It’s Menopause Awareness Month and I wanted to dedicate this blog to my own experience. For me perimenopause coincided with my postpartum and motherhood era.

Many of us are choosing to have babies later in life, so this conversation is important. I also share some professional experiences of what I see when I am leading menopause workshops in the workplace.

It took years to find the clarity I needed.

Eventually, I began to understand that I was experiencing the collision of two major life transitions: becoming a new mother and perimenopause. I have always struggled emotionally and hormonally as a woman with endermitriosis. Read more here.

Life stage transitions do not actually mean decline.

Yes, it’s easy to see it as a red flag when you’re juggling 48+ symptoms, an overloaded schedule and a culture that’s deeply anti-ageing.

But after 14 years of working with women navigating this transition, I’ve learned something different.

Menopause is actually a green light when handled with love, care and honour.

I can’t help but wonder how we arrived here. How menopause became a story of decline instead of a source of power.

Menopause arrives in a culture that has already taught us to fear ageing. We’re told our value lives in our appearance, productivity, fertility and ability to stay unchanged.

So we push through, ignore the signs of time and treat transition as something to survive. Read more.

Words Create Women’s Reality. The language we use about women’s bodies is not neutral. It shapes diagnosis. It shapes treatment. It shapes how women see themselves.

Often, that language is rooted in outdated, male-centred models of health and power. I’ve had a lifetime of being told my body was “too much” – and “not enough.” Read more here.

Outing an old myth. When women reach the C-suite, they close the door behind them.

That may have been true before but it certainly hasn’t been my experience over the past 14 years of coaching.

What I’ve witnessed instead is amazingly talented women hiring me to help them build their legacy.

A reflection on corporate leadership, creativity and midlife reclamation. From the backstage of fashion and beauty to coaching women leaders to own their brilliance.

How going back through my own corporate career helped me to feel more aligned and whole.

We’ve been talking a lot about empowerment and how it can feel disempowering when it’s used out of context for women.

Let me elaborate. Women are naturally powerful. They don’t need anyone to put the power inside them. They don’t need permission to be who they are. They give themselves permission to feel and show their power.

True empowerment is like the hummingbird’s wings that can be felt in the chest when a woman remembers who she is.

Why women struggle to receive (and how to open the door)…

I work in the field of desires, dreams and needs - sometimes its a glimmer or a gentle nudge, other times it’s like being hit by a truck (which has actually happened to me.) 

We are experiencing a calling of the feminine in many areas of our world, work and lives - seeking ways to take off our masks and personnnas safely, so we can breathe and regulate. This is the work many of us are doing right now.

But here’s what’s coming up strongly for me: the inability of women to receive fully.