Welcome to my weekly Women’s Wellness Newsletter, which I send out every Saturday. This space is for women of all ages who want to live well, feel vibrant, and stay strong.
Each week, I’ll share simple, practical tips to help you manage your wellness and introduce habits you can apply immediately to feel better, energised, and empowered.
We are already halfway through September, and Menopause Awareness Month is fast approaching.
This year’s theme is one I absolutely love and feel deeply connected to in my work with clients: Lifestyle Medicine.
The 2025 Theme: Lifestyle Medicine
The theme for World Menopause Month and Day 2025 is Lifestyle Medicine. It highlights the role of everyday lifestyle choices—nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management, and self-care—in helping women manage the physical and emotional challenges of perimenopause and menopause, and ultimately improving overall health and wellbeing.
What is Lifestyle Medicine?
- A Holistic Approach: It’s about more than just treating symptoms. It’s about recognising how all areas of lifestyle—from what we eat to how we move and rest—directly impact our health during this life stage.
- Proactive Health: It encourages us to take ownership of our wellbeing by making informed decisions about diet, sleep, stress, exercise, and recovery.
- Empowerment: It empowers women to take an active role in their own health journey by building sustainable, positive lifestyle habits.
What a fabulous theme! Looking back over the last 12 months, here are some of the HOT topics we’ve been talking about in relation to midlife women’s health:
Key Trends & Conversations in Midlife Health that I have written about in the newsletter
- The rise of Creatine: One of the most researched supplements of recent years, with particular benefits for women over 40.
- GLP1 medications: A huge talking point, especially around weight management and how GLP1s are being used alongside HRT, the effects and outcomes.
- The importance of Fibre: What it is, why it matters for gut health, hormone balance, weight management, and what foods provide it.
- Strength & Resistance Training: Non-negotiable for long-term bone, muscle, and metabolic health.
- Stress Management & Nervous System Regulation: What it is, why it’s essential, and simple ways to practice it daily.
When starting any coaching programme or lifestyle reset, I always believe the first step is learning tools to manage stress and regulate the nervous system.
Why? Because once you’ve got strategies in place to regulate stress on a daily basis, everything else—better sleep, healthier food choices, improved energy for exercise, stronger mental health, and consistent healthy habits—becomes so much more achievable.
Long-term success is all about stacking those micro-habits daily until they become part of your non-negotiable routines.
Have you Got a Nina Slow Cooker?
As we head into the autumn/winter season, I’m about to invest in a new slow cooker (after finally upgrading my kitchen and saying goodbye to my ancient one!). I’ve heard so many good things about the Ninja slow cooker—do you have one? I’d love to know your thoughts.
Final Thought
I hope you’re finding ways to consistently work on your own daily micro-habits—those small but mighty actions that compound into big wins for your health and fitness. You can join me online for my 7 day Beginners Health and Fitness coaching or join my online classes here
Much love,
Rachel xxx
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