The Heavy Flow Podcast

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 talking to Sarah Barmak, author of Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality. In this episode, we talk about orgasms, how our culture informs female sexuality and consent.

• How female and male sexuality is hardwired in our brains
• What is an orgasm and why do we have them?
• How our culture affects female sexuality
• The broad spectrum of female orgasms including external, cervical and uterine orgasms
• Is the vagina an absence or a presence?
• Your amazing cervix!
• The benefits of exploratory pleasure
• Consent in the age of #MeToo

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• Sarah’s Tedx Talk - Women’s Sexuality Isn’t ‘Complicated’
• Closer: Notes From the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality 

• Episode 4 - Cycle Syncing with Gabrielle Lichterman
• Emily Nagoski
• The Dirty Normal 
• Natrishka
• Carly Boyce 
• What Consent Means in the Age of #MeToo

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Production Assistance: Vocal Fry Studios

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.

This week I'm chatting with Holly Grigg-Spall, author of Sweetening the Pill: Or How We Got Hooked On Hormonal Birth Control. In this episode Holly gives us a 101 about how hormonal birth control really works and some of the common misconceptions we're often told about the pill; the importance of fertility awareness education in making truly informed birth control choices; how hormonal birth control affects sexuality and we ask, does being critical of the pill make you anti-feminist?

CW: sexual assault 

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Resources mentioned in this episode: 

How does the pill work? Woman now empowered by everything a woman does

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Production Assistance: Vocal Fry Studios

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 talking to Lisa Hendrickson-Jack, Fertility Awareness Educator, Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner and host of the Fertility Friday podcast. In this episode, we talk about the fertility awareness method, how hormonal birth control really affects our hormonal health, the long history of suppressing the feminine and how reclaiming the power of our menstrual cycles is key to dismantling the patriarchy.

• Lisa’s experience with hormonal birth control and how it led her to become a holistic reproductive health practitioner
• What is Fertility Awareness
• The three main fertile signs: cervical mucus, basal body temperature and cervical positioning
• How hormonal birth control really affects our hormonal health, both when we’re on it and transitioning back to natural cycles
• Using your menstrual cycle as a diagnostic tool for what’s out of balance in your health and life
• Do we really need to have periods?
• Our culture’s long history of suppressing the feminine
• The power of the menstrual cycle and why reclaiming that power is key to dismantling the patriarchy

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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, Inga Muscio Fertility Friday Podcast #106 with Nora Pope Heavy Flow Episode 21 with Lara Briden Heavy Flow Episode 11 with Holly Grigg-Spall Fertility Friday Podcast #173 with Lara Owen Heavy Flow Episode 16 with Clare Kenty

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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 talking to Abby Norman, author of Ask Me About My Uterus. We discuss Abby's experience with painful periods and endometriosis, how women's pain has been normalized in our culture, and the changing period narrative and why pain needs to be a part of that conversation.

• Abby’s early experience with painful periods
• The debilitating pain that changed her life forever
• Our culture of discounting and disregarding women’s pain
• How we prime young women for a lifetime of pain
• The importance of discussing pain in the new period conversation

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Ask Me About My Uterus Call Your Girlfriend 

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Production Assistance: Vocal Fry Studios

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.

This week I'm talking to Dianne Bondy, yoga teacher, social justice activist and leading voice of the Yoga For All movement. We're taking a break from talking about periods to discuss creating brave spaces, inclusivity and accessibility in the wellness community, how mainstream media and marketing has distorted wellness as something to be bought and sold, body positivity, diet culture and emotional eating.

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

From Safe Spaces to Brave Spaces Virgie Tovar Jess Baker Health at Every Size “Lisa Frank BoPo” and Why It’s Just Not Enough Ultra Spiritual Life Episode 66: Coconut Oil Kills The Beauty Myth Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History Podcast

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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 talking to Dr. Lara Briden, naturopathic doctor and author of the Period Repair Manual. We are going back to basics and learning all the things we didn’t back in health class: what a normal menstrual cycle and period is like, the importance of ovulation, using your period as a monthly health report card and why you should care about your ovulatory health even if you're not interested in having a baby.

