Life - An Inside Job

The spring equinox, also known as the vernal equinox, is when there are equal amounts of daylight and nighttime, around 21st March in the Northern Hemisphere and 21st September in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the perfect moment to explore balance in our lives. I invited medical herbalist Lucy Blunden to explore what balance actually is and how we can move towards it in our lives. 

Lucy Blunden is a Medical Herbalist and EFT-Tapping practitioner in Hertfordshire UK. She has been in practice since 2008 working with people to support them in finding their desired health changes. She loves to work with digestive concerns as herbs have such great affinity to the gut. Lucy's specialist area is where the emotional and physical meet and she works with her astute understanding of folk in combination with herbal medicines and EFT-Tapping to find the perfect path for each patient. 

We also covered:

• What herbs will bring balance at this time of year
• How transitions can be challenging times
• Finding rhythm after perimenopause
• The paradox of Spring, how new life requires letting go
• Foraged and cultivated foods to support you in spring
• How to recover from a challenging year
• Rituals for the equinox
• Why Lucy doesn't use the word 'holistic' any more
• How Lucy navigated 'too-muchness' and found the best place for EFT
• Prompts to help you gain the benefit of the season

Lucy's Links

Website

Instagram

Facebook

Recommendations

Kirsty Galagher's books Sacred Seasons and Lunar Living

Rebecca Beattie's book The Wheel of the Year 

That chocolate and tahini recipe from Dominique Ludwig

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

Today we’re talking about ageing, and specifically about how fascia is central to ageing well.

If you don’t know what fascia is don’t worry, Gary explains it clearly. And if you do already, you will be diving more deeply into how fascia relates to ageing.

 My guest is Gary Carter, who is recognised internationally as one of the UK’s leading Anatomy and Movement teachers. He does a lot of stuff, he’s a polymath, so here goes.  He is a myofascial manual therapist, personal trainer, shiatsu and craniosacral practitioner, anatomy and fascial anatomy lecturer and also a yoga teacher and teacher trainer. He lectures and teaches in Movement and Fascial Anatomy for schools of massage, physiotherapy, osteopathy, Yoga & Pilates teacher trainings. He started the Natural Bodies Yoga and movement Centre in Brighton, UK, in 1991, training and encouraging ease of movement, efficient body use in exercise, sport and many movement disciplines. 

He also runs dissective studies for students of his anatomy and movement courses at the Plastinarium in Germany. He has been one of the lead dissectors and designers for the world’s first historic plastinated fascial-focused human displayed in BodyWorlds Berlin 

You’ll be introduced to:

• The magic world of fascia
• How we age earlier than you think
• And it’s never too late to start being younger
• Reframing age With Inspirational elders
• exercise might not take as long as you think
• Ageing as a process of refinement, not decay
• Mindset and avoiding the rigidity that can come with age
• Getting back to movement after illness, injury or surgery

Gary's links
Website https://www.naturalbodies.co.uk/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/naturalbodies_trainings/
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@naturalbodies502/featured

Books
Mind Gym – Steve Peters
The Race Against Time – Richard Asquith

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

Claire Baker is a coach, speaker, and author of 50 Things You Need To Know About Periods.

For over a decade, Claire has taught women to live in harmony with their bodies, believing menstrual cycle awareness is key to women’s wellbeing, creativity, and empowerment.

Her online program, Adore Your Cycle, has students in over 35 countries.

In 2019, Claire founded Cycle Coach School, a training provider that teaches facilitators how to integrate menstrual cycle coaching into their practice.

Known for her authentic voice, she’s regularly featured in Red, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Women’s Health magazines. Originally from Australia, Claire now calls the U.K. home.

Claire's links:

Website: https://www.clairebaker.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_clairebaker_/

If you are curious about your inner seasons, and are navigating perimenopause, you might enjoy our self-directed online course Perimenopause Unwrapped, which you can find at woman-kind.co.uk

We'd be delighted to welcome you, and if you have any questions, you can contact us through our site woman-kind.co.uk or email us at [email protected]

Perimenopause Unwrapped
https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/

Woman Kind
https://woman-kind.co.uk/

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

My guest is Sophie Fletcher, she’s a clinical hypnotherapist and bestselling author of three books with over 20 years in working in women’s health. She weaves knowledge, intuition, and self-hypnosis together to improve the quality of life for busy, overwhelmed women who feel exhausted, fed up and lacking in clarity. On her website, you’ll find online courses for pregnancy through to menopause, powerful audio-tracks for worries such as anxiety presenting to turning a breech baby, and one-to-one coaching online and in person. 
Her hypnosis for menopause course, a true labour of love, comes out on the 28th of October this year, you can find it at sophiefletcher.co.uk. (think hypnobirthing for the menopause)
It’s Sophie’s third visit to Life An Inside Job, which reflects her expertise and brilliantly accessible offerings. Previously she talked about the sandwich generation in ep. 23 and about social media and boundaries in ep. 37

In the aftermath of Panorama's expose of Louise Newson has left many people confused so we talk a lot about HRT in this episode.

