Resilience when menopause treatment changes the plan
Loss, illness, divorce, redundancy, and caregiving can erase the future a woman assumed she was building. Sandberg writes from the sudden death of her husband, while Grant contributes psychological research on resilience, support, and post-traumatic growth. When menopause treatment must be changed, delayed, or abandoned, the book’s language of adaptation helps distinguish resilience from pretending the preferred plan never mattered. During a period of bodily and social change, the book offers practical language for naming adversity and accepting help without pretending every loss creates growth. Resilience is not solitary toughness or rapid recovery; it is rebuilt through relationships, meaning, realistic hope, and permission to grieve what cannot be restored.
About Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
Sheryl Sandberg turned to psychologist and friend Adam Grant after her husband Dave Goldberg died suddenly. Her urgent question—how to protect her children’s future—became a collaboration combining raw bereavement with research on resilience and support.
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