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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Menopause Nightmares, Menopause Symptoms, Sleepless & Tired, What The Bleep
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...
Menopause Journeys, Partner, Redefining You
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...
Family, Menopause Symptoms, Weight Wrangler
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...
Redefining You, What The Bleep Happened
I’ve often wondered if it’s possible to reach a state of Menopause Zen… so on that note, I went off and did a spot of research. One thing I’ve learnt is that our brains actually begin to change during peri-menopause. If you’re still having periods and everything seems...
Hot & Sweaty, Menopause Symptoms, Partner
Do You Get Hot Flashes Upon Waking Up? It’s 6:19 a.m. I’m lying in bed, snuggled up and cosy, gradually waking up to the sounds of birds greeting the morning. At precisely 6:20 a.m. our alarm goes off. I roll over to silence it, turn to greet my husband … and...
