Cyclical Living Series: Recent Episodes
Lou Perham
The Cyclical Living Series is here to turn up the volume on a cyclical way of life. We'll be diving into how we can live this way within our modern lives. We're also sharing the gifts we can receive from doing so.I'm really passionate about sharing the language and information about cycles, the feminine body and it's processes so we can be more informed and able to advocate for our needs. I was 32 before I learnt about what was effecting me and why I was experiencing so much pain and dis-ease. That was way too late in my eyes. I went on a path of healing and learnt so much along the way. I also met some amazing people. This series is all about opening up the conversations I'm lucky enough to have regularly with them. The field of cycles is wide and fascinating. Cycles are all around us, be that moon, menstrual, seasonal, sleep etc and they effect everything from our capacities, capabilities, productivity, creativity and more. I want more people to have access to this incredible knowledge and so I created a platform to amplify those who are sharing this wisdom. Why wouldn't we learn how to harness cycles so we can optimise, heal, and grow in a way which is truly aligned to us.
This week on the podcast I am sharing a conversation I had with Hannah Dudley, an Astrologer & Intuitive Mentor. She teaches sensitive women in soul led business how to lead with their intuition and feminine energy, so they are always moving in alignment with their deepest values. She works with their natal chart & the moon cycles as a compass.
We went into some juicy conversation which includes:
- How her period pain woke her up to her cycle’s influence
- How the moon cycle mirrors the menstrual cycle
- The corker question she asks herself to ensure she’s being discerning about managing her energy and staying committed
- Where is the natural time to celebrate your achievements in your cycle and we share our celebration practises
- Why is ovulation just as much about receiving as it is about giving
I hope you enjoyed this episode of the cyclical living series.
I’d be so grateful if you could like, share and follow this podcast so you know when new episodes are released and others have the opportunity to learn and grow along with us.
If you’re suffering with cycle discomfort, click here for support.
If you’re wanting to start tracking your cycle, download your Toolkit here.
If you’re needing space for you to rest well, join us every Dark Moon here.
If you’re really ready to Know Your Cycle, then find out more about the immersion here.
You can find me on Instagram @louperham. If you have any questions want to know more then feel free to DM me on IG.
Today the incredible Lauren Currie OBE joins me for a really rich and juicy conversation about confidence, leadership and rewriting stories.
Lauren is the Founder of UPFRONT, an organisation on a mission to change confidence, visibility, and power for 1 million women. Lauren is a keynote speaker, describing her public speaking approach as “everyone in the room will turn their own lights on”. She was the chairperson of leading maternity discrimination Pregnant Then Screwed for seven years and has been recognised as a woman changing the world by Elle Magazine and one of the top businesswomen under 35 by Management Today.
In this conversation we discussed:
- Her story about her beginnings in design and how it set her up for success in starting
- Leadership and what it means to tell new stories to generate wealth and have a positive impact on others.
- How she manages the ‘I don’t know’ in her leadership
- The reality of taking time off as a business owner and leader and the one big thing she had to cultivate to allow herself to rest
- What grace means and how it shows up in her roles and work
- How her story of being too much has been overcome
- The trick - how we can talk to our children about the patriarchy
In 2017, Lauren was awarded an OBE for her services to design and diversity. Lauren grew up in Scotland and now lives in Stockholm with her partner and her 5 year old son.
If you’d like to know about what we discussed and to get in touch with Lauren and Upfront please see the links below.
Watch the Upfront and Centre conference
Join the upcoming free workshop
If you’re curious to join Bond 7 (alongside me) you can find out more here.
Lauren’s IG
Upfront’s IG
I hope you enjoyed this episode of the cyclical living series.
I’d be so grateful if you could like, share and follow this podcast so you know when new episodes are released and others have the opportunity to learn and grow along with us.
If you’re suffering with cycle discomfort, click here for support.
If you’re wanting to start tracking your cycle, download your Toolkit here.
If you’re needing space for you to rest well, join us every Dark Moon here.
If you’re really ready to Know Your Cycle, then find out more about the immersion here.
You can find me on Instagram @louperham. If you have any questions want to know more then feel free to DM me on IG.
Le’Nise Brothers is a yoga teacher and registered nutritionist, mBANT, mCNHC, specialising in women’s health, hormones and the menstrual cycle. She is also the host of the Period Story podcast, which aims to break taboos around menstrual health and hormones.
Le’Nise has helped hundreds of women improve their menstrual and hormone health through her private practice and group programmes, her Instagram page and talks and workshops for the likes of Stylist, She’s Lost Control, MindBodySpirit Festival and more. Her first book You Can Have A Better Period was released in March 2022.
Le’Nise generously shares her story with us and how she has come to being the expert she is today. We focus on the impact of the cycle on our mental health and practises which help us manage our wellbeing during our cycle. We chatted about:
- Why yoga is a powerful compliment to the cycle work
- The connection between our mental health and our cycle hormones
- Why she’s moving away from moving away from using the term PMS
- She offers an anti anxiety physical touch practise to help with
- How she manages her mental and cyclical health and runs her own business
Thanks for listening.
To download my Cycle Tracking Toolkit, click here.
For more info on my 6 week programme 'Know Your Cycle', click here
Find me on Instagram @louperham. If you have any questions want to know more then feel free to DM me on IG.
Sophie Jane Hardy is the creator of Your Cyclical Business. She is also the Communications director of Red School, the host of the Menstruality Podcast, a Mum to a toddler and beloved dog. She’s also a genuinely lovely human being with so much generosity, wisdom and authenticity. You’re going to love hearing her share.
