Stigma surrounds the menopause, a Guernsey support group is raising awareness and understanding

Dani Barnett has been on a roller coaster ride since having her ovaries removed four years ago.
Ultimately the conversations that she was having with friends and colleagues, some of them whispered, led to setting up Unpaused.
“Nobody really knew what was going on with me, and I'd get funny looks, and I'd just be like, ‘I'm in menopause. Leave me alone’. 
“I found that my friends are coming up to that sort of age, and they're asking ‘have you been feeling this? Have you had these symptoms and this?’ And people are asking me for advice and talking about things, and it felt like people were whispering to me at work, and I thought, ‘this is so wrong, like it's so taboo and it shouldn’t be.’”
Unpaused is raising awareness, removing taboos, supporting and empowering people through events, workshops and individual mentoring.
Watch to find out more and see what support is on offer at  https://www.linkedin.com/company/unpa-used/