Aug 30, 2026 · 31 min · 16 segments
What if we’ve been looking at menopause all wrong? Katie Brindle shares a different perspective on this life transition, with simple ways to tackle depletion, hot flushes and overwhelm. Katie looks at…
Katie BrindleHost
So perhaps an expression that we need to start saying to ourselves is not that I'm menopausal, but actually I'm depleted.
So if you're dealing with hot flushes or night sweats, the easiest thing in the world is to start drinking chrysanthemum tea right now.
You need to be asleep by 10.30 because you enter into gallbladder time by 11 o'clock at night.
Not for the patriarchy, not for our children, not for anyone, but it is time to start chrysanthemum.
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So perhaps an expression that we need to start saying to ourselves is not that I'm menopausal, but actually I'm depleted.
So if you're dealing with hot flushes or night sweats, the easiest thing in the world is to start drinking chrysanthemum tea right now.
You need to be asleep by 10.30 because you enter into gallbladder time by 11 o'clock at night.
Not for the patriarchy, not for our children, not for anyone, but it is time to start chrysanthemum.
