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10.3.06: Lenore Pomerance contributes chapter on sexuality
in the new book: Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause.
For years, Our
Bodies, Ourselves has provided readers with indispensable
information on women’s health and sexuality. The same
knowledge and perspective has been brought to Our Bodies,
Ourselves: Menopause, published by Simon & Schuster
in October 2006.
(To learn more,
click here.)
10.28.02: "Menopause is Not a Disease"
– Certified Menopause Educator Calls for Holistic Treatment
Approach for Mid-Life Women
A woman psychotherapist
and certified menopause educator addressed the National Institutes
of Health and asked the medical community to stop treating
menopausal women as if they had a disease. During the NIH
National Conference on Menopausal Hormone Therapy,
(To read the entire
release, click here.)
07.26.02: HRT Anxiety? Join a Menopause Support Group
(Advisory on August 1, 2002 meeting in Dupont Circle)
In light of recent
findings, many women have many questions about HRT. If you
are perimenopausal, should you no longer consider HRT as an
option? If you are currently on HRT, should you stop? If so,
how will you deal with menopause symptoms such as hot flashes,
mood swings, "fuzzy thinking" and irritability? What about
the long-term issues: increased risk of diseases that go with
menopause and aging like osteoporosis and heart disease? Lifestyle
changes: Can you commit to them now? What about herbs and
special foods - do they make a difference? What about sexuality,
your self-concept of "femininity", and all the other relationship
issues that go with change? Discuss these and other issues
in a comfortable, confidential setting with other women, guided
by a neutral, unbiased Certified Menopause Educator.
(To read the entire
release, click here.)
11.19.01: "If the past catches up..." First
for Woman shares expert opinions on previous sexual exploits
and how they can affect relationships.
"Clinical social
worker Lenore Pomerance adds, 'Let's say a woman with a lot
of sexual experience marries her husband because they have
a great sex life, and he's as good as or even better than
her previous lovers. In that case, there shouldn't be a problem.'
"'But if she marries
him for reasons other than sex, say, because he'll make a
good husband and father, she will eventually resent that their
sex life isn't great. And he'll end up feeling inadequate,
knowing he is not satisfying her the way previous lovers did.'"
(To read the entire
article, click here.)
02.24.01: "What midlife crisis?" The Sunday, February
24 Star-Ledger talks to Lenore about the reality of
middle age.
"''Midlife crisis
is not a myth,' says Lenore Pomerance, a Washington-based
therapist. 'Not everyone's going to have it, but those who
find themselves at an age when they thought they'd have it
all together and their lives are coming apart, that's a crisis.'
"According to
Pomerance, who specializes in transitions associated with
midlife, such as menopause, divorce and empty-nest syndrome,
a midlife crisis can be like a second adolescence. Along with
hormonal changes, midlife meltdowns can bring mood swings
and 'escape behaviors' like sexual-acting out and drug addiction."
(To read the entire
article, click here.)
07.26.01: Lenore was quoted in the Sunday, July 22nd
edition of the Washington Post in an article about the emphasis
of family ties.
"On the other hand,
as grandchildren get older, some retirees face a different
problem. 'The lament that I hear mostly from older adults
is that their grandchildren are so busy that they have a hard
time seeing them. And that can be very painful,' said Lenore
M. Pomerance, a clinical social worker who practices in Washington.
"That experience
may be particularly painful, Pomerance suggests, for people
who 'have expectations that maybe they can be more involved
as grandparents than they were as parents.' "
(To read the entire
article, click here.)
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