Feeling Female AF's Podcast
Welcome to Feeling Female AF, the podcast where we want to share everything we keep learning on our ongoing navigation through life as a woman. This is the stuff we wish we'd learned at school, or at least in our twenties and we know we have a duty to share it with you too.We are Kate and Vicky - two best friends, in our thirties who have both been on a journey experiencing loss, love, divorce, fertility difficulties, hormonal problems and all the other usual stuff that comes with being female. We have supported one another on our individual journeys and said yes to many new things to help us navigate why we feel like we do.If you would like to continue the conversation, please do join us in our FREE The Feeling Female AF Lounge on Facebook. This is a group for like-minded females to chat about the ways they are navigating life as a modern woman. Just search for the group and request to join.Follow us on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/feelingfemaleaf and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/feelingfemaleaf
Episodes
31 episodes
EP 30: Feeling Female AF | The menstrual cycle | Interview with Gina Torres
Gina is a fellow podcaster and an inspiring woman. As well as being a yoga teacher, specifically womb yoga and holding women's circles, she educates people on menstrual cycles. We speak to Gina about the path that to...
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EP 29: Feeling Female AF | The menstrual cycle | Autumn episode
This episode is all about the Autumn/Luteal phase of your cycle. We share the best ways to look after yourself in this time with food, exercise and self-care.As well as discuss the things that may show up for you during this phase o...
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EP 28: Feeling Female AF | The menstrual cycle | Summer episode
This episode is all about the Summer/Ovulation phase of your cycle. We share the best ways to look after yourself in this time with food, exercise and self-care.As well as discuss the things that may show up for you during this phas...
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EP 27: Feeling Female AF | The menstrual cycle | Spring episode
This episode is all about the Spring/Follicular phase of your cycle. We share the best ways to look after yourself in this time with food, exercise and self-care.As well as discuss the things that may show up for you during this pha...
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EP 26: Feeling Female AF | The menstrual cycle | Winter episode
Following on from our last episode this week is all about the Winter. That is the Winter/Menstruation phase of your cycle. We share the best ways to look after yourself in these times with food, exercise and self-care.As well as dis...
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EP 25: Feeling Female AF | The menstrual cycle introduction episode
Most of us have some idea of when our beloved time of the month is due. Although sadly not enough of us are tracking the whole of our menstrual cycles and using that knowledge to assist us through our daily lives. We have put together t...
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EP 24: Feeling Female AF | The catch up and wolf whistling episode
You are invited to our long overdue catch up!We review the fertility series and where we both are now, then we move on to discuss wolf whistles and our experiences as women with harassment...We feel really strongly about shari...
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EP 23: Feeling Female AF | The Fertility series | Real stories - Vicky Part 2
This fertility series is a mixture of our own stories and others.Our very own Vicky shares part 2 of her Egg & Embryo freezing process. As previously discussed Vicky, a single woman on a mission to create a back up p...
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EP 22: Feeling Female AF | The Fertility series | Real stories - Vicky Part 1
This fertility series is a mixture of our own stories and others.This episode was pre-recorded in 2020. Our very own Vicky shares part 1 of her Egg/Embryo freezing process. Vicky, wanting to safeguard her fertility and p...
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EP 21: Feeling Female AF | The Fertility series | Real stories - David
This fertility series is a mixture of our own stories and others.This week David shares with us his own and his wife's experiences of fertility treatments both Innside and outside of the UK.Having discovered they were pregnan...
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EP 20: Feeling Female AF | The Fertility series | Real stories - Hayley
This fertility series is a mixture of our own stories and others.This week Hayley tells us of her rough ride into the world of fertility treatments.Starting with being diagnosed with PCOS Hayley speaks to us about the various...
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EP 19: Feeling Female AF | The Fertility series | Real stories - Kate
This fertility series is a mixture of our own stories and others.The episode we are sharing this week is Kates story. One half of Feeling female AF.Kate started trying to conceive just after her wedding in May 2014 or at leas...
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EP 18: Feeling Female AF | The Fertility series | Real stories - Laura Wright
This fertility series is a mixture of our own stories and others.Laura Wright is a business owner from the North West who has shared her fertility story with us in the hope it gives others hope and encouragement on their own j...
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EP 17: Feeling Female AF | The Fertility series | The embryologist interview.
This fertility series is a mixture of our own stories and others.We start off by speaking with Embryologist David Gibbon. His wealth of knowledge comes from working in the medical field from the mid 90's as an Embryologist and...
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EP 16: Feeling Female AF | The stress episode with Gemma Ray
Author, radio presenter and coach Gemma Ray shares her stress story.Having dealt with an unexpected loss and the pressures of work and home life Gemma felt the extreme effects of stress. It forced a stop. A stop which she was ...
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EP 15: Feeling Female AF | The one about the bush...and other hairy things
We love a bit of bush talk and before you get excited for learning how to survive in the wilderness this isn't that kind of bush.We discuss our own hairy legs, pits, arms and vulvas and go through the various processes we have of removi...
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EP 14: Feeling Female AF | The period talk episode
WARNING This weeks episode contains graphic talk on duh duh duh.......periods!We Know we bang on about them a fair bit, but we wanted to share with you some of the not so good times behind them. As always we w...
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EP 13: Feeling Female AF | The interview with Elisabeth Thompson - CBT Therapist
April is stress awareness month and as we are massive advocates of therapy we want to remove the stigma and fear when it comes to choosing a therapist that is suitable for you.In this episode we speak to CBT therapist Elisabeth T...
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EP 12: Feeling Female AF | The Mel Meik interview - Alopecia & Stress
In this episode we speak to Mel Meik about her experience with becoming hairless at age 20, just prior to her 21st Birthday.Mel found a treatment that worked for her and amazingly her hair grew back.Sadly this was fairly short l...
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EP 11: Feeling Female AF | The period pad review
This episode is all about period pads. We chose two brands to review. These were Bloom and Nora and Eco Lily Pads.We discuss the lesser talked about reasons why we aren't fond of disposable Sanitary items and as always we give you our hones...
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EP 10 Part 2: Feeling Female AF | The way we speak to ourselves
Following on from our last episode on how we speak to ourselves, this week we focus more on the topic of how to help yourself with your inner critic.There is a more than one way to help put those darker thoughts into perspective and ...
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EP 10 Part 1: Feeling Female AF | The way we speak to ourselves
In this week's episode we take a deeper look into our internal voices...The topics we cover in our private group ‘The Feeling Female AF lounge on facebook’ usually get great interaction, but when it came ...
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EP 09: Feeling Female AF | The Endometriosis episode
March is International Endometriosis awareness month. We really want to do our bit to open up the conversation on this condition that effects so many women yet can take so long to diagnose.We speak to our very own endo warrior Lisa...
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EP 08: Feeling Female AF | The Smear test episode
Who doesn't love talking about their cervix?! We certainly do!In this episode we run through our experiences of having a nurse look up your skirt and poke your cervix.With 1 in 4 women skipping their invite to a cervical ...
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EP 07: Feeling Female AF | The Menstrual Cup review
This episode we review menstrual cups.The brands we have chosen are Mooncup and Lunette. We discuss the history, the benefits of using cups and we also run through the potential hurdles you might encounter in those first few days or months ...
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