Kate Codrington

05/09/2024

So grateful to for this wonderful endorsement of The Perimenopause Journal 🙏

It's available Tuesday 10th September and some pre-orders seem to be arriving even sooner so you never know!

03/09/2024

Arriving Tuesday 10th September

The Perimenopause Journal is a reassuring guide to understanding, tracking and managing symptoms and contains a unique 52-page undated journal for you to personalise.

🍁 Gives you an understanding of the different psychological phases of perimenopause in the context of the seasons of the year, perfectly illustrating the symptoms of each stage and how they may present
🦉 Full of helpful advice on how to care for yourself during perimenopause so that this change offers the potential for personal growth
😍 Written by moi! (I have over 30-years experience in the well-being world as a therapist and am not a tw@t)
😴 Includes four seasonal Yoga Nidra guided meditations, with an accompanying audio guide to allow readers to slow down and truly feel where they are at that moment
💪 The first feminist perimenopause journal using language that includes everyone

And she's bloody gorgeous!

“It's an essential resource for anyone looking to navigate perimenopause with a sense of empowerment and purpose.”
Professor Annice Mukherjee

“This is a journal like no other”
Suzy Reading, author and psychologist

“If you do one thing, gift yourself this journal.”
Catherine Harland The Menopause Mentor

“This is the definition of lush.”
Pat Duckworth, Smarter Menopause

“A tool that will enable me to look out for, and after, myself.”
Elizabeth Joseph, columnist and pro-age model

“The book that I wish I had when I began perimenopause in my 30s”
Joanne Hardcastle, vintage interiors and midlife fashion

Dear friends, it would just be brilliant if you could either
💥 order a copy, and/or one for a friend (it makes a fabulous gift), or
💝 share this post with your mates this week,
❤️ Give this post a ❤️ please? Here's why...

In the weird world of publishing, pre-orders are counted as the first week of sales, which can nudge it towards 'bestseller' in its category, telling the algorithm it is 'worthy', giving it more visibility. All of which ultimately means that more people can connect with their bodies, feel reassured they're not going mad but undergoing an upgrade.

Thank you dearhearts for all your support, let's do this!

01/09/2024

Delighted to have been invited to chat with Tessa Venuti Sanderson about Listening Circles 😍😍

This episode will be reassuring for new circle facilitators and get lots of nods of recognition from experienced ones. In this episode we talked about: - Impost

01/09/2024

8 days until The Perimenopause Journal lands earthside!

Much squeeing here as I receive this wonderful endorsement from .hormone.doc for The Perimenopause Journal 🙏😍🙏

Whatever your current ‘prescription’ is for perimenopause: ✨Hormone Therapy, 🧘‍♀️Yoga, 🤬swearing , 🥕food, 💤rest, 💊supplements, 🦵kick-boxing, ☁️meditation, 🍪biscuits, 😶‍🌫️pretending it’s not happening…. There’s still a psychological upgrade going on that is asking you to connect with your body.

It’s time time to forget the facile nonsense of EITHER hormone therapy OR lifestyle changes and connect with ourselves to find out what might suit us now.

The Perimenpause Journal offers a haven for you build your way to be kind to yourself, and figure out what that looks like. You are not deficient, you are in a state of becoming.

I would love it if you could order your copy now (and one for a friend because it makes a gorgeous gift) and it’ll be on your doormat Tuesday 10th

30/08/2024

✨✨💝Your chance to win 💝✨✨

💥A fabulous Crone necklace or brooch in a colour of your choice
💥A signed copy of The Perimenopause Journal: Unlock Your Power, Own Your Wellbeing, Find Your Path
💥A signed copy of Second Spring: The Self-Care Guide To Menopause

For one lucky human in Ireland, UK or Europe.

✨💃🏽Crone necklace or brooch💃🏽✨
The ultimate in pro-ageing glam this necklace from .and.resist takes your kick-ass threads to the next level. Perfect over knitwear as autumn draws in and then you can rock it at Xmas parties. You’ll create a wave of envy wherever you wear it. Own the crone baby!

✨🔥The Perimenopause Journal🔥✨
The revolutionary perimenopause journal is hot off the press and already getting rave reviews:
“It’s an essential resource for anyone looking to navigate perimenopause with a sense of empowerment and purpose.” Professor Annice Mukherjee
“This is a journal like no other” Suzy Reading, author and psychologist

🌸✨Second Spring: The Self-Care Guide To Menopause🌸✨
Recommended as one of the seven best books for menopause by The New York Times
“Hopeful, truthful and wise” Susie Orbach

🏆 Follow the instructions below to get your skin in the game

1️⃣ Like this post
2️⃣Follow and .and.resist
3️⃣ Tag three of your besties in the comments

Entries close at midday (BST) Monday 9th September. I’ll choose a lucky winner at random and announce them Tuesday 10th September on this post and via DM. This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram. Each participant must release Instagram of responsibility. You must be over 18 and living in Ireland, Europe or UK.

