About the author
Liz Perkins has worked for over thirty years in the health field, with experience in research and facilitation in a wide variety of professional settings. She particularly enjoyed working on health promotion and women’s health issues, including childbirth and motherhood; her PhD, from Nottingham University, Persuasion or education: health service methods of communication with parents, concerned breast and bottle feeding and whooping cough immunisation. She has published extensively in professional journals, and her books include Education for Childbirth and Parenthood, Reflections on Midwifery (edited with Mavis Kirkham) and Evidence-based Health Promotion, edited with Ina Simnett and Linda Wright.
As she herself moved towards the menopause she became keenly interested in the many different ways in which women experience this stage of life, and the equally varied ways in which different professionals view it. She herself sees menopause as potentially a time of great personal development for women, both emotionally and spiritually, whether they are involved with formal religious structures or not.
As part of her own menopausal transition, Liz wound down her independent research practice and started to run her own project for women in the second half of life. This web-site, the project’s publications Journeys through Menopause and Exploring New Paths, and the workshops she runs for women reflect her broad range of interests, her respect for women’s personal experience, and her continued commitment to fostering women’s ability to make their own choices and care for themselves as well as for other people. She draws strength from her Quaker upbringing and from her explorations in the women’s spirituality movement, and looks forward to the process of growing in wisdom which is available to all of us in the second half of life.
You can contact the author, Elizabeth R. Perkins at the following address:
11 Exton Road
Sherwood
Nottingham
NG5 1HA
About this site
This self-funded site is the product of a four year project, investigating different perspectives on the menopause. It is based on a variety of sources:
- Academic studies of women’s experience
- Conventional Western medical accounts of the physiology of menopause and what can be done to ease it
- Complementary therapies and their different approaches to menopausal complaints
- Creative therapies as ways for menopausal women to explore and take charge of their own development
- Spiritual traditions and their contribution to women’s growth in the later years of life
- Personal accounts of the menopause from a wide range of women.
The content of this site has been developed by Elizabeth R. Perkins, MA, PhD. It offers women both ideas to help make sense of their experience and pointers to further information and advice. The contents, and links to other sources, are for general information only and are intended to assist readers in understanding symptoms and conditions they may be experiencing.
The site is not intended to be a substitute for taking advice from a qualified health professional and should not be relied upon in this way. The author and publishers cannot accept responsibility for illness arising out of the failure to seek medical advice.
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