Are your periods, sleep, mood or energy starting to feel different?

In this episode, we explore the overlap between PMS and perimenopause, the subtle signs of hormonal change, and why you don’t need to fear this natural transition.

Your body is changing but you don’t have to suffer through it.

✨ Want personalised support?
Book a 1:1 Hormonal Balance Session with me to explore your symptoms, patterns and practical ways to support your body.

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You’re exhausted, your blood tests are “normal,” but you still don’t feel like yourself.

In this episode, we explore what may be happening beneath the surface from sleep and stress to changing hormones and perimenopause and why your symptoms are worth listening to.

Because sometimes the question isn’t simply, “What does my blood test say?”

It’s also: “What is my body trying to tell me?”

If you’ve been feeling tired, foggy, depleted, or unlike yourself despite being told that everything looks fine, this episode is for you.

🌿 Softening Into Your Next Becoming: Finding Your Rhythm in Perimenopause is my new programme for women who are ready to understand their changing bodies, reconnect with their rhythm, and move through perimenopause with more awareness, support, and self-compassion.

https://www.moonandqi.com/moon-qi-school/

There's a season most calendars don't talk about, the transition between summer's expansion and autumn's arrival. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, it's called late summer, governed by the Earth element: the seat of digestion, worry, and groundedness. In this episode, we explore what it feels like when Earth is in balance versus out of balance physically, emotionally, and spiritually and how to gently come back to center before the next season arrives.

Ever wake up with a flat stomach, only to look 4 months pregnant by 3:00 PM?

If your bloating happens after a stressful meeting, an overwhelming email, or a day of rushing, you aren’t dealing with a food allergy. You are dealing with Stress Bloat.In Traditional Chinese Medicine, we call this "Wood attacking Earth."

In this quick, 10-minute episode, we explore:

• The hidden body language of the "Stress Bloat"
• A 3-step somatic Qigong and massage practice to un-clench your belly in real-time
• How to stop fighting your body and start softening into your center

✨ Ready to dive deeper?
If your body is changing and you are navigating the intense transitions of perimenopause, running on cortisol doesn't work anymore. Join my upcoming 6-Week Qigong & Meditation Journey for Perimenopause. Let’s teach your nervous system how to drop its armor and soften into this beautiful new becoming.

Link to the programme: https://www.moonandqi.com/moon-qi-school/

In this episode, we explore a different reason why so many women feel exhausted. I share my own story with chronic tension, PMS, migraines, and fatigue, explain how stress and protective patterns can cut your energy flow, and guide you through a simple 5% softening practice that you can start using today.

If this episode resonates with you, I’d love to invite you to Softening Into Your Next Becoming, my October 2026 program where we gently release chronic contraction, reconnect with the body, and recover energy, softness, and joy.

Join here: https://www.moonandqi.com/moon-qi-school/

A conversation with an IVF patient led me to a forgotten history: a time when women were the healers, midwives, and keepers of the wisdom of the body. In this episode, I explore how that authority was taken away, why so many women have been taught to doubt themselves, and what it means to reclaim our intuition, our bodies, and our power today.

For years, I hid my PhD.

Not because it wasn’t important, but because that chapter of my life was filled with pain, self-doubt, and a belief that I had to choose between science and healing.

In this episode, I share the story of leaving academia, finding my way through yoga, nutrition, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and women’s health, and realising that I had never lost the scientist in me, I had simply learned to integrate every part of myself.

If you’ve ever felt disconnected from who you are, this conversation is for you.

And if you’re navigating perimenopause and longing for a gentler, more nourishing way through, my 6-week programme “Perimenopause Journey: Softening Into Your Next Becoming” begins in October.

Early Bird available: https://www.moonandqi.com/moon-qi-school/

In this episode, we explore trance as a beautiful tool to inhabit your body and genuinely enjoy living in it. We break down the differences between trance and dissociation, clear up common misconceptions, and share simple, organic ways to ease into this blissful state without the need to force relaxation.

🎙️ Episode Highlights

• • Trance vs. Dissociation: Understand how dissociation pulls you away from reality, while trance gently grounds you back into the wholeness of your physical being.
  • Releasing Control: Learn why "trying" to relax often creates tension, and how to let go of the micromanagement to allow for a natural, organic release.
  • Simple Practices: Discover approachable ways to recognize when you are in a trance and tap into this peaceful state.

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Freddy's website: https://www.fredereka.com/