🏆Good luck!

29/08/2024

Oh my goodness I have been waiting for this for so long and it does not disappoint. has created the first intelligent, compassionate, comprehensive book on weight loss and metabolism I have ever found. All science backed. Highly recommend you buy it or borrow from your local library. Do it now.

If you prefer your information by ear, go and check out the excellent podcast where Lara was recently a guest.

Bloody priceless.

28/08/2024

Pleasingly arty, fishy, sandy, family week in Belgium 😍

27/08/2024

I'd love to hear your wisdom on this.

I wish I had known that I was lovable, exactly as I was. Decades bending myself out of shape ffs.

And a supplemental enquiry for eager-beavers: How is this operating in your life now? I still have a tendency to fawn and fit in over serving my truth. Really good to know and care for these vulnerabilities at any age, don't you think?

The perimenopause Journal gives you the perfect space to observe these patterns and love them into releasing. It's out on 10th September and you can pre-order now from your favourite indy bookshop.

25/08/2024

Nothing of any worth was created without making a mess! I notice how much shame there is around messiness and how systems and organising tools are marketed at women, but anything in a process of change or rejuvenating (e.g. a human in menopause) will be messy before it arrives at its new way of being.

This was such a great chat with Lisa de Jong, do catch the long-form version on your favourite podcast platform. Just search for Life An Inside Job or go here https://buff.ly/3WIy31W

23/08/2024

I had such an unboring chat with de Jong on Life An Inside Job podcast the other day about the value of being bored. Go have a listen! https://buff.ly/3WIy31W

If you fancy more resources there's also:
The War of Art: Winning The Inner Creative Battle – Steven Pressfield
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport
In Praise of Slow – Carl Honore

So, as our phones are the worst culprits, how are you going to give yourself some phone-free time today?

21/08/2024

What are you? Lark 🐦 or owl 🦉

This is one of many great tips from Dr Jill McGarry on Life An Inside Job podcast, check out the episode here https://buff.ly/3SSB8eS or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

19/08/2024

Every time you care for yourself you not only create more ease in the moment, but it's also accumulative. Over time, kindness upon kindness your capacity grows, most especially helpful when everything goes to s**t. Even if you can't stretch to much kindness then, knowing it's possible and can return to it, gives comfort. Habits can be returned to, known practices and tips remembered. Building resilience, health, and wellbeing.

This kind of kindness doesn't have a TM, it's not sexy or clever, it's softening your shoulders, leaving your phone in the other room, shutting the door on noise.... having an apple and peanut butter instead of crisps.

The Perimenopause Journal gives you space to note down how you have cared for yourself each day, so over time, you can reflect back and see how much love you've given yourself. We're so pulled to where we're failing, we don't recognise how much we're doing already.

No one trained you to be kind and gentle with yourself when you were young, so no wonder it's a struggle.

The Journal is available to pre-order now and will be in your hands on 10th September.

I'd love to know, how have you cared for yourself today?

18/08/2024

My actual face as reviews for The Perimenopause Journal come in, with added A-level results, good job news for man-child and a family trip away. Oh. And full moon tomorrow. What could possibly go wrong? 🤣

17/08/2024

I am thrilled to be signing brand-spanking new copies of The Perimenopause Journal at The Barnes Book Shop

2-4pm Saturday 14th September
98 Church Road
London SW13 0DQ

The Perimenopause Journal is a gorgeously illustrated, 52 week, undated journal that supports you to refine a bespoke self-care plan to ease you through your perimenopause and into a vibrant postmenopausal life.
🍁It shows how understanding your ‘inner seasons ‘ is a fast track to self-compassion,
🌻gives you prompts and enquiries for appropriate self-care,
🌓 charts to track your energy with the moon phases, and
✨guided meditations to access rest and calm.
🪷Each month there is space for reflection and intention setting to focus on small, do-able changes in your life, to ease your symptoms, access your power and find your path.

💝It makes a beautiful gift for a dear friend, and I can write dedications to order!!

Here’s what people are saying about it….

