Changing old patterns alongside menopause treatment
Familiar emotional patterns often become easier to see when relationships, health, work, or caregiving circumstances change. Young and Klosko describe “lifetraps” such as abandonment, mistrust, self-sacrifice, dependence, and unrelenting standards, tracing how they form and repeat. Menopause treatment can activate old fears about authority, need, body trust, or being considered difficult, but those reactions deserve curiosity rather than automatic obedience. For this audience, the book provides a structured vocabulary for separating present reality from inherited expectations. Reinvention does not mean inventing a new personality; it means gaining enough awareness to stop choosing the same painful role.
About Jeffrey Young and Janet Klosko
Jeffrey Young expanded cognitive therapy after noticing that some patients understood their thoughts yet remained trapped in longstanding patterns. Working with Janet Klosko, he translated those clinical frustrations into the approachable “lifetrap” language that made schema therapy usable beyond the consulting room.
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