Sonya Lovell

🎙 Speaker | Podcaster | Advocate | Workshop Facilitator | Cancer & Menopause Ambassador| Women’s Health Champion

I help women feel seen, heard, and supported through one of life’s biggest transitions: menopause. With lived experience of medically-induced menopause following a breast cancer diagnosis at 47, I bring real-life insight, empathy, and evidence-based conversations to the forefront of wo

men’s health. As the host the Dear Menopause podcast, I’ve spent 3+ years interviewing global and local experts, sharing lived experience stories, and sparking vital conversations. My background includes over a decade as a personal trainer and studio owner, 10+ years as a speaker and workshop facilitator, and a deep commitment to empowering women with knowledge, confidence, and community. Whether I'm speaking on stage, behind a podcast mic, or facilitating transformative group sessions, I advocate for better awareness, education, and support for women navigating menopause — especially those going through it as a result of cancer.

🎤 Available for speaking engagements, podcast interviews, brand partnerships, and collaborative projects focused on women’s health, menopause, and cancer survivorship.

📩 Let’s connect or chat: [email protected]

03/06/2026

🚨A commercial decision by a pharmaceutical giant. That’s what they’re calling it.

Zoladex 3.6mg, a drug used by premenopausal women with breast cancer and endometriosis to suppress ovarian function, is being pulled from the Australian PBS from November 2026. Not because it doesn’t work. Not because it’s unsafe. Because AstraZeneca decided it was commercially inconvenient.

There are currently no other PBS-listed alternatives for hormone receptor positive breast cancer patients who need ovarian suppression.

Read that again.

Women mid-treatment. Women who’ve already lost so much to this disease, their hair, their fertility, their sense of what their body is, are now being told their medication is being discontinued, and the replacement pathway isn’t confirmed yet.

A free access program has been promised. Applications are being prepared. Reviews will happen every six months.

🤯 Every six months.

Can you imagine being a woman in active treatment, waiting six months to find out if you still have access to a drug your life depends on?

This is what it looks like when women’s health is treated as an afterthought. When the system that’s supposed to protect patients can’t compel a private company to keep a critical drug listed.

We deserve better than this. We deserve certainty. We deserve a system that fights for us the way we’ve had to fight for our lives.

02/06/2026

🚨Less than 1 in 3 women who needed support for menopausal symptoms after cancer were offered treatment options.

A peer-reviewed study published May 2026 interviewed 20 Australian healthcare professionals about managing menopause after cancer. The findings confirmed what so many of you (and I) have already lived: the treatments exist, but the confidence to prescribe them, and the systems to support women through shared decision making, often don’t.

You weren’t asking too much. The system wasn’t ready.

If you’ve been told no without explanation, dismissed, or sent home without options, that is not the end of the conversation. It’s where we start. Comment SUPPORT and I’ll show you what comes next.

📌 Full citation in comments.

01/06/2026

Nobody told me what alcohol was doing to my body after my breast cancer diagnosis. Not my oncologist. Not my surgeon. Not the GP I saw for two years afterwards.

I chose to cut it out myself, initially as an experiment, not because anyone prescribed it, because I went looking for answers when the system wasn’t giving me any. And what I found was equal parts clarifying and infuriating. The link between alcohol and breast cancer risk is at least as strong as the link attributed to HRT. Let that land.

Here’s what alcohol actually does: it’s metabolised into acetaldehyde, a toxic compound that directly damages DNA. DNA damage is how cancers start. It’s how they return. This isn’t a lifestyle conversation. It’s a biology conversation that nobody was having with you. Women are being steered away from HRT daily, through fear, through outdated information, through clinicians who haven’t read the current evidence. And those same women are being handed a glass of wine at every birthday, every dinner, every “you deserve this after everything you’ve been through” moment.

Nobody is connecting those dots for them.

When I stopped drinking, my sleep improved. My hot flushes reduced. My inflammation settled. I felt, for the first time in a long time, like I was making choices that were actually working with my body instead of against it. This is not a post about perfection. It’s definitely not about guilt. It’s about having the information you were never given and deciding what to do with it.

That decision belongs to you. But you can’t make it without the facts. Comment SUPPORT and I’ll let you know how I can help you with that decision.

27/05/2026

For the first six to twelve months after treatment, I said nothing. 🤐 Not because it wasn’t bad. Because I couldn’t bring myself to say it out loud, even after everything my body had already been through.

This post is for every woman quietly putting up with dryness, itching, or pain and assuming it’s just the price of surviving cancer.

It isn’t. And there is more available to you than most women are ever told.

Comment GSM and I’ll send you the full article.

24/05/2026

Nobody warned me what was coming. Not my oncologist, my surgeon or the beautiful nurse who held my hand through chemo.

Menopause. The joint pain, fatigue, brain fog so bad I forgot words mid-sentence. The body I didn’t recognise when I looked in the mirror. The weight of surviving something enormous, and then being sent home to figure out the rest alone.

They saved my life. And then they sent me home.

If you’re living in that gap right now, between surviving and actually feeling well, I want you to know it has a name, it has reasons, and it has solutions. And that’s exactly what tomorrow night is about.

Kath and I have built something we genuinely wish had existed when I needed it most. If you’re navigating menopause after cancer and nobody has sat down with you to explain what’s actually happening in your body and what you can do about it, this is that conversation.

If you’re already registered, I’ll see you tomorrow night. If you’re not, comment HURT and I’ll send you the link directly.

22/05/2026

This is why “just exercise more” isn’t good enough. Research confirms that fitness after breast cancer treatment isn’t a wellness nice-to-have. Higher cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular strength are linked to reduced cancer recurrence and mortality, beyond physical activity alone.

Treatment changes your baseline and your support needs to reflect that. Generic advice doesn’t cut it, you need survivorship-specific, evidence-informed guidance.

Comment SUPPORT if you’d like guidance on returning to exercise. This is what the gap in care actually looks like.

21/05/2026

40 women have already registered for Monday night’s workshop. If you’ve been sitting on the fence, this is your nudge. 😉

Why Does Everything Hurt After Cancer Treatment? Free online workshop with me and physiotherapist

Monday 25th May · 7:30pm AEST · 45 minutes · free recording for everyone who registers.

Comment HURT and I’ll send you the link to register straight to your DMs. 🎗️

breastcancersucks

19/05/2026

Your body isn’t broken. It’s under-explained. On Monday night and I are going to change that.

Free online workshop · Monday 25th May · 7:30pm AEST · 45 minutes · includes Q+A

Comment HURT and I’ll send you the registration link. 🎗️

17/05/2026

Your doctors don’t talk about this enough.

Exercise after cancer isn’t about how you look. It’s about how long you live and how well. I spent 15 years as a PT and gym owner, 7 of them before my own cancer diagnosis, and the rest rebuilding my body and my life on the other side of it.

I lived through chemo, radiotherapy, treatment-induced menopause, and the complete physical unravelling that followed.

Exercise pulled me back. Not perfectly. Not immediately. But it did.

🦴 Bone density
❤️ Heart health
🧠 Mental health
🩻 Recurrence risk

Movement touches all of it, and most women navigating menopause after cancer are never told exactly how important this is.

If you have questions about where to start, what’s safe, or how to make exercise work for your body right now, I have answers.

DM me or comment SUPPORT.

13/05/2026

A GP once left me feeling like my brain fog might be early dementia. I was in my late forties.

What was actually happening had a few names, one is “chemopause” and nobody had thought to mention it. 🙄

If your body changed after cancer treatment in ways nobody prepared you for, this one’s for you.

Comment TELL ME and I’ll send you the blog link directly.

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