Life - An Inside Job

I have had a challenging relationship with sleep over the last 17 years, so I was very keen to talk to Sally because she knows masses about the physiology and psychology of sleep from a professional and a personal angle. 

Sally is an award-winning hypnotherapist using Rapid Transformational Therapy, host of The Menopause Mindset Podcast and founder of The Sleep Super Power Academy, a 12-week online course and community.  She is hugely passionate about innovative approaches to health and wellbeing which support the midlife/menopause transition.   

 We cover how to get to sleep, how not to get sleep, how much you need, perimenopause, mental health, rest and all kinds of other stuff too.

You can find out more about Sally’s sleep program and coaching at sallygarozzo.com or find her on Instagram at @ sallygarozzomindmentor

If you'd like to get to sleep quickety quick, her free Sleep Hypnosis Recording is at  bit.ly/sleephypnosisrecording

Here are some links relating to the stuff we talk about:
Steven Porges polyvagal theory - https://www.stephenporges.com/
Dr Michael Breus chronotypes - https://thepowerofwhen.com/
Emily Fletcher meditation - https://zivameditation.com/
The nap ministry - https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/

I'd love to hear how you're sleep is doing over on Instagram  where I'm @kate_codrington and don't forget to have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and all major platforms, just search for 'Life - An Inside Job'.

If you enjoyed the episode yourself, then it would be fab if you shared it with a friend or with your community on social media.

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You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
Instagram @kate_codrington 
Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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Suzie Warren, a craftivist who decided that instead of raging about the state of the world, she would ‘do what she could’. And what she does is to make, witty, beautiful and ‘polite’, very English acts of protest.

 'Stitch it don't ditch it' has grown into a global movement protesting against the environmental damage the fashion industry causes, creating connection, community, awareness and teaching people new skills.

You can join crafivists across the globe during Sustainable Fashion Week by stitching on your street at 12.30pm on Tuesday 14th September. Details at streetstiching.com

To get your hands on some beautifully bonkers gifts for your friends and family go to twistedtwee.co.uk and you can find Suzi on Instagram at @twistedtwee and at @streetstiching

I'd love to hear your response to this conversation over on Instagram  where I'm @kate_codrington and don't forget to have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and all major platforms, just search for 'Life - An Inside Job'. 

If you enjoyed the episode yourself, then it would be fab if you shared it with a friend or with your community on social media.

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You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
Instagram @kate_codrington 
Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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In this episode I talk to Sarah Starrs about how living in tune with your menstrual cycle and the seasons will help you to parent better and educate your kids to be happier too.

 Sarah is passionate about cyclic living, peaceful parenting, and ensuring that there's a livable planet for her son to grow up on. Her 'slashie' career includes writing, online course creation, and virtual assistant support for small businesses. She's a home educating, stay-at-home mama and a bit obsessed with Shonda Rhimes shows.

 To find out about Sarah’s virtual assistant course and cyclical parenting, pop over to sarahstarrs.com

 You can find her new #OneHourForTheClimate project on Instagram  @Sarahstarrs_

I'd love to hear about your parenting dilemmas over on Instagram  Don't forget to have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and all major platforms, just search for 'Life - An Inside Job'.  If you enjoyed the episode yourself, then it would be fab if you shared it with a friend or with your community on social media.

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You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
Instagram @kate_codrington 
Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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I talk to writer and hypnotherapist Sophie Fletcher, whose book Mindful Menopause was published earlier this spring.

 We talk about how perimenopause gets squeezed at both ends by both our parents and our kids, and the unique quality of the pressure this creates.

 Sophie brings in her lived and her professional experience to offer us loads of do-able tips and practices to apply in our everyday lives, using both mindfulness and hypnotherapy skills.

Sophie's website is mindfulmenopause.co.uk

Are you being squeezed at both ends? What's working for you?  I'd love to hear from you over on Instagram  Don't forget to have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and all major platforms, just search for 'Life - An Inside Job'.  If you enjoyed the episode yourself, then it would be fab if you shared it with a friend or with your community on social media.

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You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
Instagram @kate_codrington 
Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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I talk about how to manage low energy with photographer, writer and podcaster Naomi Woddis and how she lives a full, creative life despite being a carer and having a chronic invisible disability. Add menopause to the mix and energy has become an even more precious commodity, so I was curious to know how the hell she does it!

Naomi says that the aim of her work is to be clear, compassionate and honest and I think this shines through in our time together. If you ever experience low energy, and yes, we all do, this will give you ideas about how to live a creative life with low energy, rather than waiting until you have enough.

You can find 'The Two of Us' Naomi's podcast where she talks with artists and writers centred around their creativity relates to their mental health and emotional well being on all the usual podcast platforms or at thetwoofus.libsyn.com

Her beautiful photography and writing are at naomiwoddis.com

I'd love to hear from you about how you manage low energy, pop over to my Instagram  where you'll find a warm welcome. Don't forget to have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and all major platforms, just search for 'Life - An Inside Job'.  If you enjoyed the episode yourself, then it would be fab if you shared it with a friend or with your community on social media.

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Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN
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Portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
Instagram @kate_codrington 
Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

In this episode, I talk to flower grower, photographer, writer and consultant clinical psychologist Grace Alexander.

 I’ve been following Grace for a while because she has a beautiful way of drawing us into her idyllic world of thatched cottages, dusty tones of chestnut, coral, linen and artisan-made objects. These stolen moments of beauty can be sipped at from her Gather community, the seeds that she sells, her newsletter and her new book ‘Grow and Gather: A gardeners Guide to a year of cut flowers’ .

