Debbie Miller-Wright is a personal trainer on a mission to support women going through the menopause. Debbie found the support out there for perimenopausal women incredibly lacking - especially for women who wanted to keep physically active during this time so she began researching what she could do to move through menopause. We talk all things nutrition, exercise, supplements and mindfulness. For anyone approaching menopause - it really is worth a listen!

Talking points include:

• Debbie's journey through menopause as a personal trainer
• Explanation of perimenopause and menopause
• Lack of research and understanding of menopause
• The importance of talking about the menopause
• What you can do to alleviate symptoms
• Starting with the basics, being kind to yourself
• Benefits of menopause support groups
• Importance of finding exercise that motivates you
• Getting to know yourself again and finding excitement in life

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A beautiful conversation with fertility awareness educator, menstrual cycle mentor and birth story listener Hayley Anderson. Hayley offers insights into the role periods play in our lives and we continue our conversation by discussing birth story listening, post-birth experiences and motherhood. Hayley’s cycle and fertility education is steeped in holistic awareness of our bodies and minds and the understanding of our hormones. We talk through many aspects of periods and how we can embrace the different changes and cycles - I have a totally different view of periods after my conversation with Hayley!

Talking points include:

• Listening to our bodies as we move through different cycles of menstruation
• Patriarchal views of periods
• Getting rid of the patriarchal PMS story - angry, discerning women are needed
• Filling a gap in society of really seeing and hearing women
• Ovulatory power and embracing powerful energy
• Exploring ambiguous loss and the menstrual cycle
• Cycle tracking
• Bringing your hormones with you in what you’re doing
• How each part of the cycle bleeds into another
• The need to be witnessed and received post birth
• Not losing yourself in motherhood and holding boundaries
• Cultivating motherhood/parenthood
• Lack of centring the mother’s experience in society and what we can do about it
• Finding your village

You can find Hayley at https://pellarandpollen.com/ or on Instagram @_hayley__anderson_.

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This week, I spoke to Theresa Ribeiro, a non-traditional, feminist celebrant based in the UK. She performs and officiates ceremonies, whether that’s weddings or partnership ceremonies, funerals or naming ceremonies.

Humans love ceremony and ritual, we come together to mark occasions and we’ve done this for thousands of years. We need these spaces to celebrate, commiserate, grieve and mark them out, to connect with others as we change, as we move through our lives. I really think celebrating these moments are transformative and that’s why I wanted to find out more from Theresa what celebrants do and how we can mark these changes in our lives.

I talk to Theresa about life as a celebrant, what moments in our lives she officiates and the major changes in her life and ones she thinks we could mark out in different ways, for instance, divorce. When a relationship ends, how do we serve it, how do we commemorate it? Such an interesting conversation!

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