“If you do one thing, gift yourself this journal.”
Catherine Harland

“This is the definition of lush.”
Pat Duckworth

“I will recommend it to my Teaching Yoga for Menopause graduates and to my clients, to help nurture the deep self-awareness that can have such a positive impact on the menopause experience.”
Niamh Daley

“I will recommend my Menopause Yoga clients and trainees buy Kate’s Perimenopause Journal as a beautiful companion on their menopause journey.”
Petra Coveney

“An encouraging companion on your nightstand for self-care and deep inner kindness” Lisa de Jong

“ Like a dear friend, Kate invites us to continue this wise practice of listening to the seasonal wisdom of our feminine cycles as source points for our lives.”
Tami Lynn Kent

15/08/2024

Less than a month to go!!!

Oh my this second baby, just when I thought I knew about the birthing process, I get sidelined by feelings of over-exposure, vulnerability, imposter syndrome ALL THE THINGS

These old patterns pop up to say 'Hello, we're here, remember us?!' and I am forced to listen. In cyclical terms, it's an Autumnal process. Now the baby is complete and present (Summer creative process) the questioning and reality check is in full flow. It can be tough, but I'm not going to lie. These feelings are part of a healthy check-in that keeps me grounded and walking my talk.

Please pre-order your copy now if you can, it would do the great service of showing the bookshops that it's of value and will be worth them buying in stock. It makes a fabulous gift for a friend, so why not sort out a few birthday presents too while you're there?!

All pre-orderers are invited to the Rage Against The Patriarchy (virtual) Disco, 6.30pm 10th September. Just pop your order number onto The Perimenopause Journal page here https://buff.ly/3znJ6G4

15/08/2024

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15/08/2024

THIS!!

Just sayin' 👇

15/08/2024

I so appreciate opportunities to share a positive, nuanced view of menopause transition.

14/08/2024

Many of us up in homes where a parent turned a blind eye to abuse.

As children, we internalize a deep belief that we’re not worth being protected. That something is inherently wrong because a parent didn’t step up and say “that’s not ok, and I won’t anyone to hurt you physically or emotionally.”

The truth is: lack of protection is a generational cycle. One where adults dissociate and/or deny what’s happening to cope.

Protection is incredibly important for the healthy development of self. We need to witness adults who set clear boundaries, who assert themselves when needed, and who don’t please or appease to avoid the wrath of another person.

If you weren’t protected as a child, it’s not because of something you did. Or who you were. It’s a response— a response to the failure of an adult to understand what your needs were.

A response to existing in a world where domestic emotional abuse and neglect is so normalized, many people don’t even know it’s happening. And on a deeper level, don’t understand the lifelong impact on a persons psyche and physical health.

Break the cycle. Be the person you needed for yourself— your own protector, advocate, and compassionate friend

13/08/2024

It’s almost impossible to be bored these days. With our super-computers always to hand we have access to endless entertainment 24/7

But without time for our minds to wander, we miss out on processing and integrating our experiences i.e. self-regulation, our creativity too needs space and open nothingness in which to germinate ideas (a creative Winter), we lose the capacity to do deep work, and it can increase self-awareness and mental health.

Bored is GOOD

In this totally unboring conversation, coach and educator unpacks the process of slow-living, embracing daydreaming, boredom and digital skepticism. Loads of great tips here! It’s her second appearance on Life An Inside Job and it’s an absolute joy to explore the potential for something so obvious, unglamorous and life-changing.

BTW ✨doors are now open for Lisa’s excellent Menstrual Coach Academy training, highly recommend you check it out at ✨

You can listen to the podcast episode through this link https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/inside-boredom-with-lisa-de-jong/ , or search for Life An Inside Job wherever you listen to podcasts.

12/08/2024

My ongoing intention for all my work is to reassure you that you don’t need ‘fixing’ but are in need of more loving care, so this reflection on The Perimenopause Journal really touched my heart.

A reassuring companion is exactly what I wanted to create. Thank you for your kind words.

The Journal is available to pre-order now, only a month till you’ll have it in your hands! Everyone who preorders gets a golden ticket to the Rage Against The Patriarchy Disco on 10th September. Details in the comments 👇

Dancing boots on please!!

09/08/2024

In my happy place today, fulfilling a long-term plan to educate counsellors and psychotherapists about the power of menopause to create positive change.

The next workshop is happening in September, but I’m bursting with so many ideas and practices, I couldn’t resist starting to hone everything down for the webinar.

The potential for healing is exponential when therapists understand that there is purpose and possibility in perimenopause, rather than a purely physical health crisis or hormone ‘deficiency’ as it is too often misunderstood.

