A woman from Reading set up the menopause cafe after people in her community never spoke about it.
“I was like meno-who? I never heard the word. Never heard my mum speak about it, never heard my elder sister speak about it. It was a shock to me,” she said.
Joan says she set up the group so women from the Caribbean community can speak about their health, including the menopause, because many like her “suffer in silence”. On doing her own research following the appointment, she discovered she was going through perimenopause for some time without knowing it.“I think it is a taboo . As a woman you have to stand up for the family. You don’t want to show weakness,” Joan added.
Having educated herself with the ins and out of menopause, she was determined to speak about it openly in her community.
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