The Menstruality Podcast
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.
Episodes
167 episodes
166. How to Navigate the Menopause Dark Night of The Soul (Alexandra & Sjanie)
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 proc...
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Season 12
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Episode 166
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1:04:38
How to Make the World Love Periods (Jane Bennett)
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 ...
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Season 11
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Episode 165
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59:14
How Cycle Awareness Helps Us to Follow Our Callings (Grace Winteringham)
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, i...
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Season 11
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Episode 164
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56:37
163. How to Show Up For Big Things on Day One of Your Cycle (Alexandra & Sjanie)
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; whet...
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Season 11
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Episode 163
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1:06:23
162. The Connection Between Food and Menstrual Cycle Health (Lisa Hendrickson-Jack)
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 ...
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Season 11
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Episode 162
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59:17
161. The Power of Premenstrual Truth Telling (Maya Luna)
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, pr...
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Season 11
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Episode 161
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59:33
160. What Black Cyclical Wisdom can Teach us About Hope, Peace and Belonging (Dr Cre Dye)
Today we’re exploring Black cyclical wisdom through the lens of the life story of an extraordinary woman who left a profound legacy of cyclical heart and body intelligence, with Dr Cre Dye, who serves as the Menstruality Justice and Incl...
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Season 11
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Episode 160
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1:06:02
159. How to Meet the Challenges of Inner Summer (Q+A with Alexandra & Sjanie)
How do you feel about inner summer, or the ovulatory phase of the cycle? For many in our community, it’s the easiest and most joyful part of the cycle, but many also find it to be challenging and confronting. Today Alexan...
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Season 11
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Episode 159
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1:01:59
158. How Yoni Mapping Can Support Your Cycle Awareness Practice (Jules Alma)
For a decade, our guest, birth doula, menstrual coach Jules Alma has been mapping her Yoni. It’s soothed and regulated her nervous system, healed her pain during sex and brings her back to her centre. She even uses it after she has atten...
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Season 11
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Episode 158
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59:33
157. How to do a Big Bleed Retreat (Alexandra & Sjanie)
As you may know, we often talk about the amazing powers available to us when we’re able to rest at menstruation. But in a world that likes to see us active 24/7, how do we create the time and space to truly fulfill this glorious potential? ...
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Season 11
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Episode 157
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1:04:19
156. How we Practice Cycle Awareness as a Couple (Lucy Peach and Richard Berney)
How can you practice cycle awareness in your relationship? We get asked this question all the time, so we’re especially grateful to our guests today, Lucy Peach and Richard Berney for being willing to invite us right into the heart of th...
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Season 11
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Episode 156
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1:04:49
155. A Trauma-Informed Approach to Healing Pelvic Pain (Dr Peta Wright)
24% of women and people who bleed in the UK suffer from chronic pelvic pain, it’s 1 in 5 in Australia where our guest today, gynecologist Dr Peta Wright lives and works. Dr Peta wrote her book Healing Pelvic Pain: transfor...
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Season 11
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Episode 155
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1:02:26
154. From PMDD to Power and Ending Menstrual Suffering (Kate Shepherd Cohen)
For many of us, the inner autumn can be a provocative, messy and painful part of the menstrual cycle, where old traumas and wounds can surface, and for some this becomes deeply debilitating and disruptive. Our guest today, Men...
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Season 11
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Episode 154
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1:00:20
153. What Could Your Menstruality Career Look Like? (Alexandra & Sjanie)
Speaking about the menstrual cycle and menopause is becoming less and less taboo. You can see it everywhere you look; Instagram is wonderfully full of women teaching cycle tracking for health and fertility. Our recent podcast guest Dr La...
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Season 11
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Episode 153
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56:36
152. Menstruation and Menopause in the Workplace (Dr Lara Owen)
Today we’re delighted to welcome one of the original menstruality trailblazers, Dr Lara Owen back to the podcast. We’re exploring a topic which comes up regularly in the Red School community - how to practice menstrual cycle awareness an...
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58:49
151. Cyclical Wisdom for Heartbreak, Devastation and Rebirth (Sara Avant Stover)
In February 2016 our guest today, author and teacher Sara Avant Stover was coming out of a season of intense creativity and output and was preparing to enter into a cycle of rest and recovery, when one evening she received shattering new...
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Season 11
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Episode 151
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58:50
150. The Inner Autumn Powers that Awaken in our 40s (Alexandra & Sjanie)
As with your early years of cycling, your later years of cycling are a transitional time.Your 20s and 30s are all about discovering your rhythm and firming up your sense of self. But from your 40s onwards, the focus begins to shif...
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Season 11
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Episode 150
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1:02:55
149. How to Move from Toxic Productivity to Honouring your Natural Rhythms (Tamu Thomas)
Do you catch yourself measuring your worth by how much you do, and how much what you do benefits others? If you do, you’re not alone. And, as our guest today, Tamu Thomas, says - it’s not your fault. In her groundbreaking ...
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Season 11
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Episode 149
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57:06
148. How to Find the Gold in Your Menstrual Cycle Crossover Days (Alexandra & Sjanie)
Is there a particular point of your menstrual (or lunar) cycle where you tend to fall into a metaphorical ‘hole’? For many it’s day 5/6, coming out of the bleed or day 19/20 as you transition to inner autumn. These are two of the fou...
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Season 11
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Episode 148
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1:10:09
147. Coming Home to our Wild, Instinctual, Embodied Wisdom (Michaela Boehm)
Many of us in the Red School community have an intuitive longing to connect to the wild Feminine within us. As our guest today Michaela Boehm says in her book, The Wild Woman’s Way, we’re longing to connect to “the ancient part of us tha...
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58:28
146. What we Know about the Power of the Menstrual Cycle (Alexandra & Sjanie)
Today we’re talking about power, and it’s a word that comes up a lot at Red School. It features in both of Alexandra and Sjanie’s book titles, as well as the title of our new course coming up in June - Cycle Power. But what exactly do we...
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Season 10
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Episode 146
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1:03:17
145. Boundaries, Inner Mothering and the Menstrual Cycle (Bethany Webster)
The deeper we go with our menstrual cycle awareness practice, the more it can resource us as we heal our deepest wounds. Cycle by cycle, we step into deeper intimacy with our needs, which in turn enables us to take clumsy steps towards c...
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Season 10
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Episode 145
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59:24
144. Decolonising Wellness & Ayurvedic Menstrual Wisdom (Jyoti Rani)
Today we’re exploring a vital topic to all of us who are looking to evolve, wake up and live in a way which is honouring and life-affirming - decolonisation.When you look at the modern wellness industry in western countries, you ...
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Season 10
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Episode 144
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55:00
143. How to Practice Cycle Awareness when your Cycle is Unpredictable (Alexandra & Sjanie)
Do you have a menstrual cycle that doesn’t fit within the archetypal menstrual cycle maps? And are you - or someone you know - wondering how to practice cycle awareness when you have unpredictable, irregular cycles and are never sure whe...
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Season 10
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Episode 143
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1:05:50
142. Your Womb, Your Menstrual Cycle and Expressing Your Truth (Alycia Camacho)
How easy do you find it to express your truth? On the podcast today, we’re exploring the connection between the womb and the voice, why so many of us feel blocked in our expression, and how we can literally talk and sing our way back to ...
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Season 10
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Episode 142
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58:06