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.

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.

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

Today on the podcast we are chatting about Sexual Reclamation with Elizabeth Caliva. For too many of us women, we struggle with pleasure - we struggle in receiving it and even in how to ask for it. Elizabeth explores why this is and how we can begin to reclaim our sexuality!

The dreaded P word - Puberty - is one that most parent’s are nervous about navigating. Our sweet little girl overnight grows up and our relationship with her becomes very complicated. But what if there was a way for our relationship to deepen, to become richer! In today’s episode we are going to talk about puberty and why it’s important for our daughter’s to be educated on their cycle in a new and empowering way.

In this episode I am going to share 3 tips on how you can start to shift from defeated on your fertility journey to feeling supported and back in a state of hope. You are far from broken, you just need the right tools to feel different and to know that you have choice.

I know all to well how it feels to be diagnosed with a fertility issue that makes you feel broken and hopeless on your journey to being a mother.

I had 3 ectopic pregnancies

I was told I would not have a successful pregnancy without surgery and IVF

BUT I found a way….

I crafted my perfect holistic team of professionals to help me heal and to give me hope on my journey.

If you have been struggling to get pregnant or are living with a devastating fertility diagnosis, then you will want to tune into this weeks episode to hear my story of overcoming fertility issues and building my family of 3 kids without medical intervention.

So many of you asked for more information on period products…

Disposable vs Re-Usable

Pads vs Tampons

What about period underwear

And what the heck is free bleeding

In this episode, I give you the low down on my personal opinion on all these products, how they affect my body, and what I personally use. I can honestly say that Period Positivity has created an era of so many great options for our bleed time. Gone are the days of the commercials only promoting blue liquid poured on Always Pads.

In this episode I want to dive into how we can start to take the small steps in reclaiming the Divine Feminine. How can we start living more fully into our power and healing the parts of us where we hold shame, doubt and fear.

In this episode I will share the bad (or not so in alignment) choices I made, how it effected my bleed and what I learned from it. Hopefully this will help you get curious as to how you too may be living out of alignment with your hormones which could be affecting your bleed days.

Let’s be real, summer is a whole lot of fun that often results in burnout. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but there are ways we can jump with two feet without feeling destroyed by the end of it. In this episode we are going to look at my 3 tips to keep you enjoying all that summer has to offer while meeting your body with what it needs to regulate and stay balanced.

In this weeks episode we explore how to use your cycle to parent in alignment with your energy. This will allow for you to do the things that bring rushes of joy with your kids, but also gives you permission for down time to honour your energy and cycle needs. Tune in and learn how good cyclical balance is the key to thrive and excel as a parent this summer.

Today, Ellen Hooper is going to guide us on how we can start taking steps to share and off-load the mental workload. As you will learn in this episode, it is a bit of trusting that failure is ok (I know…for most of us women we may be clenching our jaws at the thought). Ellen is brilliant at showing us that when we allow others to fail we create room for growth, compassion, and freedom for ourselves.

Does the idea of putting yourself first feel impossible? You are not alone. I think most women fall in the pattern of care giving and nurturer that we automatically put ourselves last in our careers, in our homes and in our relationships. Today on the podcast, Jessica Oyanagi, joins us to chat about tapping into your feminine nature to design a life you truly desire! And guess what? Putting yourself first is her core teaching.

In today’s conversation, Vidya Ramachandran will be joining me to help us learn how to ALIGN to who we are at our core and how to re-calibrate our life so that we can live unapologetically in our truest version of ourselves.

Have you ever sat in your car taking deep breathes to calm your anxiety before going in to see your doctor? Advocating for our health can be scary as hell. As women it is very common to feel unheard in our hormone health concerns. It may even feel like our only option is to stay feeling broken. Join me in this episode where we explore tip to help you feel empowered with your health.

Current mainstream medicine is seen as the TRUTH and yet it makes me nervous, fearful, and often feeling broken with the only option to healing being that from an outside source. In this realization, I began to then question what would feel better then? What is the opposite? What would be medicine if it was guided and crafted by a feminine approach?

The answer…..well, I guess you will have to tune in and listen to find out.

Finding hope after having a miscarriage can feel like an impossible task. The grief, the shame, the worry that our body is broken - these are all emotions that I felt with every loss and I know so many others feel too. So this week I am chatting with Dr. Briana Lutz, ND to help us understand miscarriage more deeply and the steps we can take to begin our healing journey. As a Naturopathic Doctor she shares how looking at your whole health can help you find the right healing plan that will take you from feeling hopeless to hopeful on your journey into conception.

In this episode, I share my 3 hot tips of how I care for myself so that I can have painless periods, feel at home in my body, and stop any people pleasing that my trained mind may think I need to do. Our periods are powerful times and they need to cared for. So tune into this episode to learn exactly the most powerful 3 things you can do during your menstruation (inner winter) to support your body and help your hormones balance.

Join me in the humourous conversation with my bestie on how she bought Mr. Darcy, her new puppy, as a spontaneous buy in her inner spring. Now although Mr. Darcy turned out to be the right purchase for her, we chat about how our cycle does play into these spontaneous purchases that can sometimes turn out to not be such a good decision.