Menopause and over a year dealing with Long Covid has left me feeling very tired and unfit. I have decided to join a gym, however the whole experience of looking for gym has created anxiety and I realise I might have slight Gymphobia - the fear of joining a gym. Within the show I explore the topic of my gymbhobia and ways that I can overcome the fear.
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In today’s episode, Pamela Ann Windle A Certified Women’s Health Coach, Pamela Windle, talks about all things menopause. She advises forward-thinking organisations to support their employees to thrive in menstruation and menopause in the workplace/BSI Advisor/ certificate from IMS & IWHI/ Helping stressed-out women to reset hormonally. Black Menopause and Beyond podcast look at Menopause from the […]
In today’s episode, Belinda Ajayi, a 55-year-old post-menopausal woman, explains why she left her job and had to rethink her life and the need for self-care. Belinda has worked as an educator for many years, and she recently decided to give up her daytime full-time job and work in the evenings because she struggled in the […]
Part 3 of 4. Part 4 will follow in a few weeks. Today’s episode discusses ‘Allyship in the Menopause Space’. Anita Interviews Lucinda, Lucinder is a Menopause Awareness Advocate who has been delivering menopause awareness sessions since 2017. Lucinda works independently at the local/community level and also works as an Associate Trainer with the industry-leading menopause awareness provider, where […]
Allyship Part 2 of 4. Today’s episode discusses ‘Allyship in the Menopause Space’. Anita Interviews Lucinda, Lucinder is a Menopause Awareness Advocate who has been delivering menopause awareness sessions since 2017. Lucinda works independently at the local/community level and also works as an Associate Trainer with the industry-leading menopause awareness provider, where she delivers sessions in a wide […]
Anita interviews Lucinda, a Menopause Awareness Advocate who delivers sessions independently and with a leading provider. She recognizes the importance of cultural competence in allyship and seeks to learn from women of all backgrounds. Lucinda is not very active on social media but can be found on Instagram under the tag @peri_meno_mentor or via her […]
Within health, we use token black faces to represent Black menopause without black stories; within the episode, Anita reflects on what she thinks influences black menopause, plus the need to talk class when talking about black inequalities. Black Menopause and Beyond podcast look at Menopause from the eyes of a Black woman. Anita expresses her […]
In today’s podcast, we explore Emotional, Cultural Intelligence, emotional resilience plus looking at menopause through the eyes of a black woman – Jacqueline A Hind. Interviewee Jacqueline A. Hinds is Founder of Wilson Hinds Consulting Ltd, Founder and CEO of the Society of Emotional Intelligence International UK & Europe, as well as International Liaison for the […]
In today’s podcast, we discuss fibroids. Uterine fibroids are a common condition, especially among Black women. About half of Black women have them by the age of 35, and 80 percent have them by the age of 50, compared to 70 percent of white women. Fibroid growth is also more common in black women than […]
Anita returns and reintroduces herself, she also highlighting the importance of adding the word black when talking about healthcare for black people, and explains how health concerns around cancer has affected her for the past few months. Black Menopause and Beyond podcast look at Menopause from the eyes of a Black woman. Anita expresses her […]
ANITA wishes you all a Merry Christmas, Christmas is a time for joy, but for some, it’s stressful. Within this short podcast, Anita gives out Christmas suggestions. Black Menopause and Beyond podcast look at Menopause from the eyes of a Black woman. Anita expresses her views and also interviews individuals and experts discussing the conversation of […]
ANITA returns after a break, Anita has a few topics she wants to talk about, so she has decided to produce several podcasts exploring these topics. Within this podcast, she talks about what happened when men were invited to attend a menopause group, the group she runs in her home town. https://www.facebook.com/MenopauseAllianceBedfordshire Black Menopause and Beyond […]
Two-time Olympian winner, ex tv Gladiator, busy owner and model Jenny Stoute experienced abnormalities found in her routine cervical smear test; she tells Anita why in response, she has decided to come off HRT and go Menopause Natural. Jenny Instagram: gorgeousfifties Black Menopause and Beyond work with the Peer Group Black Women in Menopause Insta/Twitter/Facebook BlackwomeninMenopause. https://www.instagram.com/blackwomeninmenopause/ […]
Des is a holistic personal trainer who helps his clients ‘from the inside out” he helps women work through what is stopping them from being who they want to be and helps them be who they once were through exercise, diet, massage and meditation. He also encourages women to use their body weight when exercising […]
Anita talks to Shell Robshaw-Bryan, 47 and perimenopausal. A full-time marketing director and side hustles as an outdoor, camping and wellbeing writer, writing for various publications and her own successful outdoors blog, Camping with Style. Shell loves to travel, and the outdoors and is a nature-loving, comfy-camping girl and cool water swimmer. She used the […]
