Life After Lockdown

After steering my 20 year old business through the nightmare of COVID-19, I had to face the devastating truth that it was not going to survive. After months of injecting personal 'retirement' savings into the business to keep it afloat, the inevitable happened and my ‘baby’ of over 2 decades was placed into receivership.

It was one of the most challenging times of my life and was certainly up there along with losing loved ones in terms of grief, shock and utter confusion. This had been my life for so long-how would I even start to know where to go from here?

Without the love and support of my hardly-ever complaining husband and my family and friends, I have no idea how I would have been able to move on. But move on I did and looking back, I can see now it was the perfect solution for me and my life going forward.

 

It gave me the freedom to redesign my life in every way imaginable. I was nowhere near ready to put my feet up and retire into obscurity. In my mind I was still a 30 year old with with 50 years of experience. I wasn't going to let that go to waste.

Then and Now

Fast forward 2 years, and my life has taken on a very different hue. My focus has altered and my priorities have changed. I’ve learned that I love working as part of the digital marketplace, that I still have so much to give and that I will be doing so on my terms-where and when it suits me. At first I felt like I had fallen on a new opportunity by chance, now I think I was looking all along and it just found me when I needed it.

Now I spend more time with the people I love, doing the things that inspire and motivate me. I feel eternally grateful for my many blessings.

Moving Forwards Together

Having been a Complementary Therapist and helping thousands of clients for over 25 years I knew there was no way I could just walk away from that part of my life. Caring was too deeply ingrained within my psyche. But I also knew I could not return to the life I had before as a stressed business owner.

So instead I decided to pour my years of knowledge and experience into writing a book with the aim of reaching more women who were struggling and looking for practical solutions to the problems that life after 50 brings with it. In 2023 'Life Beyond Menopause' was published.

As a Menopause Practitioner and Therapist I was became increasingly aware of the problems so many women face at a certain age and the struggles that ensued with the loss of purpose and identity, low self-esteem, lack of confidence and the subsequent anxiety attacks after menopause.

So many changes for so many women with often nobody to share those fears, concerns, worries and emotions with. It was then that I decided to create the 'Still Got It' Programme.

'Still Got It' is a digital online community for women coping with life after menopause. It is a supportive, nurturing environment where like-minded women can share, learn, experience and enjoy time together in an space of understanding.

Come join our Clan!