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.

Get started here:

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• From Potent to Profitable Masterclass
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We’re exploring fertility as body literacy, ancestral wisdom, womb sovereignty, lineage memory and the creative intelligence that lives inside the female body.

Chanana McGarry of Womb Literacy brings a powerful lens to this conversation through her work with natural fertility and her African lineage, and I’m especially excited to explore what happens when womb wisdom is remembered not as something new, but as something ancient, sacred and deeply needed in our modern world.

My guest Chanana is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator. After two unplanned pregnancies and over a decade of research, she teaches women to prevent pregnancy naturally with 99.6% effective, hormone and guesswork free contraception. As a direct descendant of the Mujaji Rain Queens of Southern Africa, she weaves together science with ancestral feminine wisdom, making her perspective unique in the natural birth control and holistic women’s health space.

We're hitting on:

1. How both Chanana and I were deeply initiated into body sovereignty and womb wisdom by our unplanned pregnancies

2. Ancestral wisdom as remembered - not newly learnt knowledge - and how Chanana's lineage from Southern Africa taught their daughters to read their cervical fluid as a fertile sign.

3. When you don't trust natural fertility, Chanana explains how scientific evidence backs up the effectiveness of the symptom-thermal method for contraception, and how body literacy helps us advocate in medical system not trained in cycle awareness

4. How Chanana teaches her daughter natural fertility to give her informed consent, and how she's taught her son to respect menstruation, and tend to her during her bleed.

This is SUCH a juicy conversation bridging modern science with ancestral wisdom. It's not about telling every woman what birth control choice she should make. It is about asking whether women have ever truly been given the full picture. It is about body literacy, informed consent, ancestral wisdom, reproductive sovereignty, and the right to understand the language of our own fertility.

CONTACT CHANANA

Instagram: @wombliteracynow

Facebook: facebook.com/wombliteracy

Website: www.wombliteracy.com

Decolonize Your Birth Control: Read or listen to the essay (no opt in required) at www.wombliteracy.com/decolonize-your-birth-control

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So many sacred space-holders, healers, coaches, facilitators and mystics have built businesses where their income is directly tied to their own time, energy and live presence. And while this work is often deeply transformational, eventually many women reach the same threshold:

“I can’t keep holding more.”

In this episode, I explore the hidden business model pattern affecting so many sacred women — where growth itself begins to feel exhausting because the business depends entirely on the practitioner’s nervous system, capacity and energetic output.

• I share why so many women unconsciously confuse overgiving with devotion, why live transformational work can become energetically unsustainable over time, and the deeper identity threshold that appears when a practitioner becomes ready to evolve into leadership.
• I explore the hidden emotional resistance many sacred practitioners feel around creating non-live offers, supportive pathways and scalable structures — especially when they have only ever been taught to trust transformation through direct energetic exchange.
• This episode is also a reframe around what sustainable sacred business can actually look like. Not less intimacy, depth or integrity - but stronger structures, deeper support, cleaner pathways and businesses that no longer require women to constantly self-extract in order to grow.
• I also share personal reflections from my own recent business threshold, stories emerging inside my client work, and why I believe sacred space-holders deserve businesses that nourish them as deeply as they nourish others.

If you’ve been feeling the tension between wanting to expand your impact… while knowing your body, nervous system and capacity cannot simply keep holding more live work — this conversation is for you.

If this episode resonated, share it with a sister, leave a review, or send me a message to let me know what landed most deeply for you.

Charlotte xxx

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What if the thing stopping your expansion is not only fear, trauma, or self-doubt… …but the parts of yourself you secretly know are powerful?

In this deeply layered episode, Charlotte explores the concept of the *golden shadow* — the radiant parts of ourselves we learned were unsafe to embody fully.

Your leadership, your eros, your beauty. Your authority, your creativity. Your sacredness. Your desire to be deeply seen.

This conversation weaves together depth psychology, feminine leadership, shadow work, soul work, embodiment, Temple, and the myth of Inanna to explore why sacred women can become more comfortable identifying with their wounds than with their magnificence.

Inside this episode, Charlotte explores:

• The difference between the “sinister” shadow and the golden shadow
• Why healing and expansion require different things from the nervous system
• How women unconsciously sabotage visibility, leadership and growth
• The hidden fears beneath being fully seen
• Why staying small is not always humility
• The difference between ego work, shadow work and soul work
• Why what activates us in others often reveals hidden parts of ourselves
• The deeper purpose of Temple and transformational sacred space
• Why Inanna is ultimately a journey of reclaiming the self beneath conditioning

Charlotte xxx

Ready to grow roots, revenue and reputation to sustain your own sacred business expansion?

Get started here:

• Take the Quiz: Discover Your Sacred Leadership Identity
• From Potent to Profitable Masterclass
• Abundant + Embodied
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CONNECT WITH CHARLOTTE

Instagram: @charlotte.pointeaux

Website: https://charlottepointeaux.com

What if midlife isn’t a breakdown… but a turning point?

I'm joined by nutritionist and women’s health coach Annie Gaudreault to explore the deeper reality of midlife - beyond symptoms, into identity, truth, and transformation.

Together, we unpack why so many women feel like they no longer recognise themselves, how the body begins to speak more clearly during this phase, and why this season can be an opportunity to release people-pleasing, reconnect with your values, and step into a more aligned way of living.

This is a conversation about listening, not fixing - and meeting midlife as an invitation into clarity, self-trust, and renewal. In this episode, we explore:

• Why midlife often brings a loss of identity — and what it’s really revealing
• The shift from people-pleasing to clear boundaries and self-trust
• How to relate to your body as a messenger, not a problem
• Simple practices like journaling and movement to access clarity
• Why this phase of life can be a powerful “upgrade,” not a decline.

Connect with Charlotte on Instagram @charlotte.pointeaux and online at charlottepointeaux.com

Discover Your Sacred Leadership Archetype in my free quiz here to unveil your deepest leadership strengths - and your deepest initiation that holds your next level.

Connect with Annie online at veev.ca and on Instagram @veev_wellness