In this episode we take a wild ride, covering everything from running a cyclical business, marketing strategies, motherhood, how we tend to ourselves and activism. We chat about:
- Why we love our inner critic and how it’s helped us to transform our lives
- What running a cyclical businesses could look like (it’s the opposite of a patriarchal one by the way)
- How mothering has changed us as people, business owners and leaders
- I ask Sophie Jane to support me with my live business tussle around creativity and boundaries
To connect with Sophie Jane and her work click the links below.
Your Cyclical Business
The Menstruality Podcast
Thanks for listening.
To download my Cycle Tracking Toolkit, click here.
For more info on my 6 week programme 'Know Your Cycle', click here
Find me on Instagram @louperham. If you have any questions want to know more then feel free to DM me on IG.
We are joined today by Barbara Dopfer today, a menstrual cycle mentor and yoga nidra teacher. She works with people who are burnout to help them reclaim their lives through resting well. We discussed:
- What are the different types of rest
- The truth behind resting (this is not what you think)
- Why having a guide helps when you’re starting out
- How we landed on agreeing we need rest groups
- What rest is not
- What rest feels like
If you’d like to connect with Barbara, you can do so below:
https://barbaradopfer.com/
https://www.instagram.com/barbaradopfer/
Thanks for listening.
To download my Cycle Tracking Toolkit, click here.
For more info on my 6 week programme 'Know Your Cycle', click here
Find me on Instagram @louperham. If you have any questions want to know more then feel free to DM me on IG.
Laura Wilkes is a cycle awareness educator and yin yoga teacher here to educate you on your menstrual cycle. She is on a mission to empower you with knowledge so you learn how to live aligned with her. To support you in creating space to relax, destress, release and unwind your body through Yin. In this conversation we uncovered our mutual (and radical) subtle and slow approach to life. We also covered;
- How we are smashing the taboo and stigma around the menstrual cycle in our lives and ways we work
- What ‘living in alignment’ means and how she shares this with clients
- A walk through of the main hormonal changes in your cycle
- A very honest conversation about the pill and the importance of educating yourself
- Why ovulations is so key to your cycle and health
- How stress impacts your cycle and our ways of managing and supporting yourself
- The gift of self love from cycle awareness
You can connect with Laura on IG @laurajwilkes_ and I'd highly recommend her online Yin classes on a Tuesday evening.
Thanks for listening.
To download my Cycle Tracking Toolkit, click here.
For more info on my 6 week programme 'Know Your Cycle', click here
Find me on Instagram @louperham. If you have any questions want to know more then feel free to DM me on IG.
Jane Brennan is sharing her story about how she came to wake up to a cyclical way of life. As an online wellness brand advisor she supports people to launch and develop their own brands online. Jane is the CEO of Nailah, a beautiful active and leisure wear brand.
In this episode we cover:
- How cycle awareness helped her step off the toxic treadmill
- What her concerns were coming off birth control and what actually happened
- The first book she read which opened her eyes by Alissa Vitta
- How she works with her cycle in her role as an entrepreneur, mother and wife
- Our experiences about talking to men and sons about cycles
- What our sacred acts of self care are at different stages of our cycles
- How she advocates for financial and time freedom without reaching burnout
You can connect with Jane over on Instagram on:
https://www.instagram.com/jane.brennan_/
https://www.instagram.com/nailahuk/
Thanks for listening.
To download my Cycle Tracking Toolkit, click here.
For more info on my 6 week programme 'Know Your Cycle', click here
Find me on Instagram @louperham. If you have any questions want to know more then feel free to DM me on IG.
This episode is my first solo episode which faces into some of the language and 'maps' of the cycle. Understanding this turned my world from black and white to technicolour.
These frames, offers a way to explain what is occuring in our body which many of us have no explination for. It normalises these processes which is so incredibly important.
Getting used to some of this language will also help for other conversations I have as we head through the series. This episode adds to the Cycle Tracking Toolkit if you're interested in giving it a go yourself. We cover:
- What menstruality means
- What the two energies of the cycle are and how do they show up
- The inner seasons of the cycle and how we can lean in to them
Here are details on Red School my mentors and Wild Power their book, which is the source for this conversation.
Thanks for listening.
To download my Cycle Tracking Toolkit, click here.
For more info on my 6 week programme 'Know Your Cycle', click here
Find me on Instagram @louperham. If you have any questions want to know more then feel free to DM me on IG.
Jennifer supports women to enhance their body image and self-confidence by guiding them to explore their sensuality, release the shame around sex + pleasure and deeply connect to their bodies.
Together we take a magical mystery tour of how Jennifer started on this journey and her realisations along the way. We chat about:
- Is it actually a 'feminine' cycle?
- Why we both love our inner Winter
- Her recommendations on books to help you get informed about your cycle and to start charting
- In learning about her cycle, it helped her switch from a medical approach to a more holistic one
- Differentiating between what the popular version of self care is and what real self care is
- How to work through shame around bodies and cycles using language
You can connect with Jennifer here:
Website is : www.jennifer-graham.co.uk
Contact me: email: hello@jennifer-graham.co.uk
IG - @jenniferagraham_
She has kindly gifted us a link to her Secrets to Self-Confidence guide:
https://jennifer-graham.co.uk/self-confidence-guide/
Thanks for listening.
To download my Cycle Tracking Toolkit, click here.
For more info on my 6 week programme 'Know Your Cycle', click here
Find me on Instagram @louperham. If you have any questions want to know more then feel free to DM me on IG.
Welcome to the Cyclical Living Series. Listen for a taste of what this podcast is all about and a little more on what we'll be discussing across the series. I'm your host, Lou Perham and I'm so looking forward to bringing you the gifts of living with your cycle.
Thanks for listening.
To download my Cycle Tracking Toolkit, click here.
For more info on my 6 week programme 'Know Your Cycle', click here
Find me on Instagram @louperham. If you have any questions want to know more then feel free to DM me on IG.