Category: menopause

• adrift

  Look. I’m not gonna lie. These last six months have been a tad tumultuous and I have felt like I have been adrift at sea floating aimlessly on a huge wave of never-ending emotions. Each day brings a new assault of big feelings that sometimes gently cascade down my body and other days like a…

  thekatmarsh

  23rd Sep 2023

  ageing-happy, ageing-healthy, ageing-strong, burnout, emotional wellbeing, happiness, healing, menopause, positive-ageing, pro-ageing, rest, social-connection, Uncategorized

  fatigue, growth, menopause, mentalhealth, pro-ageing, rest, self-care, self-love, stress, trauma, wellbeing

• maintenance

  Throughout my deep dive journey on how to optimise my next chapter in life as a marvellous middle-aged mofo, I have come across much of the same information regurgitating the same themes. Here is what I have found…it all leads to the maintenance of our body, in particular, movement, sleep and gut-health. They are separate…

  thekatmarsh

  6th Aug 2023

  acceptance, ageing, ageing-happy, ageing-healthy, ageing-strong, emotional wellbeing, healing, menopause, positive-ageing, rest, strength & mobility

  acceptance, ageing, ageing-happy, ageing-healthy, ageing-strong, growth, love, pro-ageing, rest, self-care

• ageing

  Ageing. The word conjures up numerous images of slow old men and women wrapped loosely in transparent saggy skin, deep cavernous wrinkles etched into the face, milky unseeing eyes, warped bulbous knuckles housing crooked fingers bowed from arthritis, and a sparse covering of thinning grey hair atop their age-spotted scalps. These visions come from a…

  thekatmarsh

  16th Jul 2023

  acceptance, ageing, Blog, death loss, emotional wellbeing, mature, menopause, positive-ageing, pro-ageing, writing

  acceptance, ageing, body-positive, change, death, family, growing-old, old, pro-ageing

• disorganised

  Taking a break from work has been cathartic, awakening and soul nourishing. I’ve been working since I was fifteen which amounts to thirty-five years of non-stop. That is a lot of constant busyness, constant moving and constant ‘on’. During this rest, I have really found it challenging, particularly with my brain functioning with normal stuff.…

  thekatmarsh

  12th Jun 2023

  burnout, menopause, rest

  meditate, menopause, rest, stress