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Endometriosis month by Joy Wisdom

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Endometriosis Awareness Month reminds us that women’s pain shouldn’t ever be dismissed. Many girls grow up believing severe period pain is normal. For 1 in 10 women living with endometriosis, it isn’t.

 

March marks Endometriosis Awareness Month, highlighting a condition that affects millions of women worldwide. Despite this, diagnosis still takes an average of 7–8 years in the UK, leaving many women navigating pain, fatigue, digestive disruption and fertility challenges without answers. Symptoms vary widely, which can delay recognition and diagnosis. Plus endometriosis can exist without symptoms. Endometrial growths respond to hormonal cycles, often causing inflammation and chronic pelvic pain.

 

The outcomes for females are painful, fatigue and trauma, I know because I lived with it that ended in a hysterectomy at 33.  But I also had menstrual issues in my early life (from  puberty) that were ignored. And I believe if I had been advised and received help through my teen and twenties I could have avoided the various outcomes that followed. 

 

Why I believe practical and awareness education is critical. For generations, girls have not been taught how to recognise the early signposts of menstrual disregulation. Many assume their experience is the same as everyone else’s. Without awareness, symptoms can be overlooked until conditions become severe. Through more than 25 years working in women’s health, I have seen how early menstrual experiences often shape wellbeing across the decades. Hormonal health is not confined to one stage of life, it connects menstrual health, fertility, maternal wellbeing, perimenopause and menopause. And all areas of female health is underfunded, misunderstood and not safeguarded at all.

 

My greatest concern is future generations will live the same outcomes. This understanding led me to develop the concept of Menoproofing Through the Decades, helping women understand how to support their hormonal health from teenage years onwards so they can recognise signposts early and take informed action. Mums, Grandmothers, Aunts, help younger generations to avoid and prevent.

 

My upcoming book, Menoproof your life…through the decades, explores this life-stage approach to women’s health and offers practical guidance to help women protect their wellbeing as they move through each stage of hormonal change.

Joy founded Joy Wisdom Trust (JWT) and Allonus Ltd, who support women through education, talks, workshops, webinars, seminars. With personal and professional holistic reality programmes,  efficient changes with testing, 1-2-1 support specialist packages designed for women from ‘Menopause DAME’, a women who knows and understands women’s health reality outcomes, inside out. With oodles of professional specialist knowledge, author, educator with radical revolutionary perceptions for improving women’s health… Imagine a future of well-informed savvy streetwise females, making choices, understanding signpost and putting a stop to suffering.  With ‘Ditch it’ ‘Don’t live it’ actions including:

 

• D.I.V.A a Functional Medicine arm: - Diet, Iron, Vitamins, Aqua plus lifestyle• Dissolve and Resolve Emotions (D.A.R.E) Body-mind-emotion integrated health action.

 

Joy’s ‘Menopause DAME’ mission is simple: to help women understand their bodies, recognise hormonal changes early and make informed choices about their health from menstrual to menopause which is a big junk of our life. Endometriosis Awareness Month reminds us that women’s pain shouldn’t ever be dismissed. When girls are educated early and women are supported across the decades, they can prevent and avoid faster  we can create healthier futures for the next generation.

 

Education is not optional in women’s health. It is essential.

Menoproof your life through the decades has it all… preorder your book copy now.


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