Saying goodbye is a heartbreaking experience, whether the death is unexpected or there’s been time to say goodbye when someone is ill.

Today we look at not only the different types of deaths that you may experience through your life, but how every day can be an opportunity to make time for loved ones and show them you care.

In this episode we cover:

• The two types of goodbyes we will face with loved ones

• The shock of an unexpected death

• Deaths we have more time to prepare for when someone is ill

• There’s no easy way to say goodbye but there is a good way to live every day

• A personal story about a grandfather passing

• How your own stuff can get in the way of death

• Family complications post death

• Allowing other people in to hold space for you

• Navigating grief months after a passing

• Making time for people who matter

• Living with no regrets

• Treating every farewell as if it is the last.

Resources and links mentioned in this episode:

• Show notes: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au/podcast 

• Soul Care Bendigo website: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au

• Soul Care Bendigo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulcarebendigo/

• Soul Care Bendigo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090347516510

• Email: [email protected]

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Singing can support our mental health, our energy and most of all - make us feel good!

Singing teacher Steph Carson joins us to share her love of music and how you don’t need to be Kylie Minogue to open your mouth and sing from the heart.

In this episode we cover:

●        What is a melody and a harmony

●        Breaking down some other singing terminology

●        Why singing is so important in culture and ceremony

●        How music can evoke different emotions in people

●        Music affecting other parts of your life positively

●        Overcoming the fear of joining a choir or pub singing

●        A bit of Dutch courage can help!

●        Singing can create strings of connection.

Resources and links mentioned in this episode:

●        Show notes: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au/podcast

●        Soul Care Bendigo website: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au

●        Soul Care Bendigo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulcarebendigo/

●        Soul Care Bendigo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090347516510

●        Email: [email protected]

●        Steph Carson Macapella profile: https://www.macapella.com/presenters

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For many years in my hair dressing chair, I have been told people wish they could have me in their pocket when they need to have a hard conversation.

Tune in today as I chat about some useful ways to express your feelings clearly and concisely, using language and tone to pave a way forward, rather than pointing fingers and laying blame.

In this episode we cover:

• Having hard conversations and them coming from a good place

• How word dumping is shaped in childhood and can play out as an adult

• Fear and shaming conversations can push people apart

• Thinking about the timing of when you have conversations

• Reading body language to check in with timing

• When to choose growth

• How reflection is a curious way to observe ourselves

• Giving yourself permission to be yourself

• Choosing when to bring out your inner warrior

• Where your values are at will determine what you need to defend

• Taking out blame and judgment in your conversations.

Resources and links mentioned in this episode:

• Show notes: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au/podcast 

• Soul Care Bendigo website: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au

• Soul Care Bendigo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulcarebendigo/

• Soul Care Bendigo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090347516510

• Email: [email protected]

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There are three women inside of me: the powerhouse go-getter who has no time for BS, there’s the gypsy dreamer who wants to take her family in a caravan around the country and cut hair along the way, to the mother who is content being settled with simple family life. Who the f**k do they think they all are?

Today we look at balancing different versions within yourself, or hats you need to wear, to allow all parts of you to feel satisfied.

In this episode we cover:

• Balancing different versions of you
• Feeling the pull between the different versions of yourself
• Growth is in the challenge and the failures of life
• Learning how to appease all sides of yourself
• Working out what your values are so you can stay true to your personal values
• Personal values can align between all sides of you, due to those common values
• Finding ways to make sure you are always living your values to their full extent, and questioning any inconsistencies. 

Resources and links mentioned in this episode:

• Show notes: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au/podcast
• Soul Care Bendigo website: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au
• Soul Care Bendigo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulcarebendigo/
• Soul Care Bendigo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090347516510
• Email: [email protected]

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Today we talk with Nerida Firman, owner of Barre Society in Bendigo, about the transition women undertake through midlife.

Women in the 35-60 year age bracket can often be overlooked by both medical and fitness industries with major hormonal changes taking place in the body.

We dive into some ways to lean into and nurture your body through perimenopause to feel confident in the skin you are in!   In this episode we cover:

• Changes in your body being frustrating
• When selfcare, diet or exercise actions that used to work don’t work anymore
• Misconceptions around when menopause starts
• Midlife being the busiest time of people’s lives, particularly with children
• How changes are not all doom and gloom
• How metabolism changes in midlife
• The midlife spread and why it happens
• Sleep changes and how helpful rest can still be
• Poor sleep can contribute to making weight loss harder
• The two types of inflammation - acute and chronic
• Using diet to fill yourself with good stuff first
• The benefit of the Mediterranean diet
• Looking at what time to eat certain foods
• Resistance and strength training.   Resources and links mentioned in this episode:
• Show notes: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au/podcast
• Soul Care Bendigo website: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au
• Soul Care Bendigo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulcarebendigo/
• Soul Care Bendigo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090347516510
• Email: [email protected]
• Barre Society: www.barresociety.com.au

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This episode is all about intuition: from the disconnection of our knowing to how to better trust our intuition. 

Everyone is born with a knowing, or intuition, but sometimes it can be hard to tap into it.

We dive into the spirit world as I share my experiences of being able to connect with a greater power.

