Sonya Lovell

🎙 Speaker | Podcaster | Advocate | Workshop Facilitator | Cancer & Menopause Ambassador| Women’s Health Champion

I help women feel seen, heard, and supported through one of life’s biggest transitions: menopause. With lived experience of medically-induced menopause following a breast cancer diagnosis at 47, I bring real-life insight, empathy, and evidence-based conversations to the forefront of women’s health. As the host the Dear Menopause podcast, I’ve spent 3+ years interviewing global and local experts, sharing lived experience stories, and sparking vital conversations. My background includes over a decade as a personal trainer and studio owner, 10+ years as a speaker and workshop facilitator, and a deep commitment to empowering women with knowledge, confidence, and community. Whether I'm speaking on stage, behind a podcast mic, or facilitating transformative group sessions, I advocate for better awareness, education, and support for women navigating menopause — especially those going through it as a result of cancer.

🎤 Available for speaking engagements, podcast interviews, brand partnerships, and collaborative projects focused on women’s health, menopause, and cancer survivorship.

📩 Let’s connect or chat: sonya@sonyalovell.com

24/03/2026

Over the past few days, I’ve had a number of women reach out after I shared more about menopause and cancer. And it’s reinforced how needed support in this space is.

So I wanted to share how you can currently work with me.

🤎 1:1 Online Clarity Sessions (available now)
A 60-minute private online session to help you understand what’s happening, ask the questions you haven’t had space to ask, and feel more supported in what comes next.

🤎 Face-to-face sessions (Sydney, from 7th April)
I’ll be offering a small number of in-person sessions for those who would prefer to sit together, in a more grounded and personal space at a Northern Beaches based Women’s Health Clinic.

My work is evolving, but the intention is simple:
to create a space where you feel heard, informed, and supported, whether you’re newly diagnosed or navigating life after treatment.

I’ll be sharing more ways to access my support soon.

If you’d like to know more about these 1:1 sessions, you can DM me SUPPORT 🤎

09/03/2026

“No one warned me.”

It’s something I hear again and again from cancer survivors. And was 100% my own experience.

No one explained what “your treatment may trigger menopause” actually meant.

No one explained the physical changes that might follow.

Hot flushes.
Joint pain.
Brain fog.
Fatigue.

And often something harder to name, the feeling that you don’t quite recognise yourself anymore.

Survivorship conversations and care too often focus only on treatment and remission.

But for many people, the real challenge begins after treatment ends.

This is the space I’m working to support through MACS — Menopause After Cancer Support.

If you feel comfortable sharing:

**What is something no one warned you about after cancer treatment?**

Your voice might help another survivor feel less alone. 🙏

23/02/2026

Survival is not enough.

For many women, cancer treatment triggers immediate, medically-induced menopause.

The symptoms can be abrupt. Severe. Disorienting.

This is not a lifestyle complaint. It is a treatment consequence.

To the healthcare providers in this space…

Menopause after cancer is not a side note. It is not someone else’s responsibility. It is not optional education.

If you treat women with a history of cancer, this is part of your clinical competency.

‘Being grateful you survived’ is not care. It is dismissal.

Women deserve informed, trauma-aware, evidence-based support for the whole of their recovery.

Survival is the beginning.

What comes next matters just as much.

What steps are you taking to strengthen survivorship care for women experiencing menopause after cancer?

20/02/2026

I’m opening a small, deeply held online Menopause After Cancer Support circle next week.

If you’d like to receive the details when they go out early next week, join the waitlist by this Sunday evening.

This will be intimate and limited.

Link for waitlist in bio. 🤎

13/02/2026

You consented to cancer treatment.

You weighed risks.
You signed forms.
You trusted the expertise in the room.

I did the same at 47, focused on survival.

What I wasn’t prepared for was menopause arriving overnight.

Chemotherapy, ovarian suppression, surgery, hormone therapy. Life-saving treatments that can also induce menopause abruptly.

Yet menopause care is rarely integrated into oncology care.

