Managing Midlife and the Menopause

An authentic, honest, and empathetic blog supporting you through the emotional challenges of midlife, perimenopause and beyond

  • Teachers Need More Support with their Menopause Symptoms

    This is a really insightful article for any fellow educators suffering with perimenopause or menopause symptoms. It sadly shows the impact of perimenopause and the menopause on female teachers and their careers. Research surveying 258 peri- and post-menopausal secondary teachers found that menopausal teachers are significantly more likely to consider leaving the profession than pre-menopausal…

  • My Dark Night of the Soul

    Or night of the dark soul as I mistakenly thought it was entitled for some time. What’s it all about? Believed to be coined originally by John of the Cross, a Spanish priest who lived in the 1500s. He penned a poem, or some say prayer, about a spiritual crisis that led to a loss…

  • Email subject: Turning 40… a complaint from a perimenopausal 45 (nearly) year old woman

    To whom it may concern, I have a complaint to make, and it regards when I reached my 40th birthday. Just to clarify, I am now 44 years and 8 months old. For some reason I find myself rounding up and calling myself 45, but maybe when you get to this age it’s just easier…