Little things, like taking a shortcut through the park on your way to work each day can make a big difference

to your mental health. Find your little big thing

little big thing at every mind matters. Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emm Show, I am your host, Emmergan Awardner, and in this episode,

well, this is the episode that nearly didn't get to you.

This is during a pod a day in May where I've said that I'll publish a podcast every single day.

The Sunday show will be unchanged and yet it is a Sunday show during a pod a day in May

That is where I hit my first potential hurdle and it's because I've been feeling crappy over the last

couple of days. I've been headachey, my jaw's been aching, I've had very little energy, no more.

There haven't really been many Instagrams of me running the last couple of days in the

morning going, yeah, I've done it. And the morning I recorded this episode, I could have easily

woken up, cried off sick and gone back to bed genuinely.

It has not been a strong week for the energetic version of Emma Gunn's.

Ugh, third person reference, I apologize.

But this episode is one I've been working on for a while because it's a topic that you, my most excellent

listeners, have asked me to explore in detail in the show.

It's a show all about hormones and very specifically

about perimenopause and menopause.

The reason it has taken a while to bring the show to you is that I've wanted to get the right guest and approach the subject in a way that's accessible and not hugely scientific and bamboozling because it really can be. I did a lot of research on this and came out of it feeling a little

bit none the wiser. But enter Dr Elaine McQuaid who brilliantly agreed to be on

the show to answer all my and your questions and really

simplify what goes on when our hormone levels begin to change and we head towards menopause.

And perhaps ironically, when I arrived to see a lane

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