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We’ve spent years encouraging women to talk more openly about menopause — and thankfully, that conversation has changed enormously.

But awareness was never supposed to be the end goal.

For our 100th episode of Empower Your Menopause, and with World Menopause Day just around the corner, we’re taking stock of how far we’ve come, where women are still being let down, and what we think the menopause conversation needs to focus on next.

We talk about the gap between simply having a menopause policy and creating genuinely supportive workplaces, why more information doesn’t always mean better information, and why women still too often feel they have to downplay what they’re experiencing.

But most importantly, we look beyond menopause itself.

Because menopause isn’t the finish line. Women may spend decades of their lives postmenopause, and the conversation needs to be about much more than getting through symptoms. It’s about protecting strength, health, confidence, independence and the ability to keep doing the things that make life worth living.

So this episode is really about the next chapter: moving from awareness to meaningful support, and from simply managing menopause to thinking about how we want to live for the decades that follow.

And, seeing as it’s Episode 100, we also allow ourselves a small celebration — including our third consecutive Menopause Coaching Company of the Year award.

Menopause is a transition, not the finish line.

If you enjoy the episode, please like, subscribe or follow Empower Your Menopause wherever you listen or watch. It helps more women find the podcast — and makes sure you don’t miss the next hundred.

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Metallic taste. Ringing ears. Burning tongue. Frozen shoulder. Dry eyes. Feeling as though insects are crawling over your skin.

Seriously… is there anything that isn’t a menopause symptom?

In this episode of Empower Your Menopause, we head down the stranger side of the menopause rabbit hole and look at some of the more unexpected things women report experiencing during perimenopause and beyond.

We explore everything from formication and tinnitus to shoulder problems, dry eyes and digestive changes — looking at where there may be a hormonal connection, where the evidence is less clear, and why something happening during menopause doesn’t automatically mean menopause caused it.

Because there’s a balance to strike.

Women deserve to have unusual symptoms taken seriously. But we also don’t want to blame absolutely everything that happens after 40 on hormones and potentially miss something else that deserves attention.

Menopause isn’t a disease. But that doesn’t mean women should simply put up with feeling rubbish either.

If the gut and digestive side of this episode struck a chord, you can find out more about our Gut Reset Course here:

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And if you’d prefer support built completely around you — your health, your goals and what’s actually getting in the way — you can find out more about our new 1:1 coaching here:

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It sounds as though the answer should be simple. After all, we can test blood sugar, cholesterol, thyroid function and all sorts of other things — so surely there must be a test that tells you whether you’re in perimenopause or menopause.

Unfortunately, bodies don’t work quite that neatly.

In this episode of Empower Your Menopause, we look at what menopause tests actually measure, why hormone levels such as FSH can be difficult to interpret during perimenopause, and why a single result doesn’t always tell you what you think it does.

We also talk about when testing can be useful, why symptoms and patterns often matter just as much as numbers, and why not everything that starts happening to you in your 40s or 50s should automatically be blamed on menopause.

And importantly, we look at how to have a better conversation with your healthcare provider — including what to track beforehand, what questions to ask, and how to advocate for yourself without feeling as though you need to turn up with a self-diagnosis and a 47-page colour-coded dossier.

The big takeaway?

You don’t need a test result to give you permission to take changes in your body seriously.

If you’re struggling to make sense of what’s going on in midlife, or you know something needs to change but you’re not sure where to start, you can book a free 45-minute strategy call with us.

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