Health and Wellbeing

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.

How Parents Can Support Their Child Through an Eating Disorder
Throughout her late teen years, Megan Ravenhall found herself in the grip of an eating disorder. Though she feels she has still not fully recovered, Megan reflects on how her parents' support led her to ultimately choose life.

How I got to grips with my chronic anxiety
Ilona Bannister suffers from chronic anxiety and agoraphobia, two debilitating conditions. But at times, her greatest struggles have also proven to be strengths

'I looked like a success but I was too numb to enjoy anything'
Helen Barnes on how she gave up traditional notions of success, concentrated on her family and discovered the joy of reinventing herself.

Studies show HRT can reduce women's risk of Alzheimer’s – could it have saved my mum?
Kate Muir discovered that menopause doesn't just affect our bodies, it affects our minds.