Sober Queens – with Menopause Expert Sarah Davison

My guest this week is Homeopath, Sarah Davison, who is a natural menopause expert.  She helps women with stress and all aspects of menopause so was able to explain why menopause and alcohol don’t mix!

In this Episode

• Sarah was enjoying her corporate career until everything went pear-shaped in her 40s
• The combination of family and work pressure mixed in with hormonal changes knocked her for six
• She felt completely stressed out and anxious – and so weak she could hardly climb the stairs
• Sarah hadn’t even heard of the word at the time but now she knows she was in perimenopause
• The silver lining of this perfect storm was that it made her question her life
• She’d been going to a homeopath for years so went to see her to get some help
• The results were so amazing that she decided to leave her job and go back to college to study
• She did a 3-year full-time degree course in homoeopathic medicine
• Sarah explained that homoeopathy is a complete system of medicine in its own right – used by 450 million people globally.
• Natural and non-toxic with no side effects it can be used to treat physical, mental and emotional illnesses
• It stimulates and reactivates our self-healing mechanism and our bodies will choose the wisest way to do the healing
• Quite simply homeopathy allows our amazing bodies to heal themselves
• There is plenty of evidence showing the efficacy of homoeopathy
• Sarah explained that Menopause is only ONE DAY – one year after the last period
• 10 to 14 years before that day is Perimenopause and after that day we become post Menopausal
• Many women in their forties suffer from anxiety, depression insomnia and take medication for it – not knowing that it’s the Perimenopause
• The average age of the Menopause is 51
• I loved Sarah’s take on the 3 ages of women and will be stealing that one from her!
• Women evolve from maidens to mothers to crones, but I share Sarah’s view that a crone gives the impression of an old and bent woman, which is not what mid-life women look like!
• So let’s rephrase it from maiden to mother to QUEEN – the Queen stage can be from 40 to 80
• That’s when many women come into their power – we see it in our Tribe Sober Community all the time – women ditching the booze and then discovering what they really want to do with their lives
• To join a community of Queens then join Tribe Sober via this link!
• I found it fascinating to learn that Estrogen makes us compliant which may explain why so many women who drink are people pleasers
• Exhausted from looking after everyone else they start using alcohol as a form of self-care and a reward!
• The problem with that strategy is that by the time we become postmenopausal and our Estrogen levels drop we may have become dependent on alcohol
• We may be drinking wine on a daily basis which will be sapping our energy and motivation to try new activities and step into our power
• Sarah pointed out that drinkers are often very sensitive people who use alcohol as an emotional anaesthetic, especially if they have some unresolved issues
• If you are prone to hot flushes be aware that alcohol will congest your liver and make them worse- if you want to have the “best” menopause that you can then don’t drink
• I asked Sarah how we could heal our liver and gut after years of drinking
• She pointed out that our liver works as a dustbin and eliminating the toxin alcohol will overload it
• What I didn’t know was that the liver also deactivates hormones – old hormones – so if it can’t deactivate estrogen we end up with too much estrogen floating around which causes an imbalance
• The evidence between alcohol and breast cancer is stacking up and estrogen-driven breast cancer is quite common these days
• I had that type of breast cancer and am sure that my heavy drinking was partly responsible
• Sarah pointed out that bitter foods are great for the liver – particularly beetroot and leafy green veg so let’s keep drinking our green juices!
• She also reminded us that a healthy gut is very important for menopause and that we should eat a wide variety of foods to nourish our microbiome
• Many ladies in our community found that their alcohol dependence began to worry them during menopause
• Sarah believes that menopause brings up unresolved issues and says that in her own case, it was anxiety and digestive issues
• These get amplified so people may drink more to self-medicate and cope
• She came up with the clever analogy that of the ground shifting under your house
• If you’ve been papering over the cracks in your walls for years then the ground shifting would worsen until you could no longer avoid seeing them
• Rather than stressing about this Sarah suggests that we reframe it as a GIFT – a second chance to deal with our stuff!
• To contact Sarah go to her website which is https://thrivehomeopathy.com/
• You can book a curiosity call to discover whether she can help you – she’s also on LinkedIn as Sarah Davison and on Facebook as https://www.facebook.com/NaturalMenopauseExpert

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