162 - Divorce, perimenopause and menopause with Farhana Shahzady

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Farhana is an accredited family law specialist and mediator working with Family Law Partners in London. During her 20-year career, Farhana often noticed an unspoken element at play when helping women through divorce, but it wasn’t until she identified perimenopause within her peer group and those close to her that she appreciated the extent of the problem and was able to professionally decipher the impact of menopause on relationship breakdown. Farhana launched the Family Law Menopause Project to see whether any other colleagues in family law were factoring in this important element and to raise awareness of perimenopause and menopause when it comes to family cases dealing with divorce, splitting the assets, children issues or domestic abuse. Farhana’s tips for family lawyers: Listen, enquire, and communicate. Look for cues and don’t be afraid to ask questions If you think a client is experiencing peri/menopausal symptoms affecting their relationships and wellbeing, invite them to see their doctor Factor the menopause into your cases. Pick a family process that suits the client, for example arbitration or mediation, and be sympathetic. Visit Farhana’s family law practice at www.familylawpartners.co.uk Follow Farhana on Twitter at @ShahzadyLaw @LawMenopause or lawmenopause on Instagram

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause. So today in the studio I'm very delighted to introduce to you, someone I've
0:50.6	recently connected with and doing a huge amount of work actually, which is very exciting.
0:55.4	So she's called for Hana Shasadi and she's a lawyer and has a keen interest in the menopause for lots of reasons.
1:02.5	So welcome today and thanks for joining me.
1:05.0	Oh, Louise, it's a real pleasure to join you.
1:06.9	When I speak to you, I feel really inspired.
1:09.2	And I feel so I could divulge everything to you as well.
1:11.7	It must be something that a GP has. Like a priest, I want to tell you everything. Oh, no, that's great.
1:16.8	Do you know, it's such a privilege being a doctor. And I always say to my husband, we And the other thing I really enjoy is that I see and speak to people I would
1:28.4	never speak to in other walks of life as a doctor. The number of patients I've seen, the stories
1:34.4	that I could or shouldn't divulge sometimes is quite amazing, actually. And as you know, every
1:40.3	connection you have with people, you just learn from, don't you? And I think when you're a teenager, you think you can rule the world. And I think, gosh, how naive I was 30, 40 years ago.
1:48.8	No, absolutely. I think the sad thing for doctors, unlike lawyers, in fact, is that you have very
1:53.3	limited time. Your lists are very, very full. So I've read on average, GPs get nine minutes with each of their patients. The privilege of being a
2:01.7	lawyer is that, in fact, clients do tell us a great deal as well, and we triage, but we can spend an hour.
2:07.8	I can spend an hour and a half with my clients, but in fact, that's why I think menopause and
2:14.0	family lawyers hasn't been readily discussed. It hasn't been, I see clients, but I don't talk about menopause.
2:21.4	And so that's why I came to this particular line of work in this particular project,
2:26.1	because I was concerned about that as I grew older as well.
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