The Menstruality Podcast

Oct 30 2024 171 ep. 58 mins 83
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How can menstrual cycle awareness and conscious menopause enhance your health, creativity and leadership? That's the question we'll explore together in the Menstruality Podcast, brought to you by Red School, where we’re training the menstruality leaders of the future. Your host, Sophie Jane Hardy will be joined often by Red School’s founders, Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer, as well as pioneering thought leaders, troublemakers and culture-shifters to discover how you can unashamedly claim the power of the menstrual cycle to activate your unique form of leadership; for yourself, your community, and the world.

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170. How the Five Phases of Menopause Transform your Relationships (Autumn Saunders)

Oct 30 2024 56 mins  
Through their decades of sitting with women and people undergoing the menopause initiation, Alexandra and Sjanie have seen that no part of your life remains untouched by menopause, including your relationships with your loved ones and community. Everything needs to undergo a shift, however subtle, as you move into a greater sense of authority with clearer parameters about yourself.

169. How we Become a Force of Nature in Menopause (Dr Danielle Arabena)

Oct 23 2024 67 mins  
Menopause, and the years running up to it, can be a time of real challenge and transformation. Without wise guidance and a framework to understand what’s happening, we can be left feeling lost, alone and crazy. Luckily, there are those who can serve as guides, like our guest today, Dr Danielle Arabena, who brings her extensive experience as a medical doctor and a shamanic healer

168. How Conscious Menopause Can Change the World (Alexandra & Sjanie)

Oct 16 2024 59 mins  
It’s world menopause month, and we’re continuing the menopause conversation we began two weeks ago, where we explored how to navigate the dark night of the soul of the menopause process (it’s episode 166), and we’re continuing by looking at the powers that the menopause initiation can awaken in us, if we refuse to abandon ourselves during this betrayal phase of menopause. I

167. How to Mother Ourselves Through Menopause (Chameli Gad)

Oct 09 2024 69 mins  
Today on the podcast we’re exploring how menopause can be an initiation into greater self-love, self-compassion and self-mothering. This is our third conversation with Chameli Gad, the founder of Awakening Women. Each year she’s come back here to generously share her menopause process, which unfolded throughout the pandemic and included the death of her son, and her divorce.In

166. How to Navigate the Menopause Dark Night of The Soul (Alexandra & Sjanie)

Oct 02 2024 64 mins  
Many of us are turning up at menopause stressed, exhausted, overworked and under-nourished, often managing multiple care and work roles simultaneously. And then we hit the “death” moment of the menopause initiatory death and rebirth process. The challenges of the menopause initiation can often be compounded by key relationships ending, bereavement, or other extreme life changes

165. How to Make the World Love Periods (Jane Bennett)

Sep 25 2024 59 mins  
What do you do when you’ve discovered the incredible power of menstrual cycle awareness, and you’re keen to share it with your loved ones, colleagues and community, but whenever you try to talk about it, you receive reactions that range from disinterest to disgust?The truth is that menstrual shame is real, it is pervasive and overcoming it is a key part of restoring the power,

164. How Cycle Awareness Helps Us to Follow Our Callings (Grace Winteringham)

Sep 18 2024 56 mins  
Menstrual Cycle Awareness gives us a direct line to our deep selves, to what we’re here for and what we most deeply love. As Alexandra and Sjanie say in Wild Power: “The journey to realizing your Calling, or purpose, is made possible by the process of initiation, which is encoded in your menstrual cycle. Initiatory change happens through the archetypal pattern of death and rebi

163. How to Show Up For Big Things on Day One of Your Cycle (Alexandra & Sjanie)

Sep 11 2024 66 mins  
Have you ever had to show up in a big way on day one of your cycle and felt exposed, then - like me - totally exhausted afterwards? Today we’re exploring how menstrual cycle awareness can help you step up when you’re on your period; whether you have to do a big presentation at work, a speech at your best friend’s wedding, host a PTA meeting, or be visible in another way. A fe

162. The Connection Between Food and Menstrual Cycle Health (Lisa Hendrickson-Jack)

Sep 04 2024 59 mins  
Are you (or your friends or the people you work with) struggling with menstrual health challenges like irregular cycles, spotting or heavy bleeding, menstrual pain, PCOS and intense mood changes in the premenstrual phase? Would you love to understand how you could work with food and dietary shifts to create menstrual health?Our guest today is Lisa Hendrickson-Jack, the author of Th

161. The Power of Premenstrual Truth Telling (Maya Luna)

Aug 28 2024 59 mins  
Have you ever noticed that your intuitive sense of knowing is heightened when you are premenstrual? Today we’re exploring 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? My guest is Maya Luna, an artist, channel and creator of