Our Vision

The *philosophy of Menopause Magic is based on Dr. Allen’s vision that when a woman enters menopause and seeks a doctor, or other health care provider, she is in pursuit of an ineffable, illusory and transcendent strength.

Menopause, an inevitable and irrevocable stage in a woman’s life, deprives her of her final claims to youth. And in a culture that prizes youth, sex appeal, and virility over age, wisdom and grace, women in midlife often find themselves socially devalued. The newly menopausal woman –not yet aware of the power of wisdom—quests for a doctor, who can reverse the aging process. For centuries, cultures have invested doctors, healers, and medicine men with higher powers. Often, women in menopause yearn for magic.

With the vast array of technical knowledge of menopause available, and much more yet to come in this new century of technological and biological breakthroughs, doctors are being encouraged in their treatment of the menopausal woman.

Surely, patients have common physical symptoms that can be easily recognized. But these symptoms only account for part of the condition. Because a patient’s conflicted search for self-worth and identity is intrinsic to menopause, the variety of symptoms that a doctor might confront are limitless. While doctors can impart certain knowledge, they can only understand a woman’s menopausal issues as well as the woman, herself, is clear about them in her own mind

A woman’s search for magic, therefore, is a joint mission. Both doctors and their women patients must have faith in the real power of medicine, which lies in the hope that the unexpected is always possible, and in a woman’s ability to exercise intellectual control over the physical and emotional phenomena of menopause. That is what is meant by Menopause Magic.

*This philosophy is adopted, in part, from a presentation by Dr. Allen and can be seen in it's entirety here.