113 - Mothers, daughters and hormone havoc with Lorraine Candy
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Journalist, podcaster, and author Lorraine Candy, who is former Editor in Chief of Cosmopolitan, Elle, Sunday Times Style, and Former Parenting Columnist for the Sunday Times Magazine. She co-hosts the chart-topping weekly podcast, ‘Postcards from Midlife’, with fellow journalist Trish Halpin. During lockdown Lorraine, 53, wrote the highly successful book, ‘Mum, What’s Wrong With You? 101 Things Only Mothers of Teenage Girls Know’, a family memoir of hilarious personal anecdotes and guidance from experts on adolescent mental health and parenting as a perimenopausal woman.
From teenage hormones to menopausal hormones, in this podcast episode Lorraine and Louise discuss the importance of educating women about the perimenopause and menopause, and revisit their experiences of battling the media to help bring the taboo topic to normality. Further in, Lorraine and Louise have an honest conversation about raising teenage girls in particular, and offer advice on how to keep your cool while keeping the channels of communication open.
Lorraine’s book is heartily recommended by Louise, a mum of teenage girls herself, and it is available to buy now, published by 4th Estate.
You can find Lorraine Candy on social at:
Instagram - @lorrainecandy
Twitter - @lorrainecandy
Facebook - @sundaytimesLorraine
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Neuson Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr. Louise Newson, a GP and menopause |
| 0:15.8 | specialist and I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity. In addition, I run the Newston Health Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:31.9 | So today I have with me Lorraine Candy, who I've known for a couple of years now. |
| 0:36.4 | And when I first met her, she actually |
| 0:38.6 | didn't really seem to know much about the reticose and HRT. And now when I listen to her every week, |
| 0:43.5 | she knows nearly as much as me. So, hi, Lorraine. Thanks for joining you today. Hi. Hi, Louise. |
| 0:49.6 | I don't know whether we were introduced or I just stalked you or you stalked me on social media, |
| 0:54.6 | but we sort of connected, didn't we, probably a couple of years ago now. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, I think it was when I was at the Sunday Times and I was editing style. |
| 1:01.4 | And I was trying very hard to get a piece in the newspaper about perimenopause and menopause |
| 1:07.2 | because I really just started to do some research on it based on personal stuff, |
| 1:11.0 | things where people were saying to me, and my sense that it was something that was coming |
| 1:15.0 | towards us that we were all going to have to talk about. And you seem to be the leading expert. |
| 1:19.8 | And the only way I could get something in to the paper, because nobody was interested, |
| 1:24.4 | was to do a spa review. It was a conundrum, there just wasn't anyone who wanted to |
| 1:30.2 | read about this. And actually, when we did the spa, it was incredibly well read, incredibly well |
| 1:34.5 | shared. And it was kind of the beginning of a journey, really. But it's the only way which it felt |
| 1:40.0 | palatable in a national newspaper. Now, of course, we know now, I mean, on Sunday, for example, |
| 1:45.0 | I think there were about six pieces in the paper. And, you know, there are, as we know, |
| 1:49.3 | lots of books, yours included coming out this year. So it is really being talked about now, |
| 1:53.4 | thank goodness. The information is getting out there for women. Yeah, it is. But it's really hard, |
| 1:57.8 | actually, because I remember when I spoke to you and you were talking about doing a sort of spa experience and looking at places, there were very few that looked |
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