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Episode 40 - Creating resilience through menstrual cycle awareness
On this episode of the podcast I talk to Sophie Jane Hardy, host of Red School’s Menstruality podcast, about how you can use menstrual cycle awareness to deal with the challenges of (in)fertility and pregnancy loss. We discuss how you can work with the inner seasons to deal with the pressure of baby-making sex, the two-week-wait, and the grief that often comes with menstruation. Sophie shares about her own fertility journey and how it has helped her embrace the irreconcilable nature of life. She offers some practical advice on how you can use menstrual cycle awareness to become more resilient.
Top quotes:
Sophie Jane Hardy: “the more that I listened to my premenstrual rage, the more I saw that there was wisdom in that second half of the cycle for me. It was trying to let me make certain changes that I needed to make.”
Sophie Jane Hardy: “I know from this ‘month after month after month of trying to reconcile the irreconcilable’ that life is messy and what we need to do, what I need to is to cultivate resilience to be able to be with the messiness rather than try to make it ok.”
Sophie Jane Hardy: “Practicing menstrual cycle awareness helped me to honor and dignify whatever I’m experiencing. Which helps me to have a greater container for whatever initiation I am inside of. And it did really contain me in infertility. It made sense a bit. It didn’t make it ok, but it made sense of why I was feeling so rough all the time. Because I was going through death and rebirth every month.”
Download Red School’s free menstrual chart here: https://www.redschool.net/chart
About Sophie Jane Hardy:
Sophie lives by the Rivelin River in Sheffield, UK with her husband Ade, her two-year old Arty and her labrador Frodo. She brings a decade of communications experience in the fields of women’s leadership, environmental activism and independent film to her current role as communications director at Red School. She draws on twelve years of menstrual cycle awareness and the initiations of infertility, IVF and motherhood to give voice to the emerging Menstruality movement through Red School's podcast (https://www.redschool.net/podcast), and her greatest passion is supporting teachers, healers and creatives to set-up, run and grow cycle-aware, 'cyclical businesses'.
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By That Fertile Feeling - The PodcastOn this episode of the podcast I talk to Sophie Jane Hardy, host of Red School’s Menstruality podcast, about how you can use menstrual cycle awareness to deal with the challenges of (in)fertility and pregnancy loss. We discuss how you can work with the inner seasons to deal with the pressure of baby-making sex, the two-week-wait, and the grief that often comes with menstruation. Sophie shares about her own fertility journey and how it has helped her embrace the irreconcilable nature of life. She offers some practical advice on how you can use menstrual cycle awareness to become more resilient.
Top quotes:
Sophie Jane Hardy: “the more that I listened to my premenstrual rage, the more I saw that there was wisdom in that second half of the cycle for me. It was trying to let me make certain changes that I needed to make.”
Sophie Jane Hardy: “I know from this ‘month after month after month of trying to reconcile the irreconcilable’ that life is messy and what we need to do, what I need to is to cultivate resilience to be able to be with the messiness rather than try to make it ok.”
Sophie Jane Hardy: “Practicing menstrual cycle awareness helped me to honor and dignify whatever I’m experiencing. Which helps me to have a greater container for whatever initiation I am inside of. And it did really contain me in infertility. It made sense a bit. It didn’t make it ok, but it made sense of why I was feeling so rough all the time. Because I was going through death and rebirth every month.”
Download Red School’s free menstrual chart here: https://www.redschool.net/chart
About Sophie Jane Hardy:
Sophie lives by the Rivelin River in Sheffield, UK with her husband Ade, her two-year old Arty and her labrador Frodo. She brings a decade of communications experience in the fields of women’s leadership, environmental activism and independent film to her current role as communications director at Red School. She draws on twelve years of menstrual cycle awareness and the initiations of infertility, IVF and motherhood to give voice to the emerging Menstruality movement through Red School's podcast (https://www.redschool.net/podcast), and her greatest passion is supporting teachers, healers and creatives to set-up, run and grow cycle-aware, 'cyclical businesses'.