You may be asking what the heck is Metabolic Health? I think for most of us women this doesn’t really hit our radar until we hit perimenopause when all of a sudden we have unexpected weight gain, our hormones seem to be on a rollercoaster, and burnout seems to be a regular thing.

This week we have Darci Hawxhurst joining us again on the podcast, but this time she is going to share what is metabolic health and how as women we can support our hormone health with creating metabolic flexibility. Making shifts to support our metabolic health not only takes us to a place of thriving, it also puts us in a place to be able to hear our bodies messages and create deep wellness as we age.

Darci Hawxhurst is a founding member of the certified MAF Method for Health and Fitness Coaches and Practitioners. She is also a Child Brain Developmentalist and neurological evaluator, a member of the Conscious Feminine Leadership Academy, a writer, speaker, teacher, and literacy expert.  She is also the mother of a formerly brain injured child who has been to rock-bottom burnout and back.  Darci is the creator of the Vibrant Woman Program, which is a paradigm-shifting journey that puts women on the path to thriving by removing the root causes of stress and modern metabolic disease. And she is here with us today to talk all about metabolic health, hormones and the steps to take to feel vibrant in our life again.

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When you hear pelvic floor, do you immediately start doing those kegle exercises that have become almost automatic. Well today on the show we have a pelvic floor expert talking to us all about other resources to help us tap into our pelvic floor health that does not require us to imaging pulling our pelvic floor up like an elevator (we all have heard that cue 🤣).

Keeley Smith has been working as a physio for over 20 years. She loves being active and has enjoyed everything from swimming, rowing, dance and horseback riding to Cross Fit and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Keeley's own experience with pelvic floor injuries has helped her understand the work and patience it takes to get back to feeling like yourself and doing what you used to do. And the fear of making it worse! Her exercise prescriptions, hands on work, and acupuncture techniques provide an efficient program to get you back to health.

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Have questions about your cycle, your hormones or how to live aligned with your womb wisdom? Email your questions to [email protected] and your question may just be answered with one of our brilliant guest speakers.

Today we have a special guest sharing her story on building her family with donor eggs. Infertility can be incredibly heartbreaking and it sometimes forces us to look at alternative ways to build our family. Laura so beautifully and openly shares her journey of how this was her story.

Laura Watson is a fertility coach and mom to two donor conceived children. Her personal journey included failed fertility treatments, several unsuccessful rounds of IVF, and three heartbreaking pregnancy losses before completing her family with donor egg IVF. She now supports women pursuing fertility treatments to build their families and helps them find control, confidence, and joy in a complicated process. Laura founded her coaching services, Positive Fertility, in 2022. She is the author of the Positive Fertility Blog, was a featured author in the 2021 collaborative book, Infertility Success: Stories of Help and Hope for Your Journey. She lives in Boston, MA, USA with her husband and two children.

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Have questions about your cycle, your hormones or how to live aligned with your womb wisdom? Email your questions to [email protected] and your question may just be answered with one of our brilliant guest speakers.

Have you ever wondered which of your hormones are out of whack? Or what your menstrual symptoms are trying to tell you?

This week on the podcast we have Madeline MacKinnon joining us to chat all about the Dutch Test. The Dutch Test is the leading hormone test that tests your hormone levels and gives you in depth analysis of what is happening with your hormone health. This test blew my mind about what was happening in my own body and today on the podcast you get to hear all about my results and how Madeline helped me balance my hormones.

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Madeline Mackinnon is a passionate nutritionist with ten years of experience helping women to recover from debilitating hormone imbalances. To pursue her mission, Madeline founded Natural Hormone Healing because she believes women need a holistic, day-to-day strategy to balance their hormone health and fertility without synthetic hormones or medications. She is known for her popular hormone-balancing cooking classes she teaches live across Canada and has supported women worldwide through her premier one-on-one online Hormone Healing coaching program. She is also the author behind the amazing cookbook “The Hormone Type Cookbook.”

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Have questions about your cycle, your hormones or how to live aligned with your womb wisdom? Email your questions to [email protected] and your question may just be answered with one of our brilliant guest speakers.

What does it mean when you don’t have that perfect 28 day cycle? Should you be concerned? Are you broken? Is there a bigger issue?

