For millions of women, perimenopause arrives quietly and unexpectedly. Symptoms such as anxiety, fatigue, brain fog, sleep disruption, and emotional shifts often appear long before many women recognize what is happening. Yet despite the widespread impact of hormonal changes in midlife, access to informed and supportive care remains limited.
Laurel Wilson believes that needs to change.
As a TEDx speaker, certified menopause practitioner, and international women’s health educator, Laurel has spent more than twenty five years helping healthcare professionals and families better understand women’s health. Now, through her new twelve week program, Thrive During the Transition, she is turning her attention to one of the most overlooked areas in women’s wellbeing: helping women navigate perimenopause and menopause with confidence, clarity, and evidence based support.
The timing may be significant. Menopause has increasingly become both a public health and workplace issue, affecting an estimated 750 million women worldwide. At the same time, growing demand for care has exposed provider knowledge gaps and treatment limitations, leaving many women feeling dismissed, confused, or unsupported.
A Different Approach to Midlife Health
Laurel created Thrive During the Transition in response to what she saw as a growing disconnect between women’s lived experiences and the support available to them.
Research suggests many women experience symptoms for years before realizing hormonal shifts may be contributing to changes in energy, mood, cognition, and overall wellbeing. Meanwhile, more than two thirds of women report negative experiences with healthcare providers related to menopause care.
Rather than focusing solely on symptom management, Laurel’s twelve week program combines hormone education, holistic wellness strategies, and personalized support designed to help women reconnect with their bodies and better understand the physiological and emotional changes taking place.
Her approach reflects years of educational leadership. Laurel has developed training programs that have reached thousands of nurses, lactation consultants, midwives, and healthcare professionals around the world, building a reputation for translating complex health topics into practical and accessible guidance.
Reframing Menopause as a New Chapter
For Laurel, the larger mission extends beyond education.
“I want women to understand that menopause is not the beginning of the end, it is the beginning of a new chapter that can be just as vibrant, powerful, sensual, joyful, and fulfilling as the decades before it,” Laurel says.
That message challenges long standing cultural narratives that frame menopause as decline rather than transition. Instead, Laurel believes women deserve tools, support, and trusted information that allow them to move through midlife feeling informed, energized, and empowered.
As the next cohort of Thrive During the Transition prepares to begin on August 3, Laurel is positioning the program not simply as education, but as an opportunity for women to rebuild trust with their bodies and redefine what thriving in midlife can look like.
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