http://www.ladypausegroupinfo.org 

 http://www.yourthyroidandyou.org/ladypause

Welcomes you to:  

Wonderful Wise Women Social Group 

 http://www.ladypausegroupinfo.org/social_group_meeting_dates 



 "Wise Women Social Group" offers friendship and a chance to enjoy others company. Meeting on the  3^rd Monday of the month from March to November from 10.30am. While we are mainly a women’s group the ladies are welcome to bring along their partners if they wish, they will be most welcome. Ladypause has been running since 1999 bringing women in their middle years together. 

For more information please go to

 http://www.ladypausegroupinfo.org 

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. 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, 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 from 2008 until June 2015.

Ladypause thanks Rick Maynard from Thyroid Australia Brisbane Network; for his ongoing support to our group. In 2009 Rick offered to share his Web site  yourthyroidandyou.org  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 good of the wider community.

In 2018 we decided to change our existing format of presenting free health and lifestyle seminars for Women in mid life, allthough our aims and goals remain the same. We still offer a forum where women can enjoy each others company and chat over coffee or lunch at selected venues.  

Ladypause is also supported by Thyroid Australia (Brisbane) Network  and Self Help Queensland.