In this episode we cover:

·        How intuition can serve you

·        It can feel like a sense of familiarity

·        Everything carries energy from animals to humans to technology

·        We are all born with a knowing, or hypervigilance

·        Knowing there is a higher power can help people deal with life’s quirks

·        Intuition can be like an internal light within us that we can trust

·        How spirits can contact us through intuition 

·        Welcoming superpowers rather than using the phrase ‘woo woo’ as a warning

·        Signs to look for that show you are connected to your knowing

·        Creating boundaries in the spirit world

·        Allowing your superpowers in and abundance to follow.

Resources and links mentioned in this episode:

·        Show notes: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au/podcast

·        Soul Care Bendigo website: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au

·        Soul Care Bendigo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulcarebendigo/

·        Soul Care Bendigo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090347516510

·        Email: [email protected]

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This episode we chat about managing fighting in your household. It’s very rare that everyone in your house will feel the same way at the same time, so how do we manage different emotions, energy, and disagreements?

Join me as I chat about recognising where family members are at, choosing to step in or out of the conflict and continuing to love that person just as they are.

In this episode we cover:

• How not everyone in your family will always be in the same mood at the same time

• Standing up for what you believe in and protecting the family

• Having conversations when the fuse has burnt out

• Creating a level of compassion

• Forgiving yourself when you don’t get it right every time

• Choosing to step in or step back from fighting in the household

• Seeing beyond the words being spoken

• Recognising what you did wrong last time and being better next time

• Being able to love and support loved ones when big emotions arise.

Resources and links mentioned in this episode:

• Show notes: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au/podcast 

• Soul Care Bendigo website: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au

• Soul Care Bendigo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulcarebendigo/

• Soul Care Bendigo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090347516510

• Email: [email protected]

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Today we talk about healing yourself through your body, rather than always doing the work in your mind.

We are joined by Emily East, author of Like a Mother, and we talk about somatic healing. It’s a fancy way of talking about different physical ways to shift energy out of the body.

Join us for this enlightening chat which might throw up some options for you to get on top of anger that can flare during parenting!

In this episode we cover:

• Exploring different ways to heal
• Learning how to use the body to move through emotions
• How parenting can challenge yourself so deeply
• Regulating your own emotions so you can help your children
• Knowing what to ask yourself to find out what the problem is
• Finding out your triggers and why they flare
• Being able to do something for yourself after emotions have settled
• Modelling appropriate behaviour for safety
• Scheduling in time to release emotions
• Giving yourself permission to be angry
• Different techniques to heal in the body
• Giving yourself space and time to quieten the mind
• Creating routines and how they can work around kids.  

Resources and links mentioned in this episode:

• Soul Care Bendigo website: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au
• Soul Care Bendigo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulcarebendigo/
• Soul Care Bendigo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090347516510
• Email: [email protected]
• Emily East website: https://emilyeast.net/
• Emily East Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emily_east

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In this episode we are joined by Counsellor Nathan Welch to discuss anger, parenting and the changing role of males in society.

We then shift gears to chat about sex, foreplay and how intimacy and sex are so very different. At the heart of it all is the desire for connection.

Warning for little ears: this episode covers the topic of sex.

In this episode we cover:

• Dealing with anger in the home
• Differences between males and females dealing with anger
• The changed role of males in modern society
• We often make others feel how we feel ourselves
• Parenting can bring out the deepest parts of us
• Questioning where our behaviours come from and how we were brought up
• Consciously striving to create different behaviours we want to model
• Sex is a time for connection between partners
• Foreplay is also about romance, intimacy and spirituality
• Meeting emotional needs of women to create safety
• Finding the inner goddess inside of us
• How consent is so important to feel seen
• The impact of COVID on our nervous systems
• Fulfilling your purpose and living your life to the fullest

Resources and links mentioned in this episode:

• Soul Care Bendigo website: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au
• Soul Care Bendigo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulcarebendigo/
• Soul Care Bendigo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090347516510
• Nathan Welch Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Abundancecounsellinghypnotherapy/
• Nahan Welch website: https://sociatap.com/NathanWelchsAbundance/?fbclid=IwAR0JuOTO3gjbo-Q6VtUoGgzzNws9jZKdeDEDjAt8FHBZ1teWlc9wmayfa1I
• Email: [email protected]

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In this episode, we reflect on the concept of legacy and its importance in our lives. 

Gayle recently completed a death doula course, which emphasised the significance of creating a legacy, even for those who are not facing life-limiting illnesses. 

Memories and legacies are not just about physical possessions but also the impact we leave on others through our actions and interactions. 

Gayle shares the beautiful legacy left behind by her late father, which includes a mix of old-school Irish humour, playful songs, and a genuine acknowledgment of others.

In this episode we cover:

• The significance of creating a legacy, even for those not facing life-limiting illnesses.
• The importance of acknowledging others and making them feel seen and valued.
• How humour and playfulness can be part of a legacy.
• The use of singing as a coping mechanism and a way to self-soothe.
• Reflecting on the positive traits inherited from loved ones.
• The power of genuine conversations and connecting with others through storytelling.
• The emotional value of sentimental items and how they can keep memories alive.
• The fine line between the living and the deceased and the mysterious connections we sometimes feel.
• Encouraging self-love and understanding to leave behind a positive and lasting legacy.
• The importance of understanding the reasons behind hurtful actions but not letting them contaminate our own potential to leave a positive and lasting legacy. Life is too short.

Resources and links mentioned in this episode:

• Soul Care Bendigo website: https://www.soulcarebendigo.com.au
• Soul Care Bendigo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulcarebendigo/
• Soul Care Bendigo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090347516510
• Email: [email protected]

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