Hello and welcome to a slightly unusual episode of Wellness with Liz Earl as this time

it's just you and me and it's been a while since it was just the two of us and I

thought I'd take this opportunity really to share a few personal

thoughts and findings both to celebrate International Women's Day which is around the

time that I'm actually recording this podcast so if you're listening to it as we've

first put it out International

Women's Day is tomorrow which is the 8th of March and also to mark the publication

of my 36th book the good menause Guide, published by Orion Spring and already amazingly, riding

very high in the Amazon charts, even though it hasn't actually officially been published

yet. So thank you to the amazing support from so many of you who have

pre-ordered and already I think actually sometimes received some of the early copies. And you know when I was planning to write this book I absolutely fought quite hard for it to be published on International Women's Day.

It was a little bit tricky because producing a hard back book takes a huge amount of time. The production schedules are quite long,

printing takes ages. There's a lot of photography involved and behind the scenes it really is quite a challenge.

And the schedules looked as if they weren't going to

allow it but my amazing team and I have to really say big big thank you to

everybody's Orion Spring for making it happen we did actually manage to pull out all the stops and

ta-da here it is and I just felt that International Women's Day was

absolutely the right day to be launching it and to be talking about it because the menopause is something

that so little is talked about and yet it happens to each and every single woman if you live long enough.

And I think what had it really amazed me as a health writer

is looking at the amount of information that there is out there

for pregnancy and childbirth and anti-natal classes and post-natal

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