What’s menopause go to do with men?

What a great question and on the face of it we could well channel our Frankie Goes to Hollywood and say absolutely nothing! But I would venture that’s not the right answer and actually if we – and I mean men and women – continue to think about menopause as being something that only affects women, then we are missing …

Putting our minds and bodies first

Welcome to the June edition of the Phoenix Wellness Coaching blog. If this is your first visit, it is good to have you here; if you have been following us for some time again it’s great to have you here, and I hope you enjoy reading this month’s instalment. Throughout June on our social media, we are looking at health …

Anxiety, Shame and the Fear of Failure

Welcome to the May edition of the Phoenix Wellness Coaching blog. If this is your first visit, it is good to have you here; if you have been following us for some time again it’s great to have you here, and I hope you enjoy reading this month’s instalment. Throughout May on our social media we are looking at anxiety …

Welcome to April’s Phoenix Wellness Coaching Newsletter

If you are new to Phoenix Wellness, then I am delighted to meet you and start building great connections. I am Jeanette Forder, the Founder and CEO of Phoenix Wellness Coaching, a women-only wellness and life coaching company specialising in helping women to thrive through menopause.My mission is to help all midlife women to thrive through menopause, to change their …

Stress – what is it and can it be good for us?

April is stress awareness month so I wanted to look at what stress is, and whilst we know that too much can be bad for us, is there a point at which stress can actually help us to perform better.As we know when we reach menopause, we can start to experience anxiety in a range of different circumstances. Often women …

Downtime, who needs that!

Welcome to our latest blog. Our focus this month is rest, relaxation and self-care in honour of World Sleep Day which is 15th March. I know that for women in menopause sleep can become an issue so I wanted to give you some help with that.Plus 8th March is International Women’s Day, so I didn’t want that to pass without …

Goals – Why have them at all?

Welcome to 2022 and already we are at the end of January and I am asking myself “where is the time going”! I’ve started this year with a different approach and mind-set to the way I started 2021. Why is that? Well very simply because I want to achieve so much more, and have been setting myself and Phoenix Wellness …

You can do anything you set your mind to…

even if the menopause means you forget exactly what it was you’d set about to do! As many of you will know I’ve recently been recording a podcast focusing on women’s life choices. I’m really enjoying the process of planning and recording these as it’s challenging me, not least to make sure they flow and tell a compelling story that …

What happens to our self-confidence through the menopause?

This month we are going to focus on self-confidence in Our Menopause Our Way. I wanted to look at self-confidence because it is so closely linked to self-esteem and body confidence – when one falters, then all three falter.You would think with the changing in our hormone levels coupled with the fact that we no longer have the worry of …