When You Don’t Feel Like Yourself Anymore with Sarah Davenport

In this follow-up conversation on Midlife Bites, clinical psychologist Kirstin Bouse is joined again by Dr Sarah Davenport to explore the deeper emotional landscape of the menopausal transition.

Sarah speaks openly about menopause as a time of profound change — not just physically, but psychologically and relationally. Together, they unpack common experiences women bring to therapy, including mood changes, rage, fatigue, brain fog, loss of identity, and the unsettling feeling of “not feeling like myself anymore.”

The discussion delves into grief and loss in midlife, self-abandonment, and the realisation many women face that the ways they’ve lived, given, and coped no longer fit. Sarah reflects on how past trauma can resurface during this stage, why menopause can feel like a reckoning, and how reclaiming voice, boundaries, and self-trust becomes essential.

A compassionate, validating conversation about why midlife can feel so hard — and how, with the right support, it can also become a powerful turning point.