Natasha Zajmalowski, Naturopathic Doctor

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What does it mean to be a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP)?The MSCP credential is a rigorous certificatio...
12/05/2025

What does it mean to be a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP)?

The MSCP credential is a rigorous certification offered by The Menopause Society to healthcare professionals who have demonstrated advanced, evidence-based knowledge in perimenopause, menopause, and midlife women’s health.

It’s not a general wellness title.
It’s not a casual course.
It’s a nationally recognized certification earned by passing an in-depth exam focused solely on menopause care.

Being MSCP-certified means you’re working with someone who:
• Is trained in the latest research and clinical guidelines
• Understands the full spectrum of hormonal, physical, and emotional changes in midlife
• Can provide personalized, evidence-informed treatment options (hormonal and non-hormonal)
• Sees menopause as a whole-body, whole-life transition
• Is committed to ongoing education in this rapidly evolving field

I’m proud to share that I am a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner.
This certification reflects my dedication to providing safe, informed, compassionate menopause care — grounded in both science and holistic understanding.

If you’re navigating perimenopause or menopause and want support that’s credible, individualized, and deeply respectful of your experience, I’m here to help.

Menopause doesn’t just strip away hormones — it strips away the ability to perform.To mask.To people-please.To shrink yo...
12/04/2025

Menopause doesn’t just strip away hormones — it strips away the ability to perform.

To mask.
To people-please.
To shrink yourself to fit.

For many women, this unmasking brings new awareness — patterns they’ve lived with for decades but never had language for.
ADHD. Autism. Neurodivergence that estrogen once helped to soften or hide.

As hormones shift, the brain’s chemistry does too. Estrogen influences dopamine, serotonin, and executive function — the very systems that help with focus, regulation, and masking.
When that buffering fades, what’s left is the truth.

And while that truth can feel destabilizing… it’s also liberation.
Because your true self — the one you’ve been editing, adjusting, and overextending — finally comes to the surface.

Burnout in menopause isn’t just about life’s demands.
It’s about the energy it takes to be someone you’re not.

What if this transition isn’t about managing symptoms… but about finally meeting yourself?

As a naturopathic doctor, I see this stage as an awakening — a chance to support your body and your brain as you rediscover who you are beneath the performance.
Through nourishment, hormone balance, nervous system regulation, and deep self-compassion, you can move through this chapter not just surviving change — but becoming more fully you. 🌿

We judge certain emotions. Reject them. Push them down.Anger. Grief. Shame. Fear. We label them as “negative.” Try to ou...
11/29/2025

We judge certain emotions. Reject them. Push them down.
Anger. Grief. Shame. Fear.
We label them as “negative.” Try to outthink them.
But emotions aren’t problems to solve, they’re energy waiting to be metabolized.
Just as physiological metabolism transforms food into fuel,
emotional metabolism transforms feeling into healing.
When we avoid difficult emotions, we suffer twice,
once from the emotion itself, and again from the resistance to it.
Perimenopause strips away the hormonal buffer that helped us suppress these feelings.
Progesterone, the brain’s natural calm and comfort, begins its decade-long decline.
And suddenly, the emotions you’ve tucked neatly away start bubbling to the surface.
Not because something’s wrong.
Because your body finally has the space, and the need, to process what’s been stored.
What if this isn’t collapse?
What if it’s transformation?
As a naturopathic doctor, I see this emotional intensity not as a symptom to suppress,
but as the body’s call for deeper integration, mind, hormones, and nervous system working together to complete cycles long left unfinished.
When we learn to metabolize emotions, to feel, release, and restore,
we unlock energy that fuels healing on every level.
This is the quiet work of midlife. The alchemy of becoming whole.

Memory isn’t just stored in your brain. It lives in your body.The body remembers what the mind forgets. Stressful experi...
11/29/2025

Memory isn’t just stored in your brain. It lives in your body.
The body remembers what the mind forgets.
Stressful experiences that were too intense to process don’t disappear,
they get archived in your tissues: in tension, posture, adhesions, and pain.
During perimenopause, those tissues begin to change.
Bones remodel. Fascia shifts.
The body that has carried your stories for decades begins to soften and release.
And with that release, buried emotions rise to the surface.
Not as punishment. Not as chaos.
But as information, as energy ready to be transformed.
You are not falling apart.
You are excavating.
Uncovering the gems your body buried for safekeeping, now ready to be metabolized into healing energy.
Just like the chrysalis transforming into the butterfly, this transition requires fuel.
Your stored emotions are that fuel — the raw material for growth, freedom, and renewal.
What if everything surfacing right now is exactly what’s meant to be released?
I see the body as both archive and alchemist, holding your history while guiding your healing.
Through movement, breath, nourishment, and emotional processing, we help that energy move.
Because healing isn’t just about balancing hormones, it’s about letting the body finally exhale.

