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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
218 episodes
217. How to Navigate The Heat of Menopause with Water Medicine (Tamu Mosley)
Our guest today is Tamu Mosley, who is a student of Alexandra and Sjanie’s Menopause: The Great Awakener course, and is an initiated Sacred Woman, wholistic wellness facilitator, teacher, and mama. Tamu was guided by her mum to track her...
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Season 15
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Episode 217
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56:34
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216. How to Manage the Emotional Heat of Menopause (Alexandra & Sjanie)
Menopause is an immense life event, a great initiation. Not only is it a complete hormonal shift in the landscape of your overall health, it’s also a psycho-spiritual transformation, which can bring with it a huge emotional rollercoaster...
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58:00
215. Replay: How to Mother Yourself Through Menopause (Chameli Gad)
It’s world menopause day later this month, and throughout October we’ll be sharing on social media about how we can rewrite the cultural narrative of menopause. On October 21st - 23rd, Alexandra and Sjanie would like to invite you to joi...
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Season 15
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Episode 215
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1:10:46
214. Replay: How Yoga Nidra can Support Menstrual and Menopause Rest (Tracee Stanley)
It’s world menopause day later this month, and throughout October we’ll be sharing on social media about how we can rewrite the cultural narrative of menopause. On October 21st - 23rd, Alexandra and Sjanie would like to invite you to joi...
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Season 15
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Episode 214
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57:53
213. Replay: Menopause as a Gateway to Magnificence and Knowing Our Worth (Prune Harris)
It’s world menopause day later this month, and throughout October we’ll be sharing on social media about how we can rewrite the cultural narrative of menopause. On October 21st - 23rd, Alexandra and Sjanie would like to invite you to joi...
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Season 15
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Episode 213
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59:45
212. Replay: The Myth, Magic and Metamorphosis of Menopause (Dr Sharon Blackie)
It’s world menopause day later this month, and throughout October we’ll be sharing on social media about how we can rewrite the cultural narrative of menopause. On October 21st - 23rd, Alexandra and Sjanie would like to invite you to joi...
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Season 15
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Episode 212
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1:02:34
211. Replay: The Transformation of Menopause: Stepping into our Responsibility to Life (Jane Hardwicke Collings)
It’s world menopause day later this month, and throughout October we’ll be sharing on social media about how we can rewrite the cultural narrative of menopause. On October 21st - 23rd, Alexandra and Sjanie would like to invite you to joi...
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Season 15
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Episode 211
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57:22
210. How to Claim Your Sacred Rest (Octavia Raheem)
In a world which is moving too fast, we have to claim our rest, which is why I’m delighted to share this conversation with an incredible woman who sees herself as a Chief Operating Daydreaming Officer and Dream Keeper. Octavia Raheem is ...
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Season 15
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Episode 210
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1:04:17
209. The Future of Leadership is Menstrual: A Revolution in Power (Alexandra & Sjanie)
In a world where fast-paced technology and artificial intelligence are on the rise, where each day brings fresh news of global injustice and conflict and where radical shifts are needed to create a sustainable future on earth, it’s no wo...
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Season 15
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Episode 209
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1:00:50
208. The Messy Middle of Menopause (Ruby May)
As we’ve explored a lot on the podcast with the women and folks who have shared their own menopause stories, it can be a disorientating, deeply challenging, and very messy process. And today we’re hearing from a woman who is generously s...
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Season 15
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Episode 208
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55:49
207. How Cycle Awareness Can Help You to Navigate PCOS and Irregular Cycles (Shalize Giane)
What do you do when your experience of the cycle doesn’t match the archetypal description of the inner seasons? Many women and folks with cycles experience sporadic, irregular cycles which are very challenging to track, particularly if t...
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Season 15
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Episode 207
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1:04:34
206: Listening to Your Body, Reclaiming Your Power and Knowing Your Worth (Meggan Watterson)
Today’s conversation is an exploration of what happens when women’s stories and voices are suppressed, and how we reclaim our power in a world which has historically denied our worth. It’s the story beneath the story of menstruality, the...
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Season 15
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Episode 206
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1:01:14
205. How to Work With PMS and PMDD Using Menstrual Cycle Awareness (Alexandra & Sjanie)
Today we’re sharing part two of our conversation about PMS - premenstrual syndrome - and PMDD - Premenstrual dysphoria disorder. We began this exploration in episode 202, How Menstrual Cycle Awareness Can Transform PMS and PMDD, where we...
