Welcome to your Menopause
Kàren is a midlife and menopause coach who helps women navigate the menopause journey and other changes they are making at this stage of their life.
Every woman experiences perimenopause and menopause, and for some it is uncomfortable and difficult, presenting issues like lack of sleep, raging emotions and loss of confidence.
A trained midlife coach, My Menopause Transformation Practitioner, and soon to be certified Menopause Doula, Kàren is passionate about educating women about menopause, ways they can ease the symptoms, and how they can embrace their ‘Second Spring.’
Kàren’s career experience and training enables her to understand others and identify ways to help them. After a career in human resources in merchant banking and large corporate companies, Kàren decided to extend her skills and retrain as a life coach for midlife women.
“Most of my career success was in working with people one-on one and I enjoyed supporting them to make a real difference in their lives.”
Through her life coaching business Kàren identified that the struggles many women aged in their 40s to 60s have are due to menopause, so she is undertaking further training as a My Menopause Transformation Practitioner and Menopause Doula and is due to complete these qualifications in early 2024. A Menopause Doula helps clients through the menopause transition with guidance, tips, and resources.
“In midlife, it’s a bit like a perfect storm takes place for women, and 70 percent of that is menopause. I could see this affecting many of my clients so I wanted to gain a deeper understanding of it to help them the best way I can.”
Kàren says because menopause is not commonly talked about, most women in midlife do not know much about it. Her focus is to educate women and give them the tools to ease the transition.
“Menopause can really knock women sideways, affecting their emotions, sleep, stress, and overall wellbeing. I want women to know that what they are experiencing is common, there is help for them, and they don’t need to suffer through this phase.”
Kàren Maggs Coaching offers a range of life and menopause coaching packages to help women through both life and menopause changes.
“I was feeling unseen, unheard, isolated and alone, and felt that I couldn't talk openly about what I was going through. I realised I couldn't do this on my own. It was a relief to be totally honest in an environment that was safe. A relief to be real. It was like you gently pushed me through the haze into the light, my light.
I can't tell you what it means to me to have gone through this experience. Never what I expected, so much more than I expected. A gentle place to lay, that created so much movement.
All I can say is thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
Janine McShane