Life - An Inside Job

This episode is part of a series of podcasts that focus on neurodiversity in perimenopause. I felt it was best to let people speak about their own experiences and let these voices be heard, in their diversity and brilliance.

In this episode, we hear a range of people with ADHD talking about their experiences of their perimenopause and postmenopause life, what helped them, and what made things worse. Abi Denyer Bewick, who has ADHD herself and is an integrated health practitioner who specialises in cyclical living, offers us an overview of the situation. I am hugely grateful to all those who gave their time to share their experiences with us.

You will hear from:
Victoria Gazzard: specialises in fertility and provides emotional support and specialised therapies. https://www.victoriagazzard.com/   
Francine Forde: craniosacral therapist, who specialises in neurodiversity and lives in London https://www.instagram.com/francineforde_/
Leora Leboff:  menstrual and menopause mentor currently writing a book on cycle awareness to support chronic health challenges.   https://auramama.co.uk/
Abi Denyer Bewick: integrated health practitioner who specialises in cyclical living https://abidenyerbewick.co.uk/

Resources
ADHD self test: https://www.additudemag.com/self-test-adhd-symptoms-women-girls/?src=test
News, research and resources: https://www.additudemag.com/
UK resources and coach directory: https://adhduk.co.uk/
Penny Belle TedX Talk: How I learnt to fix my ‘broken brain’ by healing my broken heart - ADHD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blHAY4gApN8
Trauma geek on neurodiversity and nervous system regulation and trauma recovery: https://www.traumageek.com/
Podcasts
The ADHD Women's Wellbeing podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-adhd-womens-wellbeing-podcast/id1605386171
Is it my ADHD? with Grace Timothy: https://podcasts.apple.com/qa/podcast/is-it-my-adhd/id1612236855
Community forum: https://www.divergentdesignstudios.com/landing?from=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.divergentdesignstudios.com%2Ffeed
Excellent articles: https://sluggish.substack.com/

More information about Kate
https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop

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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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Trust Me by RYYZN

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Last week I had a great conversation with New York Times bestselling author, and funny, warm, perceptive human Kirsten Miller.  Her new book The Change just might be a unicorn; it’s a novel whose central are menopause sheroes. And more than that, you are going to want to be their friends. It’s a kickass, feminist novel about how we handle power, control over us and control of ourselves, and the fear that society has for our natural cycles. I already know that if you enjoy the conversations on LAIJ, you are going to love this book.

It’s not just me, Marian Keyes says it’s  A roar of rage, a pacy page-turner, I loved it with all my broken heart. Read it. You’ll love it.

 Kirsten is an outstanding feminist author in the YA and children’s space, who spent twenty-five years as a strategist in the advertising industry. During that time, she worked for some of the largest agencies in the world as well as boutique agencies and an eight-person start-up. She’s proud to have quit a senior job at one of the most famous ad agencies in America over an ad that’s described in The Change. 

I got very lucky because we share a publisher and I got an early copy and the chance to chat with Kirsten, and you are invited to the conversation too …  about 

• Roe vs Wade
• All the superpowers of menopause
• Changing the narrative
• The best ever story about a powerful women
• Our role models
• Kirsten’s best writing tips
• Witches
• Kirsten’s tip for owning your power

Kirsten's website is https://www.kirstenmillerbooks.com/ and The Change is available from all good bookshops

More information about Kate
https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop

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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Kate's 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

In this episode, I ask craniosacral therapist Francine Forde about how come our nervous systems are so incredibly jangled at the moment and we got into a conversation about loneliness, overstimulation, boundaries and yes, even a bit of menopause too. But Francine started by sharing how she’s seeing women apologizing all the time, and getting curious about what’s going on.

Francine is a craniosacral therapist, who specialises in neurodiversity and lives in London and sees clients online, you can find her at:

@francineforde_ on Instagram
or email [email protected]

More information about Kate
https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop

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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Kate's 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

I’ve been nudging Laura to come and chat with me for ages because I find her story so inspiring, her creativity has just rocketed in the last few years, smack in the middle of perimenopause. 

She’s a poet and comedian from Leeds. She writes brilliantly playful poetry that packs a punch about midlife, menopause and the north. She also does fanny jokes. What’s not to love??

She has been shortlisted for Leeds Poetry Festival Competition, featured on BBC Radio York and performed at events such as the Vagina Festival and Sonnet Youth Weekender. She is a 2022 Hammer and Tongue national slam finalist.

Laura says:

If you want to hear more from me and see how I get on at the Albert Hall find me on Instagram @lauragrahamwrites

 If you want to invite me to read a poem at an event or perform DM me 

 If you want to hear Stephen James Smith’s poem about why we need to create watch this:

https://youtu.be/hf1XvPqZ7j0 

 If you want inspiration on why now read Mary Oliver’s poem The Summer Day 

 If you want to have a go at writing poetry read Grow Your Own Poem by Kate Clanchy and write along with the exercises. 

 If you want to join a very welcoming online writing community contact Scribblers Union @scrubblersunion

 If you want to try stand up comedy but are not sure it’s for you: It is. Do it. 

 If you live near Leeds and want to do a comedy course check out 

https://www.laughatleeds.com 

 Now tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?


