The Sacred Womb with Melanie Swan
For women who want to utilise perimenopause as a powerful recalibration into truth, love and sovereignty — and thrive in the second half of life.
This podcast began as a deep dive into somatic womb healing, attachment repair, menstrual cycle wisdom and soul-deep transformation — and those foundations remain in the first 75 episodes.
As I've moved deeper into my own perimenopause, the podcast has evolved with me.
Now, The Sacred Womb Podcast centres perimenopause as initiation — a sacred destruction that burns away what is false and awakens us to what always was.
With 20+ years of clinical trauma expertise, somatic womb healing and lived experience (I'm in perimenopause right now), I offer real depth without spiritual bypassing, clinical grounding without pathologising, and honest companionship through the fire.
Expect conversations on perimenopause as a rite of passage, and what it actually takes to come home to yourself in midlife.
Hosted by Melanie Swan — Perimenopause Guide, Soul & Shadow worker and founder of The Sacred Womb — this podcast is for women 40+ who sense that something deeper is happening and are ready to meet it.
Connect with Melanie on Instagram @melaniejswan_ and explore more at thesacredwomb.com.
Episodes
72 episodes
Winter Reflections from Thailand & What's Changing In 2026
It’s winter in Chiang Mai — sunlit, yet crisp enough to invite true wintering: slow, quiet, reflective. As I prepare for the Womb Medicine Woman Training starting in January, one word has defined 2025 for me: REFINEMENT.I share wh...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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17:01
Why Strength Training Matters In Perimenopause, with Charlotte Hewlett
Ready to feel strong, steady, and unapologetically capable through perimenopause and menopause? We sit down with Charlotte, a Chiang Mai–based fitness and nutrition coach who specialises in midlife women, to unpack what actually changes as horm...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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42:08
Killing the Disney Princess Fantasy in Relationships: From Extraction & Control to Sovereign Love
We dismantle the Disney princess fantasy and show how to move from extraction and control toward sovereign, mutual, love‑centred relationships. We name the childhood roots, the subtle control strategies, and the grief work that restores agency ...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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26:45
Becoming Sovereign: Inside the Womb Medicine Woman Training
Become the frequency of this work and guide women home to their true, sovereign nature.I’m truly delighted to share this with you. The Womb Medicine Woman Training® is back!This training has run in different forms fo...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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30:10
Why Money Blocks Are Hard To Budge — and How to Resolve Them at the Root
Women and MONEY! Why are so many women struggling to earn, receive and retain money?!!Women are conditioned—subtly and overtly—to emotionally over-give, to feel guilty for charging for their time, to equate compassionate with “low...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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20:03
Dancing With Goddesses Through The Menstrual Cycle — with Agnieszka Drabek-Prime
Agnieszka Drabek-Prime weaves the cyclical wisdom of goddess archetypes into a rich map for navigating life’s transitions — from menstruation to motherhood, through perimenopause and beyond. Her new book, Dancing With ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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29:52
You Just Need To Be In A Calorie Deficit – The F**kery of Peri-Menopause Advice
The journey through perimenopause is unique for every woman, yet the unsolicited and contrary advice remains universal. This was the inspiration for my latest poem, which is part of a book of poetry in which I’m documenting t...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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4:48
I Don’t Know – A Poem On Peri-Menopause
Today is my 49th birthday, and peri-menopause is in full swing. My last period lasted 26 hours. As my blood started to flow, I felt love and bliss emanating from my womb.I lay on my bed for 4 hours, riding the waves of energy that...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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11:05
Is It ADHD — Or Is It Attachment Trauma?
Have you noticed the huge rise in the diagnosis of ADHD?It’s everywhere — in adults, in children, on social media, in therapy rooms. And while it’s often discussed through the lens of ‘neurodiversity’ or executive dysfunc...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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18:45
Radical Relating Through The Natural Voice, with Anthony Johnston
In our conversation, Anthony shares the essence of Singing in the Wild, his five-day retreat that I've been on twice (17 years ago and more recently just a few weeks ago).I had such a transformative time that I invited...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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55:28
Why ‘Letting Go’ Doesn't Work and What Actually Does
have you ever tried to ‘let go’ of behaviors that no longer serve you, only to find yourself repeating the same patterns? You're not alone. The popular advice to ‘release what no longer serves us’ or burning our troubles...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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9:15
A Guided Practice To Energise Your Womb Center
This guided practice serves as both a foundational womb healing technique to energise your whole womb center and a diagnostic tool to understand your current relationship to your womb.You’ll learn to direct energy to each part of ...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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22:33
9 Ways Unresolved Attachment Trauma Affects How We 'Hold Space'
The phrase 'holding space' is immensely popular with those in therapeutic, healing, coaching, wellness, and women's circles, but what's really happening?I've investigated this over the last few years with those I've worked with...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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29:25
How To Develop A Genuine Adult Self
In this episode I explore the concept of becoming a genuine adult, what it means to develop emotional maturity and a grounded sense of self, what that looks like and feels like, and how we can do it in a way that increases our range...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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17:36
Recalibrating Our Attachment Template: Incarnation To Birth
Our attachment template primarily determines how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world, and to recalibrate it, we need to work where it was formed: from incarnation, conception, in our Mother’s womb, to birth and our first year. ...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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27:14
Menopause, Hormones & Health with Salena Walker
Salena Walker; Herbalist, Naturapath and Nutritionist joins us to talk about what’s going on during menopause and how we can support ourselves with what we drink, eat, think and excrete!She talks us through what’s going on with ou...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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30:08
Healing Emotionally & Spiritually After Abortion
I want to set up the context for this episode because it’s so important that you know I’m sharing this from a place of love, years of experience working with women, compassion, understanding and no judgment. My perspective is...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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26:59
What Is Womb Healing?
To heal our womb means to dissolve all the ‘stuff’ we’ve been holding in there, restore its true purpose and reconnect the whole womb centre with the rest of our system.To do this we need to consider six aspects:
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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21:07
3 Core Issues That Hold Us Back & What To Do About Them
I explore 3 core issues that I see over and over again in my work, particularly with women. I describe how each particular aspect shows up, the root cause, and what to do about it.Perpetually Putting Others’ Needs Before Our Ow...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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45:31
The Hungry Mother: A Poem On Healing from Narcissistic Parenting
Have you ever felt an insatiable hunger for love and validation?In this episode, I explore ‘The Hungry Mother,’ a medicine poem that speaks to the experience of, and healing from, narcissistic parenting.Put simply, narcissi...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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6:57
Reclaiming The Divine Masculine To Restore The Divine Feminine
Welcome to another episode where Kim and I discuss the growing divine feminine movement and its pitfalls……as many women who are in this movement are struggling to turn ideas into reality, have a lack of internal authority and are...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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26:18
Debunking 6 Menstrual Cycle Myths
Ready to debunk some myths about your menstrual cycle? I talk about 6 of the most common myths in the realm of ‘womb work’ that are limiting our experience of what the menstrual cycle truly is, and get clear on what the antidotes...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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20:45
The Root Cause Of Keeping One's Self Small
Many women I come across talk of keeping themselves small. It's one of the core wounds that women in particular struggle with.In this episode, Kim Barnard and I explore the 4 aspects that form the 'root system' that keep us livin...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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26:37
It's Time To Shine: A Womb Medicine Poem Guided Practice
A short and sweet episode to share with you a Womb Medicine Poem to restore the beauty and wonder of the womb centre. It starts with a brief introduction, and then there's a guided practice to listen to the poem with your womb....
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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5:58