3:00am
Hello, I'm Helen.
At forty-six, I stopped sleeping. Every night, three o'clock, wide awake.
7:00am
For twenty years I taught breathwork and yoga, and I thought I knew my own body pretty well. Then the nights went. I was snapping at the people I love, and losing words halfway through sentences at work.
Nobody had explained perimenopause to me, so I trained in menopause coaching and nutrition to understand what was happening. The changes that helped me were small and steady: sleep first, then food, then a few minutes of breathing every day.
That's how I work with women now. We don't overhaul your whole life. We find the one or two things that will make the biggest difference for you, and we do them properly, one at a time.
When I'm not coaching, you'll find me walking by the river in Bath with my dog, or at my allotment, which is where I do my best thinking.