by Tess Oliver | Jun 23, 2021 | Menopause Symptoms, Work
Are you menopausal and struggling to be as productive at work as before? If so, you’re not alone! Find out how menopause can affect working women and what can be done to change it Menopause can affect a lot of women in the workforce. For example, many women report...
by Tess Oliver | May 18, 2021 | Menopause Symptoms, Peri-menopause
Menopause doesn’t affect all women the exact same way, so it could be hard to know whether you’re in menopause or not. For example, one woman might get every symptom in the book, while another experiences hardly any. There will also be those that do experience...
by Tess Oliver | May 18, 2021 | Menopause Nightmares, Weight Wrangler
How did I get so chubby? Will exercise help? Want to know what are the best exercises for building bone density/muscle mass over 50? Find out what the evidence says! It can all seem so unfair when you reach the menopausal stages and your body changes all by itself...
by Sharon Langshaw | Sep 30, 2019 | Sex, Somatic Siren, What The Bleep Happened
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....
by Sharon Langshaw | Sep 18, 2019 | Menopause Nightmares, Partner, What The Bleep Happened
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...
by Sharon Langshaw | Sep 10, 2019 | Family, Menopause Journeys
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...
by Sharon Langshaw | Aug 29, 2019 | Menopause Journeys, Menopause Symptoms
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...
by Vicky Jamieson | Aug 14, 2019 | Menopause Symptoms, What The Bleep Happened
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...
by Hannah Collins | Aug 6, 2019 | Finding Your Voice, Menopause Journeys
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...
by Sharon Langshaw | Jul 2, 2019 | Feeling Dead & Uninspired, Finding Your Voice
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...
