In this episode, Lindsay and Scott sit down with Adena Rose Bright, an Ayurveda practitioner, educator, and women’s health practitioner with nearly two decades of clinical experience.

Together, they explore what it looks like to live in deeper relationship with the body, the seasons, and the natural world - and how Ayurveda can offer a practical framework for understanding women’s health through every season of life.

Adina shares how her own journey through painful periods, conception, pregnancy, postpartum, and now midlife shaped the work she does today. The conversation moves through digestion, pelvic health, herbal medicine, postpartum depletion, seasonal transitions, and why so many health challenges can’t be understood by looking at one isolated part of the body.

They also talk about the importance of becoming an active participant in your own healing — not rejecting modern medicine, but building enough body awareness, practical knowledge, and self-trust to have more choice in how you care for yourself.

In this episode, they explore:

• How Ayurveda approaches women’s health and seasonal wellness
• Why digestion is considered foundational to overall health
• Simple Ayurvedic practices for transitioning into fall and colder weather
• The relationship between digestion, pelvic health, inflammation, and the nervous system
• Adina’s experience healing painful periods and reconnecting with her body
• Postpartum depletion, anxiety, and the plant medicine that became a turning point for her
• Motherwort, herbal medicine, and building relationships with plant allies
• The limitations of compartmentalized healthcare
• How Ayurveda and Western medicine can work alongside one another
• Trusting the innate intelligence of the body
• Becoming an active participant in your own healing

Adina also shares the advice she wishes more women heard earlier: “Let the animal body take over.” Her reminder is that the body already carries an innate intelligence toward healing — and our job is often to create the conditions that allow it to do what it knows how to do.

Connect with Adena:

Website: https://www.adenaroseayurveda.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adenaroseayurveda

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