Being the Change

An inspirational and practical book about how we can shape and make the most of our postmenopause, from psychotherapist Dr Stella Duffy. There are a lot of books out there about menopause, but no one is talking about what comes next - postmenopause, which can be a quarter to a third of your life. What if menopause is your body reminding you to pay attention to your life, to your desires, your passions, your wants? And what if postmenopause is an opportunity to finally - FINALLY - live your life on your terms? In Being The Change , psychotherapist Dr Stella Duffy challenges and inspires her readers to live the postmenopause - the rest of your life - that you dream and plan and create for yourself, unhooked as far as possible from whatever has held you back in the past. Drawing on original research, stories from the therapy room and Duffy''s own experience of medical menopause after suffering cancer in her 30s, Being the Change blends real life narratives, analysis and practical exercises to show how this final stage of our lives can be creative and empowering, and how menopause is not the end, but a wake-up call to our vital third act?

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Dr Stella Duffy is an award-winning writer of seventeen novels, over seventy short stories and fourteen plays. In 2016 she received the OBE for services to the arts. Stella is also a psychotherapist working in private practice and for a low-cost community mental health service. She has recently completed her doctorate in Existential Psychotherapy, researching the embodied experience of post-menopause.
Her website is: www.stelladuffy.blog

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'Inclusive, compassionate ... Stella Duffy shows us how to grasp with both hands the vibrant new story that's waiting for us during our 'vital third act' SHARON BLACKIE, author of Hagitude and Ripening

We live between a quarter or even a third of our lives in postmenopause. But although there's been a welcome focus on perimenopause and menopause recently, postmenopause often remains ignored, misunderstood and even feared.

Psychotherapist Dr Stella Duffy wants us to ask: what if menopause isn't the end, but a wake-up call to our vital third act? And what if postmenopause is an opportunity to finally live life on our own terms?

Drawing on original research, stories from the therapy room and Duffy's own experience of medical menopause, Being the Change inspires us to use this transition to postmenopause as an opportunity to pay attention to what we really want. Duffy takes us through questions including what has held us back in the past, how areas like friendship, sex, work and ambition can be impacted by this transition, and what it's like to live in our changing bodies. Duffy's aim is to help us figure out how we want to live, what it would mean to thrive - and then act on it.

'Erudite, important and timely. Stella Duffy's postmenopause guide is meticulously researched and will give all women much needed hope' Christie Watson

'Uplifting and celebratory, Duffy's writing is like a great friend holding your hand and cheering you on as you embrace the transformative potential of menopause' Sophie Harman, author of Sick of It

'Duffy's compassionate, energising, and gently defiant prose convinces me that our 'vital third act' can be our best one yet' Julia Bueno, author of Everyone's a Critic