Today, Emily with Moujamoon join’s us to share wisdom about the healing power of our cycle and how our menstrual cycle is not something to fear or worry about, but rather to get curious about. She shares beautiful insight on irregular cycles, the powerful tool of charting and how our bleed is our body’s way of preparing us for the other big passageways that we will encounter in our life. As she states “Let’s take the stress out of the what the hell is going on” question that so many of us face as bleeding women.

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Oh….and don’t miss Emily’s period Mantra at the end of our call….it is so powerful and beautiful!

Emily teaches holistic reproductive wellness through Fertility Awareness Method (FAM), which is a cycle-charting framework for deep healing, vibrant health + 99% effective conscious contraception. She empowers you with accurate information, accessible tools and loving guidance to reconnect you back to the deepest wisdom - the one that is found within. Through immersive experiences in person and online, she is paving new pathways and expanding the paradigm of what it means to live vibrant and fulfilled as reverence for the Feminine rises again.

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Have questions about your cycle, your hormones or how to live aligned with your womb wisdom? Email your questions to [email protected] and your question may just be answered with one of our brilliant guest speakers.

Tune into the second part of my conversation with Toni Hill. In this second half of our conversation we talk more about youth, teens and supporting our daughters through puberty and their teen years.

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If you were entertained by part 1 last week, then you will definitely want to tune into this week to hear the rest of the conversation.

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Have questions about your cycle, your hormones or how to live aligned with your womb wisdom? Email your questions to [email protected] and your question may just be answered with one of our brilliant guest speakers.

Today I get to share one of my favourite human’s on this planet with you - my bestie, Toni Hill!

When I met Toni she wasn’t exactly someone who was seeking to understand her menstrual cycle or really even cared about it. But after one brave step of interviewing me, she was blown away about what was happening in her body and how her hormones were actually very intelligent. From this moment on our relationship has deepened and she has become such an important person in my life.

Join us in this 2-part chat were we laugh, share, and talk all about how cycle awareness has changed our lives.

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Have questions about your cycle, your hormones or how to live aligned with your womb wisdom? Email your questions to [email protected] and your question may just be answered with one of our brilliant guest speakers.

What is feminine energy and masculine energy? How does it play into our life?

This week on the podcast Melanie Swan shares her perspective on masculine and feminine energy and why as women we need to reclaim the masculine within us as part of our healing.

Melanie is a Womb Medicine Woman and Mulit-dimensional trauma healer, who helps women to come home to their true nature by embodying the multi-faceted menstrual cycle, healing multi-dimensional trauma & co-creating with the divine through the portal of the Womb.

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Just like puberty can be challenging for teens as they navigate unfamiliar territory, so can perimenopause be for women.
In this weeks episode I have Hannah Brown joining me to discuss and share wisdom on the parallels of puberty and perimenopause. We will explore topics from first bleeds, to menstrual shame to understanding the power of menstrual story work.

Hannah Brown is a cycle coach and social worker. Her passion is to provide support for menstruators to help them reconnect and reclaim their cycles, as well as coach women on how to support children as they prepare for their cycles to begin. As a mom to a daughter entering puberty and as a women in perimenopause she is beginning to dive into understanding the trends between these two big life transitions.

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Have questions about your cycle, your hormones or how to live aligned with your womb wisdom? Email your questions to [email protected] and your question may just be answered with one of our brilliant guest speakers.

Men You Matter!!!!!⁣
And although you may have been lead to believe that you have no business in “women’s matters (ie. their menstrual cycle), I am hear to tell that information is wrong!

If having a healthy relationship with the women in your life is important to you and if you deeply desire to raise strong girls that don’t take sh*t, then you need to upgrade to a modern man who isn’t afraid of a little blood (or hormone fluctuations).
You have the opportunity to make a huge impact in your daughter’s life and here is why:
#1 - Strengthen’s Her Self-Worth
#2 - Deepen’s the Father-Daughter Connection
#3 - Strengthen’s a Girls Bullsh*t Radar
Listen to this week’s episode to hear why I am encouraging my husband to not only get to know my cycle but my daughter’s as they reach puberty.

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Have questions about your cycle, your hormones or how to live aligned with your womb wisdom? Email your questions to [email protected] and your question may just be answered with one of our brilliant guest speakers.