Rewriting Menopause Stories

This week is another solo - and the last episode for 2021.

What I'm talking about in this episode is something that is very present for me in my heart at the moment. I find myself thinking about it a lot and listening / watching podcasts / videos about this topic too. As I contemplate the cycles of life, I cannot do this without also considering the thread of stories and initiations a woman has traversed during her life.

Menopause isn’t a standalone event in a woman’s life. It’s part of her story: the story of her other initiations, the story of her blood, the red thread. 

In this podcast episode I share a little of my story and the connection between a young girl getting her first bleed, right through to transitioning into menopause. Lots of food for thought.

You can follow along with my journey and my work on instagram: @bemarvellous_gusgrima. I would love to hear how these musings land with you.

Reclamation: Your Menopause Journey is a 6 week immersion into the inner soul work that honours your transition towards and into menopause. Launching in 2022, you can get on the waitlist here.

This week's episode with Melanie Lucia is a delicious dive into spirituality, the realms of archetypes and a reminder of how connected our whole menstrual journey is to our menopause.

As a certified coach, Mel guides and supports women in transforming the feminine wound as they explore their inner terrain, awakening their Feminine Soul. Drawing on her many years working with natural health, tarot & spirituality, Mel favours a straight-talking, no bullshit approach that is delivered with love but one where Truth is never compromised. Mel is currently on sabbatical, exploring themes of belonging, alchemy, ageing & the underworld as she walks the path of peri-menopause. A lover of wood, moor and sea she lives on the edge of Dartmoor with her partner, son and two cats where she regularly indulges in deck lust and red wine. She has no time for small talk and will be found delving deep on the fringes, pulling cards and listening to stories.

You can follow along with Gus and her work on instagram: @bemarvellous_gusgrima.

Reclamation: Your Menopause Journey is a 6 week immersion that Gus is guiding into the inner soul work that honours your transition towards and into menopause. Launching in 2022, you can get on the waitlist here.

This week's podcast is a very open and honest conversation with Mairi Taylor.

Mairi was educated as a Home Economist, an ex HR Manager, retired fitness professional, reforming people pleaser, Menopause Rockstar, Women’s Wellbeing Guide, juice therapist, cacao medicine carrier, aromatherapist and essential oil enthusiast. She walks with women to empower them to rewrite their menopause story and come home to themselves, harnessing the power of nature and getting in flow with their hormones.                    

You can find Mairi on Instagram: mairitaylor_menopause_rockstar 

Links to Mairi's programmes, including The Calling are: https://linktr.ee/MairiTaylor

You can follow along with Gus and her work on instagram: @bemarvellous_gusgrima. 

Reclamation: Your Menopause Journey is a 6 week immersion that Gus is guiding into the inner soul work that honours your transition towards and into menopause. Launching in 2022, you can get on the waitlist here.

This week it's a solo - my first - as I share my explorations and thoughts from the time I have spent in the void this Autumn. Whilst it's been a tumultuous time, it's also involved a lot of shedding, releasing and re-adapting/re-adjusting to where I am at in this season of my life.

As I let myself sink into the void and gave up all pretence of struggle, I have actually found it incredibly peaceful and restorative and I've been reminded, once again, of just how medicinal slowing down and stillness is for us during this season of our lives. Not from the angle of stopping everything but more from the angle of being so fully present with what is going on for us day to day: both in our inner world and our outer world.

Through this experience I have found that I've been able to find so much more harmony between the inner and outer, where before there was a stark contrast, which was creating a big feeling of pressure and unease within me.

You can follow along with my journey and my work on instagram: @bemarvellous_gusgrima. I would love to hear how these musings land with you.

Reclamation: Your Menopause Journey is a 6 week immersion into the inner soul work that honours your transition towards and into menopause. Launching in 2022, you can get on the waitlist here.

In this episode, Alexa shares her powerful story of healing and how she has used her perimenopause experience so far as an opportunity to re-programme all the self-limiting beliefs and stories she held, to reconnect deeply to nature and to her heart. This is such a beautiful example of how gentle yet persistent enquiry into the messages your body is giving you, can lead to so much gold.

As you listen to this podcast, you'll see how everything is connected. Our story starts when we are born and is touched by the different experiences we have at key hormonal shifts and transitions during our life. If we can step out from under the blanket of symptoms commonly experienced during perimenopause, sensing into and really feeling this throughline connection with our whole life and our experience of it - and create the pause that is needed to do the inner work -we are deeply rewarded.

Alexa now dedicates her offerings and creations to being a journeyer: guiding others to experience a magnetic menopause and walk towards and through their own healing journey.

You can follow along with Alexa’s explorations, adventures and creations at:

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

Website: https://www.alexadecastilho.com/

Find Gus and her work around this phase of life by heading to the Portals to Becoming You section on this website.

