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What is a Menopause Doula?

June 17, 20243 min read

Imagine a world where you could just reach out and speak to someone who knows and cares what you're going through

Introduction:

A Menopause Doula is someone who has the knowledge and experience to guide nurture and support others along the menstrual health timeline.

  • They do not diagnose

  • They do not prescribe

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'We need more touch points in the life of menstruators, across all age groups, to learn about menstruating and menstrual health'

A Menopause-friendly future

We imagine a world where a person who menstruates can wake up each day feeling confident in their physiology, curious to learn more, and know there is a safe and supportive space to ask for help wherever they are on the menstrual health timeline. 

We believe the best way to do this is to create a global collective of Menopause Doulas, who will enable and empower others with the relevant and meaningful knowledge needed to make an informed choice on hormone health. 

Why do we need Menopause Doulas? (with menopause health experiences)

1. There is no lesson on menstrual health or menopause in any Biology book. This massive lack of knowledge sets up every menstruator for a collection of surprises throughout their lives. Menstrual health physiology, beyond the bleed, gets totally overlooked.

2. Common sense would indicate that if there have been no biological facts taught about the wider topic of menstrual health (beyond fertility), how is it possible to know how to manage it? If you do not understand menstrual health, it’s simply not possible to understand menopause health.

3. How do we expect people to understand the biochemical shifts, each day of a menstruators life that contribute toward negative or positive mental health unless you teach the essentials first? We need more touch points in the life of menstruators, across all age groups, to learn about menstruating and menstrual health.

Menopause Doulas are the future of great Menopause Care

Once people know and understand the essential menstrual health know-how,  they will still need someone to guide and support them with great choices.

The time traveled from puberty to postmenopause is a long one and without support we are witnessing health outcomes that could be so different from the ones people are experiencing now.

These mentors and advisors need to be accessible in all the different places where you will find all the different types of people who menstruate. In other words - everywhere.

Menopause Doulas are the perfect people to be both the teachers & mentors

Conclusions

There is a missed generation of people who have little or no idea how their physiology works.

You can't manage what you don't understand

Learning about menstrual health should be easy, but mostly it’s not. The more people we have in the world who can be there to guide, nurture and support others, the better.

Tomorrow's menopause-friendly future is only a click away.


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Fiona Catchpowle

Menstrual Health Evangelist

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