Health and Wellbeing

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.

Get the menopause care you need

Because we know how difficult it can be to manage your menopause symptoms and get the right treatment for them, Noon has partnered with menopause relief app Stella and is offering a special discount for their personalised care and support services.

'People think divorce is contagious – I don't get invited to parties anymore'

Caro Giles found herself a single mother to 4 daughters after her marriage broke down. She saved them all through 'a wild kind of mothering'

'Without our "oestrogen goggles" we can start to say no

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. 

Why I resigned from emergency nursing after 22 years

Lizzie Carter had wanted to be nurse from the age of 4. Leaving the job and the hospital she loved, but that left her emotionally and physically spent, finally felt like the only choice she could make.

Queenagers: A new way of looking at ourselves in midlife

NOON wants to change the way that the world sees older women – and how we see ourselves

There’s life in us Queenagers yet – and it's made so much easier by wearing the right glasses!

Eleanor Mills is revelling in seeing the world through a new lens. Literally.

Incontinence: One of the Last Taboos for Queenagers?

Women in their forties and fifties speak about the embarrassment they feel towards their incontinence. Conversations need to be had to provide women with accurate and helpful information.

The Queenager: Eleanor's Letter (July 31st 2022)

Should menopause, like pregnancy, be a protected characteristic at work? And why we need to change the story about the lives of older women.

The Queenager : Eleanor's Letter (August 14th 2022)

When the personal becomes political: the NHS crisis and other tales.

'My Boobs Got in the Way of My Golf Swing'

Genelle Aldred writes about the joys of getting into a new hobby, even allowing it to become a bit of an obsession and the hurdles that could have stopped her in her tracks.

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