Health and Wellbeing
20 do's and don'ts to a stress-free Queenager Christmas
As you plunge into your Christmas celebrations, here are our tried and tested top tips for surviving the festive season. Happy Christmas from all of us at Noon!
Why on earth is NICE recommending CBT as a menopause treatment?
Noon founder, Eleanor Mills, challenges the new NICE guidelines that CBT should be prescribed as a treatment for menopause symptoms.
“I want to make menopause an ordinary topic of conversation”
As someone who was pretty adept at preparing for her various life-stages, Rachel Weiss was woefully unaware of what lay in store when her perimenopause began. What she did as a result has changed the experience of menopause for hundreds of women.
A day of reflection and renewal
Diane Kenwood thought she knew what lay in store when she joined the group of Queenagers who gathered at the Wasing estate in Berkshire for the second Noon retreat, but the day turned out to be even more affecting and impactful than she expected.
'I was living for everyone else but myself'
A straightforward question turned into the crash-and-burn moment that made Claire Pestana realise what was missing from her life: herself.
Don’t use the M word
The UK government has rejected five recommendations on how to better protect the workplace rights of women experiencing menopause, arguing that agreeing to them could discriminate against men. Kate Monro shares her menopause story and why she believes supporting women going through menopause in the workplace is so urgently needed.
“People don’t realise how much of what happens with your hormones affects your mouth and your teeth.”
It turns out the menopause can play havoc with your teeth on top of everything else. Oh joy. But help is at hand, in the shape of Dr Uchenna Okoye, who is making it her mission to change the way we manage caring for our teeth. As Chrissy Iley discovered.
Welcome to the parent grief club
When Kerensa Jennings’ beloved mum died, she became a member of a club she never knew existed or wanted to join, and was left wondering why more people don’t talk about the special searing grief of losing a parent.
Looking back I see a woman, driven by hormones, burning her life down
Actor Juliet Cowan found going through the menopause bruising and bewildering, but she emerged feeling more powerful and having “grown into myself”.
Tensions in my body that have been there for years are released in a flush of emotions, tears, laughter and relief
Beatrice Aidin experiences a unique weekend retreat trying out the Human Method technique developed by Nahid de Belgeonne, aka the nervous system whisperer.
