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Education and awareness is the first stage of empowerment and transformational change. Improve your knowledge of toxic stress, sensitive brains and nervous systems and childhood trauma with my free downloads.
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TESTS & QUESTIONNAIRES
Sensitivity Tests
Interested in finding out if you or someone you know might be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)?
Take the following self-tests here:
Trauma and Menopause
Symptoms Questionnaire
FREE DOWNLOADS
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HOW BEING A HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON CAN IMPACT MIDLIFE HEALTH AND THE SEVERITY OF MENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS
This short video explains how highly sensitive people (HSPs) are impacted by peri-menopausal and menopausal symptoms. Get your free download now! Simply enter your details and instructions about how to access the resource will be sent straight to your inbox.
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UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF TRAUMA, TOXIC STRESS & THE SEVERITY OF MENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS
Inside I will show you:
- The links between childhood trauma and menopause
- How childhood experiences can impact your menopausal experience
- Why we suffer from toxic stress
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MEDICAL LETTER FOR HIGHLY SENSITIVE PEOPLE
Are you a Highly Sensitive Person struggling to communicate with your healthcare provider?
This brief letter has been put together to help your healthcare practitioner better understand the traits of Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) and how these can affect our sensitivity to particular medications or sometimes lead to misdiagnosis.
Enter your details below and a copy of this letter will be sent straight to your inbox.
webinars
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Highly Sensitive Women and the impact on mental health and menopause symptoms
In this workshop Paula explores the crossovers and links between menopause symptoms and the personality trait of being a “Highly Sensitive Person”.
Using the current body of research and her own personal story and experiences Paula discusses why highly sensitive women potentially experience more severe menopause symptoms.
podcasts
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CASE STUDY: I was given too much HRT by a menopause doctor
The Medical Minefield team speak to Paula Rastrick, who recounts the harrowing experience of being prescribed twice the maximum dose of oestrogen to treat what might have been perimenopause.
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Perimenopause WTF? How Trauma & High Sensitivity Can Impact The Menopause Transition
Rachel and Paula address if trauma and being a high sensitive person (HSP) can make the menopause transition more severely.
Articles & STUDIES
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Consider Trauma in Your Menopausal Patients
A recent study just presented at the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) annual meeting found that traumatic life experiences were linked with lower levels of estrogens in menopause—particularly in women who got fewer hours of sleep.
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Are private menopause clinics putting women at risk by giving them ‘too much’ HRT?
DO YOU feel like you’re drowning? These haunting words, in a social media post, struck a chord with Paula Rastrick.
The advert, from a private clinic specialising in menopause treatment, seemed to list all her problems: anxiety, insomnia, fatigue and lack of sex drive, to name a few. They were symptoms that, till then, Paula had put down to stress.
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Caring for Patients Who Have Experienced Trauma
Recommendations and conclusions made by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists regarding a trauma-informed approach to the health care visit.
