Claiming Your Power in Perimenopause with Inés Zabalaga
Release Date: 07/10/2025
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In this social-myth-busting expose, perimenopause is presented as a force that both transforms and empowers women' s relationships with their bodies, self-worth, sexuality and desirability.
In this fluid conversation, three women explore multiple perspectives and experiences of menopause and trauma. Inés invites listeners to use their menopause experiences to redefine their relationships with their bodies, to reclaim pleasure, sensuality and sexuality. Their experiences contradict the outdated belief that a woman's worth and desirability diminishes as she ages. Inés stresses that menopause is not a medical condition but a natural process, and goes on to explain:
- International societal beliefs that influence women's menopause experiences
- How individual and generational trauma and manifests in our bodies
- Why it’s important to learn to relate to other women in a way that feels safe
- The role LSD plays in her Laboratory for Reconnecting with Our Mother
- How women’s circles, self-care and companionship provide healing and support
- What men need to know about their women’s journey through menopause
Join us to gain rich insights that invite you to remove barriers, transform your relationships with women, heal your personal and generational trauma, and enjoy a sense of solidarity with other women who are preparing for, or experiencing, menopause.
About Inés Zabalaga: MEd, MA in Systemic Therapy, Clinical Psychologist, Psychedelic
Assisted Therapies Facilitator.
With over 25 years of clinical experience in family, individual, couples and group therapy, Inés is a Compassionate Inquiry® Practitioner, a Family Constellations Facilitator, Director of Spontaneous Theatre, Bach and Uruguayan Flowers Practitioner, trained in psychodrama. She holds Master’s degrees in Education and Systemic Therapy, completed a 6-month psychedelic integration training with Iceers, and is currently in the 3-year Grof Legacy Training program for therapists oriented towards psychedelic work.
Inés is the co-founder of Bloom, a foundation that promotes research, study, and the responsible dissemination of information on psychedelic work. With her partner, she conducts assisted sessions and facilitates retreats in both Bolivia and Canada
Inés also leads Horse-Assisted Constellation workshops to create collective fields of human and equine energies that enable her clients to uncover their paths back to good lives and love.
Born in Bolivia, Inés grew up between Mexico, Central America, and Uruguay. Her heart and bones are filled with many countries' colors, territories and cultures. Early professional inclinations drew her attention to children, where it remains, as today she integrates curiosity, play, intuition, imagination and innocence into her healing approach.
Inés is the mother of two amazing university-aged children, Santiago and Julia, and companion to a wonderful dog, Pipi. Her favorite activities are learning and using her skills to help others find their way home from pain.
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Resources:
Websites:
Books:
Roar Like a Woman – Emma Thompson
This Is Your Brain on Birth Control
Los cautiverios de las mujeres
La diferencia sexual en la historia
Mujeres que corren con lobos / Women Who Run with the Wolves
Retreats:
Quotes:
“Let's enrich the conversations and the solutions, from grief to pride, the pride of being born,
the pride of going through shared pleasure in life so that life is the psychedelic experience without
Psychedelics.” - Inés Zabalaga
“We need to relearn how to relate to women in a way that we feel safe around women because we
all come from a mother. And this is again… about trauma and menopause, how those two relate. It
is very difficult to find a mother …[or] grandma … really feeling supported, doing nothing when
she's tired, or when she's grieving … and she feels that she can dedicate her life to raise this baby,
take care of the baby until the level of dependency allows her to just let them go.” - Inés Zabalaga
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