Men-Stop-Pause Take Note Menopause

Tara Cochran

Menopause isn’t an ending; it’s a new beginning a time to reclaim your health, vitality, and power.
—Davina McCall, 2022
 
The UK average age for menopause is 51 and yet a woman’s life expectancy is 83. We are living with menopause longer than our mothers and grandmothers before us. The shame and taboo often surrounding it  leaves many women feeling vulnerable; we look in a mirror, paint a smile, see a hair in the wrong place, an extra chin that wasn’t there before. Our faces have a few more lines, our hair a few more greys and then our bodies start to say, ‘Oh by the way your insides are drying up, you’re getting old’. But don’t worry all your friends are going through the same thing, feeling the same way and I’m sure if you ask them, they will say the same thing as you, yes ‘I’m menopausal too’. This work aims to celebrate and de-stigmatize this vital transition in a woman’s life.