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đź’ś Helping you navigate hormonal change at home,in relationships & at work
🤯 Menopause • Perimenopause • Andropause
🧠 Coach • Counsellor • Ex HR Exec
🎤 Speaker | Facilitator | Workplace Advisor
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This isn’t about pitting women against their doctors.Medical dismissal is real, and some women have had to fight incredi...
09/09/2026

This isn’t about pitting women against their doctors.

Medical dismissal is real, and some women have had to fight incredibly hard to be heard. We shouldn’t diminish those experiences.

But equally, not every doctor is the enemy.

Many are working within a medical system historically built around male bodies, male symptoms and male research. Menopause education has been inconsistent. Some doctors will openly acknowledge what they don’t know. Others may not.

Yes, the system needs to change. And yes, we deserve better care.

But while we’re changing it, let’s get smarter at navigating it. Use your circle of control to plan, and the circle of influence to get the outcome you need.

We can walk in expecting a fight, or we can walk in informed, prepared and ready to advocate for ourselves.

Work with your doctor where you can. Question things when you need to. Seek another opinion when necessary. Don’t accept any less than you deserve.

And don’t accept having symptoms that are affecting your life left unexplored.

We can challenge the system without making every doctor the opposition.

That’s advocacy too.

UNPACKING MISOGYNY: THE EXPIRY DATE EDITION 📦We’ve been told that menopause received little attention historically becau...
07/09/2026

UNPACKING MISOGYNY: THE EXPIRY DATE EDITION 📦

We’ve been told that menopause received little attention historically because women simply didn’t live much beyond their reproductive years.

Except that isn’t the whole story.

Historical life expectancy was heavily affected by infant and childhood deaths.

And women were living beyond their reproductive years long before 1910. Research into high mortality hunter gatherer populations found that, among girls who survived to adulthood, 63 to 77% outlived their childbearing years.

By 1910, the records become particularly stark: a woman who reached 50 could expect, on average, another 22 years of life.

Women weren’t absent. They were there.

So perhaps the more interesting question is if women weren’t expiring when their fertility ended, what exactly was supposed to have expired? Or is it just an excuse that menopause was not studied in the past because women typically didn’t live beyond their reproductive years? When really the reason we weren’t studied medically was because the industry just couldn’t be bothered. We weren’t valued enough?

Her fertility ended.
Her life didn’t.

📦 Because you can’t change what you haven’t unpacked.

Sources: UK Office for National Statistics; Hawkes & Smith, 2010.

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I just loved this post from Faceless IG Growth | Women Mindset a couple of weeks ago.For centuries, women have existed w...
06/09/2026

I just loved this post from Faceless IG Growth | Women Mindset a couple of weeks ago.

For centuries, women have existed within patriarchal systems that have pitted us against one another. We don’t need to see another woman’s confidence, success or self belief as competition or a threat.

I’ve been unfortunate enough to experience female leaders who, rather than supporting me, quietly and sometimes quite cleverly tore me down. Ironically, many of the opportunities I’ve had in my life have come because men opened doors for me. I find that incredibly sad because I hold women in such high esteem.

I often wonder what the world might look like if our systems had been shaped by women as much as they have been shaped by men.

We can’t rewrite centuries of history, but we can change what happens next. We can support each other, hold each other up and genuinely celebrate another woman’s success without believing it somehow diminishes our own.

We are so much stronger together when another woman’s light doesn’t make us feel we need to dim our own.

04/09/2026

FELLAS… DOES IT LOOK DIFFERENT DOWN THERE? 👀

We’ve spent years telling men to “get checked.”

But perhaps we’ve missed a step.

How do you know something has changed if no one ever told you what might change?

Men are expected to notice when something isn’t quite right with their bodies, yet conversations about male hormonal ageing remain remarkably quiet.

Menopause is finally becoming mainstream.

Andropause?

Still hovering somewhere near the back of the room hoping someone mentions it.

And that matters.

Because changes in our bodies can affect far more than anatomy. They can affect confidence, intimacy, relationships and how we feel about ourselves.

Men deserve the language to talk about that too.

No embarrassment.
No assumptions.
No quietly filing everything under “I’m just getting older.”

More information. More support. More conversations like this.

That’s exactly why I do what I do. 💜

Gloria Steinem was not a menopause campaigner.But the menopause movement owes a considerable debt to women like her.For ...
03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem was not a menopause campaigner.

But the menopause movement owes a considerable debt to women like her.

For decades, Steinem challenged the systems that determined how women’s bodies were understood, discussed and valued.

In her famous 1978 essay If Men Could Menstruate, she turned the tables on something regarded as an embarrassing female bodily function and asked us to imagine how differently it might be treated if men experienced it instead.

