The Female Wellness Hub Podcast

In this episode Jessica Meddick shares her experiences and challenges with living with endometriosis, her 3 laparoscopy surgeries, being induced into menopause at age 25 and how her Instagram page helps her cope with her endometriosis. We also talk about a very important topic which is how this chronic illness impacts your mental health too.

Jessica Meddick works in the charity sector and has been living with Endometriosis since she was 21. Over the last 6 years she has lived with the chronic pain, had multiple surgeries and been induced into menopause at age 25. She set up the Instagram page livingwith_endo in 2020 to help share her warts n' all journey with endometriosis to help others know that they aren't alone. Chronic illness can be a lonely road and she is on a mission to help others know that they are not alone in their journey, their symptoms and that you can still live a purposeful life.

In this episode we chat with Clinical Hypnotherapist, best-selling author, mindfulness, and certified NLP practitioner, Fiona Brennan on busting the misconceptions about hypnotherapy, what it means to cultivate change thorough creating meaningful habits and how to create the courage to love ourselves, even the hard bits.

Fiona Brennan is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, best-selling author, mindfulness, and certified NLP practitioner with a booked out clinic in Blackrock, Co. Dublin. Fiona has also trained with the eminent neuropsychologist, Rick Hanson in positive neuroplasticity has a Higher Diploma in Theatre & Performance from UCD and a Higher Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis .

She also completed an online course on Positive Psychology with The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the highly respected positive psychologist, Barbara Frederickson and a Professional Certificate in the Therapeutic Use of Mindfulness with Padraig O'Morain at the Institute of Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy.

Fiona is the mental health expert on Today FM (Ireland), a TEDx speaker, blogger and an ambassador for positivity in the media.

Building on her success, in 2016 Fiona launched her online, five-star rated, hypnotherapy program, 'The Positive Habit' which now helps people all over the world. Her first book is the Irish Times and Eason's bestseller, 'The Positive Habit,' published by Ireland's leading non-fiction publishers, Gill Books. Her second book, The Self-Love Habit has just been published and also went straight into the best-seller list.

In this episode we're talking about motherhood and the challenges moms have to keep themselves and their children healthy. Seasonal eating and not just eating with the seasons of the year but also the many seasons and transitions we make as women from menopause, conception, and post-partum it all matters. So, if you're a mom or perhaps you're a busy women who wants some quick health tips or your moving into the menopaus season Angela has something for everyone.

Angela warm is founder of Warm Wellness a seasonal health coaching practice. She specializes in helping women embrace their health regardless of what season of their lives they may be in. She especially enjoys helping expat moms find reserves of energy, reach their ideal weight and navigate their tiny kitchen with ease.

Angela went back to school after becoming an expat mom to two littles ones 18 months apart. What started as a fact finding mission to keep her family and herself healthy, and overcome constant exhaustion, Angela found a calling helping others make their health a priority.

Although born and raised in sunny Florida, Angela now calls Switzerland home, where she lives with her husband and two kids.

Follow Angala at warmwellness.com, on Instagram @angelawarmwellness and Facebook

In this episode we with Jess Brock-Pitts fitness instructor and intuitive eating advocate about diet and fitness culture, body image and the perception of health and its association with size. If you are someone who has hopped from diet to diet, tried to shrink yourself to fit societies expectations your goring to really benefit from this episode.

Jess is the founder and owner of Enlighten Well LLC, a virtual boutique fitness and founder of the LightBulb fitness club a virtual 8 week body positive bootcamp. With a background in social work she is also a mom, a runner, and a gym class drop-out turned certified personal trainer & group fitness instructor.

Follow Jess at enlightenwellllc.com and on Instagram and Facebook

In this episode we chat with Quarter Life Crisis and Mindset Coach, Arisha Boyrangee about the expectations we set ourselves in life, career and relationships. We explore what a quarter life crisis is, how we define success and the impact of perfection mindset and pressures to find our life purpose.

