The Menopause School

05/09/2026

Every menstrual cycle is a part of ovarian ageing. Each cycle uses up the egg reserve potential.
Typical ovarian ageing is a regular rhythm between menstruation and ovulation.
Sometimes the rhythm shifts and ovulation doesn't happen. This is called anovulation. This is also an expected part of ovarian activity, but should only happen 1-2 times a year from the late teens to late 30s.

03/09/2026

MENOPAUSE AWARENESS WORKSHOP | BECKENHAM

📅 18th October | 10am–3pm
📍 58 High Street Rear (behind Power Pilates), Beckenham BR3 1AY
🎟️ £79 per person

For beauty, holistic health and wellbeing professionals who want to add menopause awareness to the work they already love.

You don’t need to become a menopause specialist. This workshop is about understanding the bigger picture — how menstrual health, ovarian ageing and changing hormone rhythms connect with physical and mental health — and what that knowledge can add to the way you work with clients.

✨ Enhance your modality
✨ Build your confidence
✨ Have better conversations
✨ Become someone clients can trust for informed support

Your £79 includes pre-recorded learning, resources, the LIVE workshop, assessment and a Menopause Awareness Certificate from The Menopause School, an IPHM Accredited Training Provider.

Places are limited. Book here:

For health, beauty, fitness and wellbeing professionals. A half day workshop - Menstrual cycle health, perimenopause and confident conversations

01/09/2026

Understanding how ovaries age is a key part of understanding menstrual health across life stages.
In this video I'm starting just before puberty to explain how menstrual cycles start.
Remember every menstrual cycle is a step along the menstrual health timeline from periods to perimenopause and beyond.

31/08/2026

Knowing what has changed is much easier when there is something to look back on.

Simple journaling and tracking can help someone notice changes in sleep, mood, energy, digestion, pain, cognition and menstrual cycle patterns — and begin to recognise how these experiences may connect over time.

I think of this as a life skill.

It's also something therapists, coaches and holistic health practitioners can easily encourage and support as part of the work they already do.

It can help someone become more curious about their own patterns, bring richer information into conversations and make it easier to recognise when something may need further exploration.

Sometimes better support starts with helping someone notice what their body is telling them.

31/08/2026

Ovaries are important endocrine organs, made for more than periods, pregnancy and perimenopause. They also age differently to other organs in the body.
How they age affects menstrual health.
When you learn about this ageing blueprint the journey from menstruation to menopause makes a lot more sense.
Over the next few weeks I'm going to map it out step by step.

30/08/2026

The Menstrual Health Timeline connects changes in ovarian activity and rhythm across life, helping to put current experiences into context.
Menstrual health is not a separate topic. It is part of one longer journey which includes menstrual cycle health and menopause.
This wider view can add valuable information to conversations about sleep, mood, energy, cognition, physical changes and menstrual cycle patterns.

It can help reveal what has changed, when it changed and what might be useful to explore next.

The timeline provides context. The individual experience provides the detail.

29/08/2026

Ovaries age differently to other organs.

Their ageing follows a typical biological blueprint, with shifts in ovarian activity and rhythm across different life stages.

Those shifts can ripple through the whole person — influencing things like mood, energy, sleep, cognition, digestion and physical resilience.

Knowing this adds another layer to the work you already do.

It can help you become curious about whether ovarian ageing might be part of what a client is experiencing, ask different questions, and bring useful context to the support you offer.

Sometimes knowing where to look, changes what you notice.

28/08/2026

Ovaries are made for more.

Ovaries are endocrine organs. The hormones they produce don't just influence menstrual cycles. They communicate throughout the body, influencing the brain, bones, muscles, skin, metabolism, sleep, mood and much more.

And the way the ovaries work doesn't stay the same.

Ovarian activity changes over time, creating a biological story that stretches from periods to perimenopause and beyond.

Yet most menopause education starts somewhere towards the end of that story.

For therapists, coaches and holistic health practitioners, understanding the ovarian health timeline adds another layer to whole-person support.

It gives context to changes someone may be experiencing. It helps you ask better questions. And it gives you the knowledge to begin conversations that may never have happened in your practice before.

That's why at The Menopause School we don't start with a list of menstrual health or menopause symptoms.

We start with the individual story of ovarian health - and it's much easier than you probably think.

27/08/2026

As supporting partner of NOWT - Navigating our womanhood together I have been part of recent workshops hosted by NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board to help with awareness of HPV vaccines and Cervical screening in communities in this area. It's been a really valuable experience to be a part of something so important to health outcomes, and learn more about how public health messaging evolves.

26/08/2026

Knowing about menopause is one thing. Knowing how to bring that knowledge appropriately into the work you already do is something else.

As a holistic health practitioner would your clients know they could talk to you about their menstrual health? And would you feel confident knowing what to ask if they did?

I've explored this in my latest blog, including a short video on one of the practical skills I think makes a real difference: taking a useful menstrual health history.

Have a read (and watch) here 👇

https://academy.themenopauseschool.com/post/what-does-menopause-informed-practice-actually-look-like