Beating the peri-menopause blues with Kate Thornton
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
TV presenter and broadcaster Kate Thornton tells Lorraine & Trish how her overwhelming peri-menopause symptoms nearly floored her during lockdown. The midlife mum reveals how she’s hoping HRT will ‘give her life back’ and how she uses therapy to reset her mindset.
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| 0:00.0 | What is wrong with my glum looking little friend this morning? |
| 0:04.6 | Samantha Trish. Well, maybe the shock in the post. |
| 0:07.6 | I had this thing. It was addressed to me at the tall glossy and lovely. |
| 0:10.6 | I thought, oh, this is nice, or is it going to be? |
| 0:12.4 | And it was an invitation to buy a flat in a residential block for over 65s for retirees. |
| 0:21.0 | I've opened this. I'm on the main list. |
| 0:24.8 | They fill the old people retirement stuff. That's not right. |
| 0:28.9 | What you don't want to go into that retirement home. |
| 0:31.5 | No, of course I'm going into the one we're going to make. |
| 0:34.3 | Yes, the one we're planning, exactly. |
| 0:36.4 | Yeah, with the one where we have a little gin way to come around. |
| 0:40.4 | Yes, exactly afternoon, 4.30, 2.30, maybe 3.30. |
| 0:45.4 | Facials, massages, bit of yoga, cats. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm thinking of wild parties and a lot of hallucinogenic drugs, Trish. |
| 0:54.8 | That's a nice yoga. |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah, well, I'm going to do that. |
| 0:57.7 | You can be doing that. |
| 0:58.8 | Well, I'll do a bit of yoga with the cat. |
| 1:04.9 | Hello, welcome to postcards from Midlife. |
| 1:07.7 | I'm Lorraine Candy. |
| 1:09.1 | I'm Trish Halpin and we're on a mission to help you make the most of your magnificent midlife. |
| 1:14.0 | We'll be tackling everything from mind and body wellness to HRT and your sex drive. |
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