Kate Codrington

Kate Codrington Author of Second Spring the self-care guide to menopause, menopause mentor, speaker, facilitator, yo

To minimise the time I spend on screens, the only social media I'm using is Instagram, it would be delightful to see you over at

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Gazillions of pounds are generated out of making us feel bad about ourselves. I believe that you are just fine as you are; even when you feel horrible you can heal and find your own way to live contentedly and creatively. You already know how to do it yourself, it's just that sometimes, our lives are too noisy for us to listen. If you need it, I can hold space for you to let go and find threads of joy and ease within yourself, so you can start to accept and heal. I am a menstrual and menopause mentor, workshop facilitator, writer and have been a therapist for more than a quarter of a century. I’ve featured in Time Out, The Evening Standard, the London Metro and written for well-known well-being publications, like Well Doing, Juno Magazine, Counsellors Cafe, Mind Body Green Rebelle Society and Massage Magazine. I’m in Second Spring, which means post-menopause, and have deep gratitude for the education that the menopause process has gifted me. My mission is to change the way we regard menopause and show how we can relax into our own, inner authority through their cyclical nature and menopause process. I refuse to take myself too seriously and try to never take anything on that is not pleasurable and delicious and my first book Second Spring will be published by HarperCollins 17th February 2021.

In my interviews with postmenopausal folk, one of the common themes is how they have returned to hobbies and passions th...
27/08/2026

In my interviews with postmenopausal folk, one of the common themes is how they have returned to hobbies and passions they left behind in their youth.

🐴Taking a pony for a hack
📚Getting lost in fiction
🛼Getting their skates on
🚀Learning to fly
📸Taking up photography
✏️Going back to school

One of the gifts of menopause is that we become more like ourselves, less willing to do stuff to please others or fit in. We can have more fun. More JOY. But joy in our own way now.

I’ve had a burst of creativity, since finishing the first draft of book 3, and I have had the creative juice for creating other things, and returning to when I was a kid, and made clothes for my dolls, have broken out the sewing machine.

Two cracking pairs of trousers, the balloon pants from Fibre Mood and nani IRO Textile fabric from Vinted, (a great source of low cost fabric) the tailored pair is from a pattern from
I’ve been adapting the pattern for some funky shorts next. Watch this space. (Buckets were always on my bucket list, since you ask 🤪)

Classes with London Drawing Group has got me obsessed with Moomins and now Winifred Nicholson’s work, too. Another childhood pastime.

Next up is learning how to knit socks: a long-term desire.

🌈What childhood pastime have you reconnected with?
🤩And what would you love to be doing next?

Anyone else revelling in blankets and jumpers? I’m loosing entire afternoons submerged on the sofa 😆
24/08/2026

Anyone else revelling in blankets and jumpers? I’m loosing entire afternoons submerged on the sofa 😆

A friend was asking me about the latest supplement for brain fog yesterday, which I can’t even remember what it was, bec...
22/08/2026

A friend was asking me about the latest supplement for brain fog yesterday, which I can’t even remember what it was, because I just don’t pay attention to that NOISE now. What was good, what was the research etc.

I asked her about her sleep, and pleasure in her life and how she might be kinder to herself. So low key, so analogue and unsexy but this is what we need more of in our lives to navigate through perimenopause and into old age: kindness.

Whatever that looks like for you. Could be getting more movement, more rest, more fun, mates, some delish food…. But doing so in a way that is kind and gentle.

I’m going to hang my knickers up in my stories everyday and share my entries there to hopefully inspire you to be kinder to yourself too.

But for now, how can you be kind to yourself today?

18/08/2026

How are you ageing??
Pic was thanks to the kindness of 🙏💗🙏

30+ years of professional therapeutic life trying to look less like a nutter and more like a responsible, trustworthy pe...
11/08/2026

30+ years of professional therapeutic life trying to look less like a nutter and more like a responsible, trustworthy person.

This morning my agent asked if I had any headshots that were ‘ more rebellious’ for our proposal for the book.

Cue lippy and lobster. Which one should I go for?

After a slow, domestic, deeply sensible 6 months of repairing my sleep and leg, summer has been flipping mad.Lovely few ...
02/08/2026

After a slow, domestic, deeply sensible 6 months of repairing my sleep and leg, summer has been flipping mad.

