Woman's Own

Should you have time off for the menopause?

YES

‘I didn’t feel I could talk to anyone’

Lauren Chiren, 53, is from Bristol and runs womenofacertainstage.com

Over the course of 18 months, I started noticing that things were getting harder for me to manage, I wasn’t sleeping and I was getting more forgetful.

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