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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
172 episodes
Mothering, Matrescence and Perimenopause (Amy Taylor Kabbaz)
What do we do when we’re experiencing significant changes physically, emotionally and spiritually in the years running up to menopause, all we want to do is run far, far away, but we still have kids at home who need our care and support?...
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Season 12
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Episode 171
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59:40
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170. How the Five Phases of Menopause Transform your Relationships (Autumn Saunders)
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 co...
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Season 12
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Episode 170
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56:50
169. How we Become a Force of Nature in Menopause (Dr Danielle Arabena)
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, th...
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Season 12
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Episode 169
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1:07:46
168. How Conscious Menopause Can Change the World (Alexandra & Sjanie)
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...
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Season 12
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Episode 168
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59:38
167. How to Mother Ourselves Through Menopause (Chameli Gad)
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 co...
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Season 12
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Episode 167
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1:09:02
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
165. 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
164. 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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