How can we feel whole when many of us feel disembodied? How can we engage with the world the way our bodies we’re meant to engage with the world? In this short episode, Estelle wanted to rekindle the body conversation from Season 1 and speaks on her “feeling it all” philosophy and how to engage with all our parts. In this episode, we discuss why Descartes “I think therefore I am” famous saying doesn’t work anymore. Learn simple awareness techniques to build resilience and never feel highjacked by life circumstance.BONUS: meet Edgar & Victor: Estelle’s studio dogs and faithful companions.

The answer to that podcast title is: everything! In this episode -Leilani Navar - a Chinese medicine practitioner, Fertility Awareness Educator, and dream-worker teaches us about the relationships between creativity and our periods. Estelle even has her own ‘a-ha moment’ with this one! Leilani dives into dreamwork and the pattern of our menstrual inner seasons pertaining to Chinese medicine. In addition, the power of writing down your dreams and the importance of making time for soul. This podcast is full of discoveries and insights.

In this raw, passionate and absolutely lovely conversation, Abi Adams chats how from her own personal chaos found freedom in moving her body. Now guiding women through the most challenging moments of their live: she advocates for rests on the first day of your periods, how to understand your flow through the inner seasons and to teach ourselves to intuitively move your body to sort out your life. Abby is refreshing, funny and down to earth. I’ve fallen in love with her, and I have a gut feeling you will too!

Dr. Cassandra Connolly is well-versed in women menstrual health pertaining to anxiety, nutrition and menopause. This episode is like “Science 101” and a wealth of knowledge pertaining to stress management, nutrition, hormones, emotional states and how it plays a crucial role in our monthly flows. Dr. Cassandra educates us in calming down and becoming resilient to stress; she answers what causes menstrual cramps, what we should and shouldn’t eat during our period and more! This episode reinforces the idea that your period is magic, that education and self-awareness is paramount and her “report card” analogy is a force to be reckon with.

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Finally SHE-BITCH!

Books noted are:

Rise Sister Rise by Rebecca Campbell ( our Book Club pick of the month)

Wild Power by Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer

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One month before her passing, Hannah Thomson agreed to do her first podcast interview. As a professional photographer in New York for Vogue, Vanity Fair and other high-profile clients, her real passion has always been portraiture. In this episode, Hannah shares with us how art has shaped her life and career from her university years to now, how she’s worked her butt off but ultimately how she’s learned to prioritize time for her dreams. She also shares her most favourite self-exploration tool for personal growth: breathwork and cooking! Estelle feels inclined to mention: Hannah was coping with end-of-life Stage 4 Breast Cancer at the time of the interview, she had been battling the disease for 8 years, with a 3-year remission. Hannah’s outlook on life and mantra “SEE THE LIGHT” is moving, generous and important. Listen and be moved.

In her most passionate episode yet, Estelle reiterates the need to give art and self-expression a chance. How we need to remember that as humans we naturally make things and it is our birthright. That we need more leaders (parents, communities, schools, hospitals, etc.) to take a stand in helping women reclaim their power, bodies, beauty, voice and art. Expect inspiration, one grounding technique, poetry and favourite mantra.

Coming from a theatre and film industry background, Bryde Maclean is a well-versed yoga and voice teacher. A podcast host herself, Bryde shares with us how necessary it is to hold oneself soft in the belly to access more of our feminine powers, how old conditioning stops us from voicing our truth. She also shares her own self-exploration tools for personal growth: hydration, neck stretches, roll downs, lots of self-massage and more.

Estelle is back solo this week with her take on women's voices and how they matter more than ever before. In this episode, she shares how she believes one of the major pieces of “finding” our voice as women means teaching ourselves to LISTEN first. Estelle digs into how feeling unsafe is the reason women don’t speak out and that it's only when you develop a clear conduit to soul that you will understand the responsibility to bring forth what’s inside out into the world. Expect poetry, one grounding technique and this week’s favourite mantra.