In honor of National Women's Health Week, we're hosting a panel, Sensation, Hormones, and the Midlife Body, exploring what happens to women's experience of sensation, desire, and connection during perimenopause and menopause — and whether practices like OM may help women reconnect with their bodies during that transition.

The conversation will speak directly to experiences many women describe but rarely hear addressed plainly: diminished sensation, emotional numbness, nervous system dysregulation, loss of desire, disconnection from the body, and the feeling that something essential has gone quiet.

OM was developed around cultivating awareness of sensation — not orgasm as a goal, but the ability to feel, notice, and remain connected to the body. For many women moving through major hormonal shifts, that opens a different conversation around intimacy, vitality, and embodiment.

The panel will be hosted by Lissa A. Boileau, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, MSN, PMHNP - BC, and joined by Dr. Teresa Diaz — OB/GYN, functional medicine specialist, and author of Menopause Reimagined: The Female Operating System for the Second Half of Life. Her work reframes menopause not as decline, but as a major transition in the female body and explores desire and pleasure as central to women's health.