HOT IN CHARLESTON
A 50-something writer and mother in one of the hottest (literally and figuratively) cities in the world offering wit and wisdom on motherhood, midlife, and menopause.
Perimenopause and menopause, phenomena affecting 50 million American women — one our mothers and doctors forgot to tell us about — is coming for us, and it’s going to knock us on our ass. Most women know surprisingly little about the ways it will change how they look and behave, and how it will alter their most fundamental relationships with their partners, children, and selves. The craven irony is this will happen at a time many will experience other ruptures that affect their identity, from aging parents to health scares of their own, to career shifts, to the empty nest.
Kerri Devine has a remarkable ability to reveal the essential truth that connects people and ideas. With humor and understanding, she inspires others to seek the best, and truest, versions of themselves.
Kerri knows what this feels like. Her epic hormonal meltdown in the Hobby Lobby sent her into a tailspin that caused her to check her assumptions, reexamine her life, and look for answers.
Follow @HotinCharleston, for Hot Flashes (statistics and research) and Hot Takes (first-person tell-alls) on perimenopause and menopause, along with humor, community, and story sharing.
Kerri Devine has a remarkable ability to reveal the essential truth that connects people and ideas. With humor and understanding, she inspires others to seek the best, and truest, versions of themselves.
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HOT IN CHARLESTON
Highlighting personal experiences, expert insights and resources for women in peri+menopause. Because our mothers left some things out!
Kerri created @HotinCharleston for the 50 million American women currently going through perimenopause and menopause who, like her, will spend a third of their lives there.
She surveyed 100+ women in their 30s to 60s and discovered their surprising lack of knowledge about the hormonal shifts that can upend them on their way from motherhood to midlife.
The need for intergenerational storytelling is now more clear than ever.
- 99% of women over 30 feel ill-informed about the reality of menopause.
- 69% of women believe they are currently experiencing symptoms of perimenopause.
- 25% of respondents, those who even know to ask, rely mostly on their girlfriends to find out what these life changes are all about. Other sources range from Instagram to Sex and the City.
- More than half of women surveyed actually googled, “Do I have perimenopause?”
- Millennials will soon enter their 40s. The majority know little or nothing about perimenopause: “I’ve never really heard this.” “No idea what it is!”
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Events
World Menopause Day 2022
Kerri hosted World Menopause Day, a first-of-its-kind women’s wellness event for Charleston, to address one of the most misunderstood issues affecting women today: menopause.
“I wanted to seize the power of storytelling to get women talking about a health journey that affects one third of our lives.”
Noted memoirists Cinelle Barnes and Lee Woodruff joined a panel of expert physicians at the Gibbes Museum to talk about a women’s journey through midlife.
Carolyn Murray, WCBD-TV anchor, award-winning journalist and health advocate, emceed and Kerri moderated a discussion of 150 women ages 35-65 from across the region at The Gibbes Museum. Panelists included Connie Guille, MD, MUSC, reproductive psychiatrist and director of the MUSC Women’s Reproductive Behavioral Health Program; Anita Ramsetty, MD, MUSC, Associate Professor at MUSC and board certified in endocrinology, metabolism and nutrition; and Elaine Eustis, MD, Menopause Solutions, a noted menopause expert and local women’s champion, and was sponsored by MUSC.
