Menopausing: Book of the Year, The British Book Awards 2023, and Sunday Times bestselling self-help guide, to help you cope with symptoms and live your best life during menopause

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A further 13% of menopausal women who have been employed during menopause have considered leaving their job and 14% have reduced their hours.

He said GPs were “highly trained to have open and sensitive conversations about all aspects of women’s health, including menopause”. There are two small areas of the book which mention ‘women who have had cancer’ it talks endlessly about HRT which is never an option for women who have had oestrogen positive cancers obviously! We are witnessing a tipping point: the rise of Menopause Power: a growing activist movement which will change the Change in the same way that Period Power fought period poverty and stigma. I really wanted to like this book, and it had the potential to be an outstanding resource, but it just falls short.

Those were fuelled by my own journey, which was more a Thelma and Louise car crash as my hormones went off a cliff. Smashing taboos and debunking myths this book provides you with evidence-based information, from zero sex drive, to dry vaginas, hair loss, night sweats, depression, and much more - Menopuasing has got it all covered.

Associating hot flushes and the menopause as “something that happens to women in their fifties”, the 53-year-old admitted she then “got in touch with some real shame around it. But as I left Dr Newson’s clinic, I thought that if I, as a white, cis, rather privileged, well-informed journalist had made such an omnishambles of my own health, what was happening to those who couldn’t afford a private consultation?Working on the script gave me a new purpose, and I’ve been lucky enough to find a new partner, a new home, some new and old friends, and even a new dog, all of which emerged from the painful chaos of the last few years. Davina also said the 'older woman' label doesn't sit well with her: 'I feel like whenever people start trying to put me in that box, it makes me want to be really naughty. Menopausing will also celebrate the sharing of stories, enabling women to feel less alone and more understood, and talk openly and positively about menopause. The anecdotes and examples from letters gathered from a range of people (who I assume were contacts from Davina's social media) were informative and interesting but made to seem a little fake by the actors who read them in an overly-enthusiastic range of English accents. The Big Brother presenter also spoke candidly about sex after menopause, saying she's never felt better in her body: 'I don’t look as good naked as I did in my twenties.