I'm Your Peri Godmother

The first Australian guide to perimenopause, featuring Shelly Horton’s incredible story along with interviews with local and international menopause experts including Dr Louise Newson, Dr Mary Claire Haver, Dr Kelly Casperson and Dr Ginni Mansberg.

Health advocate and journalist Shelly Horton thought menopause was for old ladies and was simply hot flushes and no more periods – until she went from kicking arse in her career to waking up in the ICU, all because her hormones staged a full-blown peri-mutiny. Now, driven by the knowledge that keeping quiet only holds women back, she is sharing her perimenopause story along with evidence-based health advice, case studies and practical tools so you can navigate the peri rollercoaster with more confidence and a lot less confusion.

I'm Your Peri Godmother will keep you laughing as you learn:

• What HRT is and how to decide if it's right for you
• How to navigate night sweats, insomnia, weight gain, brain fog, heavy periods and more
• What to do when peri anxiety and depression hit hard
• Which herbs and supplements help and which just lead to expensive wee
• Why you need skincare for your vagina
• How to advocate for a menopause-friendly workplace
  
  
  

Consider Shelly your big sister, your supportive best friend, your very own peri godmother, here to help you through it all with a wave of her magic wand, lots of medical evidence (but no medical jargon) and real-life warmth and humor.

Shelly Horton is a journalist, TV presenter, keynote speaker, MC, runs her own company ShellShocked Media and is an out-and-proud peri warrior. She appears weekly on Channel Nine delivering opinion segments, hosts Married at First Sight's spin-off TV show and podcast, and was a health and lifestyle presenter for 9Honey. Her career highlights beyond her current ten years at Nine include eleven years reporting for the ABC, eight years as a presenter on Channel Seven and six years as a journalist at Fairfax. Shelly has been a long-time advocate for women's health including publicly speaking up to destigmatise topics such as a woman's choice to be childfree, PCOS, heavy periods, depression and peri/menopause. She has co-created online and in-person educational courses about confidence, health advocacy, media training and peri/menopause in the workplace. She has been a corporate trainer for 25 years helping companies communicate effectively internally and externally. The natural-born conversationalist has spun her magic with some of the country's biggest organisations including Australian Digital Health Agency, Johnson & Johnson, Bond University Medical Faculty, Channel Nine, University of Sydney and SpecSavers. She's also an ambassador for the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Share the Dignity and HER Mental Health, and a member of the International Menopause Society.

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