So when symptoms begin — hot flushes, insomnia, joint pain, vaginal dryness, cognitive fog, intimacy changes — many women are left to piece it together themselves.

That’s not a resilience issue. It’s an information gap.

I created “Questions You’re Allowed to Ask” to help close that gap, gently and practically.

If menopause followed cancer treatment for you, this guide is for you.

Link in bio 🤎

If it feels easier, comment “questions” and I’ll send the link directly.

11/02/2026

Government-funded testosterone for men. None for women.

Today’s Federal Court challenge over the PBAC refusal to list Androfemme is a significant moment in the fight for equitable hormone access.

When cost determines access, equity matters.

This isn’t fringe. It’s structural.

I’ll be watching this closely — because women’s health deserves the same policy attention and funding consideration as men’s.

22/01/2026

After cancer, many women tell me they don’t know what they’re allowed to ask anymore.

Menopause can arrive suddenly, quietly, or without enough support — and the questions often stay unspoken.

I’ve created a gentle guide to help name some of those questions — for doctors, partners, work, and yourself.

It’s not about having the perfect words. It’s about remembering that your voice still matters.

You’ll find it via the link in my bio ❤️

12/01/2026

I didn’t choose this work. I’ve come to it through lived experience and responding to what is missing.

Cancer changed my body.

Menopause changed my identity.

And survivorship taught me how little support exists once treatment ends.

Coaching and supporting for me, is about helping women make sense of what’s happening — physically, emotionally, hormonally — without being rushed, dismissed, or told to “just be grateful.”

If this resonates, you’re not alone 🤍

And you’re exactly who this work is for.

31/12/2025

Some rooms require more than information.

They require steadiness.

Clear language.

And someone who knows how to stay when the conversation slows or deepens.

I speak and facilitate in spaces where menopause, cancer, health and identity intersect -
often in conversation, not performance.

My role isn’t to dominate a room or deliver answers. It’s to create conditions where people can listen, reflect, and speak honestly (without rushing to fix or simplify).

That might look like:
– a keynote that names what’s usually left unsaid
– a facilitated conversation held with care and boundaries
– a room where people feel informed and human.

I work best where integrity matters more than noise,
and where depth matters more than being seen.

—
Sonya

31/12/2025

Menopause after cancer — lived & understood.

This space exists for women whose menopause was shaped by cancer treatment. Not chosen. Not gradual. Not well explained.

Here, we talk about what often gets missed:
– the physical changes
– the emotional recalibration
– the quiet grief and identity shifts
– the need for support that isn’t rushed or reductive.

My work is grounded in lived experience and years of listening to women navigating life after treatment.

I don’t offer quick fixes or universal answers.

I offer steadiness, language, and informed support — at your pace.

Sometimes this work looks like private support.

Sometimes it’s small groups, workshops, or rooms where hard conversations need to be held well.

Sometimes it’s speaking or facilitation for organisations who want to do better by the women they serve.

You don’t need to be ready. You don’t need to know what you’re asking for. You’re welcome to take your time here.

—
Sonya

10/11/2025

🚨 Groundbreaking news for women’s health! The FDA has announced it will remove the black box warnings from menopause hormone therapy (MHT) products — finally acknowledging that decades of fear and confusion have held women back from safe, effective treatment.

This is a huge step toward evidence-based care and away from stigma. 💪

A heartfelt thank you to the doctors, researchers and advocates who’ve worked tirelessly to bring the science forward and push for this change. 🙏 and more!

Now it’s time for Australia’s TGA to do the same. Women here deserve access to accurate information, not outdated fear labels.

Let’s bring menopause care into 2025 — informed, empowered and evidence-led.

26/06/2025

If you’ve ever felt invisible, silenced, or dismissed - you’re not alone.
This space is for you.

To be seen.
To be heard.
To be celebrated - exactly as you are, in all your fierce, messy, brilliant midlife glory.

Let’s raise our voices, together.

💬 Tag a woman whose story inspires you.

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