About Terri Lee
Terri brings over 30 years of experience in social services to her work as a menopause advocate and she's spent the majority of that time walking alongside women through some of life's most challenging moments.
With a background spanning family violence support, NDIS planning, and skills development, Terri has built a career rooted in one unwavering belief that every woman deserves to live her best life, no matter what stage she's in.
Now, Terri turns that passion toward menopause, a transition she believes is far too often met with silence, confusion, and unnecessary suffering.
Through her signature education program, practical support, and genuine compassion, she helps women navigate this chapter with confidence, knowledge, and dignity.
For Terri, menopause isn't an ending. It's the beginning of something new and she's here to make sure women embrace it that way.
Brand Story - BLINDFOLDED
Why I Chose This Name and Why It Chose Me
She Didn’t Know What She Didn’t Know
She was exhausted in a way that sleep couldn’t fix. She was sharp one moment and fog-brained the next. She raged at things that would never have touched her before, and wept at things she couldn’t explain. She lay awake at 2am doing terrible mathematics, counting the hours until the alarm, adding up what she had lost, subtracting the version of herself she used to know.
And nobody told her why.
Not her doctor, who ran tests and found nothing alarming. Not her mother, who never spoke of it. Not the women around her who were quietly going through the same thing and saying nothing, because nobody had ever taught them how. Not the culture she lived in, which had spent decades making women feel that menopause was something to endure in silence, to minimise, to apologise for, to hide.
She was walking through one of the most significant biological transitions of her life with a blindfold on.
That woman is not one woman. She is millions. She may be you. She was almost certainly someone you love.
“She was walking through one of the most significant biological transitions of her life with a blindfold on.”
Why Blindfolded?
When I was searching for a name for this book, this brand, this movement, I didn’t want something clinical. I didn’t want something soft or apologetic or palatable. I wanted something that told the truth.
And the truth is this: for generations, women have been entering menopause blind.
Not because they are not intelligent. Not because they are not capable. But because the information was withheld. The conversation was silenced. The symptoms were dismissed. The transition was treated as an embarrassment rather than a rite of passage, something to be endured rather than understood, survived rather than navigated with clarity, support, and the kind of knowledge that actually changes things.
The blindfold is real. And most women don’t even know they’re wearing it.
The Deeper Meaning: What the Blindfold Really Symbolises
Throughout history and across cultures, the blindfold has carried extraordinary symbolic weight. It is not a simple image. It is one of the most layered, powerful symbols in human consciousness.
Justice and Truth
The most iconic blindfolded figure in Western culture is Lady Justice — the woman who stands outside every courthouse in the world with scales in one hand and a sword in the other, and a blindfold across her eyes. Her blindfold does not make her weak. It makes her incorruptible. It means she is immune to wealth, power, status, and manipulation. She judges on truth alone.
We believe every woman deserves that same clarity. Not the filtered, medicalised, minimised version of menopause she has been handed. The truth. The whole truth. Unvarnished, fully informed, and entirely hers.
Blind Faith and Inner Knowing
In sacred traditions across the world, a blindfold represents the closing of the outer eye so the inner eye can open. It is the act of turning away from the noise and distraction of the external world in order to hear something deeper: your own wisdom, your own body, your own truth.
Menopause demands exactly this. As the hormonal landscape shifts, many women report a profound turning inward — a deepening of intuition, a sharpening of values, a sudden, clarifying impatience with anything that is not real or true. The blindfold is not a limitation. In spiritual traditions, it is the moment of becoming a Seer.
The Dark Night Before the Dawn
In mystical traditions, a blindfold also represents the liminal space — the in-between. The place after one thing has ended and before another has fully begun. The ancient image of the blindfolded woman navigating the unknown is not one of defeat. It is one of courage. It is the hero’s journey in feminine form: walking forward through the dark, trusting that she will arrive somewhere more fully herself than she has ever been.
Anthropologists call this phase of a woman’s life the Second Spring. A time of self-actualisation. A sacred transition from the Mother archetype — focused outward, nurturing others — to the Wise Woman archetype, where the energy finally, profoundly, turns inward. Where she cultivates herself.
“When physical eyes are covered, the Third Eye opens. In menopause, a woman stops relying on surface appearances. She is no longer fooled by illusions. She transitions from a woman who merely sees the world to a Wise Woman who sees its deeper truth.”
Reclaiming Invisibility as Power
There is another dimension to the blindfold that matters deeply to us. Many women entering menopause describe a particular, painful experience: feeling invisible. The world’s gaze, which has followed them for decades, begins to shift away. They become, in the language of our culture, “past it.”
We refuse that framing entirely.
The blindfolded woman is not invisible. She is choosing not to look. She is not being unseen by the world. She is turning her sight deliberately inward, saying: I am no longer performing for your gaze. I am busy becoming something the world has not yet had words for.
That is not loss. That is power.
The Whole Point: Taking It Off
Here is the thing about a blindfold: it is not permanent. It was never meant to be.
Every woman who reads the book, who works with me, who steps into this community, is in the process of removing hers. Every piece of information that replaces confusion with clarity is a fold coming loose. Every honest conversation that breaks a silence is another strip of fabric falling away. Every symptom that is finally named, validated, and understood — not dismissed, not minimised, not told to someone who shrugs — is a woman’s eyes opening.
That is what Blindfolded is about. Not the wearing of it. The taking off.
We believe that when a woman understands what is actually happening in her body, when she has access to evidence-based, compassionate, clearly communicated guidance, when she knows she is not alone and not broken and not past her prime — everything changes. Her sleep. Her relationships. Her career. Her sense of who she is and what she is capable of in the decades ahead.
The blindfold comes off. And what she sees when it does is not an ending.
It is the clearest, most honest, most powerful view she has ever had.
“The blindfold comes off. And what she sees when it does is not an ending. It is the clearest, most honest, most powerful view she has ever had.”
This Is For You
If you are in perimenopause and your world has tilted in ways you cannot explain - this is for you.
If you are post-menopausal and you are still trying to make sense of the years that felt like they were happening to someone else - this is for you.
If you are approaching menopause and you want to walk in informed rather than blindfolded - this is especially for you.
If you love someone who is going through it and you want to understand, really understand, what she is navigating - this is for you too.
The blindfold was never yours to carry. It was inherited. It was imposed. It was the result of a culture that never took the time to tell women the truth about one of the most significant chapters of their lives.
We are taking it off. Together.
Welcome to Blindfolded.
Your eyes are about to open.