It’s a deep conversation about how childhood experience builds us into the people we are today, about slowing down our lives, how to be present, her writing process, her day job as a senior psychologist, how she fits it all in, how she avoids burnout, her guiding sense of social justice, the overriding quality of warmth and how healing that is and the difficulty with nurturing ourselves in our culture of toxic productivity, 

Plus an excellent top tip for a wonderful inner life.

I highly recommend her newsletter, where she can promise flowers and dogs. You can find all the yumminess at gracealexanderflowers.co.uk

What did you learn from listening to Grace? I'd love to hear from you over on Instagram  Don't forget to have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and all major platforms, just search for 'Life - An Inside Job'.  If you enjoyed the episode yourself, then it would be fab if you shared it with a friend or with your community on social media.

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Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN
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Portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
Instagram @kate_codrington 
Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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Opportunities to interview a role model don’t come up very often so this is a very special episode. I’ve been fascinated by Angela Farmer because of the quality of vitality, curiosity and playfulness she has in her 80’s. One of my ongoing enquiries is ‘how to age well’ and as you listen, this is what she shares in our conversation.

Inventor of the yoga mat, because the floor was just too hard, Angela was one of the first to be trained by Iyengar in the west. She moved from Iyengar Yoga, which was then a rigid structure of poses to be 'perfected' and about how the body looks, to focussing exclusively on the inner world and what the body wants to happen, from the inside.

If you are someone who would like to age well, and/or have a yoga practice you will find so much gold in this conversation.

The audio quality isn’t that great I’m afraid, but as Angela says, there is a great abundance of beauty in the valley of Eftalou where she lives, but wifi is not one of them. I am just glad the internet connection held.

You can join Angela for Zoom yoga classes at angela-victor.com

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What did you learn from listening to Angela? I'd love to hear from you over on Instagram  Don't forget to have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and all major platforms, just search for 'Life - An Inside Job'.  If you enjoyed the episode yourself, then it would be fab if you shared it with a friend or with your community on social media.

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Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN
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Portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
Instagram @kate_codrington 
Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

Menopause is a time when we see very clearly what is not working in our lives, and naturally, this shows up a lot in our intimate relationships. It’s confusing enough for us, but our poor partners often end up feeling bemused and abandoned.

I got together with couples therapist and trainer Joanna Groves to find out how to talk to your partner about what’s happening and how partners of menopausal people can understand what’s going on and how to move forward together. 

 We talk about how to communicate, how to be an ally for your menopausing partner and how to heal your sex life too.

Joanna is a rare bird, a therapist is totally down to earth and can also hold the deeper levels of wounding and trauma that we carry.

 She gives us loads of great tips on how to actually cope in our relationship when things are tough.

You can find Joanna on Instagram where she has great advice on how to do relationships, at @relationful

I'd love to hear how you are managing your relationship, you can join the conversation over on Instagram and don't forget to have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and/or review Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.

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Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN
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You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
Instagram @kate_codrington 
Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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Dr Becky Quicke aka The Menopause Psychologist shares the psychological skills she uses to help her perimenopause clients find their essential self and voyage through their transformation into Second Spring with peace and confidence and be the change the world needs to see.

• She shares what she did to make her PMDD-like, premenstrual symptoms disappear
• How to remove fear and panic in perimenopause
• How to manage negative thinking 
• How to connect with your true essence and how easily available this is for you!
• How cultural negativity about menopause can get in the way
• Living as a flexible being in a rigid world
• Why quick fixes won’t work for perimenopause
• How postmenopause brings the change the world needs to see
• The psychological reason for brain fog

Becky’s fabulous community The Meno Stars Collective opens 23rd -30th June 2021 and her workshop on anger and rage is on 23rd June. 

There's also a brilliant freebie that will show you how to manage your anxiety 

Her website is beckyquicke.com


I'd love to hear your response to our conversation, you can join me on Instagram or send me a direct message there, and don't forget to have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and/or review Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN
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Portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
Instagram @kate_codrington 
Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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Trust Me by RYYZN

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Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

Miranda is a rare bird, she has an absolutely golden heart. She’s a sensitive truth-teller, super-smart, a sharer of joy and beauty and my mate. She tells strangers on the street that they have a lovely smile. That kind of person. I blooming love her. We’ve had loads of great conversations over the years but one theme that keeps resurfacing is about grief; time passing, bereavement, the whole ache and joy of it all. We also talk about our experiences of birth, bringing up children and living with teenagers. So I asked her if she’s come and do a podchat because I knew you’d love her as much as I do.

I didn’t realise when we arranged the date for the podchat that it was the anniversary of Miranda’s friend’s death, so it’s a raw, tender conversation. We are so blooming lucky that she agreed to share her worldview. We spoke about:

• The cost of the loss of connection
• Which is the most messed up class in the UK
• The problem with the English culture
• The power of vulnerability
• The challenges facing teenagers today
• The beauty contained within grief and the rebirth that follows
• Managing judgement
• How to develop confidence
• Managing loneliness and shame
• Being a mum, parenting and the grief that comes with it
• How to get hugs out of your teenage kids
• The experience of the emotional body and the body of emotions

 And I even managed to wrangle a top tip for a wonderful inside life too.

The artist Miranda talks about who looked into peoples' eyes is Marina Abramovic and you can find a video of the event on this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_pHXPU72So

I'd love to hear your thoughts on grief and parenting, you can find me on Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and/or review Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN
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Portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
Instagram @kate_codrington 
Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

Music
Trust Me by RYYZN

Artwork
Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles