This week is Grief Awareness Week and something that is very close to my heart right now. As we embrace the festive season with all its celebrations and socialising, I am also aware that for many people, this is a time of great sadness and often loneliness. Only last weekend a friend commented that for […]

Perimenopausal Depression and Hope for the Future   ‘Women are 40% more likely to experience depression in the perimenopause than those who aren’t experiencing any menopausal symptoms, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.’ This is one of a growing body of evidence that shows that women experiencing perimenopause symptoms, sometimes from as early […]

I’d like to encourage you to think about the following for a minute: Chronic Dieting equals Deprivation of Food. Eating food that we do not need for energy is often a coping mechanism to push down feelings that are historically too dangerous to allow ourselves to feel. So when we no longer have food to hide the feelings, it is then that the feelings are able to surface. The ‘diet’ has enabled the feelings that food has successfully masked and this can inevitably lead to overwhelm, a lack of control, fear, feeling unsafe. So Chronic Dieting leads to feeling unsafe, […]

When I got an email last week inviting me to speak at a local menopause support group about how perimenopause and menopause affects our mental health, I felt an immediate sense of happiness, pride and validation as someone had recognised my skills and felt they wanted me to share my knowledge with the wider group. […]