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18/10/2025

World Menopause Day 2025 — Let’s Talk Lifestyle & Mental Wellbeing

This year’s theme, Lifestyle Medicine, encourages us to recognise how everyday habits—sleep, nutrition, movement, stress management, social connection—play a vital role in how we experience midlife transitions.

But there’s one dimension that often gets overshadowed: mental wellbeing. Mood swings, anxiety, brain fog, poor sleep, and emotional sensitivity are real, valid parts of this journey.

Here are a few gentle, supportive steps you can take now:
• Prioritise restful, consistent sleep—create a calm bedtime ritual.
• Move your body in ways you enjoy (walk, yoga, dance) — even small amounts help.
• Practice stress-regulation tools: breathing, mindfulness, journaling.
• Connect with friends, peer groups or a community — you’re not alone.
• Seek support from a professional (therapist, clinician) if things feel overwhelming.

As a cognitive hypnotherapist, I support women during this transition — giving practical techniques that work to manage emotional shifts, achieve better sleep and anchoring resilience.

➤ What would you like to have support with during menopause? Send me a message and let’s talk.
➤ Share this post to help others know they are seen and supported.

You deserve to feel understood, and empowered—through every part of life.

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16/10/2025

Tive o prazer de ouvir a incrível voz e depois conhecer essa pessoa maravilhosa. Obrigado por compartilhar sua música, beijos Xx

22/09/2025

🌟I’m really looking forward to helping you deal with the festive frenzy 🤯and to give you a calmer approach to the holiday season 😌.

👉What’s one thing that you want to change. Let me know in the comments below.

Thanks to Active Families North East CIC for the fantastic event 👏

18/09/2025

If you haven’t seen All on the Board posts before, I can highly recommend them, kindness and compassion…
But this one struck home.
Sending love to those who need it x

This week is World Childless Week. Sending love to the people who long to be parents, but can’t have children for various reasons.

14/09/2025

🍋✨ When life gave me lemons…
A big chunk of work got cancelled recently, and instead of sitting with the sour taste, I decided to make some lemonade 🍹 — by jumping into a 3-day Business Building & Social Media Marketing training.
And wow… what an absolutely amazing 3 days! 🙌

I learnt so much about branding, messaging, funnels, and (let’s be honest) a whole new world I thought I was out of my depth in.
A huge thank you to:

⭐ Adam Stott – who re-wrote my business model in 10 minutes flat and gave me the spark to take action.
💎 Jim Francis – for sharing pearls of wisdom that I’ll carry forward.
🎯 Coaches Steve, Ross, Damien & Anna – for insights, strategies, and encouragement.
💛 And Jordan – for your kind words and firm-but-gentle support.
Here’s to 🍋 lemons, 🚀 taking action, and 🌱 “Start, Grow, Scale.”

👉 Now, over to you:

1️⃣ What’s one good thing that came out of a situation you thought was a setback?
2️⃣ Message or call me if you’d like a free chat about letting go of issues that have been holding you back.
3️⃣ Comment below — what would you be doing right now if those issues weren’t weighing you down?

We can all turn lemons into lemonade. Sometimes we just need a nudge (or the right people cheering us on). 💫

10/09/2025

***dePreventionWeek

Hampshire and Thames Valley Police officers and staff are now able to access a su***de-prevention APP on their work mobile phones.

As ***dePreventionWeek begins, this is a major breakthrough for the Su***de Trauma Education Prevention campaign, as it is one of STEP’s key aims.

The Stay Alive APP, developed by the Grassroots Su***de Prevention Charity, provides tailored information to people if they are in crisis. It also gives guidance to colleagues, friends and family members about su***de warning signs and how to support someone who’s struggling with their mental health.

“I encourage officers and staff to be aware of this APP because you never know when you might need it, and it might not be you that it helps, it might be a colleague,” said Spencer Wragg, Chair of Hampshire Police Federation and founder of the STEP campaign.

The Stay Alive app is already the number-one su***de prevention APP in the UK and has helped support countless people in crisis, but this is the first time police officers and staff will be able to access the APP on their work phone.

Spencer said: “This APP isn’t linked to police systems, it’s just for you. It gives people who are in crisis immediate support and also provides guidance for those who are close to people in crisis.

“The Stay Alive APP is not designed to be part of an operational deployment when you’re dealing with a member of the public who’s in mental health crisis: we’ve got training for that.

“This is for that situation where you’re talking to a colleague in the workplace, or someone at home, who needs support and you don’t know what to do, you don’t know where to turn. Or you might be in that position yourself.

“If it’s an APP you store and never use, that’s brilliant. But it’s an APP you should have, because you never know when you’re going to need it.”

From 2011 to 2022, there were 242 su***des of police officers & PCSOs. From 2021 to 2024 an estimated 80 former/current officers took their own lives.

Hampshire and Thames Valley Police officers and staff should now have the APP automatically appear on their work phones and be available for use.

It is important for officers who are struggling to know they are not alone, and that there are people there to help. This includes, for immediacy:

The Mental Health Crisis Line: call 0300 131 2789 and Samaritans: call 116 123

Officers can also access the support offered by charities and organisations including Flint House, Police Treatment Centres, The Ben Fund and Oscar Kilo.

The campaign is calling on forces to introduce mandatory trauma debrief session referrals following a police officer or staff attending a su***de, wants forces to add a bespoke mental health/wellbeing APP to force mobile devices, calls on forces to better collect data on police officer and staff su***de/attempted su***de so we can better measure the extent of the issue and wants to encourage colleagues to talk about the taboo subject and not be concerned about that.

09/09/2025

🌿 When life gives you lemons…

Well, I didn’t just make lemonade — I ended up signing myself up for a course in Business Building and Social Media Marketing!!! 🍋➡️📚

It happened after a big chunk of work was unexpectedly cancelled. I felt a bit deflated / miffed, (and I’m now feeling slightly terrified, if I’m honest). But then I thought… maybe this is one of those moments where life nudges us in a different direction.

And just to make things even stranger — when I peeked at my horoscope (while really just doing the Sudoku, I was stuck, promise! 😅) it told me the stars were aligning. So here I am, putting on my “brave head” and diving in.

✨ Sometimes we don’t get to choose what happens — but we can choose how to respond.

👉 I’d love to know: when have you had to make lemonade out of life’s lemons? Share your story below — we can inspire each other to keep going, even when it feels a bit out of our depth.

💛 Sending courage, encouragement, and a gentle reminder that we’re all learning as we go.