Kate Codrington

Kate Codrington Author of Second Spring the self-care guide to menopause, menopause mentor, speaker, facilitator, yo

To minimise the time I spend on screens, the only social media I'm using is Instagram, it would be delightful to see you over at

Alternatively, you can get started by slowing down and soothing your nervous system with some free, instantly available resources through this link http://eepurl.com/dsXf9v There’s a range of options to choose from:

- Yoga Nidra to rest and restore

- Charts to map your energy and feelings
- Guided meditations and massage to re-connect with your body
- And much more! Here's the low-down

Gazillions of pounds are generated out of making us feel bad about ourselves. I believe that you are just fine as you are; even when you feel horrible you can heal and find your own way to live contentedly and creatively. You already know how to do it yourself, it's just that sometimes, our lives are too noisy for us to listen. If you need it, I can hold space for you to let go and find threads of joy and ease within yourself, so you can start to accept and heal. I am a menstrual and menopause mentor, workshop facilitator, writer and have been a therapist for more than a quarter of a century. I’ve featured in Time Out, The Evening Standard, the London Metro and written for well-known well-being publications, like Well Doing, Juno Magazine, Counsellors Cafe, Mind Body Green Rebelle Society and Massage Magazine. I’m in Second Spring, which means post-menopause, and have deep gratitude for the education that the menopause process has gifted me. My mission is to change the way we regard menopause and show how we can relax into our own, inner authority through their cyclical nature and menopause process. I refuse to take myself too seriously and try to never take anything on that is not pleasurable and delicious and my first book Second Spring will be published by HarperCollins 17th February 2021.

Well. This is the face of the tender author sending her newest off to early readers. After gestating for 14 months, I ac...
13/09/2026

Well. This is the face of the tender author sending her newest off to early readers.

After gestating for 14 months, I actually had no idea what to do with myself: I could be found wandering around picking things up and putting them down again.

With great irony, Lucy H. Pearce - Creatrix at Womancraft Publishing brilliant book on editing arrived Friday to confirm I had gone through the steps… and missed some too 🙈

My experience matches her description exactly!

Now I am let off authoring for 4 weeks, which is handy as I have three, new, live events this week alone!

If you are actually reading this for down, thank you. I genuinely value your time and attention on this crazy platform. If you fancy staying in contact, I offer more intimate, quirky ramblings by email and I’d love to welcome you there. If this appeals, just follow the ‘join my email list’ link in my Linktree. There’s an ace resource library that comes with.

11/09/2026

Celebrating 2 whole years since this beauty landed earthside 💥🌈🎉🎉🌈💥

Full of gratitude to all who helped to make it such a great resource. I use it every day and you can catch how I’ve been caring for myself in my stories every morning. ☕️

It keeps kindness and simple care in awareness to curate your own flexible real-life self-care.

✨🪎Golden 🪎✨

💥I’d love for this treasure to be beside every peri’s bedside to guide towards kindness. Please can you help me, by sharing this post with your people? Or if you’ve enjoyed using it, writing a review you-know-where! 💥

💛🌱💛🙏Thank you village!!! 🙏💛🌱💛

10/09/2026

Can you relate?

I always swore I’d never dance on instagram…. but this just felt appropriate today.

07/09/2026

Thoughts??!

03/09/2026

I’m writing a book which is a seasonal guide to ageing with vitality and purpose. It’s a looong process!

If you are creating something give us a 💗 we’re so in this together.

Even if it looks like you’re doing nothing it’s still creative work 💪🌈🌈💥🌈🌈💪

In my interviews with postmenopausal folk, one of the common themes is how they have returned to hobbies and passions th...
27/08/2026

In my interviews with postmenopausal folk, one of the common themes is how they have returned to hobbies and passions they left behind in their youth.

🐴Taking a pony for a hack
📚Getting lost in fiction
🛼Getting their skates on
🚀Learning to fly
📸Taking up photography
✏️Going back to school

One of the gifts of menopause is that we become more like ourselves, less willing to do stuff to please others or fit in. We can have more fun. More JOY. But joy in our own way now.

I’ve had a burst of creativity, since finishing the first draft of book 3, and I have had the creative juice for creating other things, and returning to when I was a kid, and made clothes for my dolls, have broken out the sewing machine.

Two cracking pairs of trousers, the balloon pants from Fibre Mood and nani IRO Textile fabric from Vinted, (a great source of low cost fabric) the tailored pair is from a pattern from
I’ve been adapting the pattern for some funky shorts next. Watch this space. (Buckets were always on my bucket list, since you ask 🤪)

Classes with London Drawing Group has got me obsessed with Moomins and now Winifred Nicholson’s work, too. Another childhood pastime.

Next up is learning how to knit socks: a long-term desire.

🌈What childhood pastime have you reconnected with?
🤩And what would you love to be doing next?

Anyone else revelling in blankets and jumpers? I’m loosing entire afternoons submerged on the sofa 😆
24/08/2026

Anyone else revelling in blankets and jumpers? I’m loosing entire afternoons submerged on the sofa 😆

A friend was asking me about the latest supplement for brain fog yesterday, which I can’t even remember what it was, bec...
22/08/2026

A friend was asking me about the latest supplement for brain fog yesterday, which I can’t even remember what it was, because I just don’t pay attention to that NOISE now. What was good, what was the research etc.

I asked her about her sleep, and pleasure in her life and how she might be kinder to herself. So low key, so analogue and unsexy but this is what we need more of in our lives to navigate through perimenopause and into old age: kindness.

Whatever that looks like for you. Could be getting more movement, more rest, more fun, mates, some delish food…. But doing so in a way that is kind and gentle.

I’m going to hang my knickers up in my stories everyday and share my entries there to hopefully inspire you to be kinder to yourself too.

But for now, how can you be kind to yourself today?

18/08/2026

How are you ageing??
Pic was thanks to the kindness of 🙏💗🙏

30+ years of professional therapeutic life trying to look less like a nutter and more like a responsible, trustworthy pe...
11/08/2026

30+ years of professional therapeutic life trying to look less like a nutter and more like a responsible, trustworthy person.

This morning my agent asked if I had any headshots that were ‘ more rebellious’ for our proposal for the book.

Cue lippy and lobster. Which one should I go for?

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