• We talked about the experience of flooding and how Sophie managed it.
• The natural vs medical trap in perimenopause
• Some crucial advice everyone using a coil to manage heavy bleeding should know
• The value of planning your next chapter, especially when you have small kids
• How to cope with anxiety
• How to exercise in perimenopause 

You can get 30% off Sophie's Hypnosis for Menopause course here: https://www.sophiefletcher.co.uk/offers/fpq4yWX4/checkout

And learn more about the juice therein here:  https://www.sophiefletcher.co.uk/mindful-menopause-course-1

Sophie's IG is: @mindful_menopause

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

According to Brenee Brown, shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging—something we’ve experienced, done, or failed to do makes us unworthy of connection.

In this episode were talking about how listening circles can help to reduce the amount of shame we feel. How being witnessed can help us to accept and find love for ourselves. We also talk about how shame shows up for professional space holders, and how we can manage these difficult feelings in our work.

 My guests are Julia Davis and Tessa Venuti Sanderson, who’s new book ‘Circle Holding: a practical guide to Facilitating talking Circles’ is available to pre-order now. 

Julia is co-founder of Circle Holding and runs training and mentors people who want to facilitate groups and circles.  She is founder of Yoga Teachers Forum and has facilitated hundreds of continued development trainings and community support events for yoga teachers.  In her local Finchley Yoga community she has a specialisation of Women’s Health Therapy

Tessa has been running talking circles including trainings, retreats and festivals. She currently runs a women’s circle a pregnancy and postnatal circle and has run various mother/daughter and puberty circles. She's also a senior yoga teacher and trainer (specialising in pregnancy yoga CPD), 

Circle Holding website: https://www.circleholding.org
Circle Holding on Instagram: @circle_holding_ https://www.instagram.com/circle_holding_/

Julia's links
@juliasuzannedavis https://www.instagram.com/juliasuzannedavis/
@finchleyyoga https://www.instagram.com/finchleyyoga/
@yogateachersforum https://www.instagram.com/yogateachersforum/

Tessa's Links
tessavenutisanderson.co.uk
@tessa.venuti.sanderson https://www.instagram.com/tessa.venuti.sanderson/

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

Celebrating the publication of The perimenopause Journal: Unlock your power, Own your wellbeing, Find your path which is now available in the UK. It'll be in the U.S. and Canada in October and Australia and N.Z. before Christmas.

My dear friend and colleague in kindness, Leora Leboff agreed to interview me. If you don’t yet know her, once you do, it’s hard not to love her. You can find her online on IG at @leoraleboff and we have worked together creating menstrual and menopause-related retreats, workshops and our online course Perimenopause Unwrapped, since 2014. This is not your average author interview it’s the absolute lowdown on the Journal and everything that it offers.

The Perimenopause Journal is a gorgeously illustrated, 52-week, undated journal that supports you to refine a bespoke self-care plan to ease you through your perimenopause and into a vibrant postmenopausal life. It makes a beautiful gift for a dear friend

 It shows how understanding your ‘inner seasons ‘ is a fast track to self-compassion:

·      gives you prompts and inquiries for appropriate self-care, 

·      charts to track your energy with the moon phases, and 

·      guided meditations to access rest and calm. 

·      Each month there is space for reflection and intention setting to focus on small, do-able changes in your life, to ease your symptoms, access your power and find your path.

It makes a beautiful gift for a dear friend

 There is also a competition, for UK folk only I’m afraid, to win a signed copy of The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring. All you need do is answer this question correctly:

Who coined the phrase: menopause it’s an inside job?

 You can email your answers to [email protected] with your uk postal address, the winner will be contacted on 30th September. If you already have a copy, and I hope you have ordered one,  I can write a dedication so you can gift either one to a friend. Just let me know their name. First correct answer out of the hat wins the books!

The discount code for the Perimenopause Starter Kit online course is PERI20

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

In Lisa's second visit to Life An Inside Job, she talks about the value of boredom. 

• The pathological drive towards ever more stimulation
• How being bored supports our creativity, self-esteem, mental and physical health.

