Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode.

The 10pm Scroll: Why Your Phone Is Ruining Your Menopause

Screen time, blue light, doom-scrolling, and what they’re doing to your already-disrupted sleep

In this episode:

You pick up your phone to check the time. Forty-five minutes later you’re watching a stranger reorganise her pantry. I explain why scrolling feels like rest but is actually stimulation — the dopamine hits, the blue light suppressing melatonin, the micro-cortisol spikes from news and comparison content — and why all of this hits harder in a menopausal nervous system. Plus the single most effective change you can make tonight: charge your phone outside the bedroom.

Your One Thing this week:

Tonight, put your phone face-down one hour before you want to sleep. Just tonight. See what happens. Notice whether you fall asleep faster and whether the 3am wake-up is less intense.

Links:

→ Grab the free 5 Riviera Standards Starter Guide: https://rivieramenopausemethod.kit.com/5-riviera-standards

→ Follow Riviera Menopause on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivieramenopause/

If this made you look at your phone differently, send it to someone. Preferably not via a 10pm text that starts a scrolling conversation.

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode.

The Rage Episode: Why You Want to Scream at Everyone and It’s Not Your Personality

The sudden anger of menopause and what it’s actually telling you

In this episode:

My husband was eating an apple. Just eating an apple. And the sound made me want to leave the country. If you’ve experienced disproportionate, white-hot rage over absolutely nothing, this episode explains why. I cover the progesterone-GABA connection, why your emotional buffer has thinned, and five practical ways to manage the rage without suppressing it — including why a blood sugar crash before dinner might be the trigger nobody suspects.

Your One Thing this week:

Identify your physical warning signal — the thing your body does before the rage arrives. Heat, tension, jaw clenching, shallow breathing. Just notice it this week. Because the moment you can see it coming, you have a choice.

Links:

→ Grab the free 5 Riviera Standards Starter Guide: https://rivieramenopausemethod.kit.com/5-riviera-standards

→ Follow Riviera Menopause on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivieramenopause/

If this described your recent behaviour, send it to someone. Preferably not while you’re still angry.

Drop me a message and let me know if there is anything you would like me to cover in a future episode.

The Career Conversation: When Menopause Meets Your Ambition

How to protect your professional life when your body is rewriting the rules

In this episode:

Nobody talks about this at work. You’re sitting in a meeting with brain fog, anxiety, and a hot flush threatening to arrive at any moment — and you’re performing your way through it. I cover the hidden workforce crisis (one in ten women have left or considered leaving their jobs because of menopause), practical strategies for managing symptoms at work, whether and how to have the disclosure conversation with your employer, and the provocative question: is menopause asking you to change your career, not just endure it?

Your One Thing this week:

Identify your best two hours of the day — the window where your brain is clearest. Then protect that window for your most important work. Stop answering emails in your peak hours.

Links:

→ Grab the free 5 Riviera Standards Starter Guide: https://rivieramenopausemethod.kit.com/5-riviera-standards

→ Follow Riviera Menopause on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivieramenopause/

If you know a woman who is silently struggling at work, send her this. Tell her: you’re not falling apart. You’re working through something. And there are strategies that help.