This episode explores how positive habits can help people navigate menopause, reconnect with themselves, and build stronger relationships, as Kat chats with menopause coach and educator, Adele Johnston, about confidence, and finding joy.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Part of my menopausal symptoms is that I get cold bones and shivery, so when I go inside the sauna it’s heaven for me. I feel safe, like I’m having a big warm hug, my bones are happy.

• We, as women – females born female at birth with reproductive organs – are the majority percentage of the world that will appease others. By us sitting silent and not voicing what we do and don’t want (like guys talking in the sauna when I went in there to relax) we won’t get it.

• When we think of relationships it’s wider than marriages or partnerships, it’s relationship with self, within professional settings, friendship settings, children. Within the space of work that I do as a menopause coach I work with a lot of women who are no longer in a relationship with themselves. That’s the challenging foundation to build upon to have structured, strong relationships in all other senses.

• Losing a relationship with self is really sad to witness and I went through it. I went into early menopause in my mid-30s and I lost my relationship with myself. Everything from changing body shape and the ability to feel comfortable and confident in that new body composition. You start to question yourself, like if you’re good enough for that promotion, so why put my name in the hat?

BEST MOMENTS

“Sometimes we just have to ask for what we want.”
“In romantic relationships, when we start to feel less than, not sexy and sensual we stop dressing that way and we don’t feel our best possible self, that confidence that oozes out of us that our partners fall in love with isn’t there anymore. That became a big divide between me and my husband.”
“We can get swept up in the whirlwind of life, we can be at the forefront of our career in our 30s and 40s and we can become a slave to life and forget about ourselves and stop doing the things that bring us joy.”
“What’s in your joy jar? Where do you like to go? What do you like to experience with your senses? It’s about re-learning you.”

ABOUT THE GUEST

Adele Johnston is a menopause coach and educator for health coaches, PTs, Aesthetics practitioners, dentists and coaches, specialising in women’s health and happiness. She specialises in empowering women to navigate perimenopause, menopause, and beyond with health, happiness, and success.

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ABOUT THE HOST

Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit, and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself.

She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.

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