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Periods. Period. What should we call it?

January 28, 2018 By Ellen

It’s a terrible cringe of a word – period. If a word ever wore a tight bun and kept its books in alphabetical order, it’s a period. This is the word that goes with the twee trickles of dyed blue water poured in gleaming ad-land laboratories. Period. Flow, stop. Period. We need something better. Humanity […]

Filed Under: family Tagged With: feminism, humour, in my life, menopause, menstruate, period, women, words

New year new snooze: Is smart sleeping even a thing and is it worth thinking about?

January 9, 2018 By Ellen

Remember when sleeping was just a matter of lying down and shutting your eyes? I was brilliant at it – talented. My only concern was that I wasn’t particularly good at doing it on public transport or for all that long after the sun came up. But I could do it pretty much anywhere else […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: advice, family, humour, in my life, menopause, My Life, nap, parenting, sleep, Something happened in my life

Why middle-aged women like cardigans

December 16, 2017 By Ellen

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Another tale from the estrogen wars   For many years, the cardigan was the epitome of mediocrity. A nothing kind of a garment – neither coat nor jumper. Worn by ditherers, fence sitters and the sartorially distressed. Although, I was looking through Krush clothing and found amazing fashionable women’s outfits for each season! It’s knitted […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: hot flush, humour, in my life, menopause, My Life, perimenopause, Something happened in my life, women

Surviving Christmas with the Menopause, by Dr Rosy Fazzi

December 14, 2017 By Ellen

  The menopause is often thought of as ‘the last taboo’, trailing behind many other health and wellbeing issues when it comes to something that is spoken about openly. In fact, the menopause is something that up to 50% of UK women are too embarrassed to talk about at all, even with their GPs. But […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Become, Christmas, hot flush, in my life, in the world, matcha tea, menopause, offer, Review, women

Women at work – what do we really want?

October 26, 2017 By Ellen

The more we talk about our experiences, the better. But it’s not always straightforward. My unease about writing freely about the menopause isn’t just that people will now focus on the woman who was once a person but is now just a sweaty bag of past-it symptoms. What bothers me is that the narrative about […]

Filed Under: things I learned from my children today Tagged With: creative writing, equality, feminism, in my life, in the world, menopause, on my mind, pregnancy, Something happened in my life, voices, women, work, working parent

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