Life Begins With Menopause

Finding your confidence again

The hormonal changes of perimenopause and menopause don't just affect your body. Shifting oestrogen and progesterone can influence mood, anxiety, sleep, memory and how you respond to stress.

Add the mental load of midlife, with demanding careers, maybe ageing parents, children, teenagers, and the changing shape of relationships and friendships, and it makes sense that so many women start to doubt themselves.

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Smiling midlife woman relaxing with a cup of tea

Introducing, Life Begins With Menopause.

An online interactive course with short videos and dedicated workbooks.

The course is grounded in research and my 30 years of working with women as a psychologist.

Together we will explore what symptoms you are experiencing, how they impact on your life and how to be heard.

If you’re asking "Why don't I feel like myself?” This is for you.

What we'll explore together

✓ Mood at menopause, confidence, body image, role and purpose, sleep and brain fog.

✓ Learning how to ask for what you need.

✓ Tools to manage anxiety, irritation, low mood and those “can’t cope” days.

✓ A personalised “midlife” plan you can revisit whenever life wobbles.

How it works

✓ 6 dedicated modules you can work through in your own time.

✓ Short practical video lessons, printable workbooks and reflection prompts.

✓ Time investment? Dip in for 10 minutes on busy days or sink into a whole module with a cuppa.

The course is for you if:

✓ You don't feel like yourself and you're not sure why.

✓ You've been told “it’s just stress” and you are left feeling dismissed.

✓ You want to understand what's happening.

Inside the 6 modules

Each module brings together science in plain language, honest stories, and simple exercises to help you apply what you’re learning to your real life.

Module 1: The Fog

You know something's off but you can't quite name it.

Understand what is happening to you. Learn about the stages of perimenopause, menopause and post-menopause, and how hormones can influence your thoughts, feelings and relationships.

Module 2: A Flicker

A moment that makes you stop and think "Is this me?"

This module is for when you realise something is different: a symptom you can't explain away, a friend's comment, a post that describes exactly how you are feeling.

Module 3: The Pause

Time to reflect: What do you need right now?

For the first time in ages you ask yourself 'What do I need?' not what everyone else needs, what you need. This is a module where you can pause, explore your emotions and find ways to make decisions.

Module 4: The Space

This part is about learning to be confident in yourself

Before you can make any changes or seek help you have to believe you are allowed to and are capable. Learning what you need is one thing, having the confidence actually makes change possible.

Module 5: The Shift

This is the decision part where you ask: what am I willing to do?

This module is for when you move from reflecting to deciding you are going to make a change. It might not be obvious yet, but something internally has shifted.

Module 6:

Now you are ready to do something. This is about action.

This is where you learn what you need to say and to whom. It's when it all comes together and you are confident about what you need to do. Then you plan it.

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“My hope is that you leave this course feeling less alone, more informed, and much kinder towards yourself.”

Meet your guide

Midlife Moments was created to give women the kind of midlife and menopause support we wish we’d had: clear, kind, shame free and actually practical. Dr Mandy Deeks is an experienced educator, researcher and therapist who specialises in women’s wellbeing, mindset and life transitions in midlife.

You’ll be guided through a friendly, no judgement, no pressure to “fix” yourself online course.

Mandy has 30 year's experience in women’s mental health and behaviour change
She knows that every woman is an individual with her own background, needs and strengths
Not only has she had years of lived experience supporting women through midlife, she had an early menopause and has been experiencing symptoms for nearly 20 years.

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What women are saying

Names and details changed to protect privacy.

“I used to wake up dreading the day, wondering why I couldn’t cope like I used to. Understanding my hormones and having words for my moods has been so freeing.”

– Claire, 44

“The body image module made me cry in the best way. I’ve stopped punishing myself for having a ‘midlife body’ and started appreciating what it’s carried me through.”