Juliet Golz – Founder of Pause & Continue

Juliet founded Pause & Continue to help women going through the Menopause. Experiencing hot flushes; mood swings; joint issues and weight gain, Juliet saw that this major life change that affected all areas of her life – from parenting, to her marital life; through to the day to day demands of running her skateboarding club business. Determined to face this head on, she realised there was so much information out there that she felt quite inundated. Taking a step back she broke it down over 5 key areas – Understanding Hormones and whether to go down the HRT route or take natural supplements; Diet and Nutrition; Exercise and what her menopausal body needed to work towards; Mental Health and controlling stress and anger and lastly what Products helps. 

Pause & Continue was created specifically to introduce Experts in their field to help guide and support women, to share her experience to save time for others who want to understand what impacts this life change has on them.

Dr Cliona O’Connell – Founder of DR O CONNELL Natural Supplements

Cliona graduated from UCD in Dublin with a Bachelor of Medicine and has spent the last 20 years working as a GP in London. As a female doctor, she has a particular passion for women’s health and particularly the areas of perimenopause and menopause. In her years of practicing medicine she has seen first-hand the impact that symptoms can have on patients and the complexity there is in figuring out how to treat and combat them. Women are already expected to lead hectic lives, and don’t need to get to this stage of their lives and be further weighed down with health and life worries.

Cliona has stepped up and used her experience to formulate a range of supplements aimed at women in their perimenopausal and menopausal phases of life. She wants women to be able to take back control and feel more like themselves again. To continue with their lives, feel energetic, feel supported and most of all to feel at ease with how they are managing the changes they are facing. These supplements are the result of her mission to give women the power to do these things while putting trust in her and her expertise.

Helen Ritchie, Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner

BH (Hons), DipION, mBANT, CNHC

When menopause symptoms struck Helen 8 years ago, giving her hot flushes, acute anxiety along with brain fog and disrupted sleep, she felt unable to perform her job in her senior marketing career which resulted in her being fired from her job. Unable to take HRT due her history of breast cancer she started researching natural alternatives and eventually retrained in nutrition so she could help other women avoid the unfortunate consequence of menopause and perimenopause that she experienced.  

Helen is trained to address the biochemical roots of the symptoms and uncover their causes rather than just treating the symptoms. Her approach is holistic and considers the physical, emotional factors that affect health and wellbeing. Her specialty is supporting women looking for relief from menopausal and perimenopausal symptoms.

Barbara Toker – Fitness

Barbara is a highly experienced and certified Personal Trainer with over 15 years of expertise in various facets of fitness and health. Her extensive training encompasses a broad spectrum of fitness disciplines, making her adept at addressing the unique needs of her clients. Barbara specializes in creating tailored fitness programs for individuals experiencing menopause, ensuring they receive the support and guidance necessary to navigate this significant life transition effectively.

Additionally, she has profound experience in managing and alleviating the symptoms associated with chronic conditions such as multiple sclerosis and joint issues. Barbara’s compassionate approach, combined with her deep understanding of these specific health challenges, allows her to develop personalised training regimens that promote overall well-being and enhance the quality of life for her clients.

Emma Arden, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)  

Emma from Ela Nedra Health.

Emma’s an Advanced EFT practitioner, EFT Trainer for adults to use EFT with children, Reiki Master Teacher and multi skilled healing therapist with over 20 years’ experience.

She’s  trained all over the world in a variety of body work and talk therapy techniques including Colon Cleansing, Herbal Detoxing, Thai Yoga Massage in Thailand and Reiki in Japan.

Emma loves combining EFT Tapping, Reiki Energy Healing, Coaching, Visualisations, Inner Child Work, Shadow Work and Breath Work to help YOU find more self-love and acceptance.

She works one-to-one with adults and children and also runs regular Reiki & EFT training workshops and healing events for groups.

Sarah Brown, Pai Skincare  

Sarah is an organic skincare pioneer whose expertise in conceiving and manufacturing results driven products was born from her own experience of challenging skin. A long term chronic urticaria sufferer, Pai was a passion project started out of a garage in West London. 

Before Pai, Sarah was International PR Manager for E&J Gallo Wines in California having previously managed communications for leading brands such as Nike and Barclaycard. 

Sarah is an active supporter of the beauty industry and an exponent of British manufacturing. In 2015 Sarah won ‘First Woman in Manufacturing’ at the CBI
First Women Awards. The following year Pai received a Queens Award for Enterprise.

Sarah is an Executive Board Member of CEW and has appeared as a business commentator on BBC News, Newsnight, Sky News, CNBC and in The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and Financial Times.