Publisher: Hero
Publication Date: 2nd August 2024
Genre: Self-Help
Summary:
The menopause can challenge even the most stable, loving and supportive relationships: here’s how to make sure yours can survive – and thrive.
As a woman, are you:
- In a relationship?
- Know you are – or think you may be – menopausal?
- Fearful of the possible impact of the menopause on your relationship – and don’t know what to do?
- Expecting (or hoping) your partner will support you through the menopause?
As a man, are you:
- In a relationship?
- Know – or think your partner may be – menopausal?
- Fearful of the possible impact of the menopause on your relationship – and don’t know what to do?
- Wanting to know how you can support your partner manage her menopause?
Then this book is for you. And for you both.
Written by leading gender equity and menopause coach Kate Usher and her husband, Neil, a highly experienced workplace and change leader, this unique book looks at the menopause from a female and male perspective.
In a refreshing, candid, positive and accessible guide drawn from their personal experience in learning about and managing Kate’s traumatic menopause, it helps couples to successfully manage the experience together and emerge stronger.
Review:
Firstly thank you to Random Things Book Tours, Hero and Kate and Neil Usher for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
So I'm closer to menopause than I am away from it with 40 being a mere 3 years away and the average age a woman experiences menopause being 45. Most women will remember their mums going through menopause and complaining about hot flashes, night sweats and mood swings, but that's usually the most we know until it's us going through it, because let's face it we aren't taught about it at school (though as this book taught me it is now on the curriculum thankfully). And if we, the people who go through it, aren't taught about it, the men we marry are taught even less so when it happens they are just as sideswiped as we are. So it's really refreshing to not only have a book about menopause that gives lots of information that is not being sandwiched in at the end of a book on female health but also gives information for both men and women. I really enjoyed hearing Neils's voice throughout this and knowing that there was someone that my partner could listen to the experience of and maybe learn from when I do need his support going through the menopause.
It has been an eye-opening book in many ways and I have come away from it feeling so much more prepared for menopause when it does come rolling my way because Kate has smashed through all the preconceived notions that we learn about menopause and give us a twisted perception of what to expect.
I really enjoyed the way the book was set out, each of the chapters was broken down really well which means that you can just take a chapter at a time if you needed, especially if you are reading it with your partner, it gives you a good chunk of information to read and discuss together.
I'm definitely keeping this on my shelf reading for when I need to revisit it and the information inside and I'm defiantly recommending it to my friends at a similar stage in life, it's a book that has been needed I think and I'm so glad someone took the time to write it.
Krystina xx
Firstly thank you to Random Things Book Tours, Hero and Kate and Neil Usher for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
So I'm closer to menopause than I am away from it with 40 being a mere 3 years away and the average age a woman experiences menopause being 45. Most women will remember their mums going through menopause and complaining about hot flashes, night sweats and mood swings, but that's usually the most we know until it's us going through it, because let's face it we aren't taught about it at school (though as this book taught me it is now on the curriculum thankfully). And if we, the people who go through it, aren't taught about it, the men we marry are taught even less so when it happens they are just as sideswiped as we are. So it's really refreshing to not only have a book about menopause that gives lots of information that is not being sandwiched in at the end of a book on female health but also gives information for both men and women. I really enjoyed hearing Neils's voice throughout this and knowing that there was someone that my partner could listen to the experience of and maybe learn from when I do need his support going through the menopause.
It has been an eye-opening book in many ways and I have come away from it feeling so much more prepared for menopause when it does come rolling my way because Kate has smashed through all the preconceived notions that we learn about menopause and give us a twisted perception of what to expect.
I really enjoyed the way the book was set out, each of the chapters was broken down really well which means that you can just take a chapter at a time if you needed, especially if you are reading it with your partner, it gives you a good chunk of information to read and discuss together.
I'm definitely keeping this on my shelf reading for when I need to revisit it and the information inside and I'm defiantly recommending it to my friends at a similar stage in life, it's a book that has been needed I think and I'm so glad someone took the time to write it.
Krystina xx
