Why a Simple Planner Can Make a Big Difference in Your Workplace Wellbeing Support

For colleagues navigating IVF or menopause, the emotional toll can feel immense.

Juggling daily responsibilities while managing unpredictable symptoms, challenging treatments, or difficult emotions often means people are carrying an invisible weight at work - one that can lead to burnout, isolation, or feeling unsupported in the very place where they spend most of their time.

But I’ve seen first-hand how even small, thoughtful gestures from employers can make a powerful difference.

When businesses provide meaningful resources that truly recognise what their employees are going through - when they step beyond standard tick-box wellbeing initiatives - it sends a clear message:

“We see you. We understand. We care.”

That’s exactly why I created the Planner Wellness Package for organisations. It’s a simple, effective way to show real support for staff experiencing two of life’s most challenging health journeys—fertility treatment and menopause.

What’s Inside the Planner Wellness Package?

The package includes either or both of my award-winning wellness journals:
✔️ The IVF Positivity Planner
✔️ The Menopause Positivity Planner

These are far more than just journals. They’re carefully designed, structured tools based on coaching principles, lived experience, and expert insight to help women feel supported, seen, and more in control.

Each Planner offers:

Coaching exercises & coping strategies
Helping employees work through emotional overwhelm, build resilience and feel more empowered in their daily lives.

Structured journaling prompts & wellbeing tools
Encouraging self-care, clarity, and a focus on what can be controlled—even when life feels unpredictable.

Practical, informative resources
Whether it’s a treatment timeline and medication planner for IVF, or symptom trackers and energy logs for menopause, these Planners provide real-world tools to reduce stress, improve communication with healthcare teams, and promote self-advocacy.

Why This Matters in the Workplace

Offering resources like these helps shift the culture from simply “acknowledging” personal challenges to actively supporting people through them.

Employees going through IVF or menopause don’t want pity or special treatment - they want understanding, flexibility, and the tools to help them navigate what they’re facing with more confidence and less overwhelm.

With the Planner Wellness Package, your business can:

• Include the Planners in your fertility or menopause workplace policies
• Offer them as part of your employee wellbeing resources
• Gift them to individuals confidentially, when they let you know what they’re facing

Every Planner comes with a short exclusive video guide to help employees get the most from their journal, and it’s a support tool they can use at home, at work, or wherever they need a moment of calm and clarity.

A Small Step, A Big Impact

For your colleagues, knowing they’re supported through IVF or menopause can ease anxiety, build trust, and improve wellbeing at a time when they may feel at their most vulnerable.

For your business, it helps build a compassionate, inclusive workplace culture - one where people feel they can bring their whole selves to work, without fear or shame.

If you’d like to explore how the Planner Wellness Package can become part of your workplace wellbeing support, I’d love to chat.

Drop me a message or email me at [email protected]

You can also learn more at sarahbanks.coach

Let’s make sure no one feels they have to face this alone.