Mejegan, a menopause coach, outdoors in a green hijab

Mejegan · ISSA Certified Nutritionist, Personal Trainer & Menopause Specialist

You are not imagining it. And you are not stuck with it.

Perimenopause and menopause coaching for Muslim women 40+. Built around the food already on your table, training you can do modestly at home, and a faith that was never meant to be the last thing you get to.

Save my free seatFree live workshop · Thu 22 or Sat 24 October · 11am Eastern See how I work

Sound familiar

Your labs came back normal. You did not.

Estrogen in perimenopause isn't low, it's erratic, and a single blood draw only catches one moment of the swing. There's no standard test that diagnoses this. Normal labs and real symptoms live in the same body all the time.

Weight that settles on your middle and will not move
Awake at 3am for no reason you can name
Brain fog that makes you lose the word mid-sentence
Joints and shoulders that ache in the morning
Exhaustion that coffee stopped touching
A mood you don't recognize as yours
Everything that worked in your 30s, working against you now

You are not lazy and you have not let yourself go. Your body changed the rules and nobody handed you the new ones.

The framework

The Sakinah Method

Four pillars, and five stages to move through them. I give the whole thing away, in every post and every workshop, because you should be able to repeat it to your sister without me in the room.

Fuel

Your protein number, worked out for your body, hit with rice, roti, dal and biryani still on the table. We change the proportions, not the culture. Nothing gets cut in week one.

Strength

Resistance training for a 40+ body. Home or gym, modest, and scalable all the way down to a chair and no weights. The marker is your waist, not the scale.

Rest

Progesterone drops first and it is the hormone that holds sleep together. That is the 3am wake-up. Caffeine cut-off, daylight before 9am, and what to do when you're lying there at 3.

Sakinah

Your body is an amanah, a trust. Salah as the anchor of the day rather than something squeezed around it. This is not the spiritual part added at the end. It is the part that makes the other three stick.

How you move through the four pillars

StopReflectRealignRenewSustain

Stop what is creating pressure without progress. Reflect on your meals, movement, sleep and stress. Realign with one practical change. Renew your strength and energy. Sustain it through family life, travel and Ramadan.

Free

The Menopause Plate

One page. Your protein target by body weight, and 6 plates built from chicken curry, dal and roti, biryani, shakshuka, a four-minute breakfast bowl, and grilled meat with hummus. Every one of them food you already cook.

So many of the women I talk to have never been given a protein number at all. That isn't a discipline problem. Nobody ever gave us the number.

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Salaam

I'm Mejegan

I'm 49 and in menopause. I'm a mom of 4, and an ISSA certified nutritionist, personal trainer and menopause specialist.

Perimenopause hit me at 44 and I had no idea what was happening. The weight would not move no matter what had worked in my 30s. My face was puffy, my joints hurt, I was awake in the middle of the night, and I started choosing black clothes and blazers so I could hide my stomach at parties.

My daughter left for college that same year, so I was grieving that while trying to work out what my own body was doing.

I already held two certifications and it still took me 3 to 4 years, because I was piecing it together alone. Every plan I found was written for a woman shopping at an American supermarket, with nothing to say about Ramadan, or biryani, or training modestly at home. So I built a different one.

Then I started talking to other Muslim women and found the same thing everywhere. Nobody had told us. In our families this life stage is barely spoken about at all, and strength training for a woman our age is treated as something other people do.

That is why this exists.

Work with me

Three ways in

Start wherever you actually are. The first door is free.

Free live workshop · 22 or 24 October

The Sakinah Reset Workshop

Free 11am Eastern, on Zoom · choose Thursday or Saturday

3 shifts to support your energy, strength and sustainable fat loss after 40, without giving up rice, roti or your peace. 70 to 75 minutes, with a planning worksheet and live Q&A. That is 4pm in the UK, 5pm in South Africa and 7pm in the UAE.

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8 weeks, in a small group · founding round

The Founding Sakinah Reset Group

$297 or 2 monthly payments of $165

The method, put into practice together. A weekly 75-minute live coaching call, worksheets and action plans, recordings of every call, and a private community of Muslim women in the same season, hosted on Skool. A small group of no more than 15 women.

Opens to workshop attendees after the October workshop. All eight call dates are shared in your own time zone before you pay.

Start with the free workshop

12 weeks, one to one · 5 seats

The Private Sakinah Reset

$1,500 or 3 monthly payments of $550

For women who want the method run on them alone. Twelve weekly private calls, your First 14 Days Plan within 72 hours of your intake, Monday to Friday messaging, and a written plan to carry on after week 12.

The Sakinah Promise. Do the work with me for 6 weeks and if it hasn't been the most useful support you've had for this season, I refund every dollar. I guarantee my work. I will never guarantee a number on a scale.

Ask me about private coaching

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Come to the free workshop

The Sakinah Reset Workshop is live on Zoom twice, so you can pick the day that fits your week: Thursday 22 October or Saturday 24 October, both at 11am Eastern. 70 to 75 minutes. Come live for the planning worksheet and Q&A, or catch the replay for 48 hours.

Save my free seatThu 22 or Sat 24 October · 11am Eastern

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