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Menopause, Hormones & Herbs

2025-03-08 10:30:00 2025-03-08 12:00:00 America/New_York Menopause, Hormones & Herbs Join Clinical Herbalist Kay Sidahmed for a lecture on menopause and hormone therapy as well as working with medicinal plants as support strategies during this transformational stage of life James M. Duncan Jr. Branch Library - Beth Patridge Meeting Room

Saturday, March 08
10:30am - 12:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-03-08 10:30:00 2025-03-08 12:00:00 America/New_York Menopause, Hormones & Herbs Join Clinical Herbalist Kay Sidahmed for a lecture on menopause and hormone therapy as well as working with medicinal plants as support strategies during this transformational stage of life James M. Duncan Jr. Branch Library - Beth Patridge Meeting Room

James M. Duncan Jr. Branch Library

Beth Patridge Meeting Room

Join Clinical Herbalist Kay Sidahmed for a lecture on menopause and hormone therapy as well as working with medicinal plants as support strategies during this transformational stage of life

Clinical Herbalist Kay Sidahmed (PhD, MS) will share her perspective on menopause and hormone therapy as well as working with medicinal plants as support strategies during this transformational stage of life.

Topics included in this lecture:

- An overview of the physical & mental changes and challenges on the journey from perimenopause through post-menopause

- A summary of current research and strategies regarding hormonal therapy in menopause

- The difference between hormonal and herbal menopause support and how herbal support can be effective and meaningful during hormone therapy and beyond

This will be a 50 minute presentation plus 40 minutes of Q & A and discussion

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Kay Sidahmed is founder and owner of Cura Viriditas, a clinical herbal practice in service of connecting plants and humans to foster individual, communal, and planetary healing and wellbeing. In her work Kay simultaneously draws from the findings and tools of modern science as well as traditional herbal healing knowledge and wisdom from around the world. She offers individual and group consultations, classes, workshops, and forest bathing. Her work focuses largely on menopause, second-half-of-life, and family health support, and she is passionate about bringing people together and creating communal and inclusive spaces of learning and exploration.

James M. Duncan Jr. Branch Library

kpayne@alexlibraryva.org
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Kayla Selsky

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