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Empowered Flo Podcast
By Tris AlexandraHealth & Fitness
Empowered Flo Podcast episodes
- 29. Healing with Homeopathy with Melissa Mellifont - Healing Home & Body
Homeopathy to care for your family at home without the overwhelm.
Melissa Mellifont is a Nutritionist and Homeopath With a Bachelor of Health Science in Nutritional and Dietetic Medicine and extensive studies in Homeopathy.
She is the founder of Healing Home and Body, helping families achieve better health through nutrition, homeopathy, and support. As a mother and wife, Melissa understand the challenges of trying to maintain your health while navigating impractical advice given and range of information online. So if you're on a wanting to conceive, get vaccine support (support vaccination, detox vaccination or use natural alternatives to protect yourself), improve the health of you or your children, Melissa is your go to and can work with you to create a plan that fits seamlessly into your life, all without overwhelm.
She also offers a Homeopathic natural First Aid Kit to support families swapping out pharmaceuticals for supportive homeopathic remedies.
We discuss:
- Melissa's personal journey of healing through natural health
- How homeopathy works
- Homeopathic detox and vaccination detoxing
- The connection between emotions and physical symptoms and the importance of addressing trauma through homeopathy
- The use of homeopathic remedies through various cases including children, pregnancy, labour and postpartum
Connect with Melissa:
IG: @healinghomeandbody
Healing Home & Body Website
Homeopathic Natural First Aid Kit
Connect with Tris
IG: @trisalexandranutrition
Want to work 1:1 with Tris? Book your complimentary 15min consult
DISCLAIMER - this episode is for information purposes only and is not personal or medical advice. The information provided is not, nor is it intended to be, a substitute for professional advice or care. Please seek the advice of a qualified health care professional in the event something you learn here raises questions or concerns regarding your health.
53 min - 28. FAM & charting irregular & PCOS cycles with Nat Fertility Awareness Project
Interested in using FAM or understanding how to chart irregular cycles? This episode dives into FAM and charting irregular cycles with Nat from Fertility Awareness Project.
Nat is a double-certified fertility awareness educator, menstrual cycle coach, and social worker. As the founder of the Fertility Awareness Project and Fertility Knowledge Collective, Nat has empowered hundreds of people worldwide to chart their menstrual cycles for birth control through the online course, Cycle Love. After discovering fertility awareness as a non-hormonal birth control option, Nat was inspired by the magic of body literacy and pursued formal training to help others gain control over their reproductive health.
We discuss:
- FAM methods and considerations for charting irregular cycles
- understanding cervical mucus changes and what's normal for you
- different methods for confirming ovulation
- why we can't rely on apps, algorithms or LH tests to confirm ovulation
- Nat's journey with PCOS & irregular cycles
- Nat's methods of teaching FAM
Connect with Nat:
IG: @fertilityawarenessproject
Website
Learn FAM with Nat through her courses FAM Fundamentals, Cervical Mucus Method or Cycle Love
Connect with Tris:
IG: @trisalexandranutrition
Free: '5 Foods Every Woman Should Have in Her Kitchen For Hormone Balance' guide
49 min - 27. Healthy Fat Loss for Females
Fat loss is not simply calories in vs calories out! For healthy sustainable fat loss we need to address the underlying factors (like hormones!) contributing to weight gain or making it really difficult to lose weight. Otherwise its like pressing the accelerator and the brake at the same time.
In this episode I discuss:
- why only calories in vs calories out doesn't work
- why macronutrient ratio is key for fat loss
- the importance of micronutrients and a nutrient dense diet
- why all calories are not created equal
- addressing hormones to enable fat loss
- the impact of poor sleep and stress on weight gain
- top 5 tips to focus on for healthy sustainable fat loss
Connect with Tris:
@trisalexandranutrition
trisalexandranutrition.com
Resources:
Free Guide: '5 Foods Every Woman Should Have in Her Kitchen For Hormone Balance'
Ep 3. Emotional Eating, Overwhelm, & Self Doubt to Confidence & Living A Life By Design with Mira Claudia
DISCLAIMER - this episode is for information purposes only and is not personal or medical advice. The information provided is not, nor is it intended to be, a substitute for professional advice or care. Please seek the advice of a qualified health care professional in the event something you learn here raises questions or concerns regarding your health.
31 min - 26. Oestrogen dominance & detoxification
Oestrogen dominance is a common hormone imbalance contributing to symptoms like heavy periods, PMS, weight gain, and seen in conditions liker Endometriosis and fibroids.
