“Imagine a world where, instead of breaking us, menopause is the making of us. That is the world I am working to create.”
“Since working with Katharine My doctor is treating me for peri-menopause symptoms and I feel happier at work, so much so that I am increasing my hours to full time so that I can retire with my husband sooner rather than later. I have a vision of my future and have put in plans to get there!”
Donna 46
Moving from Flux to Flow
FluxState is about empowering women; and the basis of empowerment is understanding and information.
As a Certified coach and a Consultant Nurse in Women’s Health, I provide women with the information they need to understand their bodies and their minds.
I empower them to deal with the challenges they face around menopause - so that they can move from a state of uncertainty (flux) to find a state of flow.
34 Symptoms of the Menopause
FluxState is about empowering women; and the basis of empowerment is understanding and information.
To aid your journey to empowerment, we’d like to give you this FREE e-book, detailing 34 Symptoms of the Menopause - covering the occurrence, cause & triggers of symptoms, ideas for self-care and how to ask for help.
This booklet is about providing women with information about the signs and symptoms they may experience leading up to the menopause. Helping them to understand the impact on their body and mind. In turn, empowering them to seek help and take action to ensure they flow through the years leading up to and beyond the menopause.
To download your FREE e-book simply fill in the form at the bottom of this page.
My story
I was 12 when my periods started. It wasn’t a real shock. Some of my friends had started their periods. Some without problems, some with tears and panic. I was lucky. My mum had prepared me. I had a drawer of sample products to try.
But the timing and intensity threw me.
The gulf between what I thought I knew and what was actually happening was suddenly enormous.
3o years later I was married with a one year old. Conception wasn’t easy, I had not bloomed during pregnancy and I returned to work when my son was just four and a half months old. I was working long hours as a senior nurse and to those around me I looked like I was thriving. In reality, I was only just surviving.
Despite 24 years of expertise, training in and knowledge of women’s health, I was thrown off-course by my own body. But I didn’t seek help.
It was only when discussing my son’s poor health with my GP that I broke. Her kindness and acceptance encouraged me to make an appointment for ME.
We discussed how I didn’t have any energy; that I just wanted to sleep all day and night but couldn’t because my brain wouldn’t stop for a second. How I was crying at inappropriate moments. I left with a prescription for anti-depressants and a feeling that I had somehow failed.
Failed at being a mother, failed at being a wife, and failed at being a professional working woman.
The anti-depressants gave me space to think clearly about what I needed. I decided to leave the job I loved, my career in nursing, so that I can survive.
My anxiety reduced, I worked on my relationship, my son got better, I was picking up adhoc work, and I started looking after my health.
I began taking notice of my own cycles: my periods, my fluctuating hormones and the mood swings.
I noticed it was the hot flushes - not the anxiety - that broke my sleep. That the rages were a reaction to feeling out of control and overwhelmed. As my periods became less frequent it finally dawned on me: this must be the menopause!
I had spent nearly three decades working in women’s health. Almost thirty years of seeing how menopause affected women and watching as some - like me - gave up jobs they loved just to survive. All that time I had been supporting women navigating emotional and physical flux and I hadn’t even thought to ask my GP if my symptoms could be the menopause. If, with all my expertise, I struggled to recognise the menopause when it happened to me and found it so difficult to cope with the symptoms, how much harder must other women be finding it with no support, no guidance and very little information?
Which brings me to FluxState.
A bringing together of decades of clinical knowledge with my coaching expertise and my own personal experience of menopause.
Helping you understand your menopause and the feelings of uncertainty it brings and supporting you to move forward and find your flow in a time of Flux.
Limited Edition T-shirt
Buy a limited edition, organic, FluxState T-Shirt and help to smash the stigma around menopause.
You can order one for £25 including postage and packaging (in the UK).
Email hello@fluxstate.co.uk and we will be in touch with more information and the sizing guide.