Vibrant Midlife

For years I thought I was just bad at handling pressure. Anxious, exhausted, forgetful, snapping at people I love and I called all of it burnout.

Nobody ever handed me a perimenopause checklist next to the burnout one. So I never thought to compare them.

Turns out a lot of what I was carrying had a different name.

This isn't about replacing one label with another. It's about knowing there's a second list worth checking one most of us were never shown.

Swipe through. If anything on here feels familiar, you're not alone, and you're not imagining it.

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April 2022. Missenden Abbey. South Bucks.
Our very first workshop. Fully booked. 🙌🏾

I still look at that flyer and feel everything.

The nerves of not knowing if anyone would come.
The joy when they did.

The moment the room filled with women who had never had a space like that before.

Women who had been carrying menopause quietly alone, confused, sometimes frightened finally sitting together. Talking. Laughing. Exhaling.

That day planted something.

And four years later here is what has grown:

✨ A sold-out summit in Bradford
✨ A sold-out summit in London
✨ A national NHS menopause workforce programme
✨ UCL co-authored research
✨ A community of thousands of women
✨ Vibrant Midlife Wellness CIC

None of that was visible from that room in 2022.

But the seed was there.

In the women who showed up.

In the conversations that happened.

In the courage it took to speak about something our communities had been silent about for generations.
Progress is not always loud.

Sometimes it looks like a small room.

A first workshop.

A flyer that says fully booked.

A woman finally feels seen. 🙏🏾

We are not done. Not even close.

This is why we started. This is why we continue.💜

Were you at one of our early events? Drop a comment and tell me what it meant to you 👇🏾
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