24/10/2026
Menopause gets such a bad rap. And yes, for many women it can be incredibly difficult. We should never dismiss that. But our experience can also be influenced by so many things happening alongside hormonal change: our nutrition, lifestyle, stress, relationships, sleep, movement, emotional wellbeing and simply how much energy we have left after years of looking after everyone else.
Once we begin to understand what our bodies and minds need, we can support ourselves differently.
Better still, what if we started much earlier? I worry that some young women are becoming terrified of perimenopause before they have even reached it. Yet they have something many women over 50 today simply didn’t have: time, information and a growing conversation about women’s health.
Imagine teaching women in their 20s, 30s and 40s about their hormones, bones, heart, brain, nutrition, muscle, stress, sleep and reproductive health. Not because menopause is something they need to fear or spend decades worrying about, but because understanding your body earlier can benefit your health throughout your life.
As a collective, I think we have a responsibility to encourage and inspire the generations coming behind us rather than handing them our doom and gloom. There is quite enough of that in the world already.
Menopause isn’t the end of youth, femininity, ambition, sexuality, relevance or adventure.
For some women, it can actually become the beginning of one of the most liberating periods of their lives.
And becoming a Licensed Menopause Champion gives you an opportunity to start by learning about your own body: how it works, what changes, what it needs and just how incredible it really is. Then you can take that knowledge and help change the conversation for somebody else.
What if we could tell young women that menopause can be the best time of our lives?
Let’s do it!
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