The Heavy Flow Podcast

We’re replaying the Best of Heavy Flow while we’re on hiatus over the summer! Subscribe to Heavy Flow on your favourite podcast player and sign-up for my weekly newsletter to get new episodes when we’re back in the fall. 

Today I’m joined by Lisa Hendrickson-Jack, certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner. Lisa and I talk about her new book, The Fifth Vital Sign, why your menstrual cycle is a vital sign, the pill and its side-effects and the importance of truly informed consent.

This episode of Heavy Flow is supported by Justisse Holistic Reproductive Health Practioner Vienna Farlow, aka The Cuntsultant. Use HEAVYFLOW for 15% off a Justice Fertility Awareness Education package.

Heavy Flow is supported by de lune, a menstrual health company on a mission to solve your period problems. Visit delune.co and use code HEAVYFLOW for 15% off.

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Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation

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Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda

Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios

Graphic design: Rachel Laird

We’re replaying the Best of Heavy Flow while we’re on hiatus over the summer! Subscribe to Heavy Flow on your favourite podcast player and sign-up for my weekly newsletter to get new episodes when we’re back in the fall. 

Today I’m talking to Tasha Jade, founder of Daily Magic, about her experience with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, a condition that causes the vagina and uterus to be underdeveloped or absent. We discuss Tasha's MRKH experience, gender identity and wax on "what makes a woman?" 

Heavy Flow is supported by Baby Mama Fitness, helping new Mamas get their old fitness back in a Body Positive environment. 15% with code HEAVYFLOW on any Baby Mama Fitness services.

WooWoo Laboratory makes hand-crafted wellness and body care products that reconnect you with the cycles and rhythms of nature. Use code HEAVYFLOW for 15% off your order!

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Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation

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Follow @amandalaird on Instagram

Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda

Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios

Graphic design: Rachel Laird

We’re replaying the Best of Heavy Flow while we’re on hiatus over the summer! Subscribe to Heavy Flow on your favourite podcast player and sign-up for my weekly newsletter to get new episodes when we’re back in the fall. 

This week I'm talking to Anna Dahlqvist, journalist and author of It's Only Blood. We discuss the history of menstrual shame, the similarities between modern menstrual taboos at home and abroad, menstrual equity as a human right and the need for more reproductive health education from puberty to menopause.

This episode of Heavy Flow is supported by Blog School. Use code HEAVYFLOW for 15% off registration. 

BeyondBlood is an inclusive not-for-profit that seeks to initiate the Menstrual-Mental Health Movement.

Full Shownotes 

Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation

Subscribe to the Heavy Flow email list 

Follow @amandalaird on Instagram

Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda

Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios

Graphic design: Rachel Laird

We’re replaying the Best of Heavy Flow while we’re on hiatus over the summer! Subscribe to Heavy Flow on your favourite podcast player and sign-up for my weekly newsletter to get new episodes when we’re back in the fall. 

Today on the show Kathleen Shannon, co-founder of Braid Creative and Being Boss Podcast co-host, takes the reigns to interview me about my new book, Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation. We talk about my early interest in periods, how period shame shows up in our culture, where menstrual equity intersects with other social justice issues, hormonal birth control, body literacy, where period pain comes from and what we can do about it, and so much more.

This episode of Heavy Flow is supported by Hormonology.

Menstruation Research Network is a UK-based interdisciplinary network aiming to bring together menstruation experts from inside and outside academia.

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Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation

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Follow @amandalaird on Instagram

Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda

Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios

Graphic design: Rachel Laird

We’re replaying the Best of Heavy Flow while we’re on hiatus over the summer! Subscribe to Heavy Flow on your favourite podcast player and sign-up for my weekly newsletter to get new episodes when we’re back in the fall. 

Today on the show I'm talking to Chris Bobel, author of New Blood: Third-Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation and The Managed Body: Developing Girls and Menstrual Health in the Global South. We discuss the history of menstrual activism, what's working -- and what's not -- in the menstrual movement, the "seeds of menstrual shame" and Chris' vision for a future menstrutopia.

This episode of Heavy Flow is supported by Justisse Holistic Reproductive Health Practioner Vienna Farlow, aka The Cuntsultant. Use HEAVYFLOW for 15% off a Justice Fertility Awareness Education package.

