Rest in times of fear with Suzy Reading

We hear from the ridiculously prolific Stella Duffy about loss, endings,  mortality, the value of living with a sense of our ageing instead of denying it, and the exquisite possibilities for being ‘more ourselves’ that this brings. Stella is hugely generous with sharing her life experience and there are some beautifully profound moments in this interview. 

Stella Duffy has completed a doctorate in Existential Psychotherapy and her research is in the embodied experience of postmenopause. As well as her private psychotherapy practice, she has worked in NHS cancer psychological support and hospice bereavement support.  

Alongside her therapy work, Stella is the award-winning writer of seventeen novels, over seventy short stories, and fifteen plays, and worked in theatre for over thirty-five years as an actor, director, facilitator, and improvisor. The co-founder and, for eight years, the co-director of Fun Palaces working with communities and inclusion across the UK, Stella has been active in equalities and diversity work in the arts and LGBTQ+ communities for many decades. In 2016 she was awarded the OBE for Services to the Arts. She is also a yoga teacher, leading regular workshops in yoga for writing. 

 We also talk about the ubiquity with which HRT is prescribed (wrongly) for all menopause ailments, often without evidence, using misogynistic and ageist language that causes immense harm.

Stella's links

Blog (writing, cancer, in/fertility, politics, life): https://stelladuffy.blog/

Therapy site: https://stelladuffytherapy.co.uk/

Insta: @stellduffy & @stelladuffytherapy

X/Twitter: @stellduffy

Threads: @stellduffy

Perimenopause A Call to Love weekend retreat is 27th-28th April 2024 and you can find more about it here https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-a-call-to-love-weekend-retreat/

Please support Life An Inside Job by buying me a cuppa here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington

More information about Kate
Free resource library: https://mailchi.mp/a8a0fa08678a/resource-library
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop
Perimenopause Unwrapped online course: https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/
Perimenopause Starter Kit: https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN

Artwork
Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

We all know we need rest so why do we find it so hard, especially when we are in a state of fear?

 My guest is an expert in this field: Suzy Reading is a mother of two, an author, Chartered Psychologist, and Coach. She specialises in self-care, helping people manage their stress, emotions, and energetic bank balance. Her latest book, Rest to Reset is available now. 

 Suzy will explain how to build a rest habit in your life, no matter how busy you are.

Suzy’s Wellbeing Community 

Instagram: www.instagram.com/suzyreading/ 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/SuzyReadingPsychologyAndYoga/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SuzyReading  

Website: www.suzyreading.co.uk

Please support Life An Inside Job by buying me a cuppa here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington

More information about Kate
Free resource library: https://mailchi.mp/a8a0fa08678a/resource-library
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop
Perimenopause Unwrapped online course: https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/
Perimenopause Starter Kit: https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN

Artwork
Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

Cyclical Living Unwrapped explores the gifts and challenges of cyclical life with experts in the field of menstruation, perimenopause and cyclical living.

It's brought to you by Leora and Kate at Woman Kind.

Hannah introduces herself by saying...
'Despite being a healthy Nutritional Therapist and NLP practitioner myself, I continually suffered from a number of cycle issues including PMS, ovarian cysts, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, and pre-cancerous cells in the lining of my womb. Working on supporting my own menstrual cycle challenges I found living cyclically was the best way to optimise my health and wellbeing. I then went on to train as a Menstrual Cycle Coach with Cyclical School and with this additional knowledge I birthed FEMpowered into the world, a holistic 360 approach to women's health and wellbeing through Food, Emotional intelligence and Menstrual cycle syncing. '

Hannah's links
https://www.hannahbburton.com/
https://www.instagram.com/_hannahbburton/

If you are curious about your inner seasons and are navigating perimenopause, you might enjoy our self-directed online course Perimenopause Unwrapped which you can find at https://woman-kind.co.uk/

We’d be delighted to welcome you there and if you have any questions you can contact us through our site or email us at kindness@woman-kind.co.uk

Woman Kind
https://woman-kind.co.uk/

Please support Life An Inside Job by buying me a cuppa here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington

More information about Kate
Free resource library: https://mailchi.mp/a8a0fa08678a/resource-library
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop
Perimenopause Unwrapped online course: https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/
Perimenopause Starter Kit: https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN

Artwork
Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

Cyclical Living Unwrapped explores the gifts and challenges of cyclical life with experts in the field of menstruation, perimenopause and cyclical living.

In this UnChristmas episode, we’re sharing our top tips for not getting dragged down by this Christmas lark, so you can prioritise self-care and compassion even in the middle of chaos and overwhelm.

Leora Leboff and Kate Codrington from Woman Kind welcome you to the Cyclical Living Unwrapped podcast, where we explore the gifts and challenges of cyclical life with experts in the field of menstruation, perimenopause and cyclical living.

