Guest Health Advice
Our website provides information and updates about menopause and all that goes with it from the range of symptoms to managing health and well-being post-menopause. As well as capturing the different expert professional voices, we share real women’s experiences, so that they can help and inform others.
We get sound advice on everything from how to have the perfect poo - yes oestrogen even helps us with that - to the ways CBT can help manage symptoms, and to how we can increase our confidence in the workplace.
Find sound menopause and life advice in our guest posts.
Around 50% of menopausal women struggle with incontinence and little bladder leaks (and that’s just the ones who are admitting it!) Whilst the issue may be common, it’s not something that should be normalised or put up with. We’ve partnered with NIXI Body leak-proof underwear to break the taboo and share some tips on supporting your pelvic floor strength through menopause.
Perimenopausal symptoms can coincide with significant mid-life challenges and responsibilities, and research has shown that stress and symptoms of perimenopause are inextricably linked. Whether coping with menopause stress at work or in private life, self-care in perimenopause matters!
How mindfulness and meditation techniques really can have a positive impact on menopause symptoms.
There is something quite cruel about the twist of fate that places the two biggest rites of passage in a woman’s reproductive life simultaneously. Puberty and menopause, the battle of the hormones. A story of a surgically induced menopause.
Alcohol and menopause don’t always make a good mix! Tolerance can fall, symptoms can be made worse and generally leave us feeling rough!
To young people menopause can feel like a lifetime away, but for a small proportion that’s not always the case. Education about women’s reproductive health is poorly lacking, so where do young people get their knowledge about menopause?
3,000 women are diagnosed every year with cervical cancer, over 18,000 are diagnosed with the other 4 types of gynaecological cancers for which there is no screening at all. One woman’s experience of surgical menopause due to womb cancer has started a petition for yearly women’s health check ups to reduce deaths of over 7,600 women each year.
We know regular exercise can improve physical health, increase well-being, and lead to a better quality of life, which in turn can lead to easing the symptoms of menopause. Dancing can be just as fulfilling as any other exercise during menopause.
Are you a black woman experiencing menopause in the UK? Menopause activist, Karen Arthur, has made it her mission to get your voice heard and to change the narrative about how black women receive menopause treatment.
Anxiety is one of the most underestimated symptoms of menopause. What tools does Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Becky Quicke think we should add to our kit bags to cope with menopause anxiety?
Anxiety can ramp up in menopause - it’s super important now more than ever to make to take time, quite literally pause, reflect and work out why we feel like this. Think about what’s not working, what unmet needs do we have, what lies beneath that anxiety we’re feeling? Find 5 simple tips to help you.
The charity Women in Sport aims to empower women to see change can be good and being active, as a ‘new beginning’. Their interest in menopause came about after conducting a piece of research with women aged 55+, looking at the barriers they reported, for staying active. Find out why they want to get more women active!
Ovarian Cancer treatment can cause an early surgical menopause. We shine a light on the work of the charity Ovacome.
During and after menopause, the number of women who report sleep problems increases sharply. Why is this?
In the last of her three guest blogs, Dr Anita Goraya shares CBT strategies for relieving the physical symptoms of menopause.
How do we cope when we’re overwhelmed? Dr Anita Goraya shares practical advice about how using CBT can help us to reframe situations - CBT and menopause, a perfect pair.
CBT is more than just ‘positive thinking’. It’s about developing ‘realistic’ thinking. Learn how you can use CBT for menopause symptom relief from specialist, Dr Anita Goraya.
The complexities of coping with diabetes and menopause from high sugar levels to fluctuating hormones.
Fifty per cent of women will experience prolapse post-meonopause! Who knew that? Preventable and manageable. We talk one of the massive menopause taboos & surprises with Women’s Health Physiotherapists who share priceless nuggets for your health & wellbeing if you’re one of the 1 in 2!