Muscles & Readers: The Living Room
Weekly live Q&A, monthly teaching topics, and a private community for women in midlife

Outcomes
- Get steady weekly support from a licensed counselor
- Explore a monthly teaching topic with other women
- Build real connection through forums and meetups
- Take stock of where you are strong in midlife
What's included?
Weekly Live Q&A with Dawn
A live weekly Q&A with licensed professional counselor Dawn Starkey for your questions about this season.
Monthly Teaching Topic
A monthly teaching topic, explored together each week with the women in your community.
Monthly Wins Meetings
A monthly meeting to celebrate progress and share wins with Dawn and fellow members.
Private Community and Interest Forums
The private Living Room community, with forums on relationships, faith, exercise, and more.
In-Person Meetups
In-person meetups for members to meet the women behind the usernames. Details to come.
Self-Check Tools and Circles Access
Where Are You Strong? and the Decoder, plus first access to enroll in Circles.
Who is this for?
- Women in perimenopause or menopause who want steady weekly support
- Midlife women who want real connection with others in the same season
- Members of the free Front Porch who are ready to go deeper
About the creator

Muscles & Readers
A therapist-led wellness community for women in perimenopause, menopause, and midlife
Muscles & Readers is a holistic wellness community for women in perimenopause, menopause, and midlife reinvention. It grew out of the counseling practice of Dawn Starkey, a licensed professional counselor and founder of The Mend, who kept hearing the...