It was satire. But underneath it was a serious question about gender, biology and power.

Today, as menopause has finally started to occupy space in medicine, workplaces, research, politics and public conversation, perhaps we should remember the women who helped make that space possible.

Gloria Steinem may not have built the menopause movement.

But she was instrumental in building the platform from which it could gain traction.

She spent a lifetime challenging the idea that women’s experiences should be diminished, dismissed or defined for them.

That work helped generations of women speak more loudly about their bodies, their rights and their lives.

Gloria Steinem died today, aged 92.

What a platform she leaves behind. Gloria Steinem

02/09/2026

Like any condition, treating symptoms early is key

And vaginal oestrogen is a perimenopause and menopause secret from so many women who aren’t aware of what it can do AND it can be taken with oestrogen gel.

It’s been a game changer for so many people in my network. I’m started it over a week ago and will keep you updated on what I notice from taking it. It takes a month or so to kick in

Seek advice from your GP but go armed with your own research đź’ś



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MISOGYNY MONDAY 📦 The Corporate Edition.We frequently talk about equality for women at work. Some organisations are genu...
31/08/2026

MISOGYNY MONDAY 📦 The Corporate Edition.

We frequently talk about equality for women at work. Some organisations are genuinely forward thinking, including supporting women experiencing perimenopause and menopause symptoms that affect their working lives.

And at the same time, an advert from a global brand depicting a man shoving a woman to the ground over a golf club made it through a corporate approval process.

How are we here in 2026?

What happened to respecting women?

The people making these decisions have mothers. Grandmothers. Daughters. Wives. Female colleagues.

How did we dial things backwards?

And no, this isn’t every organisation.

I’ve worked with brilliant leaders who genuinely want to stamp out sexism, bullying, harassment and poor behaviour.

But there are enough women bringing legal action against major organisations alleging discrimination, harassment and hostile workplace cultures to know we still have a problem.

So when we talk about workplace wellbeing, including menopause support, perhaps we need to look beyond policies, awareness days and menopause champions.

How well can we support women through an unavoidable stage of life if we haven’t addressed how women are regarded at work in the first place?

My work isn’t gender specific. I support women and men trying to make sense of what’s happening within themselves, at home, in relationships and at work.

I’ve sat in the senior HR seat. I know how organisations work and what can be said behind closed doors.

I’ve also investigated cases involving harassment, discrimination, sexual assault, people losing jobs unfairly and people whose lives and relationships have unravelled under the stress of what was happening at work.

Sometimes my job is to hold space, help someone understand their options and empower them to choose what happens next.

Sometimes it means being comfortable enough to challenge the uncomfortable.

Because you can’t change what you haven’t unpacked. 📦💜

Image created using AI from my original concept, prompts and creative direction.

29/08/2026

Making menopause mainstream, and absolutely normal!

Parked the car. Went to work. Came back 8.5 hours later and I’d left the car running

Bonus was only a small amount of petrol had gone.

Normal behaviour when going through hormone change. What’s yours (and not the ones rinsed and repeated by the oodles of menopause parody accounts!)

Sometimes two people who love each other stop recognising the relationship they’re living in.One is thinking, “Why don’t...
25/08/2026

Sometimes two people who love each other stop recognising the relationship they’re living in.

One is thinking, “Why don’t you understand what I need?”

The other, “I don’t know who I’m supposed to be in this anymore.”

And somewhere between needing space, wanting closeness, feeling rejected, trying to help and getting it spectacularly wrong, they stop talking about what’s actually happening.

Because hormonal change doesn’t only change how you feel.

It can change the meaning you give to each other’s behaviour.

Space can feel like rejection.
Concern can feel like pressure.
Silence can feel like indifference.

Sometimes support is 36 hours of space.

Sometimes it’s finally talking about “it."

And sometimes it’s simply asking:

"Do you want me to listen, help, or just be here?"

Perhaps the question isn’t only “What’s happening to me?”

It’s “What’s happening to us, while this is happening to me?” 💜

MISOGYNY MONDAYMenopause is not a mental illness.Yet for generations, women’s anxiety, low mood, poor sleep, brain fog a...
24/08/2026

MISOGYNY MONDAY

Menopause is not a mental illness.

Yet for generations, women’s anxiety, low mood, poor sleep, brain fog and irritability have too often been treated as psychological problems without hormones even entering the conversation.

That’s the bit I want to talk about.

Not because every woman in her 40s or 50s needs HRT.

Not because antidepressants are bad medicines.

But because both hormonal and non hormonal causes deserve proper investigation.

We shouldn’t assume it’s menopause.

We shouldn’t assume it isn’t either.

Perhaps the real question for Misogyny Monday is this:

How did something that potentially affects half the population become such a blind spot in medicine in the first place?

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