Girls need rites of passage, not just period education. We're talking puberty, periods and how we as mums, teachers, communities and guides can help our girls feel confident, prepared and supported when they have their first menstrual cycle.

My guest Kate Andrews is the founder of Wild Creative, offering holistic education and rites of passage programs for young people. With nature as her preferred classroom, Kate runs outdoor programs focused on building children’s social and emotional intelligence, and facilitates rites of passage retreats and camps for pre-teens and teens.

Her work has culminated in her beautiful book, Bodywise: A Puberty and Period Guide, a resource created to support girls and families with puberty and period education that goes beyond the purely biological.

In this episode, Kate and I speak about why girls need period and puberty education before their first bleed, not only once visible signs arrive. We talk about how change begins invisibly first, why waiting for children to ask questions is not always enough, and how mothers and caregivers can begin these conversations in small, age-appropriate, imperfect ways.

We also explore the power of Bodywise as a companion resource — something girls can dip in and out of, return to over time, and use for reflection as they begin asking, “Who am I becoming?”

Together, we explore the value of ritual within rites of passage, and why information alone is not enough. We talk about the concentric circles of support children need: parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, mentors and community, and why young people need trusted adults beyond their immediate family as they grow.

We explore:

• why puberty education needs to be more than “the birds and bees” and how puberty is a transformation of the whole being, not just the body
• why girls need early conversations before visible puberty changes arrive and how to start small when your child withdraws.
• why books and journals can be powerful conversation starters, and how Bodywise supports girls with period education, reflection and self-knowledge
• why ritual and rites of passage help young people embody change and
• why adolescents need mentors, community and a village beyond the family unit
• how nature teaches children about cycles, flux, discomfort and transformation and what changes when girls know their bodies are sacred, unique and ever-changing
• how puberty and perimenopause mirror each other as rites of passage

This episode is for anyone wanting their own daughter or the children in their care to have an empowered puberty - by being willing to talk where others won't.

Get your copy of Bodywise book and find Kate on Instagram @wildcreative.aus

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Full show notes https://charlottepointeaux.com/period-education-for-girls/

It's Lion's Gate Portal peaking Saturday 8/8 - the peak Manifestation window of the year! As you prepare your manifesting ritual, have you checked if you can actually HOLD what you're calling in? There's a key way your manifesting gets sabotaged. Vision boards and candles expand your energy - but manifestation needs coordinates, not just a wish.

In this episode I unpack why so many spiritual healers, coaches and sacred business owners keep dreaming huge and watching it stall right before it lands - how to manifest powerfully in your life and to make bigger money in your spiritual business - plus the real ritual practice to add this weekend.

Tune in for:

1. What Lion's Gate actually is — the Sun/Sirius alignment, why 2026 is unusually charged,
2. How Northern vs Southern hemisphere energy shapes what you're manifesting right now,
3. Why manifestation without embodied identity work and grounded action never lands,
4. Why healers and coaches sabotage money magick - by getting stuck being the jack of all trades instead of the master of one,
5. Two doors if you're ready to build real structure around your vision
6. Real ritual prompts + a perfectionist money dare to do before the Lion's Gate window closes

Save $100 off the Sacred CEO Dashboard until August 13 here

First Moon Circle Facilitator Training is enrolling now for our September 2026 round — doors close August 28. Come claim your place this Lion's Gate. Head to firstmooncircleschool.com/training

Journaling prompts from the episode:

• What does this vision actually look like in practice, not just the feeling?
• What's the one practical action this needs from me right now?
• Where in my business is this currently ungrounded or unsupported?
• If I gave the universe coordinates instead of a wish, what would they be?

What if we can become recovered people pleasers and use the very skills we learned to survive to become extraordinary space-holders?

Today we're exploring the power of the attunement, empathy and regulation skills so many of us learned as young girls, and how those same skills can become the foundation of transformational leadership when we stop abandoning ourselves inside them.

Today on Wild Flow, I'm joined by Leilani Garcia, speaker, retreat facilitator and creator of The Artful Alchemist and The Remembrance Method™ – an integrative approach that weaves together nervous system regulation, subconscious transformation and embodied leadership.

Drawing on nearly two decades of creating executive and transformational experiences, Leilani helps individuals and organisations cultivate greater resilience, authenticity and purpose.

But before this became her work, Leilani experienced a profound awakening that led her to leave an abusive marriage and discover she had Celiac disease. What followed was a familiar path for many women listening – a season of unraveling, healing, and moving through multiple deaths and rebirths that ultimately brought her back to herself, her love of life, and her priestess path.

Together, we explore the hidden gifts inside people pleasing, what happens when your body has spent years in protection mode, and the sacred process of returning to yourself after seasons of rupture, illness, divorce and profound change.

We talk about nervous system safety, the sacred pause, and why so many women learn to read a room long before they ever learn to read themselves.

This conversation is ultimately about remembrance. About who we become when we stop abandoning ourselves, soften our grip on old identities, and begin leading not from fear or conditioning, but from presence, truth and deep inner safety.

I think so many of you are going to recognise yourself in this one.

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• If anyone feels called to explore this work more deeply after listening to our conversation, Leilani is offering listeners 20% off any of her Remembrance experiences or the Mount Shasta Healers' Recalibration Retreat using the code WILDFLOW. Find out more here.

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