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.

I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.

Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause

and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,

and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.

This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,

which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.

So on this episode of the podcast, I'm going to do something a bit different. I'm not actually

going to have a guest. I am going to be the guest of my podcast.

It's towards the end of the year, the end nearly of 2024. So I thought I would just talk a bit

about some reflections of the year and where everything is going, where my work's going,

where menopause is going and where hormones are going as well.

It's been an interesting year and really every day is a different day.

I always say to my children, every day is a learning day.

There's always new things to learn and often we learn from experiences.

Anything that we experience helps us to grow, to develop, to change,

to improve and move forwards, actually. Somebody said to me many years ago that you should

glance backwards and look forwards and it's so easy to not think too much about the future and concentrate on things that have

happened in the past. And many of us have had things that have happened that we wouldn't want

to have repeated to us, but actually every negative and positive experience can shape us in different

ways. When I started the work that I do about

eight years ago when I really wanted to dedicate my future career to thinking about hormones and

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