Arisha is a trained Personal and Business coach with a degree in psychology and in Business and IT and she brings uses her personal experiences to help her clients. She was the girl that had the right education, worked in multiple sectors, and ended up in the corporate world. Until one day, she realised she needed to find what truly lit her up and start following her own path, find her inner voice and the unshakeable courage to actually go for what she wanted.

Follow Arisha at thecoachableyou.com, on Instagram and Facebook

In this episode Elysia speaks with Dr Heather Rhodes about PCOS and how she realised through working as a pharmacist is that lifestyle interventions are also key to supporting this. She also speaks about Why you may not always get an official diagnosis and shares her natural solutions to balancing hormones.

Dr. Heather Rhodes is a holistic pharmacist with a passion for women's health. She makes understanding your hormones simple and teaches you practical steps for maintaining hormone balance. Her natural approach to healing creates lasting results and symptom relief specifically for PCOS, PMS, Acne, and Fertility. She's a cross fit instructor, ice cream addict, toddler mom, and adoption advocate!

Follow Dr. Heather at www.drheatherrhodes.com and on Instagram @drheatherrhodes

In this episode Elysia speaks to Jordan D'Nelle about common misconceptions about female sexual health, orgasms, sex toys, low libido, STI's, how to speak to your Dr about sexual health and more.

Jordan D'Nelle is a Physician Assistant and Women's Sexual Health Educator. She is the founder of the Vaginas, Vulvas, and Vibrators Podcast.

Her goal is to raise awareness about different things that specifically affect women. She wants to help normalize women's health and create a safe space for women.

Follow Jordan at vaginasvulvasandvibrators.com and on Instagram and check out the Vagina's Vulva's and Vibrators Podcast.

In this episode Elysia chats with Pelvic Health Physiotherapist Helen keeble to debunk some of the common misconceptions about pelvic health physio, common pelvic health challenges she deals with in clinic and why every woman should see one at any age whether shes had a baby or not.

Helen Keeble is a highly experienced and passionate pelvic health physiotherapist who has been working in this field since 2008. She is the Clinical Lead & Director at pH physiotherapy, a prestigious pelvic health physiotherapy company that treats men and women across London & Dublin.

In this episode Elysia chats with Business and Mindset Mentor, Vasavi Kumar about feeling comfortable in your own skin, what holds you back from achieving in your business, how imposter syndrome can manifest at different times throughout life, falling into the comparison trap and the mindset shifts to help you embrace Impostor Syndrome for ultimate success in life and business.

Vasavi Kumar is Not-your-typical Therapist and Business and Mindset Mentor. She helps women release the outdated beliefs that havee been holding you back in life and business so you finally feel confident, clear, and in charge of your time and energy. Her mission is to help you know yourself so well that you have the confidence to be, do, and create anything you want.

Follow Vasavi here vasavikumar.com on Instagram and Facebook

Grab her Mind Your Own Business Program here

In this episode Elysia chats with Dr. Kylie Burton about Endometriosis, the common signs & symptoms, what to do if your symptoms are not being taken seriously, the Long term health problems associated with endometriosis and Dr Kylie shares her 4 step process to natural ways to support endometriosis if you have endo or think you may then you need to listen to this episode.

Dr. Kylie Burton speacialises in helping women crack their hormone codes even if they've been told their labs are "normal." And she does this using her unique training and specialized approach in functional medicine

She helps Women struggling with their Thyroid, Endometriosis, PCOS, or the "they don't know what's wrong with me," find answers, healing, and hope with her simple system designed to help them start living the dreams they've never dared to dream.

Dr. Kylie has been an expert on Good Morning Utah, Fox26 Houston, the Shelia Mac Show on KCAA Radio, Real Health Talk Radio (across Europe) and over two dozen podcasts. She wants women to know they can conquer their health struggles - even when their labs are normal.

Follow Dr Kylie drkylieburton.com and on facebook