Paula Rastrick

Paula Rastrick I am a hormonally sensitive woman, a patient advocate & a campaigner for medicla change on the urgent need to recognise hormonal sensitivity.

Please refer to Instagram for full context on any content regarding Liz Earle or Newson Health. I am a hormonally sensitive woman, a complex trauma survivor (C-PTSD, ADHD, Autism, HSP, AuDHD). I specialise in the science of Hormonal Sensitivity, early life stress and trauma. Post Grad Cert - Psychological Trauma. Trauma Therapist and Coach. My evidence based book is being published 2025. Our life stories are written into our nervous systems through genetics and epigenetics. - You cannot separate your hormones from your life story and your nervous system profile. Early life stress, adverse childhood experiences and attachment wounds are strongly associated as risk factors for a variety of women's health issues, amongst these are:

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), Postnatal Depression, Endometriosis, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), Ehlers - Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and Auto-immune disorders. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Highly Sensitive People, Autism and multiple mental health diagnoses including Anxiety and Depression.

⚠️If prescribers do not understand the individual nervous system or sensitivity.⚠️Then they cannot guarantee prescribing...
12/01/2026

⚠️If prescribers do not understand the individual nervous system or sensitivity.

⚠️Then they cannot guarantee prescribing hormones individually, safely or effectively.

📌That is why I wrote my book to help understand this starting from the womb - not menopause.

📌Because individual sensitivity is a complex, multifaceted nervous system profile.

⚠️Which is why women are ending up being given multiple overlapping medical labels - with no joined up thinking or integrated trauma informed medical care.

📌This account will now be quiet for a while.

I’ll post here again when my book is being published.

Paula

📌I did not choose my prescriber.📌I did not choose for this to happen.📌Since June 2022 I have attempted on multiple occa...
12/01/2026

📌I did not choose my prescriber.

📌I did not choose for this to happen.

📌Since June 2022 I have attempted on multiple occasions to raise patient safety concerns privately - and in good faith with my prescriber Louise Newson and Newson Health.

📌This was AFTER being advised by medical professionals who helped me and reviewed my case - that the way I was treated with off licence HRT, no safety data, no informed consent was not safe for my profile - after I became suicidal.

📌Unopposed oestrogen ratios (not enough progesterone to safeguard my womb). Coupled with no recognition of the role of progesterone in PMDD or hormonal sensitivity.

📌Which I have tried to highlight and explain to Louise Newson privately for several years now.

📌Alongside the urgent need to recognise pre-existing hormonal sensitivity with a prior history of post natal depression, PMDD, complex trauma and ADHD.

⚠️PMDD Is not menopause - it is a hormone sensitive neurobiological condition and it can be life threatening.

📌In my case, this resurfaced in perimenopause and we need to recognise that all of these complex cross overs can all diverge and intensify at perimenopause.

📌Which is why I have written a book:

📚Hormonal Sensitivity : The hidden crisis in women’s health.

📌This is why (I believe) women are being medically invalidated and given multiple diagnostic labels.

📌With no joined up thinking or trauma informed medical care.

📌What followed over the years was not a formal process, but attempts to dismiss, silence, public narrative management and attempts to control or minimise patient concerns.

📌 Some aspects of this experience behind the scenes has been deeply distressing.

📌It has only been after Liz Earle’s misleading and inaccurate public commentary on patient’s and given just (some) of the history above- that I will now be formally correcting the public record.

📌I will now do that through my book.

📌 I reached out privately to Liz Earle last year to explain the inaccuracies and serious ethical concerns - she ignored this.

📌This account will be quiet for a while - I will post here again when my book is available.

Paula

🧠DARVO: From Personal Recovery to Pattern RecognitionI am a childhood trauma survivor and I am also a long-term survivor...
10/01/2026

🧠DARVO: From Personal Recovery to Pattern Recognition

I am a childhood trauma survivor and I am also a long-term survivor of narcissistic abuse.

Through my own recovery, experiences and extensive academic study.

