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Staying safely indoors is good news for those bori

Staying safely indoors is good news for those boring housework jobs that we never get around to doing. We’ve cleaned the cutlery drawer, hoovered under the bed and even worked out how to remove the shower door seal and give it a good scrub. (Don’t judge us for not having a sparkling cutlery drawer at all times…!) We are lucky to be able to stay safe, but for some of us, it is proving a mental health challenge. For many midlife women, menopause anxiety is already an issue, and lockdown is creating additional stress. Factor in loss of income, home-schooling the kids and worrying about elderly parents, and many women are struggling right now. “When times are challenging it is hugely difficult to remain upbeat,” says #mpoweredwomen’s @drstephaniegoodwin. “But it’s well worth finding things that lift your spirits because we know that positive emotions can be an important buffer when things are tough going.” Dr Goodwin suggests three steps to help when your thoughts spiral into fear. Firstly, in your mind say “Stop – I am not going down that path again”. Next, breathe deeply, focusing on your breaths for a couple of minutes to calm yourself. Finally, refocus. Talk to someone close to you to get a more grounded perspective or ask yourself “Will this matter in five years? Or five months?”. You can read more from Dr Goodwin in the Medical section of the site (link in bio). She is also here to help with other menopause issues that you might have in this time of lockdown. Stay tuned for news on a live Q&A with Dr Goodwin on our Instagram Stories and send us your questions for her so that we can ensure we get them answered. We’ve got your back, we can do this.
#menopause
#perimenopause
#menopauserelief
#menopausal
#menopausehealth
#menopausesupport
#menopausesymptoms
#midlife
#womensupportingwomen
#selfcare
#wellbeing
#mpoweredwomen
#womenshealth
#womenswellness

Meet Genevieve, @this_is_fifty, and she’s here t

Meet Genevieve, @this_is_fifty, and she’s here to deal with our lockdown beauty issues. And before anyone fires off a disgruntled comment about beauty not being important in these challenging times, have you seen our grey roots? Seriously though, of course there are bigger and infinitely more significant things going on out there, but a bit of self-care is a great way to help yourself through it day by day. Whether it’s grey roots, a midlife moustache or unruly eyebrows, Genevieve will be hosting Instagram Live videos on our Stories, showing all of us how to tackle the problem without the help of a salon professional. With decades of beauty industry experience under her belt, there isn’t a product or technique that Genevieve doesn’t know about - so we all need her in our lives right now. We’re kicking off our #DIYmidlife series at 6pm today, with a touch-up lesson for grey roots, using @joshwoodcolour’s blending brush. #mpoweredwomen’s founder Saska is today’s guinea pig. Usually reliant on @soobroyhair to magic the greys away, she’s ready and willing to go it alone on her roots with the blending brush - with Genevieve guiding her through it. What could possibly go wrong…? Join us on Stories at 6pm, to see if our first #DIYmidlife lesson is a success, or if Saska manages to dye her forehead rather than her roots. (Which is entirely possible.) And do let us know what you’d like Genevieve to tackle next. From what you’ve told us so far, facial hair is top of your list. See you at 6pm over on Stories.
#DIYmidlife
#menopause
#perimenopause
#menopauserelief
#menopausal
#menopausehealth
#menopausesupport
#menopausesymptoms
#midlife
#womensupportingwomen
#selfcare
#wellbeing
#mpoweredwomen
#womenshealth
#womenswellness
#beauty
#beautytips
#beautycare

Last month, back in the good old days of being all

Last month, back in the good old days of being allowed off our sofa, we had a brilliant #mpoweredwomen event at @limewoodhotel, with our medical expert @drstephaniegoodwin. In a room packed with midlife women, Dr Goodwin addressed the many myths that swirl around menopause, and clarified the facts from the fictions. It was crystal clear that many of us are a little bit clueless about the challenges of this time of life, and what to do about them. Which is why #mpoweredwomen is here. We’re on a mission to ensure that every woman knows exactly what is going on with her mind/body wellbeing during the peri and menopause years. Once we know what we’re dealing with, we can get back to feeling our absolute best (on our sofa…). At the top of the myth list on the night were the scare stories around HRT. This is a biggie. So many women are nervous about taking the HRT route because they fear the side effects. Will it give them breast cancer? Is it made of mare’s urine? Should they pay a small fortune for HRT lozenges or specially blended creams that are concocted just for them by a private clinic? Dr Goodwin ran through all of the facts – not the fictions – and you could feel the relief in the room. You can read more about the evening in the What’s New section of the site (link in bio). And fear not, we will be back with more live events once we’re through the current strange times. In the meantime, greetings from our sofa to yours. We’re all in this together.
#menopause
#perimenopause
#menopauserelief
#menopausal
#menopausehealth
#menopausesupport
#menopausesymptoms
#midlife
#womensupportingwomen
#selfcare
#wellbeing
#mpoweredwomen
#womenshealth
#womenswellness

To quote the great @marian_keyes, “so much to wo

To quote the great @marian_keyes, “so much to worry about in these strange days, including - forgive me for being so shallow - the fate of my HAIR!!!”. Marian, we are with you all the way on this. Our grey roots are getting more airtime than they have for months and we’re not happy about it. Given that our last experience of home dye was with Toners & Shaders in our teens, we are not optimistic about our DIY efforts to deal with the situation. But needs must, so we’ve turned to hair maestro @joshwoodcolour and his at-home range of products (from @bootsuk). His Blending Brush promises to cover pesky greys with zero effort and is the tool that #mpoweredwomen’s beauty expert Rosie Green, @lifesrosie, rates. “It’s impressive,” she says. “I’ll still go to the salon when I can, but use this between visits.” It also gets the thumbs up from #mpoweredwomen’s resident beauty guru Genevieve Nikolopoulos, aka @this_is_fifty. “It’s fantastic,” she says, of the brush. “It pretty much covers everything.” Grey roots aside, there are other midlife beauty niggles that can be dealt with easily at home. To help us all put our best face forward, Genevieve will be hosting a series of beauty DIY Instagram live videos for #mpoweredwomen over the next few weeks. What would you like her to demonstrate? We’ll kick off with a Blending Brush masterclass next week (stay tuned on our Stories for the date and time), and then move on to other beauty fixes you’d like her wisdom on. Eyebrows? Nails? DIY facials? Whatever gets us all through the day, right? No woman should have to grow a moustache in these challenging times!
#beautyover40
#beautyover50
#menopause
#perimenopause
#menopauserelief
#menopausal
#menopausehealth
#menopausesupport
#menopausesymptoms
#midlife
#womensupportingwomen
#selfcare
#wellbeing
#mpoweredwomen

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Staying safely indoors is good news for those bori

Staying safely indoors is good news for those boring housework jobs that we never get around to doing. We’ve cleaned the cutlery drawer, hoovered under the bed and even worked out how to remove the shower door seal and give it a good scrub. (Don’t judge us for not having a sparkling cutlery drawer at all times…!) We are lucky to be able to stay safe, but for some of us, it is proving a mental health challenge. For many midlife women, menopause anxiety is already an issue, and lockdown is creating additional stress. Factor in loss of income, home-schooling the kids and worrying about elderly parents, and many women are struggling right now. “When times are challenging it is hugely difficult to remain upbeat,” says #mpoweredwomen’s @drstephaniegoodwin. “But it’s well worth finding things that lift your spirits because we know that positive emotions can be an important buffer when things are tough going.” Dr Goodwin suggests three steps to help when your thoughts spiral into fear. Firstly, in your mind say “Stop – I am not going down that path again”. Next, breathe deeply, focusing on your breaths for a couple of minutes to calm yourself. Finally, refocus. Talk to someone close to you to get a more grounded perspective or ask yourself “Will this matter in five years? Or five months?”. You can read more from Dr Goodwin in the Medical section of the site (link in bio). She is also here to help with other menopause issues that you might have in this time of lockdown. Stay tuned for news on a live Q&A with Dr Goodwin on our Instagram Stories and send us your questions for her so that we can ensure we get them answered. We’ve got your back, we can do this.
#menopause
#perimenopause
#menopauserelief
#menopausal
#menopausehealth
#menopausesupport
#menopausesymptoms
#midlife
#womensupportingwomen
#selfcare
#wellbeing
#mpoweredwomen
#womenshealth
#womenswellness

