Dana LaVoie, LAc

Dana LaVoie, LAc Most women have tried everything for menopause except Chinese herbs. Let me show you how: www.danalavoiecoach.com/mini-course Are herbs right for you?

Take my FREE, 10-minute intro to herbs for menopause class to find out (what are you waiting for?) www.danalavoielac.com/mini-course

You can contact me with your questions directly from inside the class.

05/03/2026

Hot flashes at 3am aren't a sleep problem.

They're a pattern problem.

No sleep protocol touches a pattern problem. Chinese herbal medicine matched to your specific pattern can teach your body to sleep again — so you stop dreading bedtime and actually wake up feeling human for the rest of your life.

Find your pattern 👇
danalavoiecoach.com/mini-course
Link is in my bio or comment 4 and I’ll send it directly to you.

05/02/2026

The list of things that haven't worked is not a list of failures. It's a list of mismatches.

That distinction matters, because a lot of women in midlife have been quietly carrying a story that goes something like this: I've tried everything, nothing works for me, maybe this is just what it is now. It's a reasonable conclusion. If you've genuinely tried and nothing has fully gotten you there, what else are you supposed to think?

After 20 years as a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist and more than 10,000 client visits, I can tell you the story is almost never "nothing works for this woman." It's almost always "nothing has been matched to this woman yet."

Every approach you've tried was designed for a general version of you. And there is no general version. There's you, with your specific history, your specific pattern, your specific body, and until something accounts for that, you're always going to get partial results.

Chinese medicine has a framework for this. Four patterns that describe what's actually happening in the body during this transition, why symptoms show up the way they do, and why the same approach lands completely differently depending on which pattern a woman has. Once you know yours, the decisions get clearer. The past makes more sense. And so does the path forward.

I made a four-part video series that teaches all of it. Not theory, the actual clinical framework, taught so you can begin to recognize yourself in it and use it.

$17. Instant access.

https://danalavoiecoach.com/mini-course
Link is in my bio or comment 4 and I’ll send it directly to you.

04/30/2026

Ask me to write a 300-page book on menopause and I could do it without stopping for lunch. Making it short took 20 years.

I'm Dana LaVoie, acupuncturist, herbalist, Chinese medicine practitioner. Over two decades of clinical work, more than 10,000 client visits, hundreds of women I've worked with online. And somewhere in all of that I kept coming back to one question: if a woman is standing in front of a firehose of information, and she absolutely is, what are the four things that actually change everything?

Not the hundred things that are technically true. The four that, once she has them, mean she makes completely different decisions for the rest of her health.

That's what took 20 years to figure out. Not what to include. What to leave out.

Those four things are what this mini-course is built around.

Four video lessons, each one covering a piece of the picture that most approaches to menopause never address.

🌟 The first explains why so many women are still struggling after doing everything right.

🌟 The second is the one most women say removes a lot of shame, because it reframes why nothing has fully worked as a mismatch problem rather than a willpower problem.

🌟 The third introduces the four patterns Chinese medicine uses to understand what's actually happening in the body during this transition.

🌟 The fourth is where it becomes practical.

I give these four lessons to every single woman I work with, because nothing else I teach lands properly without them.

It's $17. Instant access.

https://danalavoiecoach.com/mini-course
Link is in my bio or comment 4 and I’ll send it directly to you.

04/29/2026

Your symptoms are not random. They are not a list of separate things going wrong in separate places. And “It's just menopause” is not a complete answer.

They are a pattern. And once you can read it, a lot gets clearer.

I'm Dana LaVoie, licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, 20-plus years in practice. What I've learned across more than 10,000 client visits is that the women who stay stuck are almost never stuck because nothing works for them. They're stuck because no one has shown them the full picture yet.

Chinese medicine approaches this transition differently than most things you've probably been offered. Rather than looking at symptoms one at a time, it looks for the pattern underneath them. There are four of them. They explain a lot, including why certain approaches work beautifully for some women and do nothing for others, why you can be doing everything right and still feel like you're circling, and why this has felt so hard to pin down.

This mini-course covers all four. It's not a quiz and it's not a generic overview of menopause. It's the pattern-recognition framework I use in my clinical work, taught in a way where you can start to see it in yourself and start making decisions from that place.

Four video lessons. $17. Instant access the moment you sign up.

If you've been carrying more of this than anyone around you realizes, and doing it quietly because at some point you stopped expecting anyone to have a real answer, this is worth your time.

https://danalavoiecoach.com/mini-course

04/27/2026

You've probably tried more than you let on.

The supplements. Maybe hormones. A dietary overhaul or two. And some of it helped a little. Maybe a lot, for a while. But you're still here, still searching, which means nothing has fully gotten you there.

But it might not be the wrong approaches. It might be that none of them were matched to you specifically.

