Forget tales of "washed-up" old women long past their prime, midlife empowerment coach Gina Mitchell says menopause can be the catalyst for your best years yet. "This is such an opportune time - use menopause as a springboard for changing your life for the better," she says. "If you're 50, you might only be halfway through your life, so you want to design your life for the next 40 to 50 years to be spectacular."
After a "hideous" menopause with crippling insomnia, Gina, now 64, is on a mission to help other midlife women avoid her mistakes. "Nobody told me about the depression, the anxiety, the insomnia, the brain fog and how the change in hormones can have such an affect on your brain chemistry," she says. "I didn't think what I was going through was menopause, I thought it was overwork [as a science teacher] and stress."
But with the help of a good doctor for HRT, a lot of reading and valuable stress relieving techniques, Gina says she got on top of her symptoms, and now specialises in menopause coaching to help other women avoid what she went through.
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