In this introduction to dissociation, Gordon talks us through:

• What is dissociation
• How do we know if we’re dissociating
• Starting to relate to what we have pushed away
• ‘Separating to connect’ & finding ways to respond to the patterns of reaction, rather than just reacting
• Low arousal dissociation and high arousal dissociation
• Why dissociation is there for a reason
• Creating a sense of safety before connecting to what was previously too much to feel (creating a mis-match)
• When and how dissociation dismantles
• A scale of dissociation and how it can manifest in daily life
• The difference between re-membering whilst present and becoming lost in the experience
• Normalising dissociation and how we can start thinking about it in our mental health systems.

ABOUT GORDON BARCLAY

Gordon Barclay was an NHS consultant psychiatrist in Argyll on the west coast of Scotland until 2019, now works privately in Glasgow and is an active CRM® Trainer and Supervisor, and has a special interest in the treatment of psychological trauma and dissociation.

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Melanie Swan is a leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and restoring the true masculine and feminine.

She’s a Soul & Shadow Worker and Womb Medicine Woman with over 20 years’ experience, who guides women back home to their true nature.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, runs The Womb Healing Training, and is currently writing her first book, The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2025.

A medicine poem about the last chapter of menstruation and the myth of the peri-menopause struggle.

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Melanie Swan is a leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and restoring the true masculine and feminine.

She’s a Soul & Shadow Worker and Womb Medicine Woman with over 20 years’ experience, who guides women back home to their true nature.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, runs The Womb Healing Training, and is currently writing her first book, The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2025.

This is a Medicine Poem. The words come with an energy with the intention of shifting consciousness. Become the poem and see where it takes you...

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Melanie Swan is a leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and restoring the true masculine and feminine.

She’s a Soul & Shadow Worker and Womb Medicine Woman with over 20 years’ experience, who guides women back home to their true nature.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, runs The Womb Healing Training, and is currently writing her first book, The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2025.

I question if, in 2020 the ‘norm’ of taking the male line name is still relevant, and if so, what’s effect is it having on the empowerment (or not) of women?

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Melanie Swan is a leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and restoring the true masculine and feminine.

She’s a Soul & Shadow Worker and Womb Medicine Woman with over 20 years’ experience, who guides women back home to their true nature.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, runs The Womb Healing Training, and is currently writing her first book, The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2025.

These are some of the key ways I support the health and vitality of my menstrual cycle with nutrition.

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Melanie Swan is a leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and restoring the true masculine and feminine.

She’s a Soul & Shadow Worker and Womb Medicine Woman with over 20 years’ experience, who guides women back home to their true nature.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, runs The Womb Healing Training, and is currently writing her first book, The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2025.

Our First Period is a portal to our unique gifts, creative sovereignty and cyclical power, and how, as adults we can revisit our first blood, retrieve our Maiden self, restore our natural gifts and recalibrate our menstrual cycle!

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Melanie Swan is a leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and restoring the true masculine and feminine.

She’s a Soul & Shadow Worker and Womb Medicine Woman with over 20 years’ experience, who guides women back home to their true nature.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, runs The Womb Healing Training, and is currently writing her first book, The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2025.

I discuss why tampons are so toxic to our physical and emotional health, the antidote to ‘stuff one in and get on with it’ and some amazing alternatives that promote overall health AND creativity!

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Melanie Swan is a leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and restoring the true masculine and feminine.

She’s a Soul & Shadow Worker and Womb Medicine Woman with over 20 years’ experience, who guides women back home to their true nature.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, runs The Womb Healing Training, and is currently writing her first book, The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2025.

Transitioning from one state of being to another is like being between gears. It’s a natural opportunity to recalibrate and reorganise ready for the next gear and get more in touch with our natural essence.

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Melanie Swan is a leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and restoring the true masculine and feminine.

She’s a Soul & Shadow Worker and Womb Medicine Woman with over 20 years’ experience, who guides women back home to their true nature.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, runs The Womb Healing Training, and is currently writing her first book, The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2025.

Uma Dinsmore-Tuli is back on the podcast to talk about her latest initiative; The Yoni Shakti Movement.

Their crowdfunding campaign is now complete and they raised way over target, so this campaign is going ahead!

We Talk About:

• The overt and covert ways women are abused in Yoga
• What enables covert abuse to happen and how it can be woven into the very fabric of yoga teacher training
• The culture of ‘by-standerism’, bullying and normalisation of abuse
• Corrections, being lined up like soldiers and everyone doing the same thing at the same time
• Devolving power of our bodies to people outside of us – where a woman’s body or cycles get in the way of the yoga practices
• How women of colour are treated and the yoga stereotype of skinny, white, rich yogi (nothing wrong with that, but that is what’s widely promoted).
• How our own shame of menstruation is keyed into and twisted.

How Do We Weed Out The Disempowering Teachings In Yoga?

• Hear the voices of the survivors and allies
• Talk about this in a safe space and get support
• If everyone knows about it, then the perpetrators have nowhere to go
• Be educated to see and understand bystander culture

Uma has put together:

• Womb Manifesto
• 13 Warning Signs
• 9 Calls To Action

What We Can Do Practically

• Read the campaign kit and get it to your local yoga teacher
• Share information in the Yoni Shakti Movement Facebook Group – so we’re building a living network so that we actually have each others backs!

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Melanie Swan is a leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and restoring the true masculine and feminine.

She’s a Soul & Shadow Worker and Womb Medicine Woman with over 20 years’ experience, who guides women back home to their true nature.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, runs The Womb Healing Training, and is currently writing her first book, The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2025.

On this incredibly important topic, Britt describes that sharing our story in the presence of a compassionate and skilful witness can be incredibly powerful medicine for healing trauma.⁣
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From a nervous system perspective, telling a story the way it happened chronologically can further install the traumatic narrative in the brain and make symptoms worse.⁣

In this episode Britt shares with us what usually happens when a trauma narrative is told in order and gives really clear guidance on what to do instead.

We talk about:

• Euphoric Recall and Traumatic Recall
• Telling stories in a healing way vs a re-traumatising way
• Dissociation as a helpful coping mechanism
• Setting the structure for sharing stories in a skillful way
• Tools to use if you’re an over-sharer
• A great question to ask the group leader if you’re thinking of joining a women’s circle

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Melanie Swan is a leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and restoring the true masculine and feminine.

She’s a Soul & Shadow Worker and Womb Medicine Woman with over 20 years’ experience, who guides women back home to their true nature.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, runs The Womb Healing Training, and is currently writing her first book, The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2025.