150 - The effects of trauma, gender bias and the peri/menopause with Dr Jan Smith

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dr Jan Smith is a chartered psychologist, executive coach, author, campaigner and the director of Healthy You Ltd. She has over 15 years’ experience providing psychological support to those affected by injury and clinical negligence. In 2014, Jan developed a birth trauma service and campaigns to improve safety in maternity services for families and staff and provides training in the UK and internationally to maternity students and healthcare professionals on birth trauma and its impact. In this episode, Jan describes to Dr Louise Newson how women can feel after a difficult birth or medical experience, and how trauma related emotions can resurface many years later at peri/menopause when psychological and genitourinary changes occur, often affecting relationships and intimacy. Jan’s 3 pieces of advice: If you had a difficult birth or healthcare related experience that affects how you feel about your genitals and intimacy, it is never too late to get help, even if it is years down the line. Workplaces need to view women’s health as a continuum, not separate stand-alone events like pregnancy or menopause. Think about ‘reaching in’ to help other women going through it – to listen, to validate and let them know they are heard and seen. This can be hugely beneficial for everyone’s mental health. For more about Jan and Healthy You, visit https://healthyyoultd.co.uk/

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause.
0:45.9	So today on the podcast, I'm delighted to introduce to you Dr Jan Smith, who's a psychologist
0:51.0	who I've recently been interested in her work and especially the work that
0:56.0	she does focusing on women who have had birth trauma, which might seem a bit weird talking
1:01.9	about birth trauma on a menopause podcast, but hopefully bear with us and we will reveal why.
1:07.8	So hi Jan, thanks ever so much for joining me today.
1:10.0	Hi Louise. Thanks for inviting me.
1:12.3	So tell me this about your work and your background and why you do what you do if that's okay.
1:17.2	Yeah. So I am the director of Healthy You Limited, which is an independent psychology practice.
1:25.3	And we do lots of work supporting birth and women and people who have been
1:30.2	impacted by trauma, which is a really big word. And in birth, we also support people through
1:38.0	fertility, loss and also, I guess, in that continuum of women's health right through perimenopause,
1:46.9	the menopause and postmenopause, and we do lots of work with organisations
1:52.2	in support and women's health around those spaces.
1:55.2	So a huge amount of work.
1:57.1	Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
1:58.5	So how did you get into that then?
2:00.3	What made you be interested in it?
2:02.4	I think I, probably from a personal experience, do you know,
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