Unmissable female health content brought to you by NETBALLHer over this past year, from perinatal mental health to inclusion in netball – happy reading!
🤰 Perinatal mental health – Read all about motherhood’s hidden hurdles:
There will be different challenges for female netballers through the pre-natal and post-natal stages and some of those challenges will affect her mental state.
Whether you are a pre- or post-natal athlete (or have been before) or are a coach or teammate in our netball community, all can play a part in building excellent networks of support and understanding.
From being better informed to offering the right type of help, this article is a great place to start.
🩸 Watch this interview with women’s health coach Lisa De Jong as she explains the intersection of mental and menstrual health for females:
There is the world of menstrual health. And then we have the world of mental health. And we need to start to talk about the intersection of those two worlds.
Lisa De Jong is a women’s health coach specialising in the menstrual cycle.
“We have these chemical messengers in our body that play a huge role in lots of areas in our body, but also our menstrual cycle. And when hormones are going up and down in the menstrual cycle, it means that those hormones and chemical messengers are also doing things in our brain, that has a connection to our emotions.”
🤝 Disability and inclusion in netball – practical suggestions on building inclusive environments:
In netball, we need to offer support to all.
By understanding the unique experiences women with disabilities face in sport; by identifying the challenges as they are, we can make progress. We can change the game.
This article offers a bit of theory and some practical suggestions on fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.
🧠 Perimenopause – maybe you are familiar with the physical symptoms, but how about the emotional and mental ones?
Menopause is the umbrella term for this life stage and it actually breaks into three distinct phases: perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause. Perimenopause comes first and it’s the phase associated with symptoms – hot flushes, night sweats, brain fog, insomnia and so on.
Some people may be familiar with the physical symptoms of perimenopause, but that’s much less the case for mental health symptoms.
🎥 Hear from disability fitness and inclusion expert Sam James, on how exercise eases the impact of her disability and her mission to help companies and organisations rethink inclusion:
60-70% of disabled people are inactive when they should be active.
Sam James came to realise the limits in sport and fitness service provision for people with disabilities when she needed support with a bad shoulder.
After seeing the restorative power of exercise in her own life, and to ease the impact of her disability, Sam has made it a mission to help clubs, spaces, companies and organisations to rethink inclusion and do more for populations that are often overlooked or hidden from view.
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England Under 21 squad who will travel to play Australia and New Zealand revealed
