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The menopause is a significant life stage, not a sweeping diagnosis for everything that happens after 40. Sometimes symptoms are hormonal, sometimes they’re lifestyle-related, sometimes they’re medical - and often they overlap.

How we think or speak shapes our outlook more than we realise. When we say “I have to,” it feels like a burden, a demand, a weight on our shoulders. But “I get to” reframes the task as an opportunity or privilege.

Taking a holiday or break from our usual surroundings has long been known to have a multitude of benefits, with recent research showing that the holiday highs can stay with us for more than 3 weeks after we get home (British Psychological Society, March 2025). But apart from the usual holiday expectations, what do we gain from taking time out?

The theme for this years’ Mental Health Awareness Week was ‘community’ which really got me thinking about community, and what it means.