Menopause Café Mission
Creating a community to discuss menopause in a safe space and confidential space
September 2022
date TBC
Hosted by Alexandra Crosskey at
Kaffekilden, Nordre Frihavnsgade 81, 2100 København.
October 2022
date TBC
Hosted by Alexandra Crosskey and Eva Mollenbach at Kaffekilden, Nordre Frihavnsgade 81, 2100 København.
November 2022
date TBC
Hosted by Alexandra Crosskey and Eva Mollenbach at
Kaffekilden, Nordre Frihavnsgade 81, 2100 København.
Menopause Café
Alexandra has initiated a series of Menopause Café events in Denmark, UK and Kenya to encourage women to talk about their experience with menopause – the individual challenges of their journey, how they found ways of coping and what worked for them. Alexandra is the Nordic Focal Point for the Menopause Café and commits to supporting this initiative to roll out throughout the Nordics – the start of the Menopause Revolution.
“Through these Cafés, I want to reach as many women as possible.”
95% of women from 40 plus go through menopause, and on average spend a third of their life post-menopausal. That’s almost half of the population with 80% of women experiencing one or more of the 34 menopausal symptoms. Menopause is a major part of women hood.
Menopause affects women in different ways – no two women have the same menopause. Some symptoms are common but mostly each woman has their own set of symptoms, both emotional and physical. Some treatments work for some but not necessarily everyone. There is a lack of understanding and consistent information out there about the menopause, and that’s why it is important that within a community we start to feel comfortable about talking about the menopause.
‘The menopause isn’t redemptive – it’s full of pain and loss, sweat and tears; and above all, it isn’t one-size-fits-all.’ Cally Beaton https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/23/menopausal-50-hotter-20s-older-woman
At the Menopause Café, people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss menopause. The Menopause Café is a discussion in an accessible, respectful and confidential safe space. The format is simple with no preset agenda, where the topics are chosen by the participants on the day.
The Menopause Café was set up in June 2017 by Rachel Weiss as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) but has become a global initiative with Cafes being held all over the UK from Perth to Petersfield and Ontario, Canada. It is run entirely by volunteers and is a non-profit organisation.
We need to talk about menopause and ‘make it a regular topic of conversation’. Andrea Davies https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/29/menopause-cafes-women-creative-surge
Alexandra Crosskey, the focal point for The Menopause Café in the Nordics, held the first Menopause Café in København in November 2019, followed by a series of Menopause Workshops providing strategies for women using nutrition, herbs, natural supplements, essential oils and exercise/yoga/meditation to support menopause and the 34 symptoms associated with menopause. Alexandra continues to hold Menopause Cafés throughout the Nordics with a monthly café in København, and planning future events this year in Århus and Sweden. The plan is to get a ripple effect where women who participate in a Menopause Café, then go and hold their own café with their own community of women.