The best way to predict your future health is to create it.Not through perfection. Not through restriction or extreme di...
11/28/2025

The best way to predict your future health is to create it.
Not through perfection.
Not through restriction or extreme discipline.
But through small, consistent acts that compound over time.
Menopause is a unique window, a time when the body is still deeply capable of change, repair, and renewal.
It’s not the end of vitality, it’s the invitation to redefine it.
This season isn’t about how you look.
It’s about how you feel.
Because when you chase appearance, you often find frustration.
But when you focus on function, resilience, and energy, you find peace.
Not all women have equal access to care or resources, and that truth matters.
But the foundation of health has always been built on what’s free:
🌞 Sunlight
🚶‍♀️ Movement
💧 Water
😴 Rest
💭 Thought patterns that support rather than sabotage.
Start now. Start small. Start with what’s free.
Because every small action you take is a message to your body,
that you’re listening, that you care, and that you’re choosing health on purpose.

You don’t need expensive protocols to rebuild your rhythm.When the menstrual cycle fades, other rhythms become essential...
11/17/2025

You don’t need expensive protocols to rebuild your rhythm.
When the menstrual cycle fades, other rhythms become essential —
☀️ Morning sunlight
🌿 Time outdoors, daily, rain or shine
💨 Breathing exercises
🏃 Movement
💧 Water
😂 Laughter
🤍 Hugs

These aren’t Instagram wellness trends.
They’re entrainment, the way all living things synchronize with the vibrations around them.
Your heartbeat, digestion, hormones, and sleep all follow natural patterns.

When those rhythms get disrupted, it’s not more supplements you need, it’s more connection.
More time in nature. More moments of pause. More reminders that your body knows how to recalibrate when you give it the chance.

The simplest habits, repeated, create the strongest foundation.

This is where true regulation begins.
I help women rebuild these rhythms from the inside out, supporting the body’s innate intelligence through small, sustainable habits that restore balance long before any prescription is needed.

Because health isn’t something you chase, it’s something you entrain to.

Menopausal women are vital pillars of society.Not because we’re “still relevant” or “aging gracefully.”But because we ho...
11/13/2025

Menopausal women are vital pillars of society.
Not because we’re “still relevant” or “aging gracefully.”
But because we hold the wisdom, strength, and perspective that shape families, workplaces, and communities.
We’re the decision-makers, for our children, our aging parents, and ourselves.

Every choice we make creates a ripple, a butterfly effect that influences generations.

The transition from perimenopause to menopause is exactly that, a metamorphosis.

There’s struggle in the chrysalis. Discomfort in the unknown.
But what emerges has depth, clarity, and vibrant color.
This stage of life isn’t about staying young.

It’s about stepping into your power with the wisdom you’ve earned — and choosing what you’ll pollinate next.
I see menopause not as an ending, but as a profound shift — one that deserves support, nourishment, and reverence.
Through hormonal balance, nutrition, stress care, and mindset work, we can help the body and mind move through this transformation with grace and strength.

Because this season isn’t about fading — it’s about flourishing.

We obsess over junk food but ignore junk thoughts.That quiet, persistent voice that says you’re not enough.Too much. Too...
11/07/2025

We obsess over junk food but ignore junk thoughts.
That quiet, persistent voice that says you’re not enough.
Too much. Too late. Falling behind.
We track every nutrient, count every step, and analyze every lab result,
but how often do we look at the thoughts we’re feeding ourselves every single day?
No supplement can fix how you talk to yourself.
No hormone replacement therapy silences the inner critic.
And no wellness protocol truly works without self-compassion at its foundation.
Menopause has a way of turning up the volume on every old narrative we’ve carried for decades.
The emotions we’ve pushed aside, the stories we’ve outgrown, the perfectionism we’ve worn like armour,
they all start to rise to the surface, asking to be felt, healed, and released.

This is the work no one talks about — but it’s the work that matters most.

Because true health isn’t just about balancing hormones or optimizing energy.

It’s about creating inner safety.
It’s about the thoughts you choose to believe, the words you offer yourself, and the grace you allow in the process.
You can choose what to metabolize, and what to release.
I believe healing happens on every level: physical, emotional, and mental.

Supporting your hormones, your stress response, and your mindset are all connected parts of the same story, your story.
If you’re moving through this season and ready to approach it with compassion, curiosity, and evidence-based care, this is the work we can do together.

The body whispers for years before it screams.Fatigue. Brain fog. Feeling worn down by your own life.These are the whisp...
11/04/2025

The body whispers for years before it screams.
Fatigue. Brain fog. Feeling worn down by your own life.
These are the whispers, small messages that something deeper needs your attention.

But most of us wait until the whisper becomes a scream before we make a change.

We’re too busy, too committed, too used to pushing through.
Then menopause arrives, not as the start of something new, but as the body’s megaphone moment.

The culmination of a decade (or more) of quiet nudges that went unheard.

Here’s the truth: it’s not about being too late.
It’s about starting to listen now.

As a naturopathic doctor, I see this all the time, women who have spent years taking care of everyone else first.
When we finally pause and listen, we can uncover the root causes of those whispers, hormonal imbalances, nutrient depletion, stress, inflammation, or poor sleep, and start supporting the body the way it’s been asking for all along.
Health isn’t something you have.
It’s something you do.

Daily. Quietly. In response to those whispers.
If your body’s been speaking up lately, consider this your invitation to listen — and to start working with your body, not against it.

This is the kind of medicine that’s not just reactive, but restorative. 🌿

✨ Ready to feel more in control of your menopause journey? The Modern Menopause Summit is your chance to hear from world...
03/21/2024

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11/28/2023

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