About Us

 

http://www.ladypausegroupinfo.org 

 

http://www.yourthyroidandyou.org/ladypause

 

 

 In 2018 we decided to change our current format

of presenting free health and lifestyle seminars

for Women in mid life at the Brisbane Square library after 18 years. Our aims and goals remain

the same. We still offer a forum where women can

enjoy each others company and chat over coffee and lunch.  

 

 Our Wonderful Wise Women Group offers fun and friendships with ladies of a simular age whether retired or semi retired. Meeting on the 3^rd Monday of the month from February to November from 10.15am. 

We are a group designed for women. 

Ladypause has been running since 1999 bringing women

in their middle years together. 

                  

 Ladypause came to be when several like-minded women came together seeking information regarding their own health issues some years ago in 1999. We not only found many answers to our own questions, but friendships were forged along the way. Our commitment to helping other women with similar problems became very clear and under the watchful eye of Jan Roberts from Community Health Services at RBWH as it’s now known. We undertook the running of our small group called SIMS (Surgical induced Menopause) Jan gave us all the support and encouragement we needed to plan our own events each month.

 

 This led Jan to offer us the chance to run her old group at the Patient Education Centre at the Royal called WWIMY (Women Wise in Middle Years) which is still in existence today. As Jan was moving onto other projects within Community Health, we felt very honoured by this support from her. We undertook a short course at RBWH to understand and meet the needs of women, offering them support in the way of peer support for women’s health issues.

 

 SIMS became Women’s Health info Evening to broaden the topics we would cover at our monthly meetings, and with Jan’s many years of experience in community health we started our venture with her guidance running both groups. WWIMY moved to a new venue at the City Hall Library as the Royal underwent major rebuilding on campus to what we have today.

 

 We also became involved with the monthly newsletter called Women’s News which covered varying topics and diary dates, also including staff from Community Health Centre’s in Brisbane North and Pine Rivers. The newsletter sourced venues and information where women could find varying topics relating to women’s health issues. A survey done at RWH outpatients also showed there was a lack of support for people who wished to talk over their worries. The first issue of Women’s News was launched in July 2000 with Jan as the editor.

 

 In 2004 we underwent a further name change to coincide with the new Hospital Helpers Program at RBWH, we decided on Ladypause as we felt this name reflected our work. So we became Ladypause Peer Support Network

under the hospitals umbrella. We continued to work alongside Jan until her retirement mid-2006. We were all very sad to lose such a wonderful person and a very

good friend. 

 

 We continued on under Pauline Bonnici for a further 18 months, when sadly funding was no longer available to be channeled into community health at RBWH. Our quest to continue with the work we all loved as volunteers led us to an association with the Older Women’s Network mid 2008 until 2015 when we decided to take a new direction. 

 

 Ladypause thanks Rick Maynard from Thyroid Australia Brisbane Branch; for his ongoing support to our group. In 2009 Rick offered to share his Web site yourthyroidandyou with Ladypause giving us our own link to Ladypause from his home page. It is a wonderful opportunity to combine our efforts to bring community health awareness to people, and the opportunity to work together for the greater good of the wider community. 

 

 Ladypause is also supported by

Support Groups Queensland.