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What is a Mindful Menopause? And how it can help you.

Anxiety· hypnosis· mindfulness· Uncategorized

19 Mar
Hypnosis for menopause
Hypnosis tracks are easy and relaxing to listen to at home

15 years ago I realised that many women coming through my clinic, around the same sort of age, were struggling with the same issues. Sleep, weight loss struggles, anxiety, sudden loss of confidence, relationship issues.

I started to recognise consistent patterns, but also ways of working with those who were struggling. It wasn’t just about ‘fixing’ what was wrong, but boosting well-being in all areas of their lives.

Not many realise that hypnosis and mindfulness are exceptional therapies for menopause. Menopause is not just a physical experience, it’s also a psychological experience and can be complex for some. It can bring things to the surface that you’ve done well at pushing down over the years, it can create feelings of being unsettled, unfulfilled and anxious but it can also be liberating and exciting to embark on a new stage of your life.

Or it can be all of these things at the same time!

Hypnosis and mindfulness for menopause

A mindful menopause

Hypnosis is great at giving you tools and techniques to change a feeling or experience. Using language, imagery and self-hypnosis you can turn down hot flushes, increase confidence, reduce anxiety, set weigh-less goals. I also like to ensure that people understand what hypnosis is so that they can use it proactively themselves, rather than becoming “someone to whom hypnosis done”.

It helps you to change your perspective of different situations, and it definitely a “positive outlook” therapy – we know that positive imagery and thinking can make a difference to well-being.

It’s a really empowering therapy and when you start to realise the power of your mind to change things, well it’s life changing!

The benefits of meditation and mindfulness complement hypnosis beautifully. The addition of meditation and daily mindfulness tools create sustainability and generalised well-being.

Some people prefer mindfulness tools to hypnotic imagery, focusing the mind rather than using imagery can really help some to calm and rest their mind on a regular basis. Learning about how these two different approaches can be used to adjust and adapt on a daily basis will help you navigate these years and have a positive experience.

You can learn more about this approach in my book Mindful Menopause

Mindful Menopause Book

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Looking for something to help you maintain grey ma Looking for something to help you maintain grey matter, improve memory, feel inspired, improve sleep, manage hair loss and hot flushes?  The mind and body are intertwined and you can learn evidence based practices that improve your experience of menopause. This book is all about ways of changing your experience through understanding your mind. ​​​​​​​​
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Make sure you start early, so you can get informed early on.  Perimenopause is usually happening before you are aware of it. ​​​​​​​​
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"I love this book. I also bought the audiobook too. So many insightful moments and techniques and is written, as others have said in a way that it feels just comforting with every word, like a good friend supporting you. I simply don’t have enough words to describe how this book made me feel. Positive, empowered, able to cope, felt calm just reading it. Honestly one of the best books I have read and listened to in a very long time."​​​​​​​​
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Even if you aren't really embedded in moon magic and cycling, you can still feel it can't you?  The moon anchors us, we are connected to it in deeply unconscious ways. It can be hugely helpful as your periods start to get more irregular, and stop altogether. ​​​​​​​​
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Imagine life without a moon, and its cycles, It's weird isn't it?  You can choose to listen deeply to it with rituals or you can just checkin in with awareness and intention when you feel its pull. ​​​​​​​​
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How often do you encourage yourself? Do you have a How often do you encourage yourself? Do you have an inner cheerleader? Someone there, jumping up and down waving brightly coloured pom poms, saying "you CAN do it" "I believe in you". ​​​​​​​​
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Have you heard of accountability coaching?  Well, I don't really like the word accountable, I prefer the word encouragement!​​​​​​​​
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I've just put together some new packages that include some of this. Not heavy handed, but pom pom waving messages to help you keep on track while you're awakening your own inner cheerleader and getting those habits rooted for long term sustainable change.​​​​​​​​
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Draw a line in the sand. ​​​​​​​​ Draw a line in the sand. ​​​​​​​​
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Today is a good place to start. Today you can choose to draw a line in the sand, call time out on a habit that is damaging your wellbeing. ​​​​​​​​
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It can be a person, a behaviour or even a negative narrative. ​​​​​​​​
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Today is enough. Today the line is drawn. Today you move on.​​​​​​​​
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As you start to think about it, I expect you already starting to feel lighter. Hold onto that feeling, grow towards that feeling, by letting go. ​​​​​​​​
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I see so many people for weight. If I'm searching I see so many people for weight. If I'm searching for images online to use as advertising, this is what comes up. I don't think I look much like any of the people in those images. Are these helpful, inspiring or realistic those going through hormone changes? ​​​​​​​​
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My instagram feed is also awash with exercises to get rid of my menopause pouch. There is even one supplement with promises to get rid of it in a week 👀. ​​​​​​​​
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It's really important that you eat well  and exercise in perimenopause, but in a way that supports your changing body. You need to put in the work, create healthy, well embedded habits around exercise and nourishment.​​​​​​​​
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When working with hypnosis, it's always about your inner narrative, healthy habits and sustainable change, not about your waistline.  That will fall into the place when you have those healthy, body and mind supporting habits in place.​​​​​​​​
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In fact, hypnotherapists rarely use the words weight loss because when you lose something, what do you want to do?  Find it. The brain is very literal, and wants to find what it's lost. ​​​​​​​​
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Instead it's on how you want to be when you've adjusted to healthy habits, that make you feel happier. ​​​​​​​​
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👇🏼This can be your starting point.....​​​​​​​​
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⭐️Ask yourself how you want to feel.​​​​​​​​
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⭐️Write down " I am becoming [insert how you want to be] "​​​​​​​​
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Let me know your go to accounts that offer specialist menopause support for exercise and nutrition for menopause. Pop it in the comments below. 👇🏼​​​​​​​​
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Lots of people assume that I am a really calm pers Lots of people assume that I am a really calm person, and I am, but I'm also quite a noisy person. I'm an extrovert in real life and can be quite vocal.​​​​​​​​
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However, I am (mostly) calm in my mind. To me this means being able to make decisions carefully, to be able to find a place of internal stillness quickly, to be well-regulated and respond effectively when there is stress in my life. ​​​​​​​​
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In midlife, when our brains are adapting to the next stage of growth, being calm of mind can be harder.  We may feel more anxious, or overwhelmed.  But being calm of mind can help with decisions around medical care, the choices you make daily, managing teens (the double hormone bomb), even sleep. ​​​​​​​​
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You don't have to let go of your extrovert to connect with you calm inner soul. But you do need to learn how to do it as it may not come as easily to you. ​​​​​​​​
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Develop insight by looking deeply inwards. Go beyo Develop insight by looking deeply inwards. Go beyond language and start to connect with your feelings. One of my favourite hypnotherapy questions is ​​​​​​​​
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"If that feeling were to have a colour/shape/image...." ​​​​​​​​
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Learning to recognise, observe, play with, alter, adjust your feelings gives you a great sense of self-awareness and the knowledge that you can change your relationship to those feelings. Whether they are physical or emotional. ​​​​​​​​
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In hypnosis you go deeply and comfortably into the feeling and begin change that feeling using your imagination and a variety of tools. ​​​​​​​​
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