Use code HEAVYFLOW for 15% off WooWoo Laboratory’s hand-crafted wellness and bodycare products.

Full Shownotes 

Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation

Subscribe to the Heavy Flow email list 

Follow @amandalaird on Instagram

Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda

Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios

Graphic design: Rachel Laird

We’re replaying the Best of Heavy Flow while we’re on hiatus over the summer! Subscribe to Heavy Flow on your favourite podcast player and sign-up for my weekly newsletter to get new episodes when we’re back in the fall. 

Today on the show I'm talking to Laura Wershler, sexual and reproductive health advocate, about body literacy: what is it, why is it important and how can we teach it ourselves and our kids of all genders.

This episode of Heavy Flow is supported by Justisse Holistic Reproductive Health Practioner Vienna Farlow, aka The Cuntsultant. Use HEAVYFLOW for 15% off a Justice Fertility Awareness Education package.

BeyondBlood is an inclusive not-for-profit that seeks to initiate the Menstrual-Mental Health Movement.

Full Shownotes 

Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation

Subscribe to the Heavy Flow email list 

Follow @amandalaird on Instagram

Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda

Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios

Graphic design: Rachel Laird

We’re replaying the Best of Heavy Flow while we’re on hiatus over the summer! Subscribe to Heavy Flow on your favourite podcast player and sign-up for my weekly newsletter to get new episodes when we’re back in the fall. 

Today I'm talking to Kelly Diels, a writer and feminist marketing consultant about the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand. We're taking a break from talking about periods to discuss another taboo wellness topic: how the typical marketing paradigm, particularly online, is harmful to women.

Heavy Flow is supported by CV Harquil’s Feminism: A Key Idea in Business. 

Follow the Menstruation Research Network on Twitter @MenstruationRN and visit their website for news, resources and events.

Full Shownotes 

Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation

Subscribe to the Heavy Flow email list 

Follow @amandalaird on Instagram

Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda

Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios

Graphic design: Rachel Laird

We're replaying the Best of Heavy Flow while we're on hiatus over the summer! Subscribe to our newsletter and hit subscribe to get new episodes in the fall.

This week I'm talking to Keli Garza, the owner of Steamy Chick, all about vaginal steaming. We discuss how Keli discovered vaginal steaming, how her business got started, why and how to use vaginal steaming for period issues, why steam is so powerful and how misogyny has shaped modern gynaecology and why we discount traditional remedies like steaming.

Heavy Flow is supported by de lune, a menstrual health company on a mission to solve your period problems. Visit delune.co and use code HEAVYFLOW for 15% off.

Register for Fertility Awareness for WOC on July 24, 2019

Full Shownotes 

Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation

Subscribe to the Heavy Flow email list 

Follow @amandalaird on Instagram

Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda

Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios

Graphic design: Rachel Laird

We're replaying the Best of Heavy Flow while we're on hiatus over the summer! Subscribe to our newsletter and hit subscribe to get new episodes in the fall.

Today on the show I'm talking to Cindy Luquin, reproductive justice activist and fertility coach, about the intersection of race, culture and fertility awareness, reproductive health and justice.

This episode of Heavy Flow is supported by Justisse Holistic Reproductive Health Practioner Vienna Farlow, aka The Cuntsultant. Use HEAVYFLOW for 15% off a Justice Fertility Awareness Education package.

Register for Fertility Awareness for WOC on July 24, 2019

Full Shownotes 

Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation

Subscribe to the Heavy Flow email list 

Follow @amandalaird on Instagram

Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda

Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios

Graphic design: Rachel Laird

We're replaying the Best of Heavy Flow while we're on hiatus over the summer! Hit subscribe to get new episodes in the fall.

Today I'm speaking with Angela Garbes, journalist and author of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy. We discuss the lack of good information when it comes to pregnancy and childbirth, the moral frame we put around these life events, what a feminist birth and pregnancy look like, talking to our kids about their bodies and so much more.

CW: birth trauma

This episode of Heavy Flow is supported by Fat Positive Fertility Coach Nicola Salmon. Email [email protected] and mention HEAVY FLOW for a free month trial of the Fat Positive Fertility Hub. 

Full Shownotes

Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation

Subscribe to the Heavy Flow email list

Follow @amandalaird on Instagram

Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda

Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios

Graphic design: Rachel Laird