Tally’s Journey

Hello, my name is Tally Green and I reside in Loganville, Georgia. I am a 50 year old hardworking woman and the titles I wear are wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, caregiver, office manager, home based business owner, and “hot flash” coach. I have been married twenty years and together my husband and I have a total of six children.  I also am very pleased to say that I have been blessed with seven and a half grandchildren, number eight due in May 2009.

When menopause walked in my door, I was not prepared for it. The doctors did not know what the issue was and neither did I. I was lost in the sauce and needed some help to figure it all out.

When I started looking for healthy natural alternatives, I was at an end with my doctors. To the best of my recollection, the menopause symptoms started in 1997. The hot flashes were what drove me the craziest. At the time, I did not understand what was going on with my body. I had no idea this was the start of menopause. I began to suffer with real bad cramps and a very heavy loss of blood during my cycles. This is what led me to think that there may be something wrong with my body.

The doctor said that I had Menorraghia, which is excessive bleeding during menstruation.  Then came the fibroids, cysts, and urinary incontinence, breast problems, weight gain, fatigue, high blood pressure, acid reflex, anxiety attacks, memory loss, fits of rage, incontrollable crying, depression, midriff bulge, and the list still goes on. There are close to thirty-five symptoms of pre-menopause and menopause.

My doctors had done every test they could think of. None of them came back with the reason for suffering. No one was able to say, “You are going through menopause.” The test for hormones revealed nothing showing I was in menopause. This is when I had to take control of my health and search for natural, healthy alternatives. It was quite an interesting journey.

I searched the internet for networking groups with the hopes of finding people using herbs and natural supplements. In my search I was reminded of Matthew 7:7 – “Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened for you.”
 
I found this Ryze network and there were a lot of individuals with home based businesses. So, I began my search for people using natural healthy alternatives. Then I joined a women’s group called WIN, Women In Networking. In WIN, women are all in home based business and a lot of them were promoting healthy product alternatives. This was the place where I found answers to my symptoms and my life turned in the right direction.

I joined this hormone yahoo group that was ran by a very determined woman who went on a quest for her health, found it,  and was on a mission to help other women like herself. She shared her success story and it inspired me. Little did I know that this would be the turning point in my life and so it became my desire to share with all women the natural ways to heal their minds, bodies, and spirits by using natural health alternatives.

She helped me to understand that my hormones needed to be balanced. She started me with an all natural progesterone cream and that is when the symptoms started to become manageable. My life was looking up. There still were the usual ups and downs, but things got better. I stayed on this site and networked myself with women that were into living a healthy life.

I sought help for myself and started reading everything I could get my hands on and that dealt with diet, herbs, organic, natural, and essential oils. I sought help and advice from women who were knowledgeable in their respected field of natural and women’s health. I talked with health consultants, naturopaths, certified herbalists, aroma therapists, and yoga instructors. I attended classes, workshops, conferences and online classes. I started learning about exercise and began taking yoga classes. I found out how yoga was beneficial in aiding me with the stress associated with day to day life and my menopause stage.

I am passionate about health and helping all women learn the natural ways to heal there minds, bodies, and spirits.
My life journey has allowed me to experience tough lessons and to learn from the hard knocks in life.  None of this would have been possible without my spiritual walk with my Creator.  As well as the joy I find in my children and grandchildren, family and friends.

My favorite scripture is Jeremiah 29:11-14 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.  You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.  I will be found by you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”

In my walk with menopause I have been spiritual, accepted, celebrated, balanced, embraced, inspired and motivated.  Now what does that tell you about my walk that if I can overcome and then we all can overcome menopause.