THE VITALITY PROTOCOL
Microdosing for Menopause & Midlife
A 90-Day Sacred Group Protocol for Women in Perimenopause, Menopause & Beyond
✶ Sacred ✶ Supported ✶ Transformational ✶ Held ✶
The story we’ve been told about menopause is wrong. And it’s time someone told you the truth.
You’ve been told this is a decline. A loss. Something to dread, endure, and push through until it’s mercifully over. You’ve been told your labs are “normal” while you’re barely sleeping, losing your words, and feeling like a stranger in your own body. You’ve been made to feel that what is happening to you is an inconvenience — a malfunction — something to manage quietly and not make too much of a fuss about.
You have been dismissed. You have been gaslit. You have been shamed into silence about one of the most significant transitions of your entire life.
And that ends here.
Perimenopause and menopause are not a crisis. They are not a malfunction. They are one of the most alchemical, transformative, deeply initiatory passages in a woman’s life. Your body is not betraying you. It is initiating you. And with the right knowledge, the right support, and the right community — you do not just survive this transition.
You thrive in it. You emerge from it more powerful, more purposeful, and more fully yourself than you have ever been.
The second half of your life might just be the best half.
WHAT IS THE VITALITY PROTOCOL?
The Vitality Protocol: Microdosing for Menopause is a 90-day sacred group experience designed specifically for women in perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause.
This is not a hormone replacement program. This is not a medical treatment. This is a soul-led, science-informed, deeply held container where you will work with the sacred practice of microdosing — supported by expert guidance, live coaching, elevated breathwork, and a community of women who understand exactly what you’re moving through — to navigate this transition with presence, power, and a sense of aliveness you may have thought was gone.
We will address the neurobiological reality of what is actually happening in your body during this transition — the disrupted serotonin, dopamine, and GABA that drive the brain fog, the sleeplessness, the emotional waves, the loss of self. And we will work with a practice that speaks directly to these changes, at the level of the nervous system and the brain.
This is the container I wish had existed when I was standing exactly where you are now.
THIS CONTAINER WAS BUILT FOR YOU IF…
- You’re in perimenopause, at the menopause threshold, or post-menopausal — and something feels different. Bigger than physical symptoms. Like an identity you can’t quite locate anymore.
- The brain fog, sleeplessness, and emotional intensity are real — but what concerns you most is the question underneath them: “who am I becoming, and what is still possible for me?”
- You’ve been brushed off, gaslit, or handed a prescription when what you actually needed was someone to truly understand what you’re moving through.
- You’ve done the work. The therapy, the books, the practices, the healings. You are not starting from zero. You’re ready for the next layer.
- You feel a calling toward sacred earth medicines and want a safe, structured, intentionally held environment to explore them with a guide who truly understands this season of life.
- You’re ready to step into your Queen era — sovereign, purposeful, more fully yourself than you have ever been.
Women Like You
The women who come to this work are not broken. They are awake. They feel things deeply. They have done the work — the therapy, the self-help, the spiritual practice — and they are ready for something that goes deeper still.
The woman who lost her spark
When she first came to this work, the dimness was visible. In her skin, her hair, her eyes, the way she moved through a room. She wasn’t in crisis — she was just… muted. The aliveness she once had felt very far away. Through a combination of microdosing and breathwork, something began to shift. Slowly at first. Then unmistakably. Session by session, she brightened. The joy she thought she’d lost wasn’t gone — it had just been waiting. During her journey she experienced a profound heart opening, so full it moved her to tears and laughter at the same time. She loosened her grip. She let herself play. She got her light back.
The woman ready for her Queen era
She had done years of personal growth work. Self-aware, spiritually curious, no stranger to doing hard things. But she had been carrying so much for so long that her own inner voice had grown quiet beneath the noise of obligation and stress. She came wanting to reconnect to her intuition — to trust what she felt, to know the difference between fear and knowing. What she found was her Queen era. A steadiness she hadn’t felt before. Patience and presence that surprised even her. Her intuition began to speak in ways she could finally hear. She stopped bracing for what was coming and started trusting it.
The woman who was ready to go deeper
Already spiritually fluent. Strong yoga and meditation practice. Living intentionally. She came for creativity and clarity around her soul’s work. She left with something far larger: a reconnection to her inner guidance so profound it reshaped both her personal life and her business. Her words: “What I found went far beyond that.”
The woman who found self-love
She came carrying anxiety, a history of childhood wounds, and years of searching for peace in her own body and mind. Through ninety days of structured microdosing, she navigated a significant life rupture — with self-respect, with groundedness, without the anxious attachment patterns that had defined her past. She told me recently, simply and without fanfare: “I discovered self-love.”
