Challenges That Change Us
107 {Susan Northey} How menopause broke me
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Episode notes
This week we are talking about a challenge that almost 50% of the population will experience. Menopause.
But like everything, menopause can come on a sliding scale, and even if we think we are prepared it can hit, very hard.
That is what happened to Susan Northey.
Susan now works at my new business Soul Studio in Armidale as a breath work facilitator but also works in the nutrition space.
She had previously been working as a personal trainer and was living and breathing fitness and nutrition. But that didn’t stop menopause from hitting so hard that she had to literally stop everything she was doing to avoid breaking down entirely.
In this episode Susan shares:
- The body and mind changes she started to notice
- The emotional changes she experienced with menopause
- The moment she realised she had to stop work altogether
- How she figured out it was menopause
- What people do wrong when figuring out how to manage menopause
- The choice her doctors wanted her to do that she felt was wrong
- The meditation and mindfulness she started using
- How her partner supported her and helped her
- How she is going now
Key Quotes
“I'm not loathing myself and feeling unworthy like I did 6 months ago.”
“22 years of taking on peoples issues and forever helping everyone else and I realised, who is taking care of me?”
“I'd go home and need to sleep at 2 in the afternoon which has never been me in my life. I could physically feel my body shutting down.”
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@CustomisedNutrition22
@breath_revival
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