Flash Count Diary: A New Story About the Menopause
Flash Count Diary: A New Story About the Menopause Flash Count Diary: A New Story About the Menopause Flash Count Diary: A New Story About the Menopause Flash Count Diary: A New Story About the Menopause. A brave, brilliant, and unprecedented examination of menopauseMenopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to understand what was happening to her, she slammed up against a culture of silence and sexism. Some books promoted hormone replacement therapy. Others encouraged accepting the coming crone. Beyond that, there was little that offered a path to understanding menopause in a complex, spiritual, and intellectually engaged way. She felt lost until she encountered a scientific fact that had escaped her through the early stages of dealing with this life change: the only two creatures on earth that go through menopause, she discovered, are human women and female killer whales.Her fascination with this fact became the s...