7 Menopause Triggers at Christmas
Menopause is certainly the gift that keeps on giving. Christmas can be hard to manage at the best of times, add in menopause symptoms and it can be a recipe…
The Biggest Challenges for Menopausal Runners
If you’re menopausal and finding running really hard, I want you to know that you aren’t alone. I speak not only from personal experience but also from having spoken to…
Motivation and Menopausal Running
Staying motivated to run is hard enough at the best of times. Even when you know you’ll always feel better after a run, that doesn’t seem to make it any…
Tips for Menopausal Runners with Anxiety. Part 4 – Racing
You’ve got through your training and now race day is looming. You know how you want to prepare, what you want to eat and the calm feeling you want to…
Tips for Menopausal Runners with Anxiety. Part 1 – Lifestyle
In my last blog I talked about why anxiety is common in the perimenopause and the effect it can have on your running. Despite it being a challenge at times,…
Menopausal Anxiety and Running
Have you experienced anxiety? Sensations of fear, jitteriness or dread with no obvious reason for feeling that way? Anxiety can be mild and intermittent or continuous, severe and completely overwhelming….
Keep Loving Your Running Through the Perimenopause
Hands up if you’re a perimenopausal runner. It’s certainly a challenging combination. The menopause symptoms of fatigue, hot sweats and aching joints, not to mention the lack of motivation, weight…
Running, Menopause and (lack of) Self-Confidence
Are you ‘older and wiser’? Are you feeling more confident in yourself, your values and what you want from life? Not suffering fools gladly and happy to say, ‘No’? Many…
20 Simple Things to Improve Your Menopausal Health
When you’re feeling overwhelmed it’s hard to see a way out of it and too easy to write off the day as being useless. Read my last blog with my…
My Best Tip for Overwhelm
Do you ever get that feeling of being overwhelmed? When you have so many things you want or need to do that you don’t even know where to start? Sometimes…