Reflecting on the best and hardest things about menopause ten years on

It is coming close to a decade since I officially menopaused. I am unsure of the exact date, but I wasn’t paying that much attention. There had been a gradual cessation of menstruation with those little reminders that, as the saying goes, it is not over till it is over.

I vividly remember being 53 and suddenly having a flooding, feeling; on the one hand,…