If you are curious about your inner seasons and are navigating perimenopause, we’ve designed an online course with you in mind.  Perimenopause Unwrapped shines a light on the unconscious processes that are colouring your perimenopause experience and brings more awareness, choice and compassion to your transition. Moving from fear to trust, you can find out more here https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/

We’d be delighted to welcome you there and if you have any questions you can contact us through our site or email us at kindness@woman-kind.co.uk

You can also check out our Kindness YouTube channel here https://www.youtube.com/@Kindness-fd7nr

Please support Life An Inside Job by buying me a cuppa here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington

More information about Kate
Free resource library: https://mailchi.mp/a8a0fa08678a/resource-library
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop
Perimenopause Unwrapped online course: https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/
Perimenopause Starter Kit: https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN

Artwork
Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

Cyclical Living Unwrapped explores the gifts and challenges of cyclical life with experts in the field of menstruation, perimenopause and cyclical living.

This podcast is brought to you by Leora and Kate at Woman Kind.

Lizzy is your Inner Connection Coach. Born in Australia, living in Edinburgh, with her partner Bethany and their cat Percy. Her work is all about connection and belonging. She splits her time between her private one-to-one practice, and going into corporate businesses to drive menstrual cycle awareness in the workplace. She is on a mission to help people with menstrual cycles to come home their bodies, and find such a deep sense of belonging within themselves that they feel like they can take on the world. If we can’t connect with ourselves, how can we fully connect with the world?

Lizzy's links
Website: https://www.innerconnectioncoach.co.uk/
Instagram: @inner.connection.coach
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lizzy-kurtzer

If you are curious about your inner seasons and are navigating perimenopause, you might enjoy our self-directed online course Perimenopause Unwrapped which you can find at woman-kind.co.uk, where you can shine a light on the unconscious processes that are colouring your perimenopause experience and bring more awareness, choice and compassion to your transition which you can find at https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/

We’d be delighted to welcome you there and if you have any questions you can contact us through our site or email us at kindness@woman-kind.co.uk

Woman Kind
https://woman-kind.co.uk/

Please support Life An Inside Job by buying me a cuppa here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington

More information about Kate
Free resource library: https://mailchi.mp/a8a0fa08678a/resource-library
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop
Perimenopause Unwrapped online course: https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/
Perimenopause Starter Kit: https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN

Artwork
Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

This is the third episode I’ve done about ADHD females, so the topic is highly dominant in the nearly 100 episodes of LAIJ, and that’s because I see awareness of ADHD is SO needed

 Today’s guest is Adele Winsett of Harmonise You, she's a Women's Health Practitioner & Cyclical Living Guide. Co-author of the book Essential Feminine Wisdom.  From menarche to menopause, Adele bridges the woo & the science, supporting women to balance their hormones naturally and is passionate about speaking on all things menstrual education! Adele's specialism within the Women's Health arena is specialising in supporting ADHD women to understand how their hormones affect their traits. And that’s what we talk about in this episode, 

• What masking is
• The cost of masking for neurodivergent people
• How hormones effect ADHD
• Girls with ADHD
• ADHD in perimenopause
• HRT
•  ADHD super-powers
• How to nourish your hormones

 And much more!

Adele's links are www.harmoniseyou.co.uk

IG @harmoniseyou https://www.instagram.com/harmoniseyou/

You may also enjoy this episode with Victoria Gazzard about parenting and ADHD https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/inside-adhd-girls-parenting-and-me-with-victoria-gazzard/
And this episode with four peoples' experience of ADHD and perimenopause https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/adhd-and-perimenopause/

Please support Life An Inside Job by buying me a cuppa here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington

More information about Kate
Free resource library: https://mailchi.mp/a8a0fa08678a/resource-library
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop
Perimenopause Unwrapped online course: https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/
Perimenopause Starter Kit: https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN

Artwork
Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

Cyclical Living Unwrapped explores the gifts and challenges of cyclical life with experts in menstruation, perimenopause and cyclical living.

This podcast is brought to you by Leora and Kate of Woman Kind.  In this episode, Tessa Venuti Sanderson shares her experience of oestrogen dominance, rather than the common narrative of oestrogen deficiency in perimenopause; how she manages her inner summer/ovulatory  push to say 'yes' to everything, so she doesn't fall off a cliff later in her cycle; the seasonal layers showing up in her life, noticing outer autumn, her inner autumn and now Life Autumn being in perimenopause; and how active rest nourishes her.

Tessa Venuti Sanderson PhD is passionate about rites of passage.  She is a senior yoga teacher and trainer, specialising in pregnancy and postnatal yoga, birth trauma and co-founder of the State of Birth symposium.  She is a Menstrual Health advocate, running Celebration Days for Girls, the Know Your Cycle online course, retrospective Menarche Ceremonies, and one to one Menstruality Medicine Circles. Tessa is the author of three books on periods: Ruby Luna's Curious Journey (5+ years), Ruby Luna's Moontime (8+) and Colour Your Cycle ~ Inner Seasons Mandala colouring book.  She is the co-author of an upcoming guide to facilitating talking circles.