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Season 15
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Episode 205
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59:10
204. How Cycle Awareness Helps to Create a Rest-Centred Life (Lou Perham)
I don’t know about you, but rest can be an elusive thing for me. I know I need it, I know I want it, but how do I actually get it? Enter Lou Perham who is rest-obsessed and has devoted her recent years as a Cyclical Living Mentor to help...
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Season 14
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Episode 204
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1:01:02
203. How to Claim and Express Yourself in Inner Summer - REPLAY (Alexandra & Sjanie)
What if there is a direct connection between your pleasure and your power? And what if harnessing the magic of inner summer of the menstrual cycle - the ovulation phase - is the key to unleashing a deeply pleasurable, full expression of ...
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Season 14
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Episode 203
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58:43
202. How Menstrual Cycle Awareness Can Transform PMS and PMDD (Alexandra & Sjanie)
Did you know that 3-8% of women and people with cycles experience PMDD, which stands for premenstrual dysphoric disorder? If you are one of these people, or you are close to or work with someone with PMDD, this episode is especially for ...
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Season 14
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Episode 202
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1:03:18
201. Healing Grief, Fear and Loneliness after Pregnancy Loss (Iris Josephina Verstappen)
A few months ago, our guest today, the founder of Cycle Seeds Iris Josephina Verstappen, was hosting a retreat in a goddess temple in Malta when she began to miscarry. Having accompanied many women through pregnancy loss, both as a doula...
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Season 14
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Episode 201
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1:01:28
200. How to Recover Your Health in Menopause with Herbal Medicine (Melinda McDougall)
If you’re curious to explore natural approaches to support menopause health symptoms today’s episode is for you. Our guest, Melinda McDougall, is a registered Medical Herbalist specialising in women's health and menopause. She combines t...
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Season 14
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Episode 200
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59:17
199. How to Use Energy Work for Menstrual, Menopause and Womb Health (Prune Harris)
Our guest today, energy expert Prune Harris sees the womb as the deepest house of wisdom that we have, and today we explore how to work energetically to cultivate womb health, as well as menstrual and menopause health. Sin...
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Season 14
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Episode 199
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1:08:01
198. The Connection between Your Menstrual Cycle and Your Mental & Emotional Health (Alexandra & Sjanie)
As part of our ongoing series about the connection between menstrual cycle awareness and our health & wellbeing today we’re exploring how getting to know your cycle can be a vital foundation for mental and emotional health....
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Season 14
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Episode 198
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1:06:06
197. How Your Menstrual Cycle is a Compass Leading you Towards Joy (Edveeje Fairchild)
Menstrual cycle awareness can guide us to create more rest in our lives, including a mini menstrual sabbatical each month to renew us and restore our connection to joy. Our guest today, author, poet and teacher Edveeje Fairchild has been...
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Season 14
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Episode 197
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1:02:12
196. How to Connect to the Cyclical Wisdom of Your Dreams (Toko-Pa Turner)
When Toko-pa Turner first started to experience signs of perimenopause, she was simultaneously diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called rheumatoid arthritis, and the combination led to severe insomnia. Sleep deprivation is challenging...
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Season 14
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Episode 196
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56:09
195. Part Two: How Cycle Awareness Helps you to Manage your Energy (Q+A w/ Alexandra & Sjanie)
Today we’re in conversation with the brilliant community gathered around this work and podcast in our part two episode about how to work with menstrual cycle awareness as our own in-built energy management system. This con...
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Season 14
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Episode 195
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1:08:21
194: How Menstrual Cycle Awareness Helps you to Manage your Energy (Alexandra & Sjanie)
We’re experiencing an epidemic of chronic fatigue and burnout, especially for women, and people with marginalised identities. It’s part of our modern day polycrisis, and in many ways the exhaustion we’re experiencing in our individual bo...
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Season 14
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Episode 194
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1:03:59
193. Cultivating Resilience and Preventing Burnout in Perimenopause (Jolinda Johnson)
When we enter the autumn of our menstruation years in our 40s and start to experience what many call perimenopause, we can easily think we should keep pushing through even though our bodies, minds and emotional landscape are transforming...
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Season 14
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Episode 193
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56:45