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Understand Your Cycle Podcast
Understand Your Cycle
51 episodes
5 days ago

Understand Your Cycle is a medically-verified guide and platform to the menstrual cycle and women's health. The Understand Your Cycle podcast turns taboos into table topics, by sharing women’s health experiences with a human lens. We talk to women about going through these experiences, and how it actually feels. We also ask our women’s health specialist doctors our community's FAQs.


Keen to learn everything we should have been taught in school about our menstrual cycles? From period products, contraception, fertility, endometriosis, menopause, PCOS, PMDD, and lots more? Without taboo nor shame, you can ask our doctors all your questions and learn to love your menstrual cycle through Understand Your Cycle.


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Understand Your Cycle is a medically-verified guide and platform to the menstrual cycle and women's health. The Understand Your Cycle podcast turns taboos into table topics, by sharing women’s health experiences with a human lens. We talk to women about going through these experiences, and how it actually feels. We also ask our women’s health specialist doctors our community's FAQs.


Keen to learn everything we should have been taught in school about our menstrual cycles? From period products, contraception, fertility, endometriosis, menopause, PCOS, PMDD, and lots more? Without taboo nor shame, you can ask our doctors all your questions and learn to love your menstrual cycle through Understand Your Cycle.


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Understand Your Cycle Podcast
Living with Endo & Finding Fulfilment After Unsuccessful IVF, with Aisha

What happens when you spend years trying to build a family — and decide to stop?


In this episode, we sit down with Aisha Balesaria, an advocate and coach who turned her experience of endometriosis, infertility, and loss into a life of purpose and joy without children.

After 15 years of being dismissed by doctors, Aisha was finally diagnosed with endometriosis and adenomyosis — only after struggling to conceive. What followed was a decade-long fertility journey: IVF cycles, miscarriages, hope, heartbreak, and eventually, the decision to stop.


Aisha shares what it took to rebuild herself after letting go of the dream of motherhood, how therapy and community transformed her healing, and why she now dedicates her work to helping others find fulfillment beyond parenthood.


We talk about the silence surrounding infertility, the cultural pressure to become a mother, and what it really means to find peace in a world that often measures women by whether they have children.


This is a story of resilience, grief, and ultimately, freedom.


We cover:

🩸 What it feels like to be medically gaslit for over a decade before diagnosis

🩸 The physical, emotional, and financial toll of IVF; and knowing when to stop

🩸 How therapy and community can help reframe life after infertility

🩸 The intersection of culture, womanhood, and the expectation to have children

🩸 Why “childless” and “childfree” don’t always fit, and what language gets wrong

🩸 How Aisha built a life of advocacy, joy, and meaning beyond motherhood


Whether you’ve experienced fertility struggles yourself, know someone who has, or simply want to better understand the nuances of womanhood, loss, and identity, this conversation is deeply moving, honest, and healing.


Find Coni:

Instagram: @mindbodyrevival_coach

Website: www.mindbodyrevivalcoach.com


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more, go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up for our FREE cycle-synced newsletter here: Learn Your Menstrual Cycle



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5 days ago
54 minutes 52 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
From Pill to Parenthood, with Coni

What happens when you spend 15 years on hormonal contraceptionm and then have to relearn your body from scratch?


In this episode, Coni, co-founder of period underwear brand NIXI Body, shares her journey from being prescribed the pill for teenage acne, to navigating infertility, cycle syncing, pregnancy, and now early motherhood.


We talk about the messy reality behind women’s health: how hard it is to advocate for yourself with doctors, the silence around infertility, and the complicated mix of empowerment and guilt that comes with cycle syncing. Coni also opens up about her fertility struggles, the emotional toll of “just relax” advice, and what it’s really like to balance running a business with having a newborn.

But this conversation goes far beyond contraception and fertility. We explore period shame, the role of community, and why creating products like period underwear is about so much more than comfort. It’s about changing culture.


We cover:

🩸 What it feels like to be on (and come off) hormonal contraception for over a decade

🩸 Why knowledge is power — but also a double-edged sword

🩸 Infertility, and the emotional toll of trying to conceive

🩸 The reality of cycle syncing for work, exercise, and life

🩸 Period shame, stigma, and breaking taboos through products

🩸 The juggle of business ownership, pregnancy, and motherhood

🩸 Why shared parental leave is still radical in 2025


Whether you’ve struggled with contraception, fertility, or simply want to understand the link between hormones, identity, and womanhood, this episode is raw, honest, and empowering.


Find Coni:

Instagram – @conilj

NIXI Body – @nixibody / www.nixibody.com


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more, go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up for our FREE cycle-synced newsletter here: Learn Your Menstrual Cycle


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1 month ago
49 minutes 16 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
The Fertility Conversation We're Not Having, with Becky

What happens when your body enters menopause before you’ve even turned 30? In this episode, Becky from Fertility Matters at Work shares her deeply personal story of navigating early perimenopause, infertility, IVF, and ultimately, motherhood through egg donation.


We talk about what it actually feels like to have your hormones drop unexpectedly in your twenties — from 12-day cycles and night sweats, to the emotional shock of being told you may never have biological children. Becky opens up about the heartbreak of miscarriage, the mental load of IVF, and the long-term journey of parenting after donor conception.


But this conversation goes far beyond fertility treatment. We explore how work, identity, and womanhood are all intertwined with our reproductive health — and why more workplaces need to care.


We cover:

🩸What early perimenopause really looks like

🩸The truth about IVF (it’s not a guarantee)

🩸What hormone tests can (and can’t) tell you

🩸The emotional weight of “failing” as a woman

🩸Miscarriage, grief, and hidden losses at work

🩸Why fertility support should be a workplace issue

🩸What it’s like to raise children from egg donation

🩸The hard truths behind donor anonymity


Whether you’ve experienced fertility struggles yourself, or want to understand what someone close to you might be going through, this episode brings empathy, nuance, and insight to a topic that’s still far too hidden.


Please note: as Becky highlights, infertility is a medical condition that affects 1 in 6 people — and many face it even though they’re otherwise perfectly healthy. Fertility is not necessarily a lifestyle issue, and it’s never your fault.


Find Becky:

Fertility Matters at Work - www.fertilitymattersatwork.com / https://www.instagram.com/fertilitymattersatwork/

Paths to Parenthub - www.pathstoparenthub.com / https://www.instagram.com/paths_to_parenthub/

DefiningMum Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/definingmum/


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more, go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up for our FREE cycle-synced newsletter here: Learn Your Menstrual Cycle


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3 months ago
1 hour 5 minutes 56 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
Rethinking Fertility: What They Don’t Teach You in Your 20s, with Michelle

In this episode, Michelle opens up about her personal journey through infertility — a struggle faced by 1 in 6 couples globally. We dive into why fertility isn’t just a “future you” problem, but something worth understanding in your 20s.


From decoding cervical mucus to understanding hormonal imbalances, we cover the basics of how to get curious about your reproductive health. We talk about the often-overlooked transition off contraception, the key role your liver plays, and the surprising nutrient deficiencies that many women silently face.


We cover:

🧬 Understanding Fertility in Your 20s

🚫 Coming Off Contraception

🩺 The Role of Your Liver in Hormonal Health

👨‍