The Riviera Menopause

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. The Rage Episode: Why You Want to Scream at Everyone and It’s Not Your Personality The sudden anger of menopause and what it’s actually telling you In this episode: My husband was eating an apple. Just eating an apple. And the sound made me want to leave the country. If you’ve experienced disprop...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. The Career Conversation: When Menopause Meets Your Ambition How to protect your professional life when your body is rewriting the rules In this episode: Nobody talks about this at work. You’re sitting in a meeting with brain fog, anxiety, and a hot flush threatening to arrive at any moment — and...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. The Emotional Eating Episode (No Judgement. Just Honesty.) Why you eat your feelings at 9pm and what to do instead In this episode: Let’s just say it. You’re not eating the biscuits because you’re hungry. You’re eating them because you’re tired, overwhelmed, and the biscuits are there. I explain...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. Your Gut Has Opinions. You Should Probably Listen. The menopause-gut connection nobody warned you about In this episode: My stomach once produced a sound at a dinner party that I can only describe as a whale communicating across a large body of water. Nobody mentioned it. I'm mentioning it n...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. Why You Suddenly Have No Friends (And How to Fix That) Midlife loneliness, friendship breakdowns, and building your real circle In this episode: Somewhere between 40 and 50, your friendship group quietly reshuffled without your permission. The friends who used to call don’t. The dinner plans drie...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. The Woman in the Mirror Doesn’t Look Like You Anymore Skin, hair, and the physical changes nobody prepared you for In this episode: There’s a moment where you catch your reflection and think: when did that happen? Not in a dramatic way. In a quiet, disoriented way. Because the woman in the glass...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. You’re Not Lazy. You’re Running on Empty. The real reason your energy has disappeared In this episode: There’s a difference between being tired and being depleted. Tired fixes with a good night’s sleep. Depleted is what happens after years of output exceeding input, and menopause is the moment th...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. The Midlife Plot Twist: What If This Is Actually the Good Bit? Rewriting the menopause narrative from decline to design In this episode: Every menopause story you’ve heard starts with what you’re losing. I want to tell you a different story.  What if menopause is not the beginning of the end, but...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. The Art of Not Being Perfect at This Why perfectionism is the biggest threat to your menopause management In this episode: You started the plan on Monday. By Wednesday you had pizza. By Thursday you decided you’d failed and stopped everything. Sound familiar?  That cycle, not the pizza, is the ac...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. What Your GP Didn’t Tell You (And What to Ask Next Time) Navigating the medical system as a menopausal woman In this episode: If your doctor’s entire menopause advice was “it’s just your age,” this episode is your pre-appointment briefing.  I explain the training gap (most GPs have had minimal me...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. Lift Heavy Things. No, Really. Why the most important thing you can do in menopause is pick up a weight In this episode: If I could prescribe one thing to every menopausal woman in Britain, it would be a set of dumbbells. Not HRT. Not a supplement. Not a green smoothie. Dumbbells.  I explain why...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. Your Husband Doesn’t Get It. Here’s How to Talk to Him. Menopause and relationships: the conversation guide nobody gave you In this episode: He said “maybe you should just exercise more” and you considered homicide. This episode is the conversation guide neither of you were given. I’m fair to bot...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. The Weight That Won’t Shift (And Why Everything You’re Trying Is Making It Worse) Menopause weight gain: the truth about what works and what’s wasting your time In this episode: If you’ve been eating less, exercising more, and gaining weight anyway - your body is not broken. It’s doing exactly wh...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. In this episode: Remember when you walked into a room and owned it? When you didn’t rewrite a three-line email fourteen times? This episode explains why that confidence vanished, and it’s not imposter syndrome, it’s not a midlife crisis, and it’s not a character flaw. It’s progesterone, GABA, ser...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. In this episode: I’m not going to tell you to stop drinking. But I am going to tell you what that glass of wine is doing to your body at 47 that it wasn’t doing at 37. The enzyme that processes alcohol declines with oestrogen. The sleep sabotage is real and it explains the 3am wake-up after a cou...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. In this episode: I’m talking about the moment it all starts to unravel — the 3am wake-ups, the anxiety that arrived uninvited, the brain that can’t find words. I explain what’s actually happening in your body, why it feels like everything broke at once, and why it’s not 47 separate problems. It’s...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. In this episode: That 3pm moment where someone just pulls your plug out? It’s not laziness. It’s not ageing. It’s a metabolic signal. I explain what’s happening to your blood sugar in menopause, why the meals that used to fuel you now floor you, and the single breakfast change that most women fee...

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode. In this episode: Brain fog is the symptom that terrifies women most because it looks like early dementia. It almost certainly isn’t. I explain the oestrogen-brain connection, why your word retrieval has gone missing, the five things making your fog worse (you probably have all five running simult...