Healthy In The Hills - Menopause

Join us for an intimate gathering and informative session on navigating the ups and downs of menopause. Our expert speakers will share insights, tips, and answer your hot (pun intended) questions.

Healthy Conversations: Menopause

Date: Friday 21st November 2025

Time: 6:30PM - 8:30PM

Location: 20A Lexington Drive, Bella Vista

Join us for an intimate gathering and informative session on navigating the ups and downs of menopause. Our expert speakers will share insights, tips, and answer your hot (pun intended) questions. Whether you're experiencing menopause yourself or supporting a loved one through it, this event is for you. Let's break the taboo and have open, healthy conversations about this natural phase of life, and several options to support yourself or your loved one through this phase of life. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn and connect with others in a supportive environment. Reserve your spot today!

We have an incredible panel of 4 speakers to share their information, ideas, tips and tricks for you to about this natural phase of life, and natural options to support yourself or your loved one through this phase of life.

Here's our panel:

Dr Deepa Mahananda - Sydney Low Carb Specialists.

Dr Deepa works extensively in the areas of perimenopause and menopause, accumulating more than a decade of experience working with women during these important stages of life. She will help you:

Understand key definitions and stages of perimenopause- Clearly distinguish between perimenopause and menopause, and recognise why symptoms can feel like a “second puberty.”- Explore nutrition, lifestyle, and functional medicine strategies to support energy, mood, sleep, and long-term wellbeing during midlife transitions.- Demystify hormone replacement therapy (HRT)- Understand how more recent scientific insights have reframed HRT as a safe and effective therapy for managing symptoms and protecting bone, heart, and brain health.- Empower informed decision-making- Gain practical knowledge about the full spectrum of options available for managing menopause, so participants feel confident about discussing and tailoring approaches with a trusted clinician.

Carmel Guzel - Nutrition In Carmel's Kitchen

Carmel is a qualified nutritionist and women's strength coach, specialising in supporting women through perimenopause and menopause. She focuses on disease prevention and also supports women using GLP-1 medications with practical, sustainable nutrition strategies.

At the panel, Carmel will share how simple lifestyle changes across the four pillars of health - sleep, stress, nutrition, and exercise - can reduce disease risk, balance hormones, and improve long-term wellbeing. Attendees will gain easy, evidence-based tools they can start using right away to feel more energised, stronger, and supported through this important life stage.

Orla McGuire - Living Life Active

Orla is a Pilates instructor and Menopause Coach. She will talk about 10 things to know about menopause...that are not all negative.Time to shift the negativity surrounding menopause and thrive during perimenopause & beyond. This is a guided session on how to create a clear vision on what you want you menopause journey to look & feel like. It will also cover how to use this information effectively for the largest part of a woman's life

Alice Bullivant - KinesiAlice

Alice is an experienced kinesiologist, mind body medicine and neuro tranformation therapist. One of her key passions is women's health and wellbeing during the perimenopause and menopause phases, being in this stage of life herself.

She will discuss the emotional impacts of this phase, as well as how you can support your emotional, mental and physical wellbeing at every stage, and several easy and natural options for symptom management and resolution. These strategies encompass support on a mind. body, and spirit level for your physical and emotional wellbeing. You will be able to implement some of these strategies immediately, and many at no to low cost. She'll also share some cheeky stories about why things come up for women at this time of life, so get set for some fun and irreverance around the topic of menopause!

The Evening

You will also get to enjoy some light refreshments that are carefully curated for the menopause stage, and get to know other women in the same stage of life as you.

There will be an opportunity for Q&A with our panel to answer all your hot (pun intended) questions from all perspectives, so you will feel inspired and empowered to navigate this important phase of life with ease and grace.

This event is strictly limited to 20 attendees, and this popular topic will have this event sold out, so we highly recommend grabbing your seat now for this intimate evening with a panel of experts.

Proudly brought to you by Healthy In The Hills, your local group of health and wellness professionals in Sydney's Hills District. www.healthyinthehills.com.au