You'll find Tessa:
https://www.instagram.com/tessa.venuti.sanderson/
https://www.facebook.com/tessavenutisanderson
https://www.tessavenutisanderson.co.uk/

If you are curious about your inner seasons and are navigating perimenopause, you might enjoy our self-directed online course Perimenopause Unwrapped, where you can shine a light on the unconscious processes that are colouring your perimenopause experience and bring more awareness, choice and compassion to your transition which you can find at https://woman-kind.co.uk/

We’d be delighted to welcome you there and if you have any questions you can contact us through our site or email us at kindness@woman-kind.co.uk

Please support Life An Inside Job by buying me a cuppa here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington

More information about Kate
Free resource library: https://mailchi.mp/a8a0fa08678a/resource-library
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop
Perimenopause Unwrapped online course: https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/
Perimenopause Starter Kit: https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN

Artwork
Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

Cyclical Living Unwrapped explores the gifts and challenges of cyclical life with experts in menstruation, perimenopause and cyclical living.

This podcast is brought to you by Leora and Kate of Woman Kind. In this episode bursting with spring/summer vibrancy,  we'll hear Julia's experience of perimenopause cycles, managing chronic health challenges with cycle awareness, how to navigate perimenopause alongside teenagers, plus much more.

Julia Davis is Founder of Yoga Teachers Forum an organisation providing continued education opportunities for Yoga Teachers. She is co-founder of The State of Birth Symposium an annual event created for birth educators of all kinds. She is co-author of "Circle Holding: A Practical Guide to Talking & Listening Circles" and she runs trainings for yoga teachers including Perimenopause Yoga Facilitator Training & Yoga Nidra & Circle Holding. She also teaches at and runs Finchley Yoga Studio in North London.

You'll find Julia:
https://yogateachersforum.org
https://finchleyyoga.com
@yogateachersforum
@finchleyyoga
@juliasuzannedavis

If you are curious about your inner seasons and are navigating perimenopause, you might enjoy our self-directed online course Perimenopause Unwrapped, where you can shine a light on the unconscious processes that are colouring your perimenopause experience and bring more awareness, choice and compassion to your transition which you can find at https://woman-kind.co.uk/

We’d be delighted to welcome you there and if you have any questions you can contact us through our site or email us at kindness@woman-kind.co.uk

Please support Life An Inside Job by buying me a cuppa here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington

More information about Kate
Free resource library: https://mailchi.mp/a8a0fa08678a/resource-library
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop
Perimenopause Unwrapped online course: https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/
Perimenopause Starter Kit: https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN

Artwork
Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

This is an episode for blokes, most especially for blokes who are close to perimenopausal mayhem. I had a chat with my old friend Kenny Mammarella D’Cruz, aka  The Man Whisperer, who has instigated hundreds of men’s groups across the country. Daily Express described me as a "coach, consultant, and guru of all things men"

 Kenny and I talked about:

•  How men deal with loneliness and pain
• Men allowing vulnerability
• Men allowing connection
• How to communicate with their perimenopausal partners
• The possibility of both partners in a heterosexual relationship are transforming at the same time 
• About legacy and elderhood and death

 Plus my all-time favourite quote ever from a man about postmenopausal women, I won’t spoil the surprise but it’s very, very good.

The course Kenny mentions in this episode is an online training on how to listen so men speak and how to speak so men listen for therapists, coaches, care-workers, anyone and everyone who wants to pick up these tools for daily life. Here's a link https://www.themanwhisperer.co.uk/MenFacilitateCourse

The men's groups are here https://www.menspeak.co.uk/

Please support Life An Inside Job by buying me a cuppa here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington

More information about Kate
Free resource library: https://mailchi.mp/a8a0fa08678a/resource-library
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop
Perimenopause Unwrapped online course: https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/
Perimenopause Starter Kit: https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN

Artwork
Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

Cyclical Living Unwrapped explores the gifts and challenges of cyclical life with experts in menstruation, perimenopause and cyclical living.

This podcast is brought to you by Leora and Kate at Woman Kind.  We'll  hear about the limitations of the 'can do' inner summer energy, and how pacing is the way to go. How Natasha's inner autumn self-care has changed before and after having children, and the skills she's developed for experiencing rest in various ways, with young children.

Natasha Richardson is the founder of Forage Botanicals, which makes natural remedies for periods and menopause. She has a Bsc (Hons) in herbal medicine and ran a successful clinic for over 10 years before writing her book ‘Your Period Handbook’. Now she has a team that takes patients while she focuses on product development and community relationships whilst raising her son and daughter. In 2021 she graduated from Oxford University with a Masters in design history where she has investigated women's medicine from 1850-2010.

Find more info on Natasha:
https://foragebotanicals.co.uk/

If you are curious about your inner seasons and are navigating perimenopause, you might enjoy our self-directed online course Perimenopause Unwrapped, where you can shine a light on the unconscious processes that are colouring your perimenopause experience and bring more awareness, choice and compassion to your transition which you can find at https://woman-kind.co.uk/

We’d be delighted to welcome you there and if you have any questions you can contact us through our site or email us at kindness@woman-kind.co.uk

Please support Life An Inside Job by buying me a cuppa here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington

More information about Kate
Free resource library: https://mailchi.mp/a8a0fa08678a/resource-library
Instagram @kate_codrington
Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshop
Perimenopause Unwrapped online course: https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/
Perimenopause Starter Kit: https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN

Artwork
Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles