Parenting teenagers is an emotional rollercoaster. Throw puberty and the menopause into the mix and you have a toxic cocktail of hormones which is guaranteed to involve a lot of tears, tantrums and door slamming. There is something quite cruel about the twist of fate that places the…
If like me you are a woman with one eye on the latest fashions, the world of instagram is a pandora’s box of inspiration, awash as it is with ideas for new designers to look out for and outfit combinations from real people. One such lady and one…
How do any of us pinpoint that moment on our menopausal journey when we know we need to ask for help? Mine was the receipt of a white flag email from my husband. The over riding sentiment was that he loved me, the under lying one was that…
What does body positivity mean to you? At it’s most basic it’s about self-acceptance and self-care, but the way we view ourselves as individuals is embedded in a range of feelings, both physical and emotional, guaranteeing that no one view will be the same. Throw cancer into the…
Do you have any online friends? Have you met any of them in the flesh or is it all just cyber chat? How do your virtual friendships rate against your real time ones? I, like many others of my midlife generation, am to coin a phrase a “digital…
Every cancer diagnosis and treatment plan is unique. There is no one size fits all solution, but where possible surgery is invariably the first port of call whatever your type. Cancer is after all a disease and left untended will grow and spread like a predatory weed. This…
A cancer diagnosis over Christmas and New Year has turned my world upside down and it will never be the same again. This time last year I was in party planning overdrive preparing for my 50th birthday celebrations and flying the platinum flag for being fifty and fabulous.…
Have you had or are you due a midlife health check? It’s so easy to forget what we need to do to safeguard our long term well-being but midlife is an important time for reviewing our health and particularly as a woman. The NHS offers free health checks every…
