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13/05/2024

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World Class Theatre on your doorstep | Theatr o'r Radd Flaenaf ar garreg drws

16/03/2024

“The problem when you are a strong, capable, self-confident person, is that more often than not, people think that you don't really need things like comfort, reassurance, loyalty and guidance. People are more likely to look at you and say,

"She doesn't need this", "She doesn't need that", "She's already all of this and all of that".

But then the truth is that most probably, you are a strong, capable, self-confident person because you built yourself brick-by-brick into that person; because you HAD to BECOME that person; because you had determination enough to make yourself into the image that you knew you needed to become.

At the heart of many strong, confident people, is a heart most longing of the things that most others simply take for granted.”

Words: C. JoyBell C.
Art: Amanda Oleander Art

27/02/2024

The Little Learning Company for Business✨

We are excited to be partnering with Teare-Jones Coaching to offer this bespoke Menopause Awareness course for Senior Leaders.

Delivered either online or face-to-face to suit your needs, this 1.5 hour course covers a range of topics including:

⭐️ Legislation and Policy,
⭐️ The role of a Line Manager,
⭐️ Effects of Menopause on a person,
⭐️ Supporting someone going through the Menopause.

Get in touch to book your bespoke course today!

https://www.thelittlelearningcompany.co.uk/courses/business

22/01/2024

The Autism: From Menstruation to Menopause study Swansea University is looking for participants. They are looking for Autistic people with wombs who are willing to share their experiences of topics such as periods, contraception, menopause, and other gynaecological conditions. Please see this advertisement for more information.
Or read about it more on the website: https://www.autismmenstruationtomenopause.com/faq
Complete the expression of interest here: https://swanseachhs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9RM9V44eJdLNLPU
If you have any questions feel free to email them at: autismm2m@swansea.ac.uk
Or phone/WhatsApp Harriet: 07709 720868

07/01/2024

This morning, I saw yet another short from a famous female heavily advocating HRT for menopause and this was my response -

It's a shame that someone so influential is driving a campaign of normalising medicating of women so vehemently instead of educating women and society about menopause and what we can do to listen to our bodies and their needs and have that accommodated within our work, our families and within society. Wouldn't it have been wonderful if these 'stars' were encouraging women to embrace getting older, to campaign for women to have protected paid leave to rest during this huge change, to educate people about bone health in our teens and twenties so that when we get to menopause that they are in optimum health, to recognise that bone density does diminish because as animals of this age, high bone density isn't a requirement to the same extent, to learn what exercise and foods and lifestyles promote good bone health. Wouldn't it have been wonderful for individuals like Davina to encourage women to embrace the privilege of getting older, it's not everyone who is fortunate enough to live long enough for grey hairs, wrinkles and menopause. Many women can't take HRT, it is a risk to their long term survival. Some women won't make it through menopause without it because they are living lives that do not support their mental, phycological and physical health. Medicating women because they are women is not a new things at all, it's just sad to see such an accepted drive; that we need medicating, that this stage of our lives needs medicating. We are all free to make the decisions that we need to make about our own bodies. I would like to say here, menopause has been brilliant for me, not without it's difficulties but on balance, it's been far more a positive than a negative. I started at 37 and I talked to my elders and embraced the process that was ahead of me. If there is anyone who doesn't feel that this drive resonates with them, that it doesn't feel right to them, please drop me a line because you are far from being alone. For those of you who want to join the drive, enjoy the ride and best of luck.

06/01/2024

09/12/2023

art: christineowensart

02/11/2023

“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages... Far too many people misunderstand what 'putting away childish things' means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen-year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup. When I'm with these people I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grown-up, then I don't ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child's awareness and joy, and 'be' fifty-one, then I will really learn what it means to be grownup.”
Madeleine L'Engle

Max Svabinsky - Babicka v salu, 1906.

22/09/2023

For those that needed this today. 🤍