When I gave up drinking alcohol six years ago I became a bit of a tea buff. It became my new thing. Instead of a wine collection in my cupboard I have an assortment of mainly herbal teas. But over the last year or so I have be drinking lots more strong coffee and builders tea.…
Dr Marilyn Glenville has kindly passed on these great tips for Mrs Menopause’s readers. The menopause is a natural stage in your life and there a number of top tips to help you through this transition easily and comfortably. The menopause is a time of change and your female hormones are going to…
It’s Friday – yay! Don’t know about you guys but my weekends are precious especially now that I’m back at college. Time is something we can’t ever get back. I don’t like to spend loads of time cooking at the weekend, I’d rather spend time with the fam or doing stuff. Occasionally if I’m in the…
The word menopause can bring some women in a cold (ha!) sweat. Some want to bury their head in the sand…. Don’t want to talk about it…… Don’t want to even think about it…. Think they have years before that happens. Did you know that our wonderful lady hormones start to change in…
It was my Mum’s and my birthdays this week. On Tuesday we decided to go to Holly Redmans new Paleo restaurant in Notting Hill called Pure Taste. We have both experienced her amazing cooking at her pop-up restaurant at Jeremy’s in Borde Hill, Sussex. I had also hosted a cooking demonstration by Holly for my…
I just watched a TED talk called Life’s third Act in which Jane Fonda talks about getting older and living in our third act. I really enjoyed the talk and I really loved the below quote. “Everything you have in life can be taken from you except one thing: your freedom to choose how you will respond…
Here are 33 things you probably didn’t know about me…. Darth Vader (actor Dave Prowse) lived down my nan’s road He ^^ was also the green cross code man, remember him? I’m asked if my name is Welsh all the time. Nope it comes from a book called Gateway to Hell by Dennis Wheatley, the…
Why do we need sleep? Like other many other systems of the human body sleep isn’t fully understood and there is new research coming out about it every month. There isn’t one part of your emotional, mental or physical performance that’s not affected by the quality of your sleep. Sleep deprivation leads to low concentration,…
Have you seen the news this week? The last taboo Calling menopause the last taboo, Ros Altmann, the governments tsar for olders workers said “Some manage to get through it but roughly 50% might not. [Women] are being performance-managed out of their jobs.” Altmann has said that menopausal women are falling off the radar because…
I received this message from one of my previous menopause coaching clients. Hey Mrs Menopause! Can we have your top 3 tips for a getting healthy before the Christmas madness? I’ve been ill with one thing and another for the pretty much the last month and feel I need a bit of a boost! –…
