Ten: From PMDD to Power and Ending Menstrual Suffering
(Kate Shepherd Cohen)
In this episode, Menstrual Cycle Support founder and Menstruality Leadership Programme graduate Kate shares generously about her personal experience of Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder and how menstrual cycle awareness gave her the skills to manage premenstrual fear, rage and meaninglessness, so she could find the power within them.
Nine: How Cycle Awareness Grows Your Intuition
(Alexandra & Sjanie)
In a world that can over-prioritise the linear and rational, many of us long to connect more with our instinctive, intuitive knowing. In this conversation we explore how menstrual cycle awareness can help us to hone the art of intuitive living, particularly when the left brain retreats and your subtle senses expand at menstruation.
Eight: Our Wombs, Cycles & Menopause as Doorways to Spiritual Power
(Uma Dinsmore Tuli)
We chat about the cycles that guide writer and educator, Uma. From the planets, to the moon, to her early relationship with her menstrual cycle and how it led her to develop Womb Yoga and write Yoni Shakti, a feminist retelling of yoga. And how Uma’s menopause process unfolded during Covid and the unstoppable flow of creative power it awakened within her.
Seven: How Chinese Medicine Can Support You in Perimenopause
(Kris Gonzalez)
Chinese Medicine Practitioner, Kris, shares how by the age of 35, we begin our fifth cycle, where habits that once had little impact may no longer be tolerated by our body, mind, and spirit. Kris shares practical guidance about how to take care of ourselves pre-menopause—focusing on the three major organs that come into play; the kidneys, spleen and liver.
Six: The Connection between Cycle Awareness, Witchcraft and Magic
(Mimi Young)
Many of us feel more intuitive and connected to the mystical and the magical in the second half of the menstrual cycle and in this chat with Taiwanese-Canadian, Daoist, animist, and spirit worker, Mimi Young explores the connection between cycle awareness, witchcraft and psychic capacities.
Five: The Power of Premenstrual Truth Telling
(Maya Luna)
Artist, channel and creator of The Venus Path, Maya Luna explores the radical honesty that can be invoked in inner autumn, asking the question: what if our unadulterated, fierce, premenstrual truth speaking is actually exactly the medicine our world needs at this time?
Four: How Cycle Awareness Helps us to Follow Our Callings
(Grace Winteringham)
This conversation is a wild safari into the messy day-to-day reality of how the menstrual cycle helps us to live our Callings, with a woman who knows a thing or two about archetypal patterns. Grace is a Menstruality Leadership Programme graduate and the co-founder of Patternity, an organisation dedicated to sharing the positive power of pattern with the world.
Three: The Connection Between Food and Menstrual Cycle Health
(Lisa Hendrickson-Jack)
In this episode, Fifth Vital Sign author, Lisa shares how to work with food and dietary shifts to ease menstrual health challenges like irregular cycles, spotting or heavy bleeding, menstrual pain, PCOS and intense mood changes in the premenstrual phase.
Two: How to Move from Toxic Productivity to Honouring your Natural Rhythms
(Tamu Thomas)
In her book, Women Who Work Too Much, Tamu challenges the societal norms that glorify relentless productivity and burnout. In our conversation, she shares practical strategies for liberation, centring cycle awareness as a way to reclaim our natural rhythms.
One: The Inner Autumn Powers that Awaken in our 40s
(Alexandra & Sjanie)
In your forties, you may start to find that your premenstrual energies seem to dominate more of your whole cycle experience, and challenging as this is, something powerful is being worked within you. In this episode we explore these inner autumn powers and the self care practice that helps you to awaken them.
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