This EndoLife

Oliwia Drzymuchowska, founder of Womanology, went through 8 years of agony and unanswered questions before she was finally diagnosed with vulvodynia, vestibulodynia and clitorynia, amongst several other pelvic pain conditions. After being prescribed countless drugs and taking various hormones, she decided to take control of her health and find her own way of managing her pain. Now she lives practically symptom free and her journey has led her to found Womanology, an intimate wellbeing brand which encourages women to reclaim their womanhood.

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, I chatted to Oliwia about painful intimacy and how her products can repair our relationships with our sexuality, why we need to break the taboo of female pleasure and how we can learn to love ourselves through reconnecting with our bodies.

 

Oliwia Drzymuchowska, founder of Womanology, went through 8 years of agony and unanswered questions before she was finally diagnosed with vulvodynia, vestibulodynia and clitorynia, amongst several other pelvic pain conditions. Now she lives practically symptom free and her journey has led her to found Womanology, an intimate wellbeing brand which encourages women to reclaim their womanhood.

Pandora Paloma is a holistic nutritionist, life coach, yoga teacher and founder of Rooted London. After dealing with deep issues around her body and self-worth, Pandora embarked on a journey of healing, that saw her learn how to love herself again and how to listen to her body and take better care of it.

Her experience inspired her to reach out to other women and support them to create positive relationships with themselves, especially with their bodies. She now supports female clients with endometriosis, infertility, eating disorders, PCOS, hormone conditions and various others. Through her unique approach to nutrition and health, Pandora encourages women to create an intuitive relationship with their bodies, where they're not only guided by the advice of Pandora as a nutritionist, but they learn to become aware of and respond to what the body and mind need.

Pandora's work is largely focused on self-love empowerment, and her support doesn't end at nutrition. Pandora is all about looking at our entire lives, and seeing what's happening in all aspects and how these can be affecting body, mind and soul.

I know many people with endometriosis who have a broken relationship with their bodies. When your body is struggling as much as it does with something like endometriosis, it can be hard to not feel resentment towards it.

I chatted with Pandora to discover how we can cultivate more self-love towards our bodies to aid our healing, how food can help us reduce inflammation and  balance our hormones and why self-care is the greatest form of self-love.

Show Notes:

This episode with sponsored by The Endo Toolkit. A five-week online program to create tools to help manage endometriosis pain and symptoms.

Each week a new tool will be released:
Week One: Know Your Endo (truly understanding the disease)
Week Two: Good Food
Week Three: Movement
Week Four: Natural Products (bath and beauty products + menstrual products)
Week Five: Alternative Medicine (CBD, medicinal cannabis, Chinese medicine)

For more information, to take the free course tour or to enrol, click here.

Enrolment ends Feb 4th. Course begins Feb 7th.

Rooted London

Rooted London Intuitive Eating and Living Course

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Pandora Paloma is a holistic nutritionist, life coach, yoga teacher and founder of Rooted London.

I chatted with Pandora to discover how we can cultivate more self-love towards our bodies to aid our healing, how food can help us reduce inflammation and balance our hormones and why self-care is the greatest form of self-love.

Fangirling much? You know I am. Jessica Murnane has been on the podcast and This EndoLife a couple of times before. Jessica is the founder of the One Part Plant Movement, is author of the One Part Plant cookbook, and is host of the One Part Podcast. She has stage IV endometriosis, and was once at the point of a hysterectomy - her last attempt was with a plant-based diet and it changed her life.

Now she's dedicated a new website, Know Your Endo and a new online course, The Endo Toolkit, to helping others live with the disease. I talked to Jessica about what inspired her to launch these new endometriosis projects, what she felt was most important to communicate and what we can expect from The Endo Toolkit online program.

For those of you who are interested, enrolment is now open for the Early Bird bookings. To check out The Endo Tookit free tour, to find out more information or to enrol, click here.

Show Notes

The Course:

A five-week online program to create tools to help manage endometriosis pain and symptoms.

Each week a new tool will be released:

Week One: Know Your Endo (truly understanding the disease)
Week Two: Good Food
Week Three: Movement
Week Four: Natural Products (bath and beauty products + menstrual products)
Week Five: Alternative Medicine (CBD, medicinal cannabis, Chinese medicine)

There is no cure for endo, but this program wants to help those living with this chronic condition develop
a powerful set of tools to help manage it.

 

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE COURSE:  

• A 5-week toolkit building program to help manage your endometriosis which includes weekly audio lessons and printable resource pages. 

• Exclusive expert interviews and content created specifically for this course (featuring Adina Grigore (of SW Basics), Kathryn Budig (yogi), Giselle Wasfie (Chinese Medicine Dr) and Alex Seaman (Kundalini instructor)

• A private community page to connect and share. 

• Weekly live Q+A with Jessica. 

• Bonus endo-friendly recipes.  

• Special discounts to Jessica's favorite endo-friendly brands. 

 

WHEN IS IT?
Program will begin February 7th
Early Bird Promotion Period: January 22-28th (ends at 8pm EST)
Regular Promotion Period: January 28th-February 4th (ends at 8pm EST)

To check out The Endo Tookit free tour, to find out more information or to enrol, click here.

Know Your Endo

The Endo Toolkit

One Part Plant

Jessica Murnane has been on the podcast and This EndoLife a couple of times before. Jessica is the founder of the One Part Plant Movement, is author of the One Part Plant cookbook, and is host of the One Part Podcast. She has stage IV endometriosis, and was once at the point of a hysterectomy - her last attempt was with a plant-based diet and it changed her life.

Now she's dedicated a new website, Know Your Endo and a new online course, The Endo Toolkit, to helping others live with the disease.

Lucy Sheridan is the world's only Comparison Coach and an incredible bubble of energy! Whether it's comparing themselves to their best friends or comparing themselves to a stranger online, Lucy specialises in helping people get out of the trap of comparison and back into their own lives, feeling good.

An issue I find many people with endometriosis deal with, is comparison. Endometriosis can force us to put our lives on hold or change direction, and it can be really hard to see everyone else (or so it seems) moving at 100mph towards their dream lives over on Instagram.

I speak to Lucy about how to get ourselves out of the comparison trap when we can't seem to stop scrolling, how we can still move towards our goals and dreams at our own pace with endometriosis and why following the rhythms of our own bodies and lives is the most fulfilling route of all. I think this episode is a perfect starter for 2018...

Lucy Sheridan is the world's only Comparison Coach and an incredible bubble of energy! Whether it's comparing themselves to their best friends or comparing themselves to a stranger online, Lucy specialises in helping people get out of the trap of comparison and back into their own lives, feeling good.

Another mini-episode to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

I also wanted to thank you for coming on this journey with me this year, for being patient with my most recent trials and for supporting me and sending love.

Today I chat a bit about endometriosis induced burn out, taking care of yourself and recharging over Christmas.

I'll be back in Jan 2018 with new guests and new zing!

Another mini-episode to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

I also wanted to thank you for coming on this journey with me this year, for being patient with my most recent trials and for supporting me and sending love.

Today I chat a bit about endometriosis induced burn out, taking care of yourself and recharging over Christmas.

I'll be back in Jan 2018 with Season 2, bringing you new guests and new zing!