Within this episode, the host, Anita, reflects on her Menopause week and thoughts. Anita was diagnosed with Prediabetes in 2022. In this episode, she talks about her pre- diabetes Experience and Menopause and Diabetes. Anita wonders if the rising cost of living impacts menopausal women. Two-time Olympian winner Jenny Stoute is interviewed; she tells Anita […]
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Black Menopause and Beyond podcast looks at Menopause from the eyes of a Black woman. Anita expresses her views and also interviews individuals and experts discussing the conversation of Menopause. Are you fed up with not being included in the discussion of Menopause? If you are, this is the podcast for you. Anita Powell, the […]
Bonus Episode. Within this episode, the host, Anita, reflects on a training event she project coordinated with Menopause Experts. Were Gyneogolists offered a full day of Menopause training to NHS Health Professionals? Within this episode, Anita expresses concern about the lack of male attendance but is impressed with the black representation of health professionals. Black […]
Black Menopause and Beyond podcast look at Menopause from the eyes of a Black woman. Anita expresses her views and also interviews individuals and experts discussing the conversation of Menopause. Are you fed up with not being included in the discussion of Menopause? If you are, this is the podcast for you. Anita Powell, the […]
Menopausal Loose Women – How to Feel good through the menopause With Jolinda, Jenny, Nina and The host Anita Within this episode, we explore the topic of how to feel good through menopause. Bio’s of interviewees Jolinda Johnson Jolinda Johnson (M.S.Ed., CHHC) is an award-winning Certified Life Coach and Holistic Health Coach who specializes in burnout […]
Within this podcast, Anita explores with Psychodynamic Psychotherapist Marlene Daley the topic of Black Menopause and Mental Health. Topics discussed in the podcast. Racial Weathering, No longer feeling sexy A loss of self and identity Work struggles and menopause Being single while going through menopause, The childless menopause The feeling that no one wants me […]
Anita Elawure entered early menopause entered menopause at the age at 15 years. This is called Premature Ovarian Failure – Menopause before the age of 40. She was told she had premature ovarian failure and told she will never be able to have children when she was only 19. She was all alone when she was […]
Menopausal Loose women Within today’s episode, Anita talks about black menopause and beyond with 3 women. #MenopausalLooseWomen will be a regular slot within the podcast. Stars of the Podcast: Jennifer – perimenopause, on the Merina coil, poet, and author. Nina – Post menopause, on HRT and Testosterone, background in health and nutrition, Founder of […]
Menopause and over a year dealing with Long Covid has left me feeling very tired and unfit. I have decided to join a gym, however the whole experience of looking for gym has created anxiety and I realise I might have slight Gymphobia – the fear of joining a gym. Within the show I explore […]
Leesh presumed that one day she would have a child. At 18, she fell pregnant, but unfortunately, a stressful incident resulted in a miscarriage. Decades later, after years of wanting a child, she was diagnosed with a non-cancerous tumour and told that her pregnancy that ended in a miscarriage in 1998 had triggered her […]
Anita explores being a menopausal strong black women and how it hinders seeking help from others; strong women struggle to let go; asking for help is not a weakness, how always giving and not receiving can lead to tiredness and resentment; the need to sometimes let go and not be strong and independent is part […]
Anita sits with her teenage daughter for the first time to talk about menopause. Anita is very comfortable talking to adults about menopause but has never sat down with her children to have this discussion. So today, in this podcast, she talks about menopause with her teenage daughter. Anita has never had a sit-down conversation with […]
Exploring all things positive when entering the menopause. Copyright Music LUMA Sounds Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/black-menopause-and-beyond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A bitesize podcast. Anita is fed up with the media over glamourising Menopause. The media needs to stop focusing on celebrities who are part of the dialogue because they are women. We need realism, and images used to reflect real everyday women, women of different classes, colours, sizes etc. Every day women are working hard […]
In today’s episode Anita interviews Una Alexis, Una is the cofounder of ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ a CIC (Community Interest Company). Within today’s episode Una tells us about her experience, we explore hot flushes, libido, HRT, black cohosh, men and menopause, Testosterone, National Health Service plus we talk about Menopause in the Caribbean and Africa. Support […]
Within today’s podcast, Anita will be exploring low libido, low libido and being single, menopausal dating, menopausal cougars/panthers, testosterone and menopause and men marrying a younger woman once existing wife enters menopause. Links: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9525265/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/black-menopause-and-beyond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this podcast, Anita, the host, explores the need to represent women of colour within menopause media. Menopause affects most women of a certain age; however, the media image of menopause lacks diversity and is often shown as an affluent middle class, slim caucasian woman. Within the podcast, Anita explores how and why the lack […]
