The Pain Relief Path: Menopause
This is where you learn how to understand your hormones and choose your next step with confidence.
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Lesson 1: Hormones and Pain Explained
Hormones play a central role in how pain develops in perimenopause and menopause. This lesson breaks down how changes in estrogen and progesterone influence inflammation, joint and muscle health, and pain sensitivity, so you can begin to understand what is happening in your body and why your symptoms feel the way they do.
Hormones play a central role in how pain develops in perimenopause and menopause. This lesson breaks down how changes in estrogen and progesterone influence inflammation, joint and muscle health, and pain sensitivity, so you can begin to understand what is happening in your body and why your symptoms feel the way they do.
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Lesson 1: Investigating The Root Cause of Your Pain
This week guides you through a structured process to identify the underlying contributors to your pain, using targeted labs, assessments, and clinical reasoning so you can move beyond guesswork and make informed decisions about your care.
This week guides you through a structured process to identify the underlying contributors to your pain, using targeted labs, assessments, and clinical reasoning so you can move beyond guesswork and make informed decisions about your care.
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Lesson 1: Introduction to Easing Pain
This lesson introduces Phase 2 of the Pain Relief Path, focusing on easing pain so you can start feeling better now, build momentum, and create the foundation needed for deeper, more targeted treatment.
This lesson introduces Phase 2 of the Pain Relief Path, focusing on easing pain so you can start feeling better now, build momentum, and create the foundation needed for deeper, more targeted treatment.
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Lesson 2: IV Therapy and Acupuncture
This lesson introduces practitioner-supported therapies, including IV nutrient therapy and acupuncture, to help reduce pain more directly, improve energy, and support your body’s natural healing processes.
This lesson introduces practitioner-supported therapies, including IV nutrient therapy and acupuncture, to help reduce pain more directly, improve energy, and support your body’s natural healing processes.
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Lesson 3: Sleep and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-i)
This lesson introduces a structured, evidence-based approach to improving sleep using CBT-I, helping you understand and address the patterns that disrupt rest so you can reduce pain, restore energy, and build more consistent sleep.
This lesson introduces a structured, evidence-based approach to improving sleep using CBT-I, helping you understand and address the patterns that disrupt rest so you can reduce pain, restore energy, and build more consistent sleep.
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Lesson 4: Sleep Restriction Therapy
This lesson introduces sleep restriction therapy, a structured CBT-I strategy that helps reset your sleep patterns by improving sleep efficiency and building more consistent, restorative rest.
This lesson introduces sleep restriction therapy, a structured CBT-I strategy that helps reset your sleep patterns by improving sleep efficiency and building more consistent, restorative rest.
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Lesson 5: Nutrition, Stress, Herbs, and Medications
This lesson focuses on simple, practical strategies to support pain relief through consistent nutrition, reducing stress, using targeted therapies, and identifying overlooked contributors like medications.
This lesson focuses on simple, practical strategies to support pain relief through consistent nutrition, reducing stress, using targeted therapies, and identifying overlooked contributors like medications.
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Lesson 1: Introduction to Week 4
Learn how this final week will bring together everything you've learned and help you create a long-term strategy for managing pain during perimenopause and menopause.
Learn how this final week will bring together everything you've learned and help you create a long-term strategy for managing pain during perimenopause and menopause.
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Lesson 2: Diet and Exercise
Discover how nutrition and movement can reduce inflammation, support hormone health, and improve pain, strength, and overall well-being.
Discover how nutrition and movement can reduce inflammation, support hormone health, and improve pain, strength, and overall well-being.
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Lesson 3: Headaches and Herbs
Explore evidence-based herbal therapies and headache management strategies to help relieve symptoms and support your overall treatment plan.
Explore evidence-based herbal therapies and headache management strategies to help relieve symptoms and support your overall treatment plan.
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Lesson 4: Menopausal Hormone Therapy (MHT/ HRT)
Understand the benefits, risks, and different types of menopausal hormone therapy to help you make informed decisions about your care.
Understand the benefits, risks, and different types of menopausal hormone therapy to help you make informed decisions about your care.
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Lesson 5: Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause
Learn how to recognize GSM and explore effective treatments to improve vaginal, bladder, and sexual health.
Learn how to recognize GSM and explore effective treatments to improve vaginal, bladder, and sexual health.
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Lesson 6: Planning Your Future Without Pain
Reflect on your progress, create a personalized long-term plan, and leave with the confidence to manage your health well beyond this course.
Reflect on your progress, create a personalized long-term plan, and leave with the confidence to manage your health well beyond this course.
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What You'll LearnBased on Current Research and Clinical Experience
We break down how hormones, tissues, and numerous other factors interact so you can understand why pain is showing up and what is actually influencing it. This gives you a clear starting point instead of guessing.
Understand What’s Driving Your Pain
Make Targeted, Practical Adjustments
Each lesson focuses on strategies you can apply right away, from sleep and nutrition to movement and treatment options. The goal is not doing more, but doing what actually matters.
You’ll learn how to move away from reactive, symptom-based decisions and toward a more structured way of responding to pain. This is about understanding your options, not following rigid rules.
Rethink How You Approach Pain
Build a Stronger Foundation Over Time
We focus on helping your body stay strong and resilient with movement, activity, and recovery. This is about reducing flare-ups and maintaining what you’re able to do, not constantly pulling back.
Instructor Dr. Sarah Vosburgh, ND