{"id":17453,"date":"2023-10-31T09:38:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T09:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=17453"},"modified":"2023-10-31T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T10:35:09","slug":"princesses-of-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=17453","title":{"rendered":"Diane and Andrea chat with Orcas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diane Danzebrink founder of the Make Menopause Matter campaign and Menopause Support, with Our Office Manager Andrea Swan, talk about how they\u2019ve gone from chats round Andrea\u2019s kitchen table to lobbying Parliament and educating future generations in a chat with India Fisher, who runs the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemoreorcapod.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Be More Orca<\/a> podcast which specialises in menopause.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Orcas-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17468\" src=\"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Orcas-2-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Orcas-2-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Orcas-2.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>You can hear the conversation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemoreorcapod.co.uk\/podcast\/episode\/61817885\/meet-diane-danzebrink-and-andrea-swan-the-women-making-menopause-matter-theyre-making-sure-womens-health-is-pushed-into-the-public-arena-for-the-benefit-of-us-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"comp-lcqaunbc\" class=\"KcpHeO tz5f0K comp-lcqaunbc wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\">\n<p class=\"font_2 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_12 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Why Be More Orca., you may ask?\u00a0 India explained: &#8220;<\/span><\/span>Female Orcas go through the Menopause when they\u2019re about 40-50 years old.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"comp-ld1qfkvc\" class=\"KcpHeO tz5f0K comp-ld1qfkvc wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\">\n<p class=\"font_7 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_12 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">&#8220;They go on to live another 40 or 50 years and become the Leaders of their communities or Pods. Their Matriarchal society realises the value of their knowledge and experience, and chooses to follow them especially in hard times. They are vital to the survival of the whole Pod.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_7 wixui-rich-text__text\">&#8220;<span class=\"color_12 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">We need to Be More Orca in our approach and attitude to the Menopause. It isn&#8217;t something to be feared. The symptoms shouldn\u2019t just be chalked up to \u201coh well I\u2019m getting old\u201d. We shouldn\u2019t be made to feel past our prime and relegated to the scrap heap. &#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_7 wixui-rich-text__text\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane Danzebrink and our Office Manager Andrea Swan talk about how they\u2019ve gone from chats round Andrea\u2019s kitchen table to lobbying Parliament and educating future generations in a chat with India Fisher, who runs the Be More Orca podcast which specialises in menopause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17453"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17469,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17453\/revisions\/17469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}