More information about Kate
https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop

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.

Music
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Artwork
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

Rosie is a money management and business coach, healer and grower and she talks about her light switch moment, how she knew something was up with her, and the new trajectory this took her on.  We talk about her experience of arriving in perimenopause, and about not fitting in. 

 Stand by for some deadpan humour, extraordinary experiences and truth-telling.

Rosie's website is www.themoneyhaven.com
Rosie's Instagram is @themoneyhaven

More information about Kate
https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop

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.

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN
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Artwork
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

Artwork
Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

If you have listened to or read anything I’ve ever created before, you’ll know that the value of connecting to our bodies is central to everything I do. Interoception is essentially feeling the feelings in the body, it gives us access to our emotions, our nervous system, and our relationships so we can self-regulate.

But what stops us from connecting with our bodies, and how can we actually do it? How can we actually listen to our bodies and respond kindly? Especially if we don’t have access to groups or therapists and need to access regulation independently. 

I get into some chewy and fascinating avenues to unpack connection with Emily Humphries who works with a brand new, and radically accessible technique called Reset Clearing, originated by Angus MacLeod.

She came to it through her own burnout at 40 and so specialises in energy illness, or ‘invisible’ illness, which is especially poorly understood by Western medicine. She also specialises in working with men, having raised two sons and spent many years studying the philosophy of masculinity.

You can find Emily’s Reset Clearing website at starlingflow.co.uk

And there’s loads more interesting stuff, all kinds of writing on different subjects on her Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ebmhumphreys

Why do people get ill? by Darian Leader and David Corfield

AD4E – A Disorder 4 Everyone – challenges psychiatry where it pathologises survivors of abuse https://adisorder4everyone.com/ and you can find more of their events at  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/ad4e-10761277304

More information about Kate
https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop

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.

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream
Music promoted by Audio Library

Artwork
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

This week I got to chat with someone who is just as enthusiastic about cyclical living as me, Stella Tomlinson. Stella is an author-poet and Priestess sharing soul care for midlife women's self-knowledge and healing. I can thoroughly recommend her most recent book  'Cycles of Belonging: Honouring ourselves through the sacred cycles of life' which is published by Womancraft 

We are not going to tell you about balance

We are not going to tell you about ease

 None of that easy-peasy stuff. No. We’re exploring what happens when cycles get messy: upside down, angsty, anxious, critic attacks, void, separation and of course, perimenopause.

Because that’s real life! We’ll share tips and personal experiences from the challenging parts of our menstrual, menopause and creative cycles and how we navigate those tricky times.

Stella's website is https://stellatomlinson.com/
Stella's Instagram is @stellatomlinson.priestess

More information about Kate
https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop

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.

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream
Music promoted by Audio Library

Artwork
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

This episode is about rest and creativity, and how come doing nothing at all can make the kind of magic that a to-do list can never get near.

 In conversation with Steph Satriawan we explore:

• How does creativity come out of rest?
• What needs to change so we can stop striving?
• How does living in a cyclical rhythm support us?

Steph is a mother, therapist and coach, passionate about empowering women to live in a cyclical rhythm so they can live their lives on purpose, with freedom and authenticity.  She works 1-2-1, with groups and her community, Nest, can be found at featherlightliving.com

Connect with Steph on Instagram @featherlight_living

More information about Kate
https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop

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.

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN
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Free Download / Stream
Music promoted by Audio Library

Artwork
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

This is a conversation with a very special person, and dear friend Catherine Tugnait. we talk about the process of transformation and what might be needed for change to happen, through the lens of menopause and Metamorphic Technique.

 Catherine is a Birth and parenting educator, fertility and maternity therapist and Metamorphic Technique practitioner teacher who has been working within her community since the millennium.

The workshop Catherine mentions is on 25th June 12.30-4 pm and you can find more information by emailing Catherine on [email protected]

 You may also enjoy finding more about Metamorphic technique at www.metamorphicassociation.org

More information about Kate
https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop

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.

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN
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Free Download / Stream
Music promoted by Audio Library

Artwork
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

To celebrate the centenary of innovative psychotherapist Gerda Boyesen, the founder of Biodynamic psychotherapy, I talk to Anat Ben-Israel M.A. Anat explains the central theory behind Biodynamic methods, how these ideas have been integrated into the mainstream of body-mind theory, why Gerda's work was overlooked in favour of her male colleagues, and how relevant this work is to our everyday lives.

Anat is a Biodynamic Psychotherapist, a senior biodynamic trainer who has training schools in Israel and the USA, she’s a Training Board member at the London School of Biodynamic Psychotherapy, as well as working with clients privately in her clinic and online. Like me, she was lucky enough to have been taught by Gerda Boyesen, the founder of Biodynamic Psychotherapy an innovator who created a uniquely feminine, cyclical way of working.

You can find Anat at biodynamictherapy.net 

 And if you’re interested in finding out more about Gerda’s methods check out  https://centreforbodypsychotherapy.com/ which is the London School of Biodynamic Psychotherapy’s site.

More information about Kate
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Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and all major platforms, just search for 'Life - An Inside Job' and please share it with your friends! You never know, they might just hear the words they need at the right moment.

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream
Music promoted by Audio Library

Artwork
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