Bonus episode: Busting menopause taboos with Lisa Snowdon

Postcards From Midlife

Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin

Menopause, Culture, Nutrition, 579985, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Mental Health, Women, Midlife Women, Midlife, Relationships, Kids & Family, Health, Perimenopause, Lifestyle

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Brought to you in partnership with Tena: How to get comfortable with the uncomfortable during menopause. Trish and Lorraine meet TV presenter, Masterchef winner and menopause warrior Lisa Snowdon to talk about the lesser known symptoms of peri-menopause - from pelvic floor issues and embarrassing leaks to vaginal dryness - to help every woman get the support she needs. Plus Lisa shares the secrets of her midlife success and finding lasting love in her 40s.

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0:00.0	This is a special episode of postcards from Midlife brought to you in collaboration with Tenor.
0:08.0	Hello! Welcome to postcards from Midlife. I'm Lorraine Candy.
0:12.1	I'm Trish Halpin and we're on a mission to help you make the most of your magnificent midlife.
0:17.1	We'll be tackling everything from mind and body wellness to HRT and your sex drive.
0:22.0	Lorraine and I here to help you have a stylish second act and answer all your midlife questions
0:26.7	on fashion, beauty, careers, relationships, family and as always the challenges and joys of parenting
0:32.9	teams. Welcome everyone to a special bonus episode of postcards from Midlife in which we are
0:41.5	teaming up with Tenor to talk about what often isn't talked about during paramanopause.
0:47.1	Those embarrassing symptoms that can have a huge and debilitating effect on our everyday lives.
0:52.3	Yes Trish and I both know only too well that some of the symptoms can be really debilitating
0:56.9	and that we can often think is only us suffering and that there's something wrong with just us
1:02.6	and we get too embarrassed to talk about it even to our GPs and these are things like pelvic floor
1:07.9	issues in continents, little leaks, heavy bleeding, vaginal dryness and itching, lack of libido.
1:14.2	It's a bit of a gruesome menu I know but we want to reassure you that there is help available
1:20.0	and you most definitely are not alone in suffering it. And joining us today to help us
1:24.8	break these taboos is one of our favorite menopause warriors Lisa Snowden. She's going to be telling
1:30.5	us about her menopause journey as well as all the exciting things she's up to in her life right now.
1:35.8	Yes she's just one master chef which I'm not talking about, not with that chocolate tart Trish,
1:40.9	you know how I like a chocolate tart. Oh my goodness. And her little face when they announced
1:44.7	she'd won. She had a little cry, it was so sweet, it was brilliant. But we love seeing
1:51.9	middle-eyed women on TV, don't be smashing those awful hot flush cardigan wearing stereotypes.
1:57.7	And that's none of us. Not us, not us, even though we are doing a fine line in knitwear today,
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