This episode dives into oestrogen and how you can support healthy oestrogen levels, plus the connection with oestrogen dominance and detoxification. I discuss:
- what is oestrogen dominance
- benefits of oestrogen
- symptoms of oestrogen dominance
- causes of oestrogen dominance
- how to support healthy oestrogen levels through nutritional medicine (food & supplements) and lifestyle
- functional hormone tests (DUTCH test)
- oestrogen metabolism pathways and using nutrition to promote effective and protective metabolism of oestrogen
Find out more about my Hormone Reset group program and 1:1 nutrition & functional testing coaching programs by joining my email list here
DISCLAIMER - this episode is for information purposes only and is not personal or medical advice. The information provided is not, nor is it intended to be, a substitute for professional advice or care. Please seek the advice of a qualified health care professional in the event something you learn here raises questions or concerns regarding your health.
40 min - 25. Building emotional resilience & regulating our nervous system for healthy periods with Sarina Coventry
Chronic stress, unprocessed emotions, and trauma can be stored in the body, impact our nervous system, and in turn affect our hormones, fertility and overall health.
When we learn to feel and process our emotions, manage stressors and regulate our nervous system we build emotional and stress resilience and optimise our health and hormones.
This episode is with Sarina Coventry, a Women's Health Nutritionist & Clinical EFT Tapping Practitioner. Her mission is to empower women so that they can transform their relationship with their body, hormone health and maintain a regulated nervous system. She supports women’s emotional health, helping them to gently move through stress, anxiety and overwhelm. She is passionate about teaching women to work with their body, rather than against it so they can holistically restore a state of wellbeing and thrive!
We discuss:
- What cyclical living is and how we can incorporate it in our lives and honour our cycles
- How cyclical living help us build deeper self awareness
- Using cyclical living as a framework, not a bible
- What led Sarina into working with women as a Clinical Nutritionist and EFT practitioner with a focus in women's health and cyclical living
- How the nervous system works and how it impacts our hormones
- What are survival emotions and how these and unprocessed emotions impact our hormones and fertility
- Practices we can do to regulate our emotions and build emotional resilience
- What EFT tapping is and how it can help us to process emotions
Connect with Sarina:
IG: @sarinacoventry_
sarinacoventry.com
Free: 'Intro to EFT Tapping' guide
Connect with Tris
IG: @trisalexandranutrition
Free: '5 Foods Every Woman Should Have in Her Kitchen For Hormone Balance' guide
Sync Your Cycle Masterclass - discover the secrets of your menstrual cycles and how you can support your health through each cycle phase using nutrition and cycle syncing
1 hr 7 min - 24. Claim your power in birth with midwife Kate Patchett
With over 15 years of experience, Kate is dedicated to providing accessible, high-quality maternity care. Based in Melbourne, she offers private midwifery care with continuity of care, and also runs bulk-billing clinics for women in the local area. But Kate's commitment doesn't stop there. She provides telehealth and phone consultations nationwide under the Medicare rebate scheme, ensuring women across Australia can access her expert care.
Kate offers a range of services including midwife care, advocacy, coaching, education, and support throughout pregnancy, birth, and the early postpartum period. For example, she can help women navigate the complex healthcare system, develop personalized birth plans, manage anxiety and fear, and provide breastfeeding support. No matter where you live in Australia, Kate is committed to empowering women and supporting them on their journey to motherhood.
Kate is also a mother to 3 children, two who were born at home and her daughter born in a rural hospital setting. Kate is passionate in women reclaiming their power during their seasons of GROW.BIRTH.MOTHER.
Kate shares:
- What a midwife actually is
- How 'continuity of care' in your pregnancy, birth and postpartum can change your experiences in this significant phase of life
- The importance of informed consent and what that looks like
- What the 'cascade of interventions' are and how this can impact your pregnancy and birth choices
- What midwives do in a home birth setting
- Reclaiming your power in birth and birthing with confidence
Connect with Kate:
IG: @grow.birth.mother
growbirthmother.com
Connect with Tris
IG: @trisalexandranutrition
FREE GUIDE: 5 Foods Every Woman Should Have in Her Kitchen For Hormone Balance
Sync Your Cycle Masterclass - discover the secrets of your menstrual cycles and how you can support your health through each cycle
1 hr 7 min - 23. Low progesterone solutions for women
Do you have low progesterone? PMS? Short luteal phase? Recurrent early pregnancy loss?
In this episode I discuss why progesterone is so important, the signs of low progesterone, how to test, and how to naturally support ovulation and healthy progesterone levels.
You'll learn:
- how progesterone is made
- benefits of progesterone
- signs of low progesterone
- causes of low progesterone
- connection between cortisol and progesterone
- how cycle tracking & BBT charting can help determine if you're making progesterone
- the right way to test progesterone levels
- nutritional medicine to support progesterone
- lifestyle factors to support progesterone
Connect with Tris:
@trisalexandranutrition
Resources:
Tempdrop Fertility Tracker - up to 35% off in July 2024 using code AFEMPOWEREDFLO
Sync Your Cycle Masterclass
Free Guide: '5 Foods Every Woman Should Have in Her Kitchen For Hormone Balance'
DISCLAIMER - this episode is for information purposes only and is not personal or medical advice. The information provided is not, nor is it intended to be, a substitute for professional advice or care. Please seek the advice of a qualified health care professional in the event something you learn here raises questions or concerns regarding your health.
