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Let’s talk about libido and menopause
The impact of sexual problems on a woman and on her relationship with herself and others can be significant. No one is immune. Sadly, a lot of our problems with sex, libido and menopause are reported with an astonishing oversimplification of complicated phenomena....
The ‘V’ word, Sex and Menopause
We need to talk about the ‘V’ word. VAGINA. It’s one of the words that people have trouble saying out loud, let alone having a conversation about it. I wasn’t going to even mention the other ‘V’ word—vulva- but the writer in me decided it needed to be here too. Both...
Mothers, daughters, puberty, periods, menopause!
One afternoon over a chicken & strawberry salad (sounds weird, tastes delish), my friend Ruth told me something I found both extraordinary and fascinating. Ruth breaks out in pimples every single month when her daughter is in the second part of her cycle...
Are Your Menopause Symptoms Affecting You at Work?
In July 2017, a report published by the University of Leicester School of business, found that menopause is the ‘missing life stage’ considered by business and companies and what place policy at workplace culture and workplace training. Pregnancy, families, parenting...
Guess how much hormones can &#@% up your life?
A LOT!! Ever felt you have foggy brain, sore breasts, extra handlebars around your middle and you don’t know where THAT came from as you most certainly have been “good” with what you are eating… You also may have fatigue for no reason and trouble sleeping...even when...
Menopause at 25
At the age of twenty-five, I was diagnosed with endometriosis and had a hysterectomy. It was the mid-70's, forty-odd years ago, and a very different time. Although I was constantly bleeding and in terrible pain, and had been for over eighteen months, my GP wouldn't...
Menopause Means Opening Ourselves to Change
For some of us, we’ve been so busy running everyone else’s lives that allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges we face in the Menopause journey. By closing ourselves off to our own desires and wishes for our own lives, a lot of us have...
I was awake most nights from 2013 to 2018
Actually it felt more like I was awake from 2013 to 2019. It may have been longer. Sleeplessness is a great leveller. It’ll level anyone and anything that gets in its path. Once upon a time, there was a lady who was a great sleeper. She could sleep and sleep and...
Peri-menopause 👩, Part-time Periods 🎈& Contraception 🐥
I think I was 43 or 44 when I started experiencing changes to my periods. It could have been earlier, but I was in the final throes of alcoholic drinking so nothing was normal. I’d been trying to get and stay sober for a few years so it could have been going on for a...
Have a heart — a menopause heart 💖
My mum had her first heart attack at age 61. In 1988 Mum had 3 separate cardiac events; 2 heart attacks and a cardiac arrest. Lucky for Mum (and the family) she had the cardiac arrest in a Coronary Care ward at a hospital where there was easy access to defibrillators...