The Menopause Lady: A Menopause Practitioner's Memoir of Life, Love, Breast Cancer, and Her Choice to Return to Estrogen.

At age fifty one Nancy Siskowic earned her Master’s Degree as a Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, and two years later completed studies to become a Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner. For the past 27 years her primary work has been providing hormone consults to mid-life/menopausal women, as well as practicing as a psychotherapist. Her background includes being a Mind/Body Educator with the Deepak Chopra Center for Well Being, and possessing a Certificate in the Art of Spiritual Direction from Loyola Marymount University, CA. She has lectured extensively nationally and locally on menopause, was a guest on GMA’s 1996 menopause special, and on Lifetime Cable Chanel ‘New Attitudes’ special on peri-mesopause April 1999. Her article “Hot Flash! Hormonal Alchemy During the Menopause Transition” was published in PRESENCE, the International Journal of Spiritual Direction in December, 2008. In June 2017 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. That journey, plus her return to hormone therapy provides the stimulus for this memoir.