The Pause Room

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The Pause Room - Menopause & Skin Support
Skin, soul, sanity support for peri/menopausal women
Holistic facials, reflex +massage rituals
Calm for skin, stress & midlife WTF

10/06/2026

A note for the upcoming Global Wellness Day - please drop the pressure to be perfect at it.

If you are currently navigating menopause, battling brain fog, or stress and overwhelm are currently running the show, typical wellness advice can feel incredibly patronising. You don’t need a complicated ten-step routine, a mountain of expensive supplements recommended by some TikTok influencer, or another goal to achieve (but if that’s your bag you go girl!).

This year’s official theme is all about rediscovering joy. But when you are running on empty, joy doesn’t look like a 5 AM run. It looks like a physical pause.

At The Pause Room, wellness isn’t a performance. It is simply giving your body the space to turn off the hazard lights.

Whether you need 45 minutes of the Gut Vitality Boost to ease that heavy, knotted-up bloating, or a deep 90-minute facial and massage ritual to melt away the mental noise, the goal is exactly the same: to step off the treadmill for a bit so you can leave feeling lighter and more comfortable in your own skin.

True wellness is just letting your body remember what rest really feels like. No expectations, no small talk, and zero guilt.

Tap the little bookmark icon to save this post as your official permission slip to slow down this weekend.

👇 If you’re ready to trade the overwhelm for a proper reset, the link to my diary is in my bio.

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03/06/2026

Met up with one of my closest friends today. We should have seen each other in February for our bi-annual birthday breakfast, but jury service and life got in the way.

In amongst my presents were these two gifts - and anyone who knows me knows I have a thing for slogan mugs (and to be fair, she is right on this one 😉).

It also made me think about friendship.

During the worst of my perimenopause years, I disappeared a bit. Actually, more than a bit. I shut myself away, stopped doing things I enjoyed and convinced myself I didn’t want to burden anyone with what was going on in my head or how I was feeling.

Some friendships faded. Three didn’t.

They checked in. Sent messages. Sent inappropriate memes. Let me disappear when I needed to and welcomed me back when I was ready.

Menopause can be incredibly isolating if we let it. We tell ourselves we’re being a nuisance. We don’t want to bring the mood down. Sometimes we don’t even have the words to explain what’s wrong.

If you’re struggling, let people in.

It’s okay to have a wobble. It’s okay to take time to process things.

Just don’t unpack your bags and move into the hard bits permanently.

You don’t have to pretend you’re fine, and you don’t have to carry everything on your own.

Also, if your friends express love through sarcasm, coffee and ridiculous gifts, hold onto them. They’re the good ones. ❤️

Sherry x

02/06/2026

To a lot of people, this is just a messy, unmade bed. To me, it is the visual sign of someone who listened to their body and gave themselves space to let go.

31/05/2026

Hope you’ve had a great weekend!

I’ve had an appointment become available this week for Tuesday .

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, exhausted or, quite frankly, one wrong word away from exploding, this could be for you.

Also, you don’t actually need a reason to book 😉

A Tailored appointment or Skin & Stillness are waiting for you. Click on the link below to book or send me a message ✨

https://the-pause-room.book.app/book-now

30/05/2026

To be honest, I think too much pressure can be placed on having the perfect ‘wellness routine’.

Sometimes life happens, we get too busy, or we simply forget. And when you’re already having an eventful couple of days and your mood has taken a proper dip, forcing yourself into a heavy, ritualistic routine just feels like another chore you don’t have the energy for.

After a rough couple of days, I didn’t have the bandwidth nor the patience for any of my usual go-to’s. But I did have some helpful, supportive chats with people who care, planned a few things to look forward to, and then I went outside and spent 30 minutes potting up plants and digging holes.

It gave my brain a much-needed hit of dopamine and completely shifted my focus outwards. It didn’t stop the thoughts from whizzing through my head, but it made them feel less heavy. And that little sense of accomplishment gave me the exact boost I needed to go about the rest of my day.

You don’t always need a massive healing ritual. Sometimes you just have to work with what you’ve got right in front of you, get your hands dirty, and immerse yourself in the moment.

Sherry x

26/05/2026

Trying to enjoy the beautiful weather when you have severe hay fever is its own special kind of torture.

You want to sit in the garden or enjoy a walk, but your body treats a bit of pollen like a full-scale biochemical attack. Cue the itchy, puffy eyes, the constant sneezing, and that heavy, foggy-headed exhaustion that makes you feel utterly rubbish.

You’ve probably tried the nasal sprays and the over-the-counter antihistamines, but when your sinuses are completely inflamed, your entire system feels under siege.

I’ve put together three simple points in this carousel that you can work on yourself at home right now to help lower that physical reaction and get a bit of breathing space (pun intended).

But if you want to tackle it from the inside out, a targeted treatment is where we can really make a difference. We use targeted facial massage, including lymphatic drainage, to shift the congestion and open up the sinus pathways, combined with foot reflexology to help calm down that aggressive inflammatory response in your body to ease your symptoms.

Tap the little bookmark icon below to save these self-help tips so you can find them the next time the pollen count spikes.

👇 If your head feels like a bowling ball and you need some relief, the link to my schedule is in my bio - you want a Tailored Time appointment, the duration is up to you 😘

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21/05/2026

Because when you’re in the thick of menopause, you shouldn’t have to carry that invisible load all on your own. And it’s not easy to open up to those around you - I absolutely understand that.

The phrases on that slide aren’t made-up marketing copy; they’re what I hear week after week.

“No one understands.”
“I feel like I’m losing my mind.”
“Why won’t anyone listen to me.”
“My husband and my kids think I’ve lost it.”
“My Doctor says I’m too young.”

I could go on, but I think you get the idea.

You aren’t failing. You’re running on empty. My space is here simply to help you hand over that emotional load for an hour or two, so you can breathe, decompress, and navigate this whole transition feeling supported rather than shattered.

You don’t have to do this alone.

✨ My DM’s and emails are always open even if you’re not ready to book yet. Details in my bio.

19/05/2026

Choosing a treatment when you are already suffering from sensory overload shouldn’t feel like another chore on your to-do list.

In my rooms in Wotton and Charfield, you don’t have to figure it all out before you arrive. My tailored time sessions mean you can simply book the space, turn up, and leave the rest to me.

While the 45 and 60-minute sessions are fantastic for encouraging your body to rebalance, ease tight muscles, and even as essential maintenance, the 90 and 120-minute treatments are where the magic happens - where your body can truly drop into ‘rest and digest’.

If stress and hormonal changes are wreaking havoc on your digestion, the Gut Vitality Boost spends an hour entirely focused on easing that heavy, bloated, ‘stuck’ feeling by connecting abdominal massage with reflexology and vagus nerve support. (Rumour has it your clothes may feel more comfortable.)

If you feel completely disconnected from yourself, The Still Point gives your nervous system (feral chihuahua) a full two hours to just stop and chill out.

And if menopause is showing up physically on your face as puffiness, dryness, breakouts, or deep tension, the Skin & Stillness Ritual treats both mind and skin together using organic Estime & Sens skincare to bring back hydration and glow.

As women we have this insane response of ‘just keep going’, and continuing to ignore what our bodies are telling us.

A word of advice. Stop. Choose you.

Sherry x

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Wotton-under-Edge

Telephone

+447902799570

Website

http://www.thepauseroom.co.uk/

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