It wouldn't surprise me if at some point in your life you've been dissatisfied with the way your body looks and feels. 

Maybe you've been on the diet rollercoaster, even under the guise of a reset or a reboot. 

Maybe you find that you're always thinking about food - what's healthy and what's not. 

If you are, you're not alone. 

Shame around the way our body looks (especially at menopause) is rife and that's why I wanted to interview the wonderful Nina Manolson, who is a Body Peace Coach.

In today's episode we talk about

🙌🏽 What it means to be at war with our bodies and why so many of us unconsciously participate in this war
🙌🏽 Why the patriarchy NEEDS women to be distracted with diets
🙌🏽 How do we navigate healthy restriction and eating whatever the hell we want
🙌🏽 Why deprivation causes addiction (and what addiction REALLY is at it's core)
🙌🏽 Why speaking to yourself in this one way will help end the body war
🙌🏽 The incredible power of eating on purpose
🙌🏽 Understanding WHY you overeat at the times that you do
🙌🏽 How making small changes can help you avoid becoming disregulated
🙌🏽When you know where diet culture comes from, I guarantee you're not going to want to do it to yourself any more
🙌🏽 Why expressing our rage is empowering
🙌🏽 Why Nina is not a fan of the 'reset' or 'reboot' and what she prefers instead
🙌🏽 What's really going on when you can't just have one bite of chocolate cake?
🙌🏽 Body peace as a life practice
 
So if you're ready to quit the diet roller coaster and never have to say 'I fell off the wagon' again, this episode is for you.

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In today's wellness world, do you ever find that you’re blaming yourself for not being 'in control' of your hot flashes, your insomnia, your mood or your anxiety?  

Well, honey, your body's gonna do what your body's gonna do.  

What if the healing were to stop fighting it and start exploring it a different way?

My guest today is LL Kirchner, an award winning screenwriter and author.  She reveals how the chase for wellness made her sicker until she released she'd been asking the wrong questions for most of her life.  

Instead of asking “what’s wrong with me?” she decided to ask “what’s right with me?”

This perspective changed everything! 

I’d love you to join us in our conversation today.  

We chat about…

😳 What it was like to be in a sex cult
😳 Are feelings ever really irrational?
😳 Why going below the level of the conscious mind unlocks so many keys
😳 How expectations drive results (even in menopause)
😳 The reason why you're quitting meditation and if you do this one thing, then you won't 
😳 Why, at it's core, menopause is a spiritual experience
😳 Why women are so connected to life and death
😳 Rejecting the quest for self improvement and mechanistic living
😳 The positive knock on effect of healthy connection for our menopause
😳 Why so many women fear menopause (and why you don't have to)
😳 How sex might change during menopause and how you can make that ok

So, as always, if you're ready to take your power back and look at menopause through a different lens, this episode is for you. 

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Up until now the kit that women had to get them through the menopause was wine, biscuits, hearsay and synthetic HRT. 

These days things are a bit different.  

My guest today is Sarah Williamson, the founder of Women Wise an online company that has produced a brilliant, easy, home testing kit for women to understand what's REALLY going on in their biology and genetics that might be making their menopause symptoms worse.    

This testing enables treatment to be HIGHLY prescriptive.  

This conversation really blew my mind.  We discussed some very important questions...

🤓 Is the idea of a 'strong or weak' constitution actually true.
🤓 Does expectation of illness play a part in experiencing illness.
🤓 If menopause is a natural transition why do we keep hearing about these 'car crash' menopause stories.
🤓 What other systems in the body need to be functioning optimally to help you through menopause.
🤓 Why good metabolism isn't just about healthy liver function.
🤓 The surprising reason why people find it hard to come off the blood sugar roller coaster and the one supplement that could help. 
🤓 When HRT doesn't have the desire effect - what else is going on. 
🤓 When the solution is simple but finding the solution is hard.
🤓 Why kicking addiction is not always a will power thing.
🤓 Why editing your menopausal support tool kit might be the key to wellbeing success. 
🤓 Why knowing the speed in which you process neurotransmitters and hormones should be a key part of your protocol.

