Is your menopause anxiety making you anxious?

Nurses have been on my mind this week as I’ve had a number of them register for my Lifestyle Science Menopause Practitioner Course. It reminded me to share with you, the amazing story from former Registered Nurse, Wendy Gordon, from Melbourne, Australia. Wendy came on board with me as a MyMT™ Affiliate Practitioner, I couldn’t […]

MyMT™ Education: The Potential of Parsley to Reduce Menopause Anxiety

Many of us know that depression and anxiety are major mental health problems in all parts of the world, including for women in their menopause transition. These illnesses are associated with a number of risk factors, including oxidative stress and inflammation. Mental health challenges are so ubiquitous that even the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts […]

Walk away menopausal anxiety, stress and depression.

When both Lyndie and Susi (in the photos above) came into my menopause transformation programmes, they were hardly walking anywhere. However, they both experienced fatigue, lack of motivation and for Lyndie, her breast cancer treatments left her exhausted. They were also confused about what type of exercise was best for them. But as they moved […]

New Research: Foods to improve menopause anxiety and cognition.

‘Despite the overwhelming prevalence of anxiety in modern society, medications often fail to achieve complete symptom resolution. We highlight the roles of the microbiome and inflammation as influencers of anxiety, and discuss the evidence base for specific nutritional interventions.’ [Norwitz and Naidoo, 2021] Most of us know the feelings of anxiety don’t we? The elevated […]

VIDEO: Does your herb garden contain the secret to reducing your menopause anxiety?

This evergreen bushy shrub which grows along the Mediterranean Sea, in sub-Himalayan areas and fortunately, in my herb garden, wasn’t mentioned by my Pharmacist when I enquired about menopause supplements for anxiety. I wish it had been. Because a few weeks later, the supplements that I did buy at the time, weren’t making any difference. […]

Find your ‘flow’ and reduce multi-tasking to manage your anxiety levels in menopause.

Multitasking Woman

There’s a small book sitting on my bookshelf that I treasure. Given to me by my retiring PhD Supervisor when he was cleaning out his office, it reminds me of my sport psychology lectures when I attended Otago University’s Faculty of Physical Education, in the 1990’s. As a naive adult student re-training and moving on […]

‘The Art of Not Falling Apart’ (a book by Christina Patterson) and why menopause makes anxiety worse.

I know a bit about stress. Not only my own ‘butterflies in my gut’ experiences from my former life as a nurse working in fast-paced life and death environments in Intensive Care, but also teaching about athlete stress to Sport and Exercise students. Until I did my PhD, I had never thought about how our […]

Discover why your increased anxiety is not just about your changing hormones in menopause.

We’ve been talking about anxiety this week in my coaching groups and I asked the women on the MyMT programmes a question. It was this: ‘If I sat you down right now with a blank piece of paper and said to you, “What causes you to feel anxious?” what would you write down on the […]