I have learnt to recognise established psychological patterns - including DARVO.

DARVO describes a response pattern where concerns are Denied, the person raising them is Attacked, and the Victim and Offender are Reversed.

I first learnt this pattern in personal relationships.

Over time, I recognised that the same dynamics can also appear within systems.

Including professional and institutional environments.

This is why people who have also lived through DARVO often recognise these patterns quickly.

Not because they are projecting - but because pattern recognition is learned through experience.

Understanding DARVO is not about blame.

It is about restoring clarity, protecting one’s sense of self, and repairing the psyche through conscious awareness.

These dynamics can overlap with medical gaslighting, where lived experience is dismissed and accountability becomes obscured.

After three and a half years, and following multiple events behind the scenes -

October became my final breaking point and paradoxically, the beginning of complete psychological clarity and freedom.

Recognising patterns restores agency.

✨Conscious awareness allows you to let go, protects the psyche, increases your sense of purpose and trust in your own sense of self.





❓Why is it so difficult to openly discuss HRT side effects, hormonal sensitivity?❓OR when prescribing hasn’t gone to pla...
09/01/2026

❓Why is it so difficult to openly discuss HRT side effects, hormonal sensitivity?

❓OR when prescribing hasn’t gone to plan - without being either attacked online or immediately labelled “anti-HRT”?

⚠️This is not an anti-treatment position - It is a patient safety question and that is absolutely valid.

🚩When medics speak on social media in absolutes and universal benefits (often without robust data ) conversations about sensitivity, adverse effects, or complexity are shut down.

An important question has to be asked:

⁉️How does medicine learn?

❓If patients’ lived experiences are dismissed rather than documented, where does safety data come from?

❓If complaints processes are absent or informal, how are mistakes identified and corrected?

❓If women are discouraged from speaking in clinics and in comments how is informed consent truly possible?

🚩This dynamic now extends across social media spaces, where women asking reasonable questions are often silenced if they don’t fit a simplified, idealised narrative of treatment working perfectly.

⚠️That is not evidence-based medicine.

🚩It is an echo chamber.

⚠️Medicine cannot progress if it only listens to compliant stories and excludes those who are hormonally sensitive, neurodivergent, traumatised, or complex.

✅Listening to difference is not a threat to care.

✅It is how medicine learns, improves, and protects patients.





📌WHY I SPEAK ABOUT NARCISSISM, NEURODIVERGENCE, HORMONES & THE NERVOUS SYSTEM📍This work did not come from theory alone. ...
07/01/2026

📌WHY I SPEAK ABOUT NARCISSISM, NEURODIVERGENCE, HORMONES & THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

📍This work did not come from theory alone. It has all come from my own lived experience followed by years of extensive study.

📍 I grew up in an emotionally dysregulated childhood environment.

📍Over the past few years, through research and clinical literature (not pop psychology), I came to understand how emotional invalidation, chronic stress, and narcissistic family dynamics shape the early developing nervous system.

📍Because early relational and childhood environments influence:

• stress reactivity
• emotional regulation
• hormone sensitivity
• hypervigilance & threat perception

📍As I began to map my own hormonal profile through science starting from the womb - including ADHD, complex trauma and sensitivity to hormonal shifts (PMDD, Post natal depression) these connections became much clearer.

⚠️Many women I’ve spoken to privately describe similar patterns:
being dismissed as “too sensitive”,
learning to self-monitor,
growing up attuned to others’ emotions.

📍This pattern shows up repeatedly in women with:

⚠️ADHD or AuDHD
⚠️hormonal sensitivity
⚠️PMDD-type profiles
⚠️nervous system hyper-reactivity

But it’s important to say this clearly:

📍Hormonal sensitivity is not caused by trauma alone.

📍Our nervous and hormonal profiles begin before birth.

📍Heritable genetics , epigenetics, and the intrauterine environment all matter because your own life experience then interacts with that biology over time.

