Otrera Aromatics Menopause Conversations

Conversations with real women about their experience with menopause. We aim to offer practical advice with hints and tips.

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Episodes (8)

August 23, 2023 ∙ 45 mins

Conversations with a Friend – Sue

This Episode I talk with my Friend Sue on her Menopause Journey to understand how each person experiences it in different ways.
August 9, 2023 ∙ 44 mins

Conversations with Ashley Costello

In this episode, we talk with Ashley Costello. Ashley is a psychologist by background, Founder of the Resilient Kid consultancy practice. She is an author and TEDEX speaker.  We discuss her experience of endometriosis and how she managed her menopause with cold water swimming.   She explains what resilience is and the potential for suicide during […]
July 26, 2023 ∙ 22 mins

Conversations with Dr Sue Smith Pt 2

This is the second of two episodes with Dr Sue Smith. In this episode, we talk about all things integrated medicine, including what is is and what it can offer us. https://drsuesmith.com/ https://www.facebook.com/drsuesmithx/ https://www.flourishforlife.uk/our-team
July 12, 2023 ∙ 31 mins

Conversations with Dr Sue Smith Pt 1

This is a two part episode as we speak with Dr Sue Smith. Sue is a GP and practitioner of integrated medicine. In this episode, we discuss the medical modal care and our expectations of our GP’s during menopause. We discussed red flags and when we need to see a doctor. https://drsuesmith.com/ https://www.facebook.com/drsuesmithx/ https://www.flourishforlife.uk/our-team
June 28, 2023 ∙ 33 mins

Conversations with Jane Hough

Jane is a retired women’s health nurse. We discuss the roles of specialist nurses and physiotherapists in women’s health. We also discuss the impact of pelvic floor exercise on pelvic and urinary health and much more.

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Conversations with real women about their experience with menopause. We aim to offer practical advice with hints and tips.
  • Conversations with a Friend – Sue

    This Episode I talk with my Friend Sue on her Menopause Journey to understand how each person experiences it in different ways.

  • Conversations with Ashley Costello

    In this episode, we talk with Ashley Costello. Ashley is a psychologist by background, Founder of the Resilient Kid consultancy practice. She is an author and TEDEX speaker.  We discuss her experience of endometriosis and how she managed her menopause with cold water swimming.   She explains what resilience is and the potential for suicide during […]

  • Conversations with Dr Sue Smith Pt 2

    This is the second of two episodes with Dr Sue Smith. In this episode, we talk about all things integrated medicine, including what is is and what it can offer us. https://drsuesmith.com/ https://www.facebook.com/drsuesmithx/ https://www.flourishforlife.uk/our-team

  • Conversations with Dr Sue Smith Pt 1

    This is a two part episode as we speak with Dr Sue Smith. Sue is a GP and practitioner of integrated medicine. In this episode, we discuss the medical modal care and our expectations of our GP’s during menopause. We discussed red flags and when we need to see a doctor. https://drsuesmith.com/ https://www.facebook.com/drsuesmithx/ https://www.flourishforlife.uk/our-team

  • Conversations with Jane Hough

    Jane is a retired women’s health nurse. We discuss the roles of specialist nurses and physiotherapists in women’s health. We also discuss the impact of pelvic floor exercise on pelvic and urinary health and much more.

  • Conversations with Karen Kelly

    In this episode, we speak to Karen Kelly. Karen is a well-known podcaster with 2 successful podcasts: Bedtime Stories and Appetite for Life. She is also an Author, having written Lillian Whites Journeys Home (karenkellypodcasts.co.uk) Karen shares her journey through menopause and describes why she will be taking HRT for the rest of her life. 

  • Conversations with my Mum

    This is an intimate conversation with the women who has shared my menopause coach!   She explores her experience of the life before, during and after the menopause.   She shares with us how complimentary therapy helped her menopause symptoms.   The website referred to in the podcast is: https://www.jeanhailes.org.au/health-a-z/menopause  

  • My story

    For me, the menopause couldn’t come quickly enough. While it was a challenge, it signaled a new phase of my life, free from the monthly hormonal highs and lows that I had experienced every month for thirty years. All our journeys are different, I didn’t want to take HRT as I just simply wanted my […]

  • Most replayed moment: What your wearable is really telling you | Dr Malcolm Finlay

    From smartwatches to fitness trackers, more of us than ever are monitoring our health in real time. With just a glance at our wrist, we can check our step count, sleep quality, heart rate and, more recently, something called HRV. But what do these numbers actually mean? And more importantly, how can we use them […]

  • 235 | Want Less Belly Fat? Stop Throwing Away Your Good Weeks

    What if the healthy habits you’re tempted to dismiss are already changing your body? You planned three workouts but finished two. You ate well most of the day, but dinner went sideways. You walked three times instead of every day. When the week wasn’t perfect, you decided it didn’t count. But it did count. In […]

  • 354 🪞 How We Lose Ourselves in Love: Trauma Bonding, Self-Abandonment & Breaking Free with Jessica Anne Pressler, Author of “Traitor Within”

    Have you ever looked back at a relationship and wondered, how did I lose myself like that? In this powerful episode, Wendy sits down with Jessica Anne Pressler — a Columbia-trained psychotherapist, hospice grief counselor, and author of the new psychological suspense novel Traitor Within — to talk about self-abandonment, trauma bonding, and the hidden […]

  • Why I changed my coaching process for women over 50, in menopause.

    I’ve completely changed my mind about how I approach fat loss for women in menopause, and my only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner. I used to believe slow, steady weight loss was the best and only sustainable approach. But I kept watching women struggle to maintain a calorie deficit for months, then […]

  • Begin Again Moments: Growing Up With A Narcissistic Parent

    In this episode of Begin Again Moments, Simon Squibb and psychotherapist Kathleen Saxton examine how the behaviour of a parent can shape the person you become long after childhood is over. Simon shares the reality of growing up with a mother he describes as a narcissist, from being left to find his own way home […]

  • Liz Houghton: Losing My 20-Year-Old Son & How To Keep Living When Your World Ends

    How can you really support someone you love when they’re going through unimaginable loss? In this moving episode of Begin Again, Mint Velvet co-founder Liz Houghton joins Davina McCall and shares the heartbreaking story of losing her 20-year-old son Will after a cycling accident, and the moment she learned his injuries were unsurvivable.  She opens […]

Otrera Aromatics Menopause Conversations

Conversations with real women about their experience with menopause. We aim to offer practical advice with hints and tips.

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