Urgh!

Anxiety, stress, fatigue, insomnia, hormonal ups and downs!

It ain't great!

Fortunately, there are ways to find support through your menopausal years.

Your breath.  It's the one thing you can count on.

It is your constant. It is your Energy Life Force. Breathing nourishes your body.It sends red blood cells filled with oxygen to your organs, your skin and it also heals and repairs injury.

How else can breathing help you?

Walking.  We all do it.  Some more than others.Many of us have an app which tells us how many steps we are doing each day.

But what are the benefits to walking?Does it matter if it's walking around the office or do we need to get some countryside stomps in too?

Here's what I discovered.

How many moments of joy have you had recently?

Would you even realise if you had a moment of joy or would it be so fleeting, you'd soon be distracted by the next worry or problem?

Do you make time and space in your day for a moment of joy?

Sometimes we can let life get the better of us and overwhelm can set in.

Stress, overwhelm, fatigue are all too familiar for a lot of people.

With family life, work, exposure to constant information through our phonesand more we can soon get weighed under with the pressures of the day.

Thats when mindfulness becomes a good practice.

Mindfulness is the awareness of ourselves inside and out.

Thich Naht Hahns famous phrase describes mindfulness perfectly

"Paying attention on purpose in the present moment."