab, talk, or converse. The main reason for our preoccupation with the male animal? They ar ... Read on »
More Menopause Goddess Flashbacks: What We Wish We d Known Sooner About Friendship by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause Here s another flashback of learning we Menopause Goddesses wish to share with our daughters and younger sisters. Looking in that rear view mirror lends a clarity sometimes ... Read on »
Gotta Love Those Southern Menopause Goddesses by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause I m not from the South. I have no roots or ancestral connections there, although my Mom and Dad retired to Alabama s Gulf Coast some years ago. But I LOVE Southern women. I ... Read on »
Changeophobia: A Menopause Goddess Affliction by Lynette Sheppard Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause During the worst of my menopause transition, I discovered a new mental wrinkle: an aversion to change. Talking with the Venuses and other goddesses confirmed that I wasn&rsquo ... Read on »