213 - Lorraine Candy: how to make your midlife magnificent

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Podcaster, author and journalist Lorraine Candy returns to the podcast this week to talk about thriving in midlife and the importance of sharing menopause knowledge and spreading awareness. Lorraine is co-host of the popular podcast series Postcards from Midlife, which often looks at the Generation X experience of the perimenopause and menopause. In this episode, she joins Dr Louise to discuss her new book What’s Wrong With Me? 101 Things Midlife Women Need to Know, which is a compelling and reassuring account of how to live a magnificent midlife. The book draws on many women’s experiences to look at the emotional side of midlife and how our identity as women can change during this time. Lorraine shares three reasons you should buy her new book: It will make you laugh – which is always important. It is packed full of expert advice that can support you to change your life in midlife. Find out more about the emotional changes and impact of midlife, looking at how your identity can change in your 40s and 50s. Click here for more details on Lorraine’s new book. You can access the Podcasts from Midlife podcast here and follow her on Twitter and 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.
0:45.2	Today on the podcast, I've got someone back for the second time, actually, Lorraine Candy,
0:50.1	who I've known for a few years now and the work she's done vocally and behind the scenes to help more menopausal women be empowered with information has been very phenomenal and exciting.
1:02.2	So welcome Lorraine today to the podcast.
1:05.1	Oh, it's lovely to be back. I love talking to you about this because I think it's always helpful, isn't it, for people?
1:10.2	Of course it is.
1:11.0	So you do your own podcast and I know when I'm on other people's podcast, it's a bit weird being the other side of the fence almost, isn't it?
1:18.8	It is, yeah, it is.
1:20.2	But I am sort of on a book tour, so I'm kind of in that mode at the moment.
1:26.4	I mean, you just don't let me interview you.
1:28.2	That's the main thing.
1:30.0	Yes, well, I'll talk about your book in a bit.
1:33.0	Your new book that's just come out, what's wrong with me.
1:35.7	But before that, you've not always been an author and a podcast person, have you?
1:42.2	No.
1:42.7	Just I'm really keen to hear how you got into what you're doing.
1:45.9	And I know with lots of things, including myself, it's your own experiences that shape what you do.
1:51.1	And I think that's probably a bit sex is maybe, maybe more for women as well, actually.
1:56.0	I could not do the work I'm doing if I wasn't a man and a woman who struggled to get help.
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