Changing 'the change' - Menopause: the liminal space, with Rebekah Brown (S1E13)

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Rebekah Brown is the founder and creator of MPowder.

She spent her career helping other companies to build brands and products as a researcher and creative consultant. Then the peri-menopause arrived. 

Turned away by her GP because she was ‘too young’ to have symptoms, she found herself trawling the aisles of the local health food store, staring at a vast range of products and ingredients she knew nothing about. Curiosity cut through the brain fog. She looked further into the bio-chemical changes the female body goes through in menopause and what vitamins we all need at each stage, regardless of symptoms. She explored the impact and practicality of dietary changes. She researched what herbs and vitamins have seen results in trials and, critically, what dosages have an impact. 

Armed with insight, and a growing sense of frustration that women were under-served with honest information and better options, MPowder was born.

This is her story of how self-care underpinned the decisions she made to make an enormous shift in her career and in how she viewed work, and herself.

In the session you'll also hear how Rebekah's experience of going to her GP resulted in a feeling of frustration and she has asked me to say that if that is your experience, please go back. Don't feel as though what you have to say is not valid. GPs work hard to support their whole community of patients and sometimes we just need to be persistent to ensure we receive what we need. Everyone's experience of menopause is different and we all need to find our own best route through.

Rebekah has also passed on a top tip for discussing your menopausal symptoms with your GP.

She has recommended using the Menopause Symptom Tracker, developed by Diane Danzebrink - a menopause specialist and the creator of Menopause Matters Campaign. You can download the tracker here, and use it to take to your GP to explain your symptoms in language that really resonates with the medical community. She has als

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