📍This is why women all respond differently, to stress, to hormones, and to HRT and medical treatment.

📍When I speak about narcissism on my social media - I am not diagnosing individuals.

📍I am describing researched patterns, systems, and power dynamics and how they affect sensitive nervous systems.

📍This work sits at the intersection of:

neurobiology, hormones, early life stress, childhood experiences and lived experience.

⚠️Because women deserve hormonal care that recognises complexity and not “cut and paste” - Stepford Wives medicine.

📌PANORAMA : NEWSON HEALTH - Correcting the public record.📌My content relates to Liz Earle’s public critique of Panorama ...
06/01/2026

📌PANORAMA : NEWSON HEALTH - Correcting the public record.

📌My content relates to Liz Earle’s public critique of Panorama concerning Newson Health.

📌Published on her You Tube channel on 23rd Oct 2024.

📌In her video, she describes her commentary as forensically evidenced, researched & verified.

📌Stating that she as able to do so publicly (as an unrelated third party) publicly across social media.

📌Because she had “access to the necessary information”.

❌A large number of her claims are not supported by the public record or omit vital contextual information.

📌This will now be addressed.

📌This includes (but not limited too):

📍Offcom’s regulatory decision (Oct 24). Which upheld Panorama.

📍The patient cases in the programme. All of which were supported by documented medical records & subjected to legal review. - subsequently upheld by Ofcom.

📍Critically, the serious omission that Newson Health were fully aware of the investigation and given full and fair right of reply.

📍They declined to comment.

📌This occurred well before Liz Earle released her video critique. In which she encouraged viewers to complain to Ofcom.

📌I asked both Liz Earle & Louise Newson afterwards to please address and correct these inaccuracies publicly & transparently.

❌Neither provided a response.

📌This is not a personal dispute or a “witch hunt”.

📌It concerns serious clinical governance, patient safety, documentation, informed consent and the systems and processes that exist to protect patients when prescribing off licence and complex and when things go WRONG.

✅My future posts on this are intended solely to correct the public record.

⚠️ None of the safety issues raised related to higher dose oestrogen in principle.

⚠️ Nor any form of absorption issue.

✅ They related to patient safety when prescribing off licence. (Incl but not limited too).

- Inadequate informed consent processes
- Unevidenced progesterone to oestrogen ratios
- lack of appropriate monitoring & clinical escalation for complex cases including cancer
- Absence of clear, documented complaints process when adverse outcomes occur.



There are some changes to my content this year.My focus is on advocating for medical change through my own experience of...
05/01/2026

There are some changes to my content this year.

My focus is on advocating for medical change through my own experience of both hormonal sensitivity and HRT.

Along with so many women who have contacted me over the past few years and shared their experiences.

If we don’t understand something - how do we change it for the better?

Paula x





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It’s the end of 2025 and the end of a karmic completion year. A year of shedding, dissolving and releasing painful cycle...
22/12/2025

It’s the end of 2025 and the end of a karmic completion year.

A year of shedding, dissolving and releasing painful cycles.

2026 is the year of the return home to self, to authenticity and to embodied truth.

See you on the other side.

Paula

07/10/2025

⁉️Is it hormonal or nervous system sensitivity and dysregulation?

⚠️ I argue fiercely in my book on hormonal sensitivity - that it’s the nervous system and we have to understand genetics, early life stress and epigenetics throughout life.

⚠️If we don’t widen this lens - more young girls and women will be misunderstood, mistreated and continue to fall though multiple medical cracks!

🧠Puberty - PMDD - Pregnancy and Perimenopause and hormonal sensitivity - it’s all linked with complex trauma and neurodivergent profiles.

✔️If you would like to learn more about how to start to advocate for yourself to get better individual treatment (including HRT:MHT) then please join my newsletter.

🎯My aim is to provide a new map for women who are more sensitive, so they can start to advocate for themselves.

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✔️We have to change this conversation so more young girls and women can be helped and understood medically and hormonally.

Paula 🫶

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