Menopausing
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4.1 • 118 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Winner of The British Book Awards 2023 Overall Book of the Year
‘We can’t wait for this.’ Red
Menopausing is more than just a book, it’s a movement. An uprising.
Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or silence.
Why is no one talking about this? Who has the correct information? And how can we get it?
That’s how this book has come about. We are going to tell you the truth, so you can make an informed decision about your life and your body … mic drop.’
For too long, women have had to keep quiet about the menopause – its onset, its symptoms, its treatments – and what it means for us. Menopausing will build an empowered, supportive community to break this terrible silence once and for all. By exploring and explaining the science, debunking damaging myths, and smashing the taboos around the perimenopause and menopause, this book will equip women to make the most informed decisions about their health… and their lives.
Menopausing will also celebrate the sharing of stories, enabling women to feel less alone and more understood, and talk openly and positively about menopause.
No more scaremongering: just evidence-based infoNo shame: real women, real menopause stories, real empathy, real communityHonest, no-holds-barred advice: Dry vagina? Zero sex drive? Hair loss? We’ve got it coveredThe start of a movement: to get everyone talking about the menopause in every home, GP surgery and workspace
Davina McCall was a number 1 Sunday Times Hardback Non Fiction bestseller in the w/e September 25th 2022
Reviews
‘Game changing’ Guardian Online
‘[This] book is amazing; the way you’ve designed this book, from the colours to the cover to the structure of every page and how engaging and unintimidating it is and accessible it feels.’ Steven Bartlett, Diary of a CEO
‘We can’t wait for this.’ Red
‘Bracing, brutally honest, sisterly and huggy all at the same time.’ The Bookseller
About the author
Presenter, fitness guru, author and mother, Davina McCall is one of the UK's most loved TV personalities. With a career spanning nearly three decades, Davina is firmly established as one of the nation's most successful TV broadcasters, with current hit series Long Lost Family (ITV) and The Masked Singer (ITV) just the most recent in a long list of hugely successful programming. She was the host of Big Brother for Channel 4, for 10 years, and has hosted the Brit Awards, Comic Relief and the BAFTA television awards.
In addition to her TV work, Davina has also built a hugely successful fitness empire, encompassing no less than 15 fitness DVD releases with sales of over 1.4 million and ownyourgoalsdavina.com. She is a key brand ambassador for Garnier, and the first ever ambassador for Ryvita. Tying in with her healthy lifestyle, Davina has also released a number of healthy eating cookbooks.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Davina McCall has been a staple on our TV screens for over two decades and the trust she engenders as a broadcaster makes her the perfect person to lead this urgent charge on reproductive health—which began in 2021 with her Channel 4 documentary Davina McCall: Sex, Myths and the Menopause. Having struggled through the onset of menopause in her early forties, an experience further complicated by a lack of support from healthcare providers and a lack of awareness—but an abundance of silence and shame—within the very community this issue affects, McCall has been on a mission to speak up and spread information about a topic that verges on taboo. In Menopausing she balances the story of her own menopause journey—and personal accounts shared by those reaching out to her for help on social media—with medical insight provided by menopause specialist Dr Naomi Potter. The result is a comforting, relatable listen for women and trans men who may already be feeling thrown off balance by the changes caused by what McCall refers to as “the second spring”, and a reassuring one for those who want to prepare themselves for this inevitable stage of life.
Customer Reviews
Menopausing
What an amazing book. I found myself emotional with tears and laughter in equal measure. I have also been empowered to get treatment I need.
Liberating!!
My life is starting to make sense again, I’m not abnormal!
Wanted to like this more…
Unfortunately found the book very repetitive for information also too many letters read out, which I know is informative- but just too many for me. But the writing the book and the idea of making this a much louder message is important so well done Davina for that :-)