Our Human Condition

Enjoy this bonus guided mantra meditation that I recorded for you. 

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"As the days went on, they were ringing me everyday to say 'Yeah things are looking good' ... they'd gotten Glenn's sperm and connected them up in the petri dish ... they're like 'Let the magic begin!'. They do feel like real babies."

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"But then it got to a point where they were like 'Okay yeah it's looking good ... oh it's slowed down now ... oh okay they're not multiplying ... oh actually Rebecca they've passed away in the dish'. So that was a really hard thing - I didn't think I was gonna be that emotional about some embryos in a dish." 

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Rebecca is a beautiful wife to husband Glenn, and mother to her son Louis. Her fertility journey was fraught with innumerable challenges, followed by a major health scare - being diagnosed with breast cancer. All this before her 35th birthday. This is her powerful story of love and resilience in the face of great hardship.

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Timestamps

05:00 - How and why Rebecca first came to the yoga mat

09:53 - Why Rebecca’s wasn’t a typical case of PCOS

12:19 - Why her husband needed to get checked too

15:45 - The importance of tailoring yoga to the menstrual cycle

19:49 - Why individualised exercise programs are necessary based on someone’s medical history

21:25 - Why kundalini yoga is different, and may be beneficial for fertility

26:43 - The daily processes involved with IVF treatments

31:37 - Why Rebecca’s husband ended up becoming the patient during her egg collection

35:35 - How Rebecca felt after her first failed IVF round

39:01 - The importance of strengthening the uterus 

49:01 - How she felt after the six week wait

55:30 - What yoga poses should be avoided at various stages of pregnancy

58:35 - The importance of the tribe of women and how we can foster that in a modern society

01:04:50 - Why periods should never be a ‘dirty’ topic

01:08:48 - How Rebecca ended up with gestational diabetes

01:14:07 - Having to get induced and the eventful labour process

01:20:10 - Bringing her baby son home and what happened next

01:24:24 - When Rebecca first noticed something wrong with her breasts after her son’s birth

01:26:16 - The phone call from her doctor that changed everything

“When you get told something like that, the first question that pops into your head is ‘Am I going to die?’ It’s just a natural first question. And the doctor’s response was ‘We have to have more tests yet’.”

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Until a year ago, Rosemary’s (Roe) life could have been that of almost any other Sydney suburban mother. A loving wife, busy mum to two children, and avid netballer with the Miranda Magpies Netball Club - all was normal until a fateful Christmas barbecue where she noticed severe pain while eating.

Within a week, Roe had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer, a rare cancer of the esophagus.

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“I get quite stressed and I didn’t really know how to deal with that … when I turned 30, I was like ‘I need to change the way I’m doing my life … I need to give myself something back’.”

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With the passing of her 30th birthday, Helen (not her real name) knew she needed a change in her life, and drastically so. As one of the 1 in 3 Australian women who experience anxiety, she constantly felt overwhelmed by our modern lifestyle.

Helen had noticed negative changes in her demeanour over time, which she put down to being run down and overworked. Even the relatively mundane act of cooking dinner - something almost everyone must do daily - was leaving her feeling stressed out.

“I could see myself and the way I was acting - I was like ‘that’s not really any way to act’. So I guess I did come to realise that yeah, I’m stressing out and I need to do something about it.”

This is where Kundalini yoga and meditation came into her life.

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Every Friday, we send out an exclusive email with the coolest things we've found (or explored) that week. It could include guided meditations, books, gadgets, albums, articles, new hacks/tricks, and — of course — all sorts of weird stuff we dig up around the web. These emails are only available if you subscribe to the e-mail newsletter. Subscribe at https://ourhuco.com

"I see a range of kids, but the ones I've gravitated towards are those in mainstream schools. They don't have an intellectual disability, they just have these behaviours. So they definitely have the awareness that they're not doing things like the other kids ... a lot of the other kids are scared of them. They've seen them throw a chair through a window, they've seen them come at the teacher with scissors. They're told so many times that they're the naughty kid, they believe it. They start owning that. They're like, okay I must be naughty."

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Every Friday, we send out an exclusive email with the coolest things we've found (or explored) that week. It could include guided meditations, books, gadgets, albums, articles, new hacks/tricks, and — of course — all sorts of weird stuff we dig up around the web. These emails are only available if you subscribe to the e-mail newsletter. Subscribe at https://ourhuco.com

"As the days went on, they were ringing me everyday to say 'Yeah things are looking good' ... they'd gotten Glenn's sperm and connected them up in the petri dish ... they're like 'Let the magic begin!'. They do feel like real babies.

But then it got a point where they were like 'Okay yeah it's looking good ... oh it's slowed down now ... oh okay they're not multiplying ... oh actually Rebecca they've passed away in the dish'. So that was a really hard thing - I didn't think I was gonna be that emotional about some embryos in a dish."

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Every Friday, we send out an exclusive email with the coolest things we've found (or explored) that week. It could include guided meditations, books, gadgets, albums, articles, new hacks/tricks, and — of course — all sorts of weird stuff we dig up around the web. These emails are only available if you subscribe to the e-mail newsletter. Subscribe at https://ourhuco.com