In this episode I talk to Kim Curran, author and award-winning creative director, who also happens to be my best friend. It was Kim who first suggested I see a hormone specialist, like my perimenopause sherpa. And that’s so often the way – women passing their experiences and advice from one to the other.

We chat about our perimenopause symptoms and all the things we thought it might be. Spoiler; Kim thought she had long-covid, I thought I had early onset Alzheimer’s.

Kim talks about how she didn’t feel like herself, how she started doubting herself and struggling to deal with stress in the same way as before. She also talks about her burn out, which led to her quitting her job as a Creative Director. And she isn’t alone, in a survey by SimplyHealth it says 23% of women have considered quitting their job because of menopausal and menstrual symptoms.

We talk about how society is so uncomfortable with female anger and how Kim experienced anger and rage that she had never felt before. All of which she ended up channeling into the writing of her novel “The Morrigan”, a feminist retelling of Irish mythology from the point of view of the Morrigan, the Irish Goddess of fury. (Which came out this month!)

We also talk about how perimenopause can present an opportunity to reinvent yourself, a new phase of your life, where we can let go of trying to be everything to everyone, and become… just ourselves. The liberating feeling of running out of f#@ks to give!

It’s a lively chat between two women who love each other. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

About Kim Curran

Kim is an author of seven novels and an award-winning creative director. She’s also a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and writing mentor.

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Podcast Host & Producer: Lisa Paasche Podcast Editor & Producer: Luke Naylor-Perrot

Reference Links:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462916/the-morrigan-by-curran-kim/9780241712733

https://www.simplyhealth.co.uk/news-and-articles/35-million-women-have-considered-quitting-job-due-to-menopause-and-menstrual-health-symptoms