Jennifer, in my last interview, talks about her infertility and menopause journey. Here she has written a poem for the podcast all about menopause Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/black-menopause-and-beyond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jennifer’s story. Jennifer struggled with infertility and now struggles with Menopause. Little to no advice was offered to her, doctors told her nothing, and her mother never spoke to her about her struggles or offered Jennifer guidance. Years on, she realised that Infertility and Menopause problems were inherited. Jennifer explores her diet and physical activity […]
This podcast is a get to know Anita podcast; I am the presenter of Black Menopause and Beyond Podcast; I talk about my Health (including how covid impacted) Menopause and Menopause conversation journey and how I got here. In 2018 I realised the Menopause lasted for years; I was shocked and horrified that it […]
There is no escaping stress but cortisol in menopause changes. With that, your stress response to nearly everything may change. You don’t feel it at first but then there’s unexplained weight gain or belly fat. There’s less focus or concentration than you used to have. It shows up in different ways for each of us. […]
In this encore episode, Andrea Donsky, a nutritionist with over 20 years of experience, a menopause educator, a published menopause researcher, and co-founder of WeAreMorphus, interviews Dr. Jason Fung, MD, an international expert on the benefits of intermittent fasting. He answers questions and debunks myths about whether intermittent fasting works for women in perimenopause and […]
Menopause is a natural part of life — but when it shows up in the workplace, it can create very real challenges that most organizations are simply not prepared to address. Symptoms like fatigue, anxiety, hot flashes, and brain fog don’t stay at home when women walk into the office… and when these go unacknowledged, […]
If you are a menopausal woman and spend any time on social media, you are familiar with Dr. Corinne Menn. She is a trustworthy voice of science and evidence-based medicine in a sea of influencers who don’t always stick to the data. Dr. Menn is one of the authors of a recent study titled Women’s […]
This week on Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are chatting about the filters we use to live our lives. Is your filter clouding your judgement? Is it colouring everything grey, making things seem worse than they really are? And how long are you willing to sit in that negativity? The thing is, when you change […]
This new menopause therapy is like stand-up comedy for hot flashes. My guest in this episode uses humor and truth to bridge the gap between women’s health then, now and the future. Her message is for all women on how to address the gaps in awareness about menopause. If you’re a health and wellness pro […]
In this special episode, we’re sharing Dr. Lovely’s interview from the Women Aging Powerfully Summit with host Leah Vachani. With 20 years of clinical experience in women’s physical and mental health, Dr. Lovely pulled back the curtain on Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Menopause (MSM)—a debilitating but rarely discussed condition tied to estrogen loss. Here are the […]
I spent 30 years losing the same 25 pounds over and over until I learned to reconnect with my body’s most basic instinct. Get the full show notes and information here: https://drdebbutler.com/489
I spent 30 years losing the same 25 pounds over and over until I learned to reconnect with my body’s most basic instinct. Get the full show notes and information here: https://drdebbutler.com/489
In this episode, I’m joined by Anu Verma—certified trauma recovery coach, holistic therapist, and author of Victim to Victor. Anu’s story is one of courage and resilience. She opens up about her own experience of childhood trauma, the years she spent in survival mode, and how she eventually found the tools to begin her journey […]
“The fire in the belly is coming from people’s want and need to help patients and to make a change” This week, Dr Fionnuala Vernon, Medical Director of Blackwater Private Clinics and GP trainer in Ireland, joins Dr Louise Newson for a compelling conversation about breaking down barriers in healthcare and addressing the ways […]
In this episode of Meera’s Menopause Podcast, we dive into the causes of hair thinning and hair loss during perimenopause and menopause, breaking down the hormonal changes at play, how to tell what’s really going on, and what you can actually do about it. If you’re navigating perimenopause, menopause, or supporting someone who is, Meera […]
Karen demystifies the popular skincare treatment known as microneedling. She explores how this minimally invasive procedure stimulates collagen and elastin production to improve skin texture, reduce wrinkles, and help with scars and stretch marks. She compares professional treatments with at-home devices, explains the pros and cons of each, and provides detailed guidance on safe at-home […]
My name is Anita Powell. I’m a 50-year-old black female born in the UK I am suffering from the symptoms of perimenopause. A few years ago, I noticed that my body was responding different to how it used to be. Conversations with my peers and they too were noticing changes. I felt my overall health was deteriorating. […]
