This week’s Episode is our last in Series 3 and we look at the positive side to post menopause with the lovely Rachel Edgerton, she’s a woman on a mission to give hope to anyone struggling with the menopause transition journey.With AI robots on the rise Jinty discovers that all is not what it seems when the AI’s demonstrate a gender bias and Lou discovers you can have good sex in your 70’s but it might not be too acrobatic!As this is the last episode in this series we have a wine collective and it doesn’t all involve wine!In the Book Collective we find out what your favourite books are and we absolutely love the recommendations you’ve sent to us.We begin our autism awareness course with Kent University with a quiz, do we really know about autism? Our guest this week is Rachel Edgerton she is on a mission to give hope to anyone struggling with the menopause transition, the journey and the destination. She has experienced everything from mild to extreme menopause symptoms, Rachel is a mentor and campaigner for women in menopause. We talk a lot about peri menopause but what about Post menopause?Rachael says ‘Menopause is a journey, and the destination is good’. Adding she wants to give hope to women struggling right now.She tells us about her intrusive, suicidal thoughts and her experience of hysterectomy surgery, the recovery and destination-Post Menopause. Since 2017 Rachel has been she has been raising awareness about all things menopause, she is the menopause support colleague at work and fundraises for the Menopause Charity. Our Book Collective have sent in their favourite books we read out a few and we now have an extensive list of superb reading! It’s the last episode in this month so our Foodie makes way for the Wine Collective. Jinty has chosen a fruity 0% alcohol Rose Freixnet and Lou has picked a local Devon made drink, Salcombe gin find out how the tasting went? Our WI gets underway with a free course from Kent University via Future learn, Understanding Autism and the opening quiz proves we don’t know everything we thought we did about autism. You can join along with us on this link: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/autism Our campaign for an NHS menopause clinic in Devon marches on and we would love you to sign our petition for a menopause clinic in Devon please click on the link: https://www.change.org/p/wheresmyclinicOr you can send us your testimonials via email: [email protected] finally, if you would like the templates to send to your MP or CCG please visit our website: https://menopauseclinicfordevon.co.ukThank you for listening and contributing to our Podcast, see you in Series 4 coming in May 15th 2022 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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