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25/11/2025

✨ What a lovely evening at Menopause Mingle! ✨
Such great chats tonight — everything from menopause anxiety keeping us awake at night, collagen and the gut microbiome, to vaginal oestrogen, being new to Salisbury, and finding connection with other women.

We even bonded over our mutual adoration of Riot Women… which inspired a brilliant idea:

📚 the Menopause Mingle book club — Riot Reads!

💥 Want to join us?

Come and be part of our warm, funny, supportive evening social chat group for peri- and post-menopausal women.
We meet every 4th Tuesday of the month at the Everyman Cinema, Salisbury — and we’d love to welcome you. 💃💛

Who’s in?!

25/11/2025

When you realise your bedroom makeover perfectly matches your brand palette… clearly the branding has seeped into my subconscious! 🤣🎨

25/11/2025

My December newsletter is almost wrapped up, and I can’t wait to share it with you! It’s a festive edition with two special Christmas gifts tucked inside. 🎁

Want it delivered straight to your inbox on 1st December?

Just pop your name on my mailing list here:

https://www.unmenopaused.co.uk/sign-up-to-my-mailing-list/

24/11/2025

✨ Menopause Mingle – Tomorrow! ✨
Everyman Cinema, Salisbury • 7pm–9pm • 25th November

Ladies, if you’re navigating the rollercoaster of peri-menopause or menopause, you are not alone — and tomorrow night is the perfect chance to meet others who truly get it. 💛

Come and join us for a relaxed, friendly Menopause Mingle at the Everyman Cinema. It’s a warm, welcoming space to chat, laugh, share stories, ask questions, or listen. No judgement, no pressure — just real women supporting each other.

Grab a drink, pull up a comfy seat, and let’s talk all things menopause to our hearts’ content. 🌙✨

💬 Who’s welcome?
Anyone experiencing peri-menopause or menopause who’d love a supportive social evening.

📍 Where: Everyman Cinema, Salisbury
🕖 When: Tomorrow – Tuesday 25th November, 7pm–9pm

Hope to see you there! 💕
Feel free to tag a friend who might want to come along! 👇

See Eventbrite link to book or feel free to just turn up!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-menopause-mingle-connecting-laughing-thriving-through-menopause-tickets-1803384283939?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-source=up&utm-term=user-profile&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

21/11/2025

One of our Unmenopaused community members recommended this video, and it really is worth a watch.

Kate Lawler speaks so openly about her perimenopause journey—the confusion, the anxiety of dealing with multiple symptoms, the fear around starting HRT, the loneliness, and that unsettling feeling of losing yourself.

Dr Naomi Potter listens with deep compassion, offering practical advice and emotional reassurance that so many of us need.

It’s honest, relatable, and incredibly validating. ❤️

👉 And if you’d like to talk with others who truly get it, our next in-person support group is

The Menopause Mingle at the Everyman Cinema, Salisbury on Tuesday 25th Nov, 7–9pm.

Come for real conversation, connection, and community.

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20/11/2025

Love this - Thank you, Donna Ashworth

A diet for women

Do not eat too much sugar, or guilt. That shortens your joy span considerably.

Do not consume shame after 5pm, or ever, unless it’s immediately followed by a shot of
forgiveness and some fresh air

Be sure your plate is full of colour, chew each mouthful with gratitude but most importantly, taste it. What miracles unfold when we place bounty from Mother Nature on our tongues and explode with imagery and sensation through chemical response and sheer magic. It’s a theatre show, be present.

And be thankful. That is the signal your body craves to take what it needs and expel what it doesn’t.

A woman’s diet should consist of equal parts love, hope, possibility, freedom and joy.

Nothing ages or sours a woman faster than the swallowing of the following: self-criticism, judgement, helplessness, inferiority, separation, expectation and negativity.

Avoid these at all costs if you wish to remain youthful and fragrant.

Dance. That is a magic potion for renewal.
Let go. That will reset your gut biome.
Seek light. Every cell in your being will thank you.

And as for skin-care, I have but one fixed rule: remove the mask. It’s suffocating your soul.

Breathe.

Your ability to enjoy the simple things is like an IV of every mineral the universe holds.

Drink it in. All of it.

D x

(Just incase the daily self care slog is getting you down)

19/11/2025

Do you experience cyclical triggered migraines, getting them just before your period starts? Or Suddenly developed migraines in perimenopause?

Here Dr Khan helpfully explains what is happening, why and that it's not all in your head, its your hormones!!

19/11/2025

I was listening to a fascinating podcast this morning while out walking my dog Willow in the wind and sleet 🥶.

It was an episode called “Why Is Hormone Health Stuck in the Dark Ages?” with guest GP Dr. Ceri Cashell (I’ll pop the link in the comments).

One part of the conversation really got me thinking:

💡 Should we stop calling oestrogen, progesterone, and testosterone “sex hormones” and start calling them what they truly are — brain hormones?

Have we unintentionally created confusion or stigma by labelling them as “sex” hormones? These hormones play essential roles throughout the entire body, not just in reproduction.

And if the terminology is misleading

👉 Has this contributed to a lack of research?

👉 Have outdated or inaccurate beliefs about the safety of these natural hormones been allowed to continue?

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.

Does the language we use shape how we understand women’s health?

Would changing it make a difference?

Let’s talk. 💬✨

Picture of a now cosy warm Willow to make you all smile.

17/11/2025

Brain fog is still one of the most overlooked and misunderstood menopausal symptoms — yet it can be absolutely life-changing.

With 1 in 10 women leaving their careers due to menopausal symptoms, it’s heartbreaking that something as common as brain fog is still so hidden and dismissed.

For me, it was devastating. I could be in the middle of talking to a patient — something I’d done confidently for over 20 years — and suddenly I couldn’t remember a simple word I used every day. Nothing to grab onto. Just a blank space.

The anxiety, embarrassment, and fear that I would look unprofessional slowly chipped away at my confidence. I worried my patients and colleagues would lose trust in me, and it played a big part in my decision to step back from my career.

This is why conversations like the one in the recent BBC article matter so much.
Simple adjustments — even something like being allowed to “hold the notes” during a meeting or presentation — can give women the confidence they need to keep doing their jobs and feel like themselves again.

Brain fog is real. It’s frightening. And it deserves to be taken seriously.

If you’ve experienced this, you’re not alone. 💛

When the BBC's Zoe Kleinman spoke about going through perimenopause she got a huge response.