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The Cool Colleagues Guide to Menopause
How do we support our colleagues in menopause and perimenopause?
Firstly, You Don’t Have To!
You are entitled to chose to have nothing to do with menopause or perimenopause. Never to talk about it. Never to read about it. Not to care about it. Leave the room if the subject comes up.
It’s fine to opt out. But if you do, you need to own that choice. If you’re not informing yourself and you’re not hearing people’s experience, then you’re not going to have a particularly useful opinion. It’s not fair for you to make assumptions, to complain about how other people cope, or to dismiss other people’s experience.
As they say in the wedding ceremony, ‘forever hold your peace’.
But If You Want To?
- Start by informing yourself. It won’t make you the expert on every menopause because it’s something everyone experiences differently. But it will open your eyes. There are lots of books and blogs out there, and you could do worse than start here or perhaps this graphic will be useful.
2. If your workplace runs menopause information sessions, please come along — even if you’re…
