by Debra Kidd  @debrakidd

I don’t like going to the doctors. I have to feel really, really shitty to go and so it was unusual to find myself sitting in front of one some three years or so ago. I was so embarrassed I’d learnt the list I would say off by heart: 

by Alison Kriel @AlisonKriel

The menopause is a rite of passage that happens to every women yet it is a taboo subject! My grandmother definitely did not speak about it and my mum’s generation spoke with their eyes and mouthed ‘the change’. Slowly, it’s becoming easier to talk about our menopause amongst groups of women ‘of a certain age’ but it remains a stubbornly taboo subject in wider circles. 

by Jo Lawrence @JoCLawrence

On #WorldMenopauseDay let’s talk about chemo induced menopause. Yep, that’s right, the trial run you get when going through chemotherapy.

As if my diagnosis wasn’t enough, being a 37 year old woman and a way off menopause and without children, I took the option to try to protect my ovaries through a treatment called Zoladex that suppressed my ovaries.

by Bretta Townend-Jowitt @Headspiration

Madness part 1 – the need to clarify my reason for blogging. Earlier in my career I suffered from a lack of knowledge and understanding my employers had around fertility treatment, 14 years later I expected significant improvement, however, now at menopause age I’m discovering the same lack of knowledge and understanding of this topic too.

by  Jules Daulby  @JulesDaulby 

Her tears, her fears. Fuck! Her anxiety.

Nervous, jittery, lost her glitter edge.

Discombobulated identity.

Mind drawn backwards and forwards through a hedge.

By Vivienne Porritt @ViviennePorritt

Our 5th Unconference this Saturday, 5th October is going to be special. We’re keeping our tradition of all of us meeting together at the beginning and end of the day and celebrating what our #community has achieved since last year. We do have some new elements to build our engagement across the community so look out for those. We will also share some exciting things we are doing to improve #communication.

by Emma Grundy @MsGundry

I am at the end of week 3 of my first headship and it is both better and worse than I’d imagined.