Meet Genevieve, @this_is_fifty, and she’s here t

Meet Genevieve, @this_is_fifty, and she’s here to deal with our lockdown beauty issues. And before anyone fires off a disgruntled comment about beauty not being important in these challenging times, have you seen our grey roots? Seriously though, of course there are bigger and infinitely more significant things going on out there, but a bit of self-care is a great way to help yourself through it day by day. Whether it’s grey roots, a midlife moustache or unruly eyebrows, Genevieve will be hosting Instagram Live videos on our Stories, showing all of us how to tackle the problem without the help of a salon professional. With decades of beauty industry experience under her belt, there isn’t a product or technique that Genevieve doesn’t know about - so we all need her in our lives right now. We’re kicking off our #DIYmidlife series at 6pm today, with a touch-up lesson for grey roots, using @joshwoodcolour’s blending brush. #mpoweredwomen’s founder Saska is today’s guinea pig. Usually reliant on @soobroyhair to magic the greys away, she’s ready and willing to go it alone on her roots with the blending brush - with Genevieve guiding her through it. What could possibly go wrong…? Join us on Stories at 6pm, to see if our first #DIYmidlife lesson is a success, or if Saska manages to dye her forehead rather than her roots. (Which is entirely possible.) And do let us know what you’d like Genevieve to tackle next. From what you’ve told us so far, facial hair is top of your list. See you at 6pm over on Stories.
#DIYmidlife
#menopause
#perimenopause
#menopauserelief
#menopausal
#menopausehealth
#menopausesupport
#menopausesymptoms
#midlife
#womensupportingwomen
#selfcare
#wellbeing
#mpoweredwomen
#womenshealth
#womenswellness
#beauty
#beautytips
#beautycare

Last month, back in the good old days of being all

Last month, back in the good old days of being allowed off our sofa, we had a brilliant #mpoweredwomen event at @limewoodhotel, with our medical expert @drstephaniegoodwin. In a room packed with midlife women, Dr Goodwin addressed the many myths that swirl around menopause, and clarified the facts from the fictions. It was crystal clear that many of us are a little bit clueless about the challenges of this time of life, and what to do about them. Which is why #mpoweredwomen is here. We’re on a mission to ensure that every woman knows exactly what is going on with her mind/body wellbeing during the peri and menopause years. Once we know what we’re dealing with, we can get back to feeling our absolute best (on our sofa…). At the top of the myth list on the night were the scare stories around HRT. This is a biggie. So many women are nervous about taking the HRT route because they fear the side effects. Will it give them breast cancer? Is it made of mare’s urine? Should they pay a small fortune for HRT lozenges or specially blended creams that are concocted just for them by a private clinic? Dr Goodwin ran through all of the facts – not the fictions – and you could feel the relief in the room. You can read more about the evening in the What’s New section of the site (link in bio). And fear not, we will be back with more live events once we’re through the current strange times. In the meantime, greetings from our sofa to yours. We’re all in this together.
#menopause
#perimenopause
#menopauserelief
#menopausal
#menopausehealth
#menopausesupport
#menopausesymptoms
#midlife
#womensupportingwomen
#selfcare
#wellbeing
#mpoweredwomen
#womenshealth
#womenswellness