33 min - 22. Nutrition for Pregnancy & Postpartum
Nutrition during pregnancy supports the growth and development of baby. Whilst nutrition in the postpartum period supports recovery and replenishment of nutrients for health for mum, as well as quality breastmilk supply for the health of the baby.
But often nutrition advice is outdated as it takes decades for the current research to reach mainstream.
In this solo episode, women's health Clinical Nutritionist Tris Alexandra discusses some of the key considerations for your pregnancy and postpartum journey, both from what the evidence suggests to practical advice, including:
- nutrition considerations and nutrient requirements for each trimester of pregnancy
- the controversy and evidence behind vitamin A and pregnancy
- why organ meats including liver and pate in moderate amounts is not considered harmful in pregnancy
- the importance of iron testing throughout pregnancy
- how to plan a healthy postpartum for optimal recovery
- nutrition considerations for postpartum
Resources:
- Tempdrop Fertility Tracker - up to 25% off in July 2024 + additional 10% off using code AFEMPOWEREDFLO
- Sync Your Cycle Masterclass
- Real Food for Pregnancy - Lily Nichols
- The First 40 Days - Heng Ou
DISCLAIMER - this episode is for information purposes only and is not personal or medical advice. The information provided is not, nor is it intended to be, a substitute for professional advice or care. Please seek the advice of a qualified health care professional in the event something you learn here raises questions or concerns regarding your health.
40 min - 21. Menstrual cycle awareness & reclaiming cyclical wisdom for women with Amanda Trieger
The conversation all women and people AFAB need to hear as Tris discusses with Amanda Trieger:
- reframing menstrual cycle awareness
- reclaiming women's healthcare
- why we need to reclaim our rites of passage (menarche, childbirth/matrescence, menopause)
- the impact our rites of passages have on our lives from our relationships, to connection to self, to the way we mother
- raising empowered girls and boys and normalising puberty, menstrual education and cyclical wisdom in our children and the next generation
- feminine leadership and renewing cyclical wisdom in business for women
- and so much more...
We'd love you to share this wisdom with your sisters, girlfriends, daughters, and women in your life. Reach out to Amanda or Tris on IG with your thoughts or questions on this episode.
Amanda Trieger is a woman with a mission, to reclaim, reframe and renew cyclical wisdom for women in business. She is an experienced Facilitator, Cyclical CEO, Feminine Leadership Speaker, Menstrual Health Naturopathic Specialist and advocate, and Practitioner Mentor. As a devoted advocate for menstrual and women's health, Amanda's practice, Naturopathic Womancraft, recognizes the menstrual cycle as a vital sign of wellbeing. With over 20 years of experience, she empowers individuals to live in harmony with their natural rhythms, blending clinical naturopathic medicine with traditional wisdoms.
Connect with Amanda:
IG: @naturopathicwomancraft
https://www.naturopathicwomancraft.com.au/
Cyclical living resources
Amanda's events & workshops
Further resources:
HerStory by Jane Hardwicke Collings
Connect with Tris
IG: @trisalexandranutrition
FREE GUIDE: 5 Foods Every Woman Should Have in Her Kitchen For Hormone Balance
Sync Your Cycle Masterclass - learn how to cycle sync with nutrition & master your menstrual cycle tracking for balanced hormones, easier periods, improved energy & moods + use natural fertility awareness methods. Plus FREE Love Your Cycle guide with printable cycle trackers!
59 min - 20. Empowering pregnancy & birth with Karen Andrea
As part of the fertility, pregnancy and postpartum series, I share the 2 pregnancy and birth stories of Karen Andrea, which will leave you feeling empowered and inspired.
Karen is the founder of Viva Life Pilates studios community, and a movement and health coach who has always had a strong passion for holistic wellness and helping others to embrace movement through the power of Pilates. After her own recent health journey, she knows too well the importance of optimal health on the physical, emotional and mental body.
Connect with Kaz:
IG: @kaz_andrea
@vivalifepilates
vivalifefitness.com.au
Connect with Tris
IG: @trisalexandranutrition
FREE GUIDE: 5 Foods Every Woman Should Have in Her Kitchen For Hormone Balance
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About Empowered Flo Podcast
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The Empowered Flo podcast is hosted by Tris Alexandra, Clinical Nutritionist, women's health and menstrual cycle educator, and mumma. Join Tris and experts in nutrition, fitness, mindset, and holistic…
healing as we explore conversations to open your mind to a different way of thinking on all things women's health, hormones, periods, cyclical living, and fertility. Get ready to embrace your feminine power and boldly reclaim your health. Whether you're seeking knowledge, inspiration, or a supportive community, you've found your tribe.