As well as busting a load of myths about when, to whom it happens, and for how long, I’ll be giving participants an embodied experience of the journey through menopause to Second Spring so they can feel it from the inside.

I’m already in conversation with more counselling and psychotherapy organisations that would like their communities to be better informed. 24 years since I completed my psychotherapy training and there's nothing like coming full circle right??!! If you know of places that could benefit from a positive, embodied approach to menopause, hook me up!

07/08/2024

You might be surprised to hear that it’s a crazy-making business having your words out in the world. Exhilarating for sure, but also opening doors to the most paranoid of fantasies and those ghostly childhood wounds.

So imagine how I feel then, one of my literary Shero’s, recommending my new book. Yup. Sharon Blackie, author of Hagitude, If Women Rose Rooted and many more great books, has put The Perimenopause Journal in her August substack. Yes, THE Sharon Blackie

Cock-a-hoop comes close.
Tickled-pink also.

I wrote a piece about finding support and paying it forward which you can find here https://buff.ly/4d8UYuo I may regain coherent sentences sometime next week when I’ve calmed down.

The image? You'll have to read the piece to get it.

07/08/2024

Good news for those with osteopenia and osteoporosis, a new option is available through the NHS in a few months. Details below from the BBC, but I was so annoyed by their picture choice (of a white woman with a bob doubled in pain) that I have replaced it with a picture of Carmen Francesch who ran her first Ironman at 61. (2nd pic from Guardian)

Just keeping it positive here 💪

Beeb reports:
‘Abaloparatide can protect against the bone-thinning condition called osteoporosis, which causes a high risk of broken bones in older age.
It will become available on the NHS in England within the next three months, says NICE.
The injection, which comes as a pre-filled pen that people can self-administer at home once a day, encourages cells to make new bone.
Other osteoporosis treatments are already available, but this new one is an alternative for people who have not responded to, or who cannot tolerate, those.
People will be offered drug treatment if doctors think they are at a high enough risk of breaking a bone.’
Very good to see postmenopausal wellbeing getting support, though diagnosis of osteoporosis is patchy, unfortunately usually following a fracture, scans being hard to come by atm.

06/08/2024

So proud that my article on the value of perimenopause RAGE was accepted for Sovereign Magazine

Check this link https://buff.ly/3AfD3Uw to read the article and/or listen to me on their podcast for more tips on tuning into your empowerment!

Many thanks to Carlotta Cardana https://buff.ly/3SBg1h9 for the fabulous images

03/08/2024

Well much to my surprise, the professional mentoring group was filled within a few hours of opening the booking on Tuesday. I mean, I know it’s a fab opportunity full of nourishing goodness, but sometimes it still takes a while for that to be heard in this noisy world. I am so chuffed about it I am velvity on the inside.

At more or less the same time I find I’ve reached capacity for my Doula service too with a new intake of some gorgeous souls looking for holding and guidance.

Capacity is fluid of course, so what I feel capable of doing right now is certain to be greater than I’ll be actually able to manage at a full moon (or exam results day, furious with my partner, or promoting a new book!) so I have learned to reduce my expecations of how much I take on. This way I can be present, engaged and curious in my work and show up for myself and the world. No one’s going to dismantle patriarchy on an empty tank.

Less is definately more!

There are interest/waiting lists for the professional mentoring group , and the Doula service , I’ll put the links in a comment below. Do put yourself on there if you’re at all interested, no obligations to sign up in the least. I have a strict protocol for opening bookings: interest list first, wait a few days, then my lovely email posse, wait a few more days, then finally it’s all out to you beauties on socials. I’m open to offering an evening professional mentoring group if there’s enough interest and the Doula service will open its doors again in 6-8 months time.

I’m also planning another round of the group mentoring for perimenopause next year and the interest list will be the first to get their hands on it

So, as it’s the day before the new moon, it’s a great time to reflect on our capacity for the new moon cycle. What’s your capacity atm?

02/08/2024

I had a wonderful conversation with Kit about the journey from perimenopause to Second Spring aka postmenopause today.

02/08/2024

Nothing is as thrilling as receiving validation from a writer you admire.

Ann Marie of Hotflashinc is a truth-seeking women's health journalist with an excellent nose for what's *really* going on. I recommend her podcast and Substack to everyone! The latest episode with Susan Davis on testosterone is brilliant, but each one is a gem. Go seek Hot Flash Inc!

31/07/2024

28/07/2024

Looking forward to this on Friday, love to see you there 😍