I'm Dana LaVoie, licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, and Chinese medicine practitioner. I've been doing this work for over 20 years and had more than 10,000 client visits before I ever moved anything online. The pattern I saw, again and again, across thousands of women, was this: the ones who were still struggling weren't failing. They were using the right tools for the wrong blueprint.

Chinese medicine is built on a concept most Western approaches skip entirely. There is no generic menopause. There are patterns, four of them, and each one points to something different happening in the body and calls for something different in response.

When you know your pattern, the things that never made sense start to. Why her HRT worked beautifully and yours felt flat. Why that supplement your friend swears by did nothing for you. Why you can follow every protocol correctly and still feel like something is missing.

You weren't the difficult case. You just hadn't been shown the right map yet.

I made a four-part video series that walks through all of it. The four patterns, how to recognize yours, and what it actually means for the decisions you make from here. It's $17 and you get instant access.

Less than the cost of one bottle of supplements chosen without this information.

https://danalavoiecoach.com/mini-course/optin

04/25/2026

I want to tell you something nobody has probably said to you yet.

Three out of four things most women try in menopause were never designed for their specific body. Nobody told them that. That's the whole problem.

Not your effort. Not your consistency. Not how health-conscious you are.

The match.

There are four distinct patterns women move through menopause in — and which one you're in says a lot about how your body has always worked, long before menopause showed up. Most menopause advice is written for one of those patterns. Maybe two.

Which means if you're in a different category — you can do everything perfectly and still only get partial results.

That's not failure. That's mismatch. And it's fixable.

The $17 mini course is where we figure out which pattern you're actually in — so you can stop working against your own body and start working with it.

🔗 Link in bio or danalavoiecoach.com/mini-course

04/24/2026

You've tried a lot of things.

HRT. Supplements. Cutting things out. Adding things in. Changing your diet. Giving it time.

Some of it helped a little. Most of it didn't stick.

And somewhere along the way you probably started wondering if you're just the woman nothing fully works for.

You're not.

You're the woman nothing was matched for. There's a difference. And it matters more than anything else you've tried.

There's a tool most women in menopause have never been offered — not because it doesn't work, but because nobody in the Western wellness world told them it existed.

Chinese herbs matched to your specific pattern. That's the missing piece.

Ready to find yours?
🔗 Link in bio or go straight to danalavoiecoach.com/mini-course

04/23/2026

Your symptoms are not random. They are not a list of separate things going wrong in separate places. And "it's just menopause" is not a complete answer.

They are a pattern. And once you can read it, a lot gets clearer.

I'm Dana LaVoie, licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, 20-plus years in practice. What I've learned across more than 10,000 client visits is that the women who stay stuck are almost never stuck because nothing works for them. They're stuck because no one has shown them the full picture yet.

Chinese medicine approaches this transition differently than most things you've probably been offered. Rather than looking at symptoms one at a time, it looks for the pattern underneath them. There are four of them. They explain a lot, including why certain approaches work beautifully for some women and do nothing for others, why you can be doing everything right and still feel like you're circling, and why this has felt so hard to pin down.

This mini-course covers all four. It's not a quiz and it's not a generic overview of menopause. It's the pattern-recognition framework I use in my clinical work, taught in a way where you can start to see it in yourself and start making decisions from that place.

Four video lessons. $17. Instant access the moment you sign up.

If you've been carrying more of this than anyone around you realizes, and doing it quietly because at some point you stopped expecting anyone to have a real answer, this is worth your time.

This is what I call The Herbal Missing Link — and it's what this training is built around.

https://danalavoiecoach.com/mini-course

04/22/2026

When menopause hits full chaos mode, all the “hydrate more, breathe deeply, try a sleep meditation” advice feels like putting a cute bandaid on a broken leg.

The real issue isn’t willpower.

It’s hormones acting like drunk raccoons.

Once hormones shift, women need more than calming apps — they need the right protocol for their hormonal type, the ability to spot hormone leaks in regular bloodwork, and support that actually matches how their body is changing.

This is how my clients go from 10+ hot flashes a night…

to sleeping through.

From mood swings… to feeling like themselves again.

And they don’t need a mountain of supplements — just a plan that fits their biology.

If you want steadier days, better sleep, and fewer meltdowns — even during busy seasons —

It turns out the free masterclass wasn’t QUITE enough to make real change - so I created a $17 mini-course instead - that will not just knock your socks off but explain a LOT and give you the entire first step I use with all my clients.

It gives you what was in the masterclass AND how to apply it to your own body.

Because if there are 4 patterns our bodies fall into in menopause that keep us stuck… 3 out of 4 menopause remedies won’t work. You need the one that matches your pattern.

And that’s what the mini course does - helps you find your pattern.

See the mini course details at www.danalavoiecoach.com/mini-course

I’ll show you the three hormonal types, what hormone leaks really are, and why Chinese herbs help so many women sail through menopause when the usual tips don’t touch it.

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