10/23/2025
Attending the National Menopause Show last weekend was incredible! Limitless conversations with other women about their experiences, how they navigate Menopause day-to-day. As well as insightful medical information and tips from the presenters to help us all take better care from our mental health, to internal and external health at each phase of Menopause.
These are some of our key takeaways from the show!
🔸 EVERY WOMAN DESERVES QUALITY CARE
Although healthcare access can be challenging at times, you deserve quality care and medical information during Peri-Menopause though to Post-Menopause and the years that follow. If you’ve had a health condition that required an intervention that kicked off an induced Menopause or even early onset Menopause, you deserve to be heard. Advocating for yourself is a crash course in trusting your gut and asking for what you need.
🔸 TALKING ABOUT IT CREATES CHANGE
Talking openly about your Menopause symptoms with your friends, family and co-workers reduces the long-standing stigma that has cast a shadow over this inevitable phase that every woman will go through. Once you open up to others it removes the isolation we can feel, and you will no doubt have welcome support and understanding, especially from other women. Be sure to include your partners, men and teens in the conversation too, they can learn a lot from you. Speaking out creates common ground for progress and change.
🔸 MENTAL HEALTH IS KEY
Menopause can sometimes primarily be described in physical symptoms, hot flashes, brain fog, etc., but there is a huge neurological shift happening when your hormones drop which can create psychological stress, angst and depression. There’s no shame in seeking help for your mental health. This is a key component to overall quality of life especially during Menopause and the years beyond.
🔸 DON’T WAIT TO START PRIORITIZING YOU
Women are notorious for looking after everyone and everything around them. Often taking on many duties at work, as a parent and even care-taker of their own parents. Women care so much for others, putting themselves last, yet during Menopause it is critical that you take time to focus on yourself, your health and what you need for supports. It’s time to move yourself to the top of the care list. If you don’t no-one else will.
🔸 ALL STAGES OF MENOPAUSE NEED SUPPORT
We hear a lot about Peri-Menopause through to that magical day that our cycles end and we are officially Post-Menopausal. But then what? This stage will last the rest of your life, and additional health risks are at play. Whether you medicate with HRT or other means to manage your ongoing symptoms, it’s just as important to focus on your health even more-so as FUTURE YOU will thank you for it! What we do now to take care of ourselves, will pay off in our later years.
