Menopause?? What's that?!!

Menopause Whist Black Season SIX Episode 5! Our guest this week
is Dr Yansie Rolston.


Dr. Yansie Rolstons PhD experience is in health equity providing
technical expertise to statutory organisations. She is a
researcher, skilled trainer and facilitator working across
Europe, Africa, America, and the Caribbean, designing and
implementing health equity strategies.


Dr Yansie founded You and Menopause in 2014, is a film executive
producer of several documentaries on menopause and grief and
co-editor/author of 'Black and menopausal, intimate stories of
navigating the change', a highly recommended book on Black
peoples personal journeys with menopause. 


Dr Yansie is associate director of The Ubele Initiative and
Efficacy Eva. 


We discuss:


> Her experience of surgically induced menopause


> Menopause experiences in different countries


> The support from Mother and daughter conversations >
Worries around over-medicalising menopause


> How to lessen the serious impact of racial weathering. and
much more.


This episode is available to watch on YouTube and listen on
iTunes, Spotify, Amazon and beyond.


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NOTES


4 documentary films about menopause 

You and Menopause website. 

The Ubele Initiative 

Co-editor of the book: Black and Menopausal Intimate
Stories of Navigating the Change.

Contributing chapter in the book: More than Talk perspectives
in Black and People of Colour in Sexual and Reproductive Health
in the UK.

Book recommendation: The Body Takes the Score book
Bessel van der Kolk



CONNECT


Youandme_nopause on Instagram

Dr Yansie Rolston on Instagram

Email Yansie: yrolston@hotmail.com

Youandmenopause.org

Karen Arthur  on Instagram

 MWBPod website



These episodes are conversations between humans discussing their
own menopause experiences. They are not a substitute for advice
and consultation with a qualified health professional. No two
menopause experiences are the same so do remember to do your own
research.


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that ALL who experience menopause are seen and heard. The term
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