Lovely few days in Estonia
Our Dear Tom and Aga’s love-fest of a wedding
Joy of our American lovelies visiting
at the Village Fayre
Opened for Oxhey Open Gardens who raised over £4K for Peace Hospice
Wolf Alice and Last Dinner Party
Celebrated 2 x 60ths in Bristol
Copenhagen with my B
Antwerp with our A for a v fashiony time
And Nick Cave + Flaming Lips yesterday

I am a trifle w@nkered having stuffed a year of fun into 2.5 months and needless to say not much writing has happened. BUT a proposal has been created and sent out to publishers so 🤞🤞

Meanwhile… recalibration; I’m off for a week’s solo writing retreat in Somerset tomorrow to do some flipping work and lean into ‘s practice.

Normal life resumes on 12th 🖖 I promise to calm tf down now

30/07/2026

When you’re in it: you’re in it!

But from my perspective of working with menopause therapeutically for a decade, I can see how the phases of menopause are working you and asking you to step into more wholeness.

There are three main phases:
Separation - where you feel what is not working in your life - ouch
Surrender - where you make peace with and feel compassion for yourself
Emergence - where you can receive and gather your resources for your second cycle

Like any rite of passage you move from one way of being, through a period of challenge and not knowing, into a new way of being. There’s potential for deep spiritual connection and knowing here if you have the validation and encouragement for it.

Waving!!

The early bird for Perimenopause as a Spiritual Portal ends today, we’re meeting at Barcombe in the Sussex countryside on 20th September to hold you as you gather resources.

⚡️Keep Calm and Carry On was never for us ⚡️It was wartime propaganda, repackaged for mugs and tea towels, aimed straigh...
27/07/2026

⚡️Keep Calm and Carry On was never for us ⚡️
It was wartime propaganda, repackaged for mugs and tea towels, aimed straight at women and carers: don’t make a fuss, hold it together, keep going.

Sound familiar? It’s the same energy we get handed in perimenopause. Don’t complain. Take the HRT. Carry on.

But here’s the truth: keeping on is what’s doing us in. Burnout. Sugar, caffeine, wine as coping mechanisms. Hormones and immune systems in freefall — while we quietly prop up the economy and the care system nobody else will.

No wonder we’re furious. And you’re allowed to be. The missed opportunities, the years spent shrinking yourself to fit, the energy poured into everyone but you — that rage is valid.

Perimenopause asks something different of us: stay furious, then lie down.
Not suppress it. Not push through it. Feel it — the anger, the grief, the loss — and then let yourself rest. Reset. Catch up on everything you never had space for.
It’s hard to do that alone. That’s why we’re gathering.

🌿 Perimenopause as Spiritual Portal
📍 A retreat day in the Sussex countryside
📅 20th September

Early bird pricing ends this Friday — bring a friend for an extra discount.

23/07/2026

One thing that really pi**es me off is when people dismiss the struggles of perimenopause and say, “Oh, you should just take HRT and then you’d be fine!” That ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ meme has a lot to answer for.

The implication is that you should just take medication and calm tf down. Don’t make a fuss. And perimenopause is this amazing opportunity to change, to evolve, to grow psychologically in your life. It’s the natural time to throw off what doesn't serve you, and to move into a really powerful post-menopausal place. It's something that requires time and patience, dignity and respect. It’s messy, it's not fashionable, it's not pretty, it's not easy and it involves a huge amount of courage and support.

You never need to apologise or explain for resting, for going more slowly and for not giving a f&ck, these are essential for you to shed what no longer serves you (trying hard to fit in/meet expectations/take care of everyone/be reasonable etc) and move into a better headspace in postmenopause.

Sometimes HRT supports the reflective process. Sometimes it doesn’t work at all. Many women aren’t able to take it anyway. Whatever choices you make in perimenopause to manage your symptoms, you’re ⚡️still ⚡️held in a profoundly transformational process, and traversing a spiritual portal. Tender. Precious. Powerfully alive. 😜

If this lights a flame in you, the early bird for our retreat day Perimenopause as Spiritual Portal is available until the end of July.

Jeanette Winterson writing good sense in her latest S@bst@ck. Highly recommend you follow. I love her weekly essays. Nou...
13/07/2026

Jeanette Winterson writing good sense in her latest S@bst@ck. Highly recommend you follow. I love her weekly essays.

Nourishing our creativity, and supporting those around us is about the best we can do in the face of LLM’s.

Play. Do things with no point to them. Don’t post it. Paint or write over it. Use your non-dom hand… what else can you recommend to nourish creativity? That you actually do 😉

Insta is one thing, but I really love the connections I have my email. If you fancy staying in contact, I offer more intimate, quirky ramblings by email and I’d love to welcome you there. If this appeals, just follow the ‘join my email list’ link in my Linktree. There’s a very cool resource library that comes with.

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