Episode Details

My guest this week is Homeopath Sarah Davison who is a natural menopause expert.  She helps women with stress and all aspects of menopause so was able to explain why the menopause and alcohol don’t mix!

In this episode:-

• Sarah was enjoying her corporate career until everything went pear shaped in her 40’s
• The combination of family and work pressure mixed in with hormonal changes knocked her for six.
• She felt completely stressed out and anxious – and so weak she could hardly climb the stairs
• Sarah hadn’t even heard of the word at the time but now she knows she was in perimenopause
• The silver lining of this perfect storm was that it made her question her life
• She’d been going to a homeopath for years so went to see her to get some help.
• The results were so amazing that she decided to leave her job and go back to college to study.
• She did a 3 year full time degree course in homeopathic medicine
• Sarah explained that homeopathy is a complete system of medicine in its own right – used by 450M people globally.
• Natural and non toxic with no side effects it can be used to treat physical, mental and emotional illnesses.
• It stimulates and reactivates our self-healing mechanism and our bodies will choose the wisest way to do the healing
• Quite simply homeopathy allows our amazing bodies to heal themselves 
• There is plenty of evidence showing the efficacy of homeopathy
• Sarah explained that Menopause is only ONE DAY – one year after the last period
• 10 to 14 years before that day is Perimenopause and after that day we become post Menopausal 
• Many women in their forties suffer from anxiety, depression insomnia and take medication for it – not knowing that it’s the Perimenopause
• The average age of the Menopause is 51
• I loved Sarah’s take on the 3 ages of women and will be stealing that one from her!
• Women evolve from maidens to mother to crone but I share Sarah’s view that a crone gives the impression of an old and bent woman and that is not what mid life women look like!
• So lets reframe if from maiden to mother to QUEEN – the Queen stage can be from 40 to 80
• That’s when many women come into their power – we see it in our Tribe Sober Community all the time – women ditching the booze and then discovering what they really want to do with their lives
• To join a community of Queens then join Tribe Sober via this link!
• I found it fascinating to learn that Estrogen makes us compliant which may explain why so many women who drink are people pleasers
• Exhausted from looking after everyone else they start using alcohol as a form of self care and a reward!
• The problem with that strategy is that by the time we become post menopausal and our Estrogen levels drop we may have become dependent on alcohol
• We may be drinking wine on a daily basis which will be sapping our energy and motivation to try new activities and step into our power
• Sarah pointed out that drinkers are often very sensitive people who use alcohol as an emotional anaesthetic, especially if they have some unresolved issues
• If you are prone to hot flushes be aware that alcohol will congest your liver and make them worse- if you want to have the “best” menopause that you can then don’t drink
• I asked Sarah how we could heal our liver and gut after years of drinking
• She pointed out the our liver works as a dustbin and eliminating the toxin alcohol will overload it.
• What I didn’t know was that the liver also de-activates hormones – old hormones – so if it can’t deactivate estrogen we end up with too much estrogen floating around which causes an imbalance.
• The evidence between alcohol and breast cancer is stacking up and estrogen driven br