You can also follow along on instagram: bemarvellous_gusgrima.

Reclamation: Your Menopause Journey is a 6 week immersion into the inner soul work that honours your transition towards and into menopause. Launching in late Autumn, you can get on the waitlist here.

What a delightful conversation this is. Sally shares a certain wonder and curiosity about life which I love. You’ll hear in this episode, how she embraced the changes that came her way during her perimenopause into menopause journey - her way - and how she found herself reconnecting to aspects of herself, which she had expressed as a little girl and that had been swept aside and hidden for much of her life.

This is a truly inspiring story of how much you can step into the person you truly are and live from that place in this season of your life. How many treasures are there to be discovered along the journey.

You can follow along with Sally'’s explorations, adventures and creations at:

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/sallya.webb/

Find Gus and her work around this phase of life by heading to the Portals to Becoming You section on this website.

You can also follow along on instagram: bemarvellous_gusgrima.

Reclamation: Your Menopause Journey is a 6 week immersion into the inner soul work that honours your transition towards and into menopause. Launching in late Autumn, you can get on the waitlist here.

I adore what Cathy brings to the table in this conversation, as well as in her life and her joyful attitude to this phase of her life. Through her work, she also provides empowering solutions and support to women navigating perimenopause and menopause.

Cathy is the founder of Cathy Carr Coaching and co-director of Place of Chi with her husband of 21 years.  Cathy is Australian & mum to two sons. She has worked in the health, wellness & fitness space for 28 years, teaching in four continents.

Cathy is a holistic nutrition, lifestyle and movement coach, advanced yoga practitioner, ELDOA teacher & mandala artist.  She is also a mentor to fitness professionals.

After working with all walks of life over the years, Cathy’s passion is coaching women in midlife and how they can get their mojo back, through the 6 foundation principles - her MOJO method -  now and for the rest of their life.

You can follow along with Lisa’s explorations, adventures and creations at:

Instagram:   www.instagram.com/cathycarrcoaching

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenover40health

Website: https://cathycarrcoaching.com/mojo/

Get in touch:  [email protected]

Find Gus and her work around this phase of life by heading to the Portals to Becoming You section on her website: www.bemarvellous.co.uk.

You can also follow along on instagram: bemarvellous_gusgrima.

Reclamation: Your Menopause Journey is a 6 week immersion into the inner soul work that honours your transition towards and into menopause. Launching in late Autumn, you can get on the waitlist here.

I got to know Lisa much more personally towards the end of 2020, when we came together with beautiful synchronicity and ended up working on a heart-centred leadership project. It was then that I discovered that we shared similar feelings around our journey and experience of menopause and I knew that she would be one of the first women that I wanted to have a deeper conversation with on this podcast.

Lisa was 50 this year and I loved hearing her story of traversing through perimenopause and into menopause. There were lots of highlights in Lisa’s experiences, from how little gets talked about around perimenopause before it’s over, the contrasting energies and challenges that it can bring into your life, how connected our full hormonal journey is at this transition and how you can work with holistic tools to bring you through it.

You can follow along with Lisa’s explorations, adventures and creations at https://www.lisa-pauley.com/

And on Instagram: lisapauley_rise_and_bloom

Find Gus and her work around this phase of life by heading to the Portals to Becoming You section on her website: www.bemarvellous.co.uk.

You can also follow along on instagram: bemarvellous_gusgrima.

Reclamation: Your Menopause Journey is a 6 week immersion into the inner soul work that honours your transition towards and into menopause. Launching in late Autumn, you can get on the waitlist here.

I loved this conversation with Micala and I am sure you will too.  Now 48 years old, Micala navigated a big challenge in her mid forties and reframed it by following a hunch that picqued her interest and led her back into full trust of her body as her compass. This was a really beautiful story to hear.

You can follow Micala’s explorations, adventures and creations on Instagram: @micaladuvoux

Find Gus and her work around this phase of life by heading to the Portals to Becoming You section on her website: www.bemarvellous.co.uk.

Gus’s Instagram: @bemarvellous_gusgrima.

Reclamation: Your Menopause Journey is a 6 week immersion into the inner soul work that honours your transition towards and into menopause. Launching in late Autumn, you can get on the waitlist here.

Hi, I'm Gus your podcast host and this topic is burning brightly in my heart right now. Having just turned 50 and journeyed through perimenopause and into menopause myself, having - for the most part - thoroughly enjoyed the ride, the highs and the lows, I want to have more conversations with women who are navigating menopause THEIR way. Who are finding it quite the rebirth: discovering more of who they are and the gems, power and potency that this transition has to offer us. In this episode, you'll hear more of the story behind Rewriting Menopause Stories.

www.bemarvellous.co.uk

Instagram: @bemarvellous_gusgrima