Reclaiming Menarche

Join Grace for this introductory episode as she shares the background and motivation behind this new series Reclaiming Menarche. Reclaiming Menarche will explore the importance of Menarche as a Rite of Passage. Ways to honour and heal. (Menarche is our first menstrual blood, period or moontime)

Content Information/Warning This episode contains swearing and references to birth, disempowerment/oppression of women, sexual experiences, menstruation, generational and childhood trauma, self harm and eating disorders. Reclaiming Menarche The First Menstrual Blood; Ways to Honour and Heal. Join Grace as she speaks with Australian author and teacher Jane Hardwicke Collings around

Reclaiming Menarche The First Menstrual Blood; Ways to Honour and Heal. Join Grace as she speaks to Louise Press from One Woman Awake founder of Blossom and Flo Circles for Girls as they prepare and cross the threshold at Menarche. You can find more about Louise Press and her work by visiting her instagram @onewomanawake or contact her via her website www.onewomanawake.com You can

Join Grace as she speaks with Samantha Zipporah about the importance of Menarche. I was fortunate to meet Sam when she visited the UK back in 2019 and this meeting was one of the key awakeners in my own womb journey. Sam is a fertility, sex, & cycle educator with over 20 years of experience developing her craft. She is devoted to breaking the spells of oppression in reproductive &

Join Grace as she speaks with Isla Macleod; ceremonialist, ritual designer, soul midwife and companion at thresholds. In this episode Isla speaks about the importance of honouring each menstrual bleed as an act of reclaiming our menarche rites as well as her experience of designing ceremony and ritual related to menstruation. In this episode we also explore practical and playful wa

Reclaiming Menarche is a conversation about the first menstrual blood, it considers ways in which we can reclaim our menarche experience retrospectively, learn to lean into our bleeding times and heal what is often a lonely experience. The series is made from conversations with those who have influenced or inspired my own womb journey. Hosted by Grace Hempshall, menstrual researche

Welcome to Episode 7 of the Reclaiming Menarche series with guest Dr Lara Owen. Dr Owen is an author, researcher, consultant, teacher and mentor in the culture, politics and organization of menstruation. In this episode we speak about the importance of menarche, the broader experiences of menstruation alongside menstrual stigma and explore Laras new course in Contemporary Menstrual

Episode 8 of Reclaiming Menarche with Xochi Balfour Xochi Balfour is a women’s wisdom carrier, working to reconnect women to the earth and their womb space, and reclaim their innermost power. Holding a space of safe and sacred sisterhood she anchors us into ground, body and breath to step out of the stories of the ind and drop deeper into our innate feminine wisdom. She lives in

Episode 9 is in conversation with Karen Abi-Karam. Karen Abi-Karam is a Holistic Therapist, Doula and Celebrant based in Forest Row, Sussex, who has been working with clients for the last 20 years as they cross major thresholds in their lives. She created the HART Process in response to their needs and prides herself on dignifying our important life transitions. Karen is also a Fac