Over the past three years, health and nutrition writer Niki Bezzant has become a friend and collaborator thanks to our shared passion and commitment to waking the world up to peri/menopause and its impact on women in life, work and leadership.
Niki’s book This Changes Everything: the honest guide to menopause and perimenopause has become an indispensable reference book for me and thousands of women in New Zealand and around the world as we’ve navigated our peri/menopause journeys.
This weekend I finally finished Niki’s NEW book The Everything Guide: hormones, health and happiness in midlife and beyond and it’s a cracker!
I agree with her publisher when they say: “Niki re-frames ageing for a new generation, tackling body image struggles; mental health challenges; feeling ‘lost’ in midlife and re-connecting with ourselves during a time of hormonal transition. The book is also packed with easy-to-follow, practical advice on eating, movement, stress, energy, sleep and more.
With no fads and no bullshit, this is an inspiring guide full of long-term strategies for feeling great in your body and mind. The Everything Guide really does contain everything every woman needs to feel great now and for the decades to come.”
Amongst the pages of this book, everyone will find something to ease their mind, pause for thought, and inspire positive action. Covering everything (it is the everything guide after all!) from what’s going on inside your body, how to move it and what to feed it, to stuff on the outside like dealing with our changing appearance and experimenting with clothing and style. There’s no more fading into the background for THIS generation!
For me the chapters that resonated most were:
- Loving the skin you’re in (if you only read one chapter, make it THIS ONE!)
- Disordered eating: a midlife trap (I have a history…so this was a timely reminder of past experiences)
- Sexuality, intimacy and desire (I’ll leave this one to your imagination…); and
- On the inside: finding yourself and finding joy (in which I even get an honourable mention).
In these days of podcasts and the consumption of audio content whilst doing other things, if you’d prefer to listen to it, there’s also an audiobook available on Audible and Apple Books read by Niki herself.
Thoroughly recommend getting yourself a copy and would love to hear what chapters resonate with you!