To quote the great @marian_keyes, “so much to wo

To quote the great @marian_keyes, “so much to worry about in these strange days, including - forgive me for being so shallow - the fate of my HAIR!!!”. Marian, we are with you all the way on this. Our grey roots are getting more airtime than they have for months and we’re not happy about it. Given that our last experience of home dye was with Toners & Shaders in our teens, we are not optimistic about our DIY efforts to deal with the situation. But needs must, so we’ve turned to hair maestro @joshwoodcolour and his at-home range of products (from @bootsuk). His Blending Brush promises to cover pesky greys with zero effort and is the tool that #mpoweredwomen’s beauty expert Rosie Green, @lifesrosie, rates. “It’s impressive,” she says. “I’ll still go to the salon when I can, but use this between visits.” It also gets the thumbs up from #mpoweredwomen’s resident beauty guru Genevieve Nikolopoulos, aka @this_is_fifty. “It’s fantastic,” she says, of the brush. “It pretty much covers everything.” Grey roots aside, there are other midlife beauty niggles that can be dealt with easily at home. To help us all put our best face forward, Genevieve will be hosting a series of beauty DIY Instagram live videos for #mpoweredwomen over the next few weeks. What would you like her to demonstrate? We’ll kick off with a Blending Brush masterclass next week (stay tuned on our Stories for the date and time), and then move on to other beauty fixes you’d like her wisdom on. Eyebrows? Nails? DIY facials? Whatever gets us all through the day, right? No woman should have to grow a moustache in these challenging times!
#beautyover40
#beautyover50
#menopause
#perimenopause
#menopauserelief
#menopausal
#menopausehealth
#menopausesupport
#menopausesymptoms
#midlife
#womensupportingwomen
#selfcare
#wellbeing
#mpoweredwomen

We all know how important exercise is to keep mind

We all know how important exercise is to keep mind and body together in the midlife years. But working out is easier said than done when you’re stuck at home. Surely we’re not the only ones who are finding Netflix a whole load more appealing than doing sit ups on the sitting room floor? Luckily, there are some brilliantly inventive fitness trainers out there, who are using this lock down as an opportunity to come up with digital workouts that all of us can get on board with. First up, a shout out to #mpoweredwomen’s @harteandsoulcoach who is running daily weights sessions at 5.15pm, via Zoom. As a midlife woman herself, Annelies is brilliantly motivating for the rest of us, and there’s a fab community of women already addicted to her daily sessions - Team MPowered included. If you don’t have hand weights at home, don’t worry. Annelies has inventive ideas for getting around that, including filling a backpack with cans and lifting that! So do join us. Another shout out to @davinamccall, who is offering free 30-day access to her @ownyourgoalsdavina at-home fitness and wellbeing platform. We’re also loving @zannavandijk’s 25-minute ‘apartment-friendly’ workouts from her bedroom - with no heavy jumping that might annoy the neighbours. We’d love to add some yoga into our at-home workout mix - anyone got any recommendations? We know it’s going to be tricky to keep the motivation going in these challenging times, so let’s all be each others’ workout cheerleaders. Share your tips and tell us your favourite digital workouts - we’re all in this together.
#menopause
#perimenopause
#menopauserelief
#menopausal
#menopausehealth
#menopausesupport
#menopausesymptoms
#midlife
#womensupportingwomen
#selfcare
#wellbeing
#mpoweredwomen
#womenshealth
#womenswellness
#womensfitness
#womenstrong

