To celebrate the beginning of Menopause Awareness Month, we’re sharing replays of five of our most powerful menopause conversations on The Menstruality Podcast:
Jane Hardwicke Collings: The Transformation of Menopause: Stepping into Your Responsibility to Life
If you know Jane, you know that she’s a force of nature; a teacher, author, former home-birth midwife and creator of the School of Shamanic Womancraft. In the conversation she shares how she prepared for menopause, including strength training, reducing stress, reducing alcohol, learning nervous system regulation practices, and paying real attention to her mind chatter.
She also reveals the new responsibility she feels post-menopause: to be the archetypal grandmother stepping into her power and using it for the good of all, and the earth.
You can listen to Jane’s conversation here >>
Dr Sharon Blackie: The Myth, Magic and Metamorphosis of Menopause
In this conversation beloved writer, psychologist and mythologist, Sharon Blackie explores the gold that myths and archetypes hold for us as we navigate the shape-shifting crucible of menopause. She discusses how the Fates from Greek mythology, the crone Baba Yaga from Eastern Europe and the ancient Gallic mythology of the Cailleach can guide us as we enter the second half of our lives as elders.
You can listen to Sharon’s conversation here >>
Prune Harris: Menopause as a Gateway to Magnificence and Knowing Our Worth
Menopause as an identity death process which brings us face to face with our inner soothsayer, to hear deep truths about ourselves, our relationships and the world, so we can choose the new identities we want to embody in our third act.
Prune is a highly experienced energy expert, consciousness educator and soul activist. She’s author of Your Radiant Soul: Understand Your Energy to Transform Your World
You can listen to Prune’s conversation here >>
Tracee Stanley: How Yoga Nidra can Support Menstrual and Menopause Rest
Tracee is the author of the bestselling book Radiant Rest, and is a post-lineage yoga teacher, inspired by more than twenty years of study. We chat about how to set up a rest practice inside a mainstream culture that says you’re not worthy unless you’re pushing through; whether that’s pushing through grief, illness, exhaustion or menopause. Through it all, Tracee illuminates how deep rest, peace and truth are our birthright.
You can listen to Tracee’s conversation here >>
Chameli Gad: How to Mother Ourselves Through Menopause
Chameli is a mystic and goddess wisdom keeper as well as the founder of Awakening Women. Her menopause initiatory process unfolded throughout the pandemic and included the death of her son, and her divorce.
She’s been generously sharing her story with us on the podcast over the past three years, and today we’re sharing the replay of her exploration of the fruits of her menopause process. And she’s as honest about her current peace, ease and ecstasy as she was with her mid-initiation pain and suffering.
You can listen to Chameli’s conversation here >>
