This Might Not Heal You

In today's episode, Katy explores the much used analagy of your health being like a bank account, an analagy that she used vigorously in days gone by. We delve into the three main reasons this lens is actually problematic and how we need to stop viewing our health as bank accounts if we want to create real and sustainable change, and get into right relationship with our bodies and each other. We explore some better ways to be in relationship with our bodies while dropping the financial speak.

In this first guest episode, Katy welcomes AJ Johnson, queer mental health clinician and friend to explore mental health. We explore why the biomedical model of mental healthcare is outdated and embedded in supremecist, capitalist culture that views the individual as the problem, and how instead, looking at things through an intersectional, relational and trauma informed lens whilst taking into account social determinants of health and the role of systemic oppression is exactly what's needed to help people move away from blaming themselves, and approaching their mental wellbeing from a place of loving forgiveness.

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In this episode, Katy questions what it actually means to work with women, diving in some questions to unpick womanhood and gender biases. This episode is messy, raw and vulnerable, but exposes some truths that live within us that are so valuable if we want to lean into the expansiveness of what it means to be human.

You can check out more about Katy and how to work with her here: www.katybradbury.com

In this episode, Katy reflects on her journey through the notion of healing her own body, before realising there was a much bigger picture to consider. This is a conversational episode with musings from Katy's own life and how it has shaped the way she works with clients.

After a short summer break, we are back to discuss what it ACTUALLY means to listen to your body. In this episode, Katy discusses why this can be a difficult concept to grasp with all of our conditioning, and introduces a new framework from which we can better communicate with our bodies, understand their innate and inherent wisdom, and begin to get to know the very depths of ourselves.

In this longer than usual episode, Katy guides you through a practical, step by step exercise for fostering a sense of safety in your nervous system, arguable the most central aspect to fertility and nervous system health.

This is not about gaslighting, bypassing legitimate responses to a world on fire, putting our fingers in our ears and pretending it's not happening, or forcing ourselves to be positivie when we feel anything but.

It's real, it's about you, and the step by step exercise if you take the time to do it, will be an invaluable tool for moving forward with your health and your life.

There's also an invitation to attend Katy's co-hosted IN PERSON half day Grief tending and connection workshop in London on Sat 9th August 2025 (which is nowhere near as morbid as it sounds and will mostly be about somatics, community, and ritual with a bit of hypnosis, a few snacks, and a lot of singing sprinkled in.

Link to tickets is https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-great-unravelling-a-workshop-for-grief-and-reconnection-tickets-1450863264079

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Make sure you email me to let me know how you got on with the exercise on [email protected]

In today's show, Katy talks about reproductive health, including menstrual cycle health, hormonal health and fertility through one of her favourite lenses - evolutionary biology. It looks at the way humans evolved and some of the key features that make us distinct from other mammals and how this ties into the delicate balance of energy expenditure perceived by our brains, making perceived safety one of the most fundamental aspects to our reproductive health.

In this longer episode than usual, Katy talks through the three main ways in which blindly living under patriarchy has damaged our health, the environment and our humanity. She takes you through a brief history lesson with plenty of examples, and shares three things you can start doing today to decentre the patriarchy and honour our own health and livelihood.

Today's episode is a bonus follow up episode from the 'are we all fucking doomed' show.

It names some important things that were unnamed in the previous episode, discussing paradox and how we can sit with big themes, holding multiple concepts at once when working on personal recovery and collective liberation with the ultimate goal of birthing a new world into existence.

In this episode, Katy asks whether we are all doomed under the weight of polycrisis and offer some snippets of love, hope and power. Listen if you've been feeling the weight of it all and get comfort from things being named and held space for. There are some caveats that deserve further discussion in the second part of today's show, and those will be covered in a future episode.