Category: Menopause
When Your Baby-Making Furniture is Older Than Your House

When Your Baby-Making Furniture is Older Than Your House

Imagine you're ready to start thinking about having kids. You’re nowhere near your biological "use-by" date—or at least that's what everyone keeps telling you. But then life throws you a curveball. Suddenly, doctors are casually dropping terms like "premature ovarian...

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Give Your Vag Some Love: Your Guide to GSM

Give Your Vag Some Love: Your Guide to GSM

Menopause isn’t just a quirky phase with hot flushes and mood swings—it’s a whole journey that can throw some unexpected curveballs at your body, especially in your intimate areas. And while words like “vaginal atrophy” might sound clinical and downright awful (who in...

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Menopause Shouldn’t Be the Misery Olympics

Menopause Shouldn’t Be the Misery Olympics

Recently, while scrolling through social media (in my very limited, sanity-preserving way), I heard someone talking about "natural menopause." I really, really hate that term. Not because menopause isn't natural—it absolutely is—but because of what that phrase...

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Embracing the Matriarchal Phase

Embracing the Matriarchal Phase

The Unremarkable Start of a Cyclical Journey I remember my first period arriving without ceremony, a quietly hushed event met with a matter-of-fact instruction: "This is your lot as a woman." No fanfare, no celebration. Just a sense of inevitability and duty. It was a...

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How I quit Mummy Wine Time

How I quit Mummy Wine Time

Let me start by saying this: I'm not here to proclaim that my life has magically transformed into a utopia since I stopped drinking alcohol. I don't claim to possess all the answers or preach that sobriety is the only path to happiness. Instead, I want to share my...

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Juicy Vee™ Muffins

Juicy Vee™ Muffins

Funny story – I have been playing with replacing flour with milled flax seed for many years. And have a number of recipes for biscuits and muffins. One of the benefits of adding milled flaxseeds to your diet is to counter the loss of oestrogen that happens in the...

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Does Menopause Make You Fat?

Does Menopause Make You Fat?

As a fitness professional, I've heard many misconceptions about menopause and weight gain. Recently, a fitness influencer made a bold claim that menopause doesn't cause weight gain - instead, our health and eating well standards drop during this time of life. While I...

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The connection between brain fog and menopause

The connection between brain fog and menopause

This year for World Menopause Day, the theme is cognition and mood. As you know, I am very interested in all thing’s menopause. But you might not know that I am currently working with Synapse – Australia’s leading organisation supporting those with brain injury. My...

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Your health is like a 3-legged stool

Your health is like a 3-legged stool

It's no secret that leading a healthy lifestyle can help you live longer. But what's often overlooked is the importance of having healthy relationships. Studies have shown that strong social connections are just as crucial to your health as eating right and exercising...

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