This conversation will enable you to take your power back and feel better so that you can start to live more.

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Reset room anyone?  Ever wished you had the space or ability to take a 20 minute reset nap in the middle of the day?  We're all for it. 

My guest today is Trudi Rosccoet, a menopause coach, trainer and educator with a background in the financial sector who won Inspirational Woman of the Year in 2023 from Soroptimist International Jersey.

In today's conversation we talk about...

What happens when you don't support your workforces.
Powerful sleep tips.
Choosing to live a healthier life and all that it involves.
How to generate more productivity at work.
Menopause and it's impact on divorce.
The one big mindset shift around productivity that could massively reduce stress.
Empowering women to make informed choices.
The benefits of intermittent fasting.
A brilliant metaphor to describe the effect that declining oestrogen has on our metabolism.
Why communication about menopause is key.
The challenges of finding the right HRT dosage.
Engaging men in the menopause conversation.

This is a passionate and fiery conversation so if you're needing a lift or to feel validated in your own spiciness, this is for you.

Trudi's Links:
Website: www.vitality40plus.com
Linkdin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trudir/

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If you want an answer to your night sweats, we might just have one for you inside today's episode of the The Menopause Mindset Podcast. 

Join me in my conversation with fabric technician Steve Rawlings founder of Cool Embrace and learn about this marvellous new invention that dissipates heat away from the body in the middle of night.

According to The Sleep Foundation around 41% of people experience night sweats and most of them are women (however there are non hormonal reasons for night sweats too including illness, medications, sleep apnea and stress).

Disturbed sleep can leave us feeling irritable, foggy and even anxious the next day.  That's why I wanted to talk to Steve about his invention which has the potential to help thousands of people break the cycle of disturbed sleep from night sweats. 

It's a 25 minute quick listen and, if you suffer from night sweats, I do hope you'll find this of huge value. 

 

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Leonie has been supporting women through life changing transitions since 2006.  She is Co author of Yoga Therapy for digestive health and Yoga & Somatics for Immune & Respiratory Health and is currently writing an accessible yoga book for Thames & Hudson.

Here's what we talk about...

✨ Yoga & menopause as the framework for leaving the matrix.
✨ The paradigm of individualism that does not support the menopause transition & why communal power is dangerous to the patriarchy (but also REALLY exciting).
✨ Yoga with what-it-means-to-be-female at it's core - basically the decolonisation of yoga.
✨ The common threads between pregnancy and menopause.
✨ No one single way to 'do' menopause.
✨ An Invitation to 'do nothing' with symptoms and just observe.
✨ The practice of staying with what is for a while rather than trying to 'fix' it.
✨ How western culture makes this normal transition worse.
✨ How non menopausal people react when the oestrogen cushion is no long there.
✨ Modifying your yoga practice to honour where you are. 
✨ A different take on hot flushes.
✨ How we LOVE the intersection between science and woo.

and a bit about how the Thai model of medicine sees menopause and some new thinking around the microbiome. 

You're gonna love love love this, I promise. 

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Menopause is a time of deep inner and outer flux and like all flux states (even in nature), it can often be turbulent. 

It requires grounding, anchoring and safety so that we can strap ourselves in whilst being thrown around. 

Yoga is a tool that can offer us a constant during those winds of change.  

In my conversation today with yoga therapist and studio owner Bryony Hamerton, we talk about...

How yoga classes heal through co-regulation.
Yoga doesn't work if you don't do this one thing.
What you get from one to one yoga that you don't get in a class.
How this one type of yoga changed Bryony's life and why.
Learning how to associate hot flushes with something good.
The new paradigm of yoga teaching.
Is person centred yoga just stunting our growth?
Why giving people too much choice might not be a good thing.
How 'growth' can actually be doing this one counter intuitive thing.
Synching our periods... could the onset of menopause work in the same way?
The power of anger.
Understanding the layers of self, pathways of connection and access points to change.
Logging, tracking and using interception as our guiding force.
Why context matters when it comes to sugar/alcohol.
Why yoga is (and should be) inclusive. 
What yoga can give us during transitional times...

and a random one...