Lisa de Jong is a health coach and educator specialising in women’s health, the menstrual cycle, chronic pain, and trauma. She has a 1:1 practice coaching clients online, and is the founder of the globally accredited professional training, “Menstrual Cycle Coaching and Facilitation Professional Training” as part of the Menstrual Coach
Academy.

Lisa works via a holistic, integrative and trauma-informed lens in all of her work. She brings a gentle yet powerful approach to her clients and groups supporting them in the understanding of their body, their nervous system, and in their relationship to agency and better decision making for recovery. Lisa is based in Ireland.

 Lisa's Links

www.lisadejongcoaching.com

“From Pain To Power” podcast https://lisadejongcoaching.com/podcast-welcome 

IG @lisa_dejong_coach https://www.instagram.com/lisa_dejong_coach/ 

Resources

The War of Art: Winning The Inner Creative Battle – Steven Pressfield

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport 

In Praise of Slow – Carl Honore

 How To Break Up With Your Phone - Catherine Price

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

Jill is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and works with clients and companies to develop and apply a blend of strategies so that individuals and teams go from exhausted to energised in the most effective way. Techniques to fall asleep faster, sleep better and feel more energised during the day. Jill has a gift for making it very simple and we cover:

• 4 simple things to attend to in your sleep hygiene
• 4 different sleep problems
• How to nap for optimum energy
• What to eat for good sleep
• The truth about your smartwatch
• Why different chronotypes attract and what to do about it
• What we need to know about hormones and sleep
• The latest research tells us about our gadgets

Dr Jill McGarry's links
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jill-mcgarry
Website https://sleepbetterdoctor.co.uk/

Resources
Jane Tarrant, Link Breathing https://www.linkbreathing.co.uk/
Matthew Walker's scary book – Why We Sleep - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/why-we-sleep-the-new-science-of-sleep-and-dreams-matthew-walker/1371280?ean=9780141983769
Nick Littlehales's book, Sleep https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sleep-change-the-way-you-sleep-with-this-90-minute-read-nick-littlehales/4479215?ean=9780241975978 James Nestor, Breath https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/breath-the-new-science-of-a-lost-art-james-nestor/3456154?ean=9780241289129
How to Break Up With Your Phone, Catherine Price https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-break-up-with-your-phone-the-30-day-plan-to-take-back-your-life-catherine-price/1107760?ean=9781409182900 

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

Abi Denyer-Bewick is a neurodivergent (AuDHD) sea creature with a deep commitment to the cyclical nature of life.

Abi is part of the Red School faculty and has mentored hundreds of women through the Menstruality Leadership Programme with Red School.

Abi works with groups and individuals as a Menstruality Coach and Menstrual Medicine Circle Facilitator and supervisor.

Passionate about the value of community and the importance of hearing the full range of menstrual experiences Abi also consults on creating safer gender diverse spaces and queering the cycle.

She holds a kind, welcoming space for people to experience a deep, nourishing intimacy with themselves through their cycle.

Abi's links:
Instagram abi.denyer.bewick 
Website https://abidenyerbewick.co.uk

If you are curious about your inner seasons, and are navigating perimenopause, you might enjoy our self-directed online course Perimenopause Unwrapped, which you can find at woman-kind.co.uk

We'd be delighted to welcome you, and if you have any questions, you can contact us through our site woman-kind.co.uk or email us at [email protected]

Perimenopause Unwrapped
https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/

Woman Kind
https://woman-kind.co.uk/

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

Lavina Mehta MBE is a Personal Trainer, Wellness Coach, author and mum of 3, she’s British Asian & is passionate about promoting the health benefits of exercise to treat, prevent & reduce risks of chronic diseases like Diabetes & Heart Disease. She gives Weekly Free virtual Seniors Workouts sessions, with my 76-year-old Mother in Law, in Gujarati and English on YouTube. She’s a Diabetes UK & Alzheimer’s Society Ambassador and a Patron of the Menopause Mandate,  she also gives keynote speeches, events and workshops around fitness and perimenopause.

 Her book: The Feel Good Fix is published by Penguin and is available from all good bookshops.

 In our conversation Lavina shares:

• How to make exercise do-able
• How to Build good habits
• How the age of perimenopause differs according to heritage
• How to get started if you feel a lack of body confidence
• Sitting all day is ruining your health and what to do about it
• What started Lavina exercising, and finding motivation
• The science behind exercise snacking
• Her goals for the future

And with a bit of coercion, I managed to get her to give just one tip to feel good.

Lavina's Links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/feelgoodwithlavina/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@feelgoodwithlavina
Website: https://feelgoodwithlavina.com/

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