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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