Happy birthday to Reese Witherspoon, who turns 44

Happy birthday to Reese Witherspoon, who turns 44 today. Actress, producer, entrepreneur, Reese is proof that midlife is a time for ambition and life expansion. There is nothing that we can’t do in these years, if we put our minds to it. She’s 100% right when she says that by this age, we know who we are and what we want. And we definitely surround ourselves with the best people - whether it’s friendships that are, by now, decades old, or new relationships and connections that are fresh and exciting. For too long, midlife has been something that women have been conditioned to dread, but not any more. We are reclaiming these years. Want to write that novel, set up that business, retrain for a new career path or just try out a new online fitness routine - now is your time to get on and do it. God knows, most of us have got more time on our hands at the moment than we ever thought we would. Let’s use it wisely. Here at #mpoweredwomen, we are proof of the power of midlife motivation. We are women in our 50s, who have had decade-long careers working for other people, and now we are doing something for ourselves. Yes it’s scary - being self employed right now is making us feel very vulnerable - but we have the self belief to trust that we will succeed. So we’re going to hold our nerve, stay focused and, as Reece recommends, surround ourselves with the best people we know. Even if that’s via Skype for the foreseeable future. We can all do this.
#menopause
#perimenopause
#menopauserelief
#menopausal
#menopausehealth
#menopausesupport
#menopausesymptoms
#midlife
#womensupportingwomen
#selfcare
#wellbeing
#mpoweredwomen
#womenshealth
#womenswellness

The NHS is under unprecedented pressure and GPs ar

The NHS is under unprecedented pressure and GPs are pushed to their limits - but menopause symptoms don’t stop and many women still need medical support. In these uncharted times, it’s up to all of us to self educate as much as we can to ensure we get what we need from the precious nine and a half minutes of doctor’s appointment. Don’t waste your - or your GP’s- time. It’s all too easy to get home and realise you forgot to ask something. We’ve all done it. When seeking menopause care and support, it’s important to plan ahead to get the most from your visit because not all GPs are up to scratch on menopause care. This is why @menopause_doctor has a whole chapter of her brilliant book, Menopause, All You Need to Know in One Concise Manual, on how to get the most out of your appointment slot. “Some women face months or even years of additional suffering because of an uphill battle in accessing correct information and treatment,” she says. “This is because their GP doesn’t have a true understanding of treatments like HRT and how they can help, and this has to change.” We know this to be true from the stories we hear at MPowered Women’s events. Women are still being given incorrect information when it comes to menopause care. “Medical appointments can be frustratingly short, with a 2017 study revealing that average UK GP appointments are among the shortest in Europe at just 9.2 minutes,” says Dr Newson. “There is nothing worse than feeling rushed or being unable to communicate your concerns.” Make sure you read Dr Newson’s piece ‘Read this before you see your GP’ in the Resources section of the site (link in bio) and make every second of those 9.2 minutes count.
#menopause
#perimenopause
#menopauserelief
#menopausal
#menopausehealth
#menopausesupport
#menopausesymptoms
#midlife
#womensupportingwomen
#selfcare
#wellbeing
#mpoweredwomen
#womenshealth
#womenswellness

Put one of the #mpoweredwomen doctors in a room of

Put one of the #mpoweredwomen doctors in a room of midlife women and it becomes clear straightaway that we are all desperate for authoritative information and expertise when it comes to perimenopause and menopause issues. Too many of us simply are not getting good enough support from our local GP. A recent #mpoweredwomen event at @limewoodhotel showed this once again, with @drstephaniegoodwin inundated with questions from women who were concerned about their symptoms, unclear on many of the issues and, in some cases, being let down by GPs and given incorrect advice. (How is this still happening in 2020?) Dr Goodwin ran through all of the facts - and the fictions - and you could feel the relief in the room. Here at #mpoweredwomen, we will keep campaigning and awareness-raising until all women are getting the full support they need - not just those of us lucky enough to ask @drstephaniegoodwin a question in person. You can find out the most common menopause myths that she cleared up on the night, in the Medical section of the site (link in bio), along with many other articles from both Dr Goodwin and @menopause_doctor. Dr Goodwin has also put together a brilliantly useful list of resources for all of us to arm ourselves with the facts we need. You’ll find the list in the new Resources section of the site (link in bio). Knowledge is power.
#menopause
#perimenopause
#menopauserelief
#menopausal
#menopausehealth
#menopausesupport
#menopausesymptoms
#midlife
#womensupportingwomen
#selfcare
#wellbeing
#mpoweredwomen
#womenshealth
#womenswellness

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