• Why ovulation and menstrual health is important beyond baby making
• The various phases of the menstrual cycle and what’s normal for each
• How to recognize signs of ovulation
• What are anovulatory cycles and some of the causes behind them
• The difference between your period and the bleed you get on hormonal birth control
• How long a period should be and what your flow should look like in terms of colour, clotting and volume
• Some of the causes of period pain and when to know that your pain goes beyond normal
• Your period as a monthly health report card and how you can interpret it
• Why getting off sugar is the key to regular ovulation

Website Facebook Instagram Twitter Period Repair Manual

• Taking Charge of Your Fertility
• Dr. Jerrilyn Prior

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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 talking to Samantha Zipporah, a holistic sexual health educator, activist, & advocate. We talk about holistic abortion care, the value of the uterus beyond childbearing, saying no to say yes and the healing power of orgasm.

CW: abortion, miscarriage

This episode was supported by Know Your Endo.

• How Samantha’s work inspired the Heavy Flow Podcast!
• Reframing all pregnancy outcomes as “pregnancy release”
• Supporting physical, spiritual and emotional healing after an abortion and why the approach should be the same regardless of how the pregnancy was released
• How the technocratic method of medical care differs from holistic care
• Harnessing the vital life force of our uterus and acknowledging the sacred yes
• Why body literacy and education are keys to a positive termination experience for patients and care providers
• The healing power of orgasm

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Female Erasure Episode 16: Womb Wellness with Clare Kenty Wild Power The Red School Mantak Chia + Ovarian Kung Fu Feminist Current Podcast: Toward reproductive sovereignty, not reproductive rights Holistic Abortion Aftercare Zine

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If you're into Heavy Flow, please subscribe in iTunes and write a review - that's the best way to support the show and help others find this podcast!

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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.

This week I'm talking to Jana Girdauskas of The Period Purse about menstruating while homeless, the changing period conversation, making menstrual products more accessible and how you can help, and why we love our cups!

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

Out in the Open Podcast Scotland to Provide Free Tampons and Towels in Pilot Tackling 'Period Poverty' New York City Council Approves Free Tampons and Pads in Schools, Prisons, Shelters Kiran Ghandi Why 2015 Was the Year of the Period

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Today I'm talking to Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, menstrual activist, author of Periods Gone Public and a contributor to Periods: Twelve Voices Tell the Bloody Truth, about the politics of periods.

This is the last episode of Heavy Flow for this season! We'll be taking a hiatus over the summer and replaying some of our favourite episodes while we're away. Subscribe to my newsletter to get updates on book news, the new season of the pod and other exclusive content I only share in email. See you in September!

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• The New Year's Day moment that ignited Jennifer's passion for menstrual activism
• "The Year of the Period"
• The policy agenda shaping the fight to remove taxes on menstrual products and ensure access across the US, state-by-state
• Period: Twelve Voices Tell the Bloody Truth, a new collection of essays and the first YA book to take on menstruation as a social-political-cultural issue

Website Instagram Twitter Periods Gone Public Periods: Twelve Voices Tell The Bloody Truth

HFP Episode 15 with Kiran Gandhi Rupi Kaur 'period' The Case for Free Tampons Out in the Open - Periods #NoTaxOnTampons

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Today on the show I'm talking to Vienna Farlow, a Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner intern, aka The Cuntsultant. We talk about healing the wound of internalized misogyny, getting in tune with our bodies as an act of resistance and the tools in Vienna's DIY gynaecology kitbag including fertility awareness, cervical self-exams and menstrual extraction.

• Vienna's lifelong interest in women's health led her to become The Cuntsultant
• Healing the wound of internalized misogyny
• Being our body's own best expert as an act of resistance
• Using Fertility Awareness Methods (FAM) for body literacy
• Getting to know your vulva and cervix with self-exams
• Our respective relationships with speculums and it's sordid history
• Paying respects to the enslaved black women Lucy, Betsey and Anarcha, the mothers of modern gynaecology
• Menstrual extraction

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Sister Zeus Taking Charge of Your Fertility Periods Gone Public Justisse Healthworks for Women Heavy Flow Episode 22 with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack Beautiful Cervix Project Petals Remembering Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey: The Mothers of Modern Gynecology Yona Care Carol Downer A New View of a Woman's Body How to Stay Out of the Gynecologist's Office Samantha Zipporah on Heavy Flow and Hail to the V Molly Dutton-Kenny on the Fertility Friday Podcast

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Music Credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios Graphic Design: Rachel Laird