THE EXPERIENCE
Your 90-Day Transformation Includes
🍄 Sacred Sourcing Support
Before we begin, you will have an onboarding call with Melissa to review your health history and she will make a personal recommendation for the specific blend that best supports your body right now. You will receive trusted, vetted sourcing guidance through a values-aligned sourcing partner — so you begin your protocol with sacred earth medicine you can trust, delivered with integrity.
🍄 The 90-Day Microdosing Protocol
A structured, intentional microdosing roadmap built specifically for the hormonal and neurobiological landscape of perimenopause and menopause. You will know exactly what to take, when to take it, and how to work with what arises — every step of the way.
🍄 Two Live Group Coaching Calls Per Month
Twice a month, we gather live on Zoom as a group of women — to process shifts, integrate insights, ask every question you’ve been carrying, and receive direct guidance from Melissa and her assistant coaches, Katie and Julie. These calls are the heartbeat of the program. They are sacred, held, and intimate by design.
🍄 Monthly Live Breathwork Session
Once a month, Melissa guides the group through a full conscious connected breathwork journey using her signature Elevated Breathwork method. These sessions move what needs to move — unlocking and alchemizing emotional stuckness, deepening integration, and creating the kind of energetic reset that changes everything.
🍄 Ongoing Support via Signal
Between sessions, you are held in a private group on Signal — a space for questions, wins, hard days, and breakthroughs. Real-time connection and support from Melissa, Katie, and Julie whenever you need it.
🍄 Intake Form & Personal Medical Review
Before your protocol begins, Melissa personally reviews your intake form and medication history, in consultation with her medical advisor. Your safety and care are the foundation of this work. This is not a one-size-fits-all program — it is thoughtful, individualized, and held with the highest integrity.
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BONUS: 1:1 Private Coaching Call — Pay-In-Full Exclusive
When you choose the pay-in-full option, you receive a private one-on-one coaching call with Melissa to use anytime during your 90 days — a deeply personal space to explore what you're moving through, deepen your integration, or receive direct guidance exactly when you need it most.
What Women Are Saying...
"As someone new to microdosing, I quickly realized how essential it is to work with a knowledgeable and compassionate coach, and Melissa is exactly that. She is a gentle, soft-spoken listener who brings deep wisdom, kindness, and love into every session, and she knows how to lovingly help you explore emotions when you feel stuck.
Being guided by Melissa in a group setting has been incredibly powerful—sharing experiences with others creates connection, insight, and a sense of shared consciousness. I am deeply grateful for Melissa’s guidance and absolutely thrilled with the positive shifts unfolding in my life."
— Julie, microdosing client
What Women Are Saying...
“Melissa’s Sacred Microdosing program was deeply transformative for me. I entered with the intention of reconnecting to my creativity and gaining clarity around how I wanted to evolve my business, and what I found went far beyond that.
Through Melissa’s guidance, I connected to my intuition, a deep sense of presence, and my inner guidance in a powerful way. The results have been tangible and meaningful, showing up in both my personal and professional life. I’m incredibly grateful that I trusted my YES and embraced this journey.”
— Katie, microdosing client
What Women Are Saying...
"I'm more relaxed. Things that used to trigger a mini meltdown or extreme frustration just don't hit the same way anymore. I still react — but with less intensity, and for shorter periods of time. I'm not obsessing about whatever happened all day and night the way I used to. I'm going with the flow in a way that honestly surprises me. And I'm sleeping better too — my dreams are more vivid than ever."
— Tricia, microdosing client
What Women Are Saying...
✨ “It feels like there’s space now — space between the trigger and my reaction. I’m finally able to pause instead of spiraling.”
✨ “Even on my days off the medicine, I feel more grounded — like I can breathe again instead of being in constant tension.”
✨ “It’s like the mushrooms are turning down the static and tuning me into a clearer channel — little moments feel more meaningful.”
✨ “This journey feels like an accelerant for all the inner work I’ve already been doing.”
— microdosing clients
A NOTE FROM MELISSA
At 45 years old, I was the "president" of everything.
Entrepreneur. Mother. Volunteer extraordinaire. Community pillar. I was running on fumes, staying over busy so I never had to stop and feel. My body was sending signals I didn’t know how to read — the sleeplessness, the fog, the pain. I kept moving. I didn’t know I was deep in perimenopause. I didn’t know that my body wasn’t breaking down.
It was breaking open.
When I was crossing the menopause threshold in 2020, I was terrified. The fear that ran deepest wasn’t about night sweats. It was the questions I almost couldn’t bring myself to ask: will I still be a woman? Will I still be needed? Will I still matter? Will the world still have use for me?
What happened instead was the greatest surprise of my life. A calling so strong I was willing to walk away from my business, my income, my entire identity to answer it. I became a healer. I stepped into my gifts. I found my purpose.
I am 56 now. I feel more vital, more powerful, more deeply needed than I have ever felt in my life. I have stepped into my Queen era — sovereign, purposeful, fully arrived, not powering over anyone, but drawing from my own internal power. I am a Luminary now — a woman who leads from her own inner knowing, who sees clearly and moves without apology. Less tethered to who the world told me to be. More anchored in who I actually am.
Menopause was not my ending. It was my portal.
I navigated my own transition through years of deep healing work — sacred medicine journeys, breathwork, energy healing, the full unraveling. It was profound. And I didn’t know about microdosing then. When I discovered what this practice does for women in exactly this transition, I felt a tender recognition. I thought about the version of me standing at that threshold, not knowing what was coming. And I wanted to reach back and hand her something.
That is why I do this work. And that is why I created this workshop and The Vitality Protocol. For women like me. For women like you.
PROGRAMÂ DETAILS
Start Date: To Be Announced (sometime in August or September) • Click here to join the exclusive waitlist for early access or schedule a Sacred Conversation Call here to chat about your needs before then
Duration:Â 90 Days
Format:Â Online via Zoom + Signal community support
Who It’s For: Women in perimenopause, menopause, or post-menopause
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Who Will You Be After 90 Days?
By the time we complete this cycle, you won’t just have “tried” microdosing. You will have built a relationship with your own inner wisdom that will stay with you long after the protocol ends. You will be:
- Sleeping more deeply, moving through your days with more ease, and feeling genuinely alive in your body again.
- Emotionally regulated — not numb, not bypassed — but genuinely grounded. Able to feel everything without being swept away by it.
- Reconnected to your intuition. Trusting what you feel. Knowing the difference between fear and knowing.
- Clear on who you are in this new chapter — and excited about what is still possible for you.
- Held by a community of women who understand this transition from the inside out.
- Fully arrived in your Queen era.
Meet The Team
Melissa Saubers
Transformational Coach · Microdosing Guide · Breathwork Alchemist · Sacred Medicine Facilitator
Melissa Saubers is a sacred medicine facilitator, microdosing guide, and transformational coach devoted to helping women reconnect with their inner wisdom and live from soul. She specializes in the emotional alchemy of life's biggest transitions — including midlife and menopause — guiding women through her signature program The Vitality Protocol: Microdosing for Menopause and her immersive sacred medicine and coaching containers to regulate the nervous system, awaken intuitive clarity, and reclaim their most vibrant, soul-led lives.
Melissa blends science, soul, and ceremony — weaving conscious connected breathwork, sacred plant allies, energy medicine, and heart-centered coaching into a multidimensional approach that is as grounded as it is transformational. Her work creates spaces of deep presence, integrity, and lasting change.
Her mission: to support women in remembering their truth, reclaiming their power, and stepping fully into their most luminous selves — one sacred experience at a time.
Heal + Expand · Breathwork · Microdosing · Ceremony · Coaching
Julie Reif
Assistant Microdosing Coach & Guide
After nearly 30 years as an ICU nurse, Julie Reif knows what it feels like to give everything to others while slowly losing connection to yourself. Following the emotional and physical toll of burnout — especially after the intensity of the COVID years — she found herself searching for a different way to live and feel. That search led her into the world of nervous system work, mindfulness, and microdosing, where she began to reconnect with her body, her emotions, and a sense of aliveness she hadn’t felt in years.
Now moving through her own menopause transition, Julie brings a deeply personal and grounded perspective to this work. She understands firsthand the hormonal, emotional, and identity shifts women face — and the importance of feeling truly held through them. Her role in this container is to support Melissa and to support you: holding space with compassion, honesty, and the kind of relatability that comes from having walked the path herself. She will help you feel seen, safe, and less alone as you navigate your own transformation.
Katie Cullen
Assistant Microdosing Coach & Guide
Katie brings a unique blend of professional expertise and intuitive facilitation to her role as an assistant microdosing coach. With a background in professional development, she has spent her career creating environments where people feel safe to explore, open, and expand — and she brings that same gift into this sacred container.
She is known for her calm, grounded presence and her ability to connect with others through meaningful, growth-oriented conversation. Katie naturally balances structure with intuition, holding space with compassion, deep listening, and thoughtful insight. Her role here is simple and profound: to make sure every woman in this program feels seen, supported, and never alone in what she is moving through.
Katie is also the founder of Earth Gypsy Jewelry, where she creates intentional pieces and experiences that support reflection, ritual, and transformation — rooted in the belief that we are always becoming, and that with the right support, that becoming can be both sacred and expansive.
One last note from my heart to yours:
If something in you stirred reading this — trust that. That recognition is your inner knowing speaking. The women who find their way to this work are not broken. They are awake. They are ready. They are becoming.
We begin soon. I hope you will be there.
đź’–Â Melissa