How Bryony deals with only washing her hair once a month. 😅

Please join us, if you feel this conversation might give you the nourishment that you need. 

Listen Now 

Warmest 

Sally x

 

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Our risk of mental health issues increases during menopause, but HRT and anti depressants are only one way of dealing with the black dog.   As a hypnotherapist, I'm particularly interested in how our biases affects what we perceive and how our ability to become more psychologically flexible can prize us out of that 'absolute thinking' which is so crippling during depression eg:  'my life will never get better and nothing will work'.   

But this episode is not just about individual solutions, this episode touches on the profound and deeply wounding systemic issues that abound keeping the majority of people stuck in their poor mental health. 

In this episode we touch on:
Why depression arises during menopause and midlife.
What causes depression.
What makes depression worse.
How to minimise the risk of depression.

So if you're ready to lift the lid on depression, give this episode a try. 

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If I had one wish, it would be that every women going through or approaching menopause would recognise that hypnotherapy could be a valuable addition to their menopause care plan. 

The Mayo Clinic discovered that there is a correlation between adverse childhood experiences and menopause symptom severity and they concluded that ACE's should be taken into consideration when treating a person's menopause. 

Hypnotherapy (Rapid Transformational Therapy in particular) can help with this because we don't just use positive suggestions, we dive into your childhood, dismantle it and re-write it for the better which has a powerful effect on your biology. 

In this episode we discuss: 

🧠 The roots of hypnotherapy
🧠 The difference between hypnotherapy and hypnosis
🧠 Why people may be resistant to hypnosis
🧠 What's actually happening in the body and brain during hypnosis
🧠 What relevance does hypnotherapy have in the treatment of menopause
🧠 Who might be a good candidate for hypnotherapy
🧠 How trauma and menopause are linked
🧠 Why tapping into the imagination is incredibly powerful

So if you're ready to explore how hypnotherapy could help your menopause then this episode is for you.

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If self care has ever let you down, maybe you need 'collective care'.  

When I first heard the term 'collective care' it dawned on me, maybe that's why self care often falls short, because it doesn't quite reach the part of the nervous system that is often disregulated in menopause. 

Let me explain.

The ventral vagal branch of the para sympathetic nervous system (the part that's responsible for our sense of safety and belonging) can only be healed when we are in safe communion with others.  When we feel lost, alone and unheard, which we often do at menopause, no amount of SELF care is going to fix that. 

My guest today, Heather McKnight is a utopian scholar, an activist and a community worker with a special interested in menopause and in our conversation we talk about:

🧠 What Utopianism has got to do with menopause?
🧠 Why community healing is perhaps MORE important that self healing when it comes to menopause?
🧠 The good thing that collective care can actually lead to (that we don't always think of).
🧠 The thing that we are not told BEFORE menopause that might help so many women during it.
🧠 The sector that continues to criticise the 1 in 10 statistic. 
🧠 The powerful community practice that can help with navigating the feelings attached to your own personal menopausal experience. 
🧠 The one thing that holds people back from participating in helpful alternative practices for menopause (no it's not their mindset!).  
🧠 The marginalised group of women that Heather is trying to help.
🧠 The serious mental illness where oestrogen has a greater positive effect than drugs (no it's not depression or anxiety). 
🧠 What 'catching ants' can do for our mental health.
🧠 The challenges we face in trying to be inclusive around the menopause conversation.
🧠 How this particular type of thinking can help us feel so much better about what we're going through (hint: it has nothing to do with positive thinking).
🧠 Heather's new DIFFERENT chosen word for menopause.

So if you're ready to get a much broader perspective on the menopause, this episode is for you. 

Heather's Links
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090222324652
Webpage: http://www.magneticideals.org/home/research/climacteric/menopause-and-mind/

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