Feeling good starts here

One of the steps in my Feel Good Factor guide for mums and dads to increase your calm, boost your energy and feel good in your body is to pay attention to your niggling health issues (download the guide for free here).  So, following my own advice I had a think about how well I am. 

Thankfully I'm feeling pretty good - I'm generally happy and calm, I'm pretty strong, I sleep well, my fitness is….. hmmm...maybe not quite good enough (yet!) for the 8km family Hell and Back booking that my darling hubbie gifted to me as a present 😱 (I love him for other reasons). 

I'm proactively focused on maintaining my good health. With this in mind I checked the cervical and breast check registers to see when my next appointments were scheduled. This took two minutes of my time and only required me to know my PPS number and when I was born. I recommend you get on those registers if you're not already (in Ireland you can find them at these links cervical here and breast here). 

Women's health is generally not that well advocated for and surrounded by mystique, confusion and/or shame, so please do right by yourself and make use of the services that do exist and are pretty easily accessed! 

I say this because I so often talk to women who focus plenty of (often flagging) energy on making sure that everyone else is doing really well and, in doing so, subconsciously or otherwise, put themselves to the bottom of the pile. In reality this does nobody any favours.

Women are at the very core of every human scenario that matters. If we fall over, society suffers. 

Why we have to continue to fight for position and recognition in this patriarchal swamp I cannot explain (to myself or my 13 year old daughter who is just beginning to sense the reality that the ideals of “balance and equality” bandied around might be a long way from either) but the thing we absolutely can do is come together to help ourselves - especially at those key junctures where we transition from children to productive women and again when we move into what should be seen as a sacred position of wisdom weavers, beginning in our midlife, helping to support and shape the next generation. 

My contribution to helping women to come together to help themselves is this course: Hormones in the House - a nutrition and lifestyle programme for perimenopausal women. If you want practical nutrition & lifestyle support for your perimenopause journey – in a small, warm group - you can find out more about it here.

The feedback from the previous round was 100% positive. Partly because it was packed full of very useful understanding and practical, doable things that make a difference; but actually more importantly because it was such a great (and very freeing) opportunity to talk matter-of-factly and face-to-face about what's going on for you in an environment where people listened and cared and there was decent guidance about what can help. 

I'm not just saying that because I ran the course and I know what I'm doing (true), but because I AM one of those women and I get it.

You are not alone. You are worth looking after. You don’t have to drag yourself through a swamp to get the support you need. Find out more.