252 - Bryony Gordon: mental health, hormones and witchy magic

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast, journalist Bryony Gordon, bestselling author of several books including her latest, Mad Woman, explains how the perimenopause caused her to reconsider her mental health. Was her experience of OCD affected by her hormones and what would society look like if women’s health was taken more seriously? Bryony shares her belief that there’s a 'witchy magic' to menopause and that the issues it brings are the ones that you need to deal with and there is power in doing so. Finally, Bryony shares three bits of advice to any woman being dismissed with 'it’s just your hormones': Don’t dismiss yourself. Don’t discount your point of view or feelings just because they are yours. Maybe sometimes you're right, maybe sometimes you're wrong - that's OK. It's OK sometimes to be bad. We all are. It’s just society wants us to live as women in a way that isn't very human. Confidence is a trick. No one has confidence. I don't have confidence. I just have a will and a desperation not to spend the rest of my life hating on myself because it's such a waste of energy. Follow Bryony on Instagram @bryonygordon her community organisation @Mental Health Mates Click here to find out more about Newson Health.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr Louise Newsome. I'm a GP and menopause specialist, and I'm also the founder of the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-Pon-Avon.
0:21.6	I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.
0:25.6	Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause
0:31.6	and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,
0:38.2	and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.
0:43.7	This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,
0:46.9	which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.
1:02.3	Today on the podcast, I've got somebody with me who I have met in real life before,
1:07.8	and she's with me now, who many of you will have heard of, who's very inspirational
1:12.3	and very open actually about her own story. So Briny Gordon, who's recently written Mad Woman and
1:19.0	in the middle, I hold it up for those of you that are watching, it says, Menopause, binge eating
1:24.1	OCD, how to survive a world World that Thinks You're the Problem.
1:29.2	And my goodness me, this book resonated so much with me personally, but also I know for a lot of
1:35.2	people that I see.
1:36.2	So amazing to have you on my podcast.
1:38.7	I'm super excited.
1:39.6	Thanks, Brian, for coming.
1:41.0	Thanks for having me.
1:42.5	Oh, no, it's great.
1:43.5	So we met in Carfest, actually, didn't we last year?
1:47.2	Which was great. Oh yeah. Very, very woman-centric Carfest. Oh my God. That's such a, that's such a
1:55.0	stereotype of me. Yeah, but it was great. And I am, in fact, I'm going back this year. Me too. I love Car Fest. Everyone,
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