Navigating The Menopause Maze

11/11/2025

Gotta love Zoe's honesty:

Sex and vaginal HRT cream:
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08/11/2025

🎄The Christmas Meno Countdown is coming! 🎄

✨ I’m creating something extra special for our Marvellous Meno Warriors this year, to help you feel calmer, stronger, and more confident this festive season.

💬 I’d love to know which menopause symptoms you want more information and support on?

🥵 Hot flushes?

😟 Anxiety?

😴 Sleep struggles?

💪 Confidence dips?

🤯 Brain fog?

…or maybe one of the lesser-known symptoms that doesn’t get talked about enough?

👇 Drop your top struggles in the comments (or DM me) and I’ll make sure the Christmas Meno Countdown is tailored to give you what you need to not only survive, but thrive this Christmas

💪 🩷🎄🩷🎄🩷

Love,
Lucie ###

Navigating The Menopause Maze



P.S. Happy Saturday! 🎉 What are you up to today?

I’ve got a mini adventure planned. I'm off to Sheerness Dry Cleaners to drop off my son’s suit, a quick stop at Specsavers to fix my rebellious glasses, then swinging by the charity shop with a bag of clothes, and a visit to Howdens to pick up a threshold (adulting at its finest 😄).

And even more excitement later, when I’ll be sorting through even more stuff and uploading a bunch of Christmas clothes to Vinted, let the festive decluttering begin! 🎄✨

07/11/2025

Quiet night after all! After a week of Privacy & Security questions, document updates and general QA and Compliance shenanigans, my little grey cells and consequently my body are shattered.

AC/DC, GnR and Yungblud on the Tube of You are adding some energy and noise to the evening 🤘🤘🤘

Can't complain too much though as my tweaked HRT regime has really helped a lot with exhaustion this week.

Happy weekend to all you beautiful Meno Warriors 🩷🩷🩷







Pic from a Halloween party in Marden a few years ago 🤣

03/11/2025

✨ Our Biggest Menopause Meet & Mingle Yet — and here's What We Learned ✨

Sixteen of us gathered together tonight, and the room was buzzing with wisdom, laughter, and the kind of care that only women walking this path together can offer each other 💜

We were joined by the brilliant Raine Aldous Nutition, who shared grounded, practical insights for navigating the menopause years with more ease, nourishment, and self compassion. Here are just a few golden threads from our conversation:

🌿 Food as Medicine:

🥚A lacto-ovo diet (milk + eggs) can be beautifully supportive in the menopause years

🦴 Vitamin D + Calcium are essential allies

🥩 Low ferritin might be behind that “on a boat” dizziness. Pair iron with vitamin C, and avoid caffeine for an hour after taking it

🥣 Protein-rich breakfasts are key: think eggs, porridge, flax, chia, walnuts

🐄 Low-fat yoghurt may help raise estrogen

🍯Honey is harder to break down than we think

🍾 Alcohol is a carbohydrate (often causes inflammation, and is harder to metabolise as we get older)

🧘‍♀️ Anxiety is the symptom she sees the most. Yoga can be very beneficial not just physically but mentally.

Two great resources were shared by our Meno Warriors:

Yoga Zone https://share.google/joQxrZkGP0SZTTJ2P

Yoga with Adreiene https://share.google/iKLeP71Nt9tVqNV0p

🥣 Batch cooking is a power move.

Meal planning gives you more control, more nourishment, and less decision fatigue. Wholefood Online is a great source for nuts, seeds, and linseed.

🧁 Bonus treat: Lorraine’s 3-ingredient brownies

- 3 ripe bananas
- ¼ cup cacao
- ½ cup peanut butter
Bake with love and enjoy with tea (just mind those tannins 😉)

💧 Gentle reminders

🩷 Drink more water (the Plant Nanny app is fab!)

🩷 Tackle one thing at a time

🩷 Focus on your symptoms, not the noise

🩷 Reduce what inflames: caffeine, alcohol, sugar, processed food, meat

This evening reminded me we’re not meant to do this alone. When we gather, we remember our power. We share recipes, and resilience, reverence, and realness.

If you were at the meeting tonight, thank you for showing up. If you weren’t, we saved you a seat for next time 💫

23/10/2025

Louise Newson is one of the key experts in the field of Menopause.

Her Balance Menopause website and podcasts are invaluable free resources for any Meno Warrior, whether you are Peri or Post, or just curious about supporting your partner, family member or colleague. Have a look, search for articles or listen to the podcasts. Honestly you won't regret it!

Hormonal and gynaecological care for women is woefully inadequate in so many areas in the UK, so the more we educate ourselves, the easier it is to advocate with the medical profession for the treatment we need.

Knowledge is one of the most amazing gifts we have. Happy reading 📚 and listening 🎧

Love,

Lucie 🩷🩷🩷

Navigating The Menopause Maze

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22/10/2025

After the magic 🪄 of Saturday and the World Menopause Day Event, let's continue increasing community, connection and confidence for all the Marvellous Meno Warriors on the Island.

Sheppey Matters and Navigating The Menopause Maze would love to invite you to join us at the next Menopause Meet and Mingle Group on Monday 3rd November. All the exciting details are in the poster below.

The wonderful Rain Aldous Nutrition will be there to answer all you nutrition queries on the night.

Meno Magic ✨ is happening all around us, so let's sparkle and shine like we all deserve to.

Love,

Lucie 🩷🩷🩷