Hi! I’m glad you’re here!
I’m Kathleen, a nurse turned health coach who helps women tackle menopause symptoms and eat intuitively as they listen to what their body truly needs.
I’m Kathleen — a nurse, health coach, and post-menopausal woman who struggled with hormone changes big time!
Menopause showed up for me at 44 (perimenopause in my late 30s). Like many of you, I was busy — building a career, carting children off to activities, chipping away at endless to-do lists with stress escalating to the rooftops.
As a nurse for over two decades, you’d think I’d have all the answers, right? WRONG! And I wasn’t getting the help I needed from my physician.
What do I do to feel better? I take a shortcut and consume sugar and alcohol as a quick fix and the eating disorder I kicked to the curb years ago knocks at the door.
Focusing on and controlling food was a way I could succeed at something and control life’s chaos.
No surprise . . . I made my menopause symptoms worse, much worse, and packed on over 20 pounds! I was bloated, tired, cranky, achy, and suffering from hot flashes ALL the time!
As a nurse, I also knew I was increasing my risk of heart disease, dementia, and many cancers due to the inflammation (I was helping create) in my body.
Women & Balance was created after a time when I felt very alone, like I was losing my mind! I couldn’t figure out why I felt this way in my late 30s/early 40s. But once I hired a health coach, and changed my habits, the fog lifted.
You spend more than half your life in perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause. You should not suffer through it!
How I started to like being around myself again!
✔️ I finally understood how inevitable hormone changes affect mood, weight, sleep, stress and blood sugar levels, and cravings! As a lifelong learner, I did a deep dive into what I had to change if I wanted to get healthy and look and feel my best.
✔️ Once I understood my changing body, I stopped dieting and depriving (which would always lead to binging or emotional eating — it does for MANY women!) and I lost the 22 lbs I gained by eating intuitively — finally listening to and trusting my body.
✔️ Making different choices, gave me different results – the ones I wanted!! Let me help you feel and look your best and NOT make the mistakes I did.
Check out my blog on ‘Having the Courage to Change in Midlife‘
When I’m not helping women make peace with food, understand changing hormones, and manage symptoms, you can find me…
enjoying the outdoors, traveling, enjoying delicious foods, or reading, knitting or walking our (anxious) Labradoodle. We also love to hang out with our two amazing adult children, and run around with our energetic, handsome grandsons, Jack and Rory!
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