Hot Flashes and Other Symptoms During Menopause

The heat comes in waves. Without warning it rises — from the centre of the body, across the chest, the throat, up into the face. The skin flushes, sweat breaks out, the heart beats faster. Sometimes it lasts thirty seconds, sometimes minutes. And then it is gone — leaving a strange coolness behind, exhaustion, sometimes a quiet sense of shame.

Medically, menopause is a hormonal restructuring process. Estrogen levels drop, the body responds with hot flashes, sleep disturbances, mood swings, dryness, heart palpitations. This is the biochemical level — and it is real. But the psychosomatic perspective asks deeper: why does your body experience this transition as a crisis? Why does your system respond not with a quiet reorganization but with alarm, with overheating, with unrest?

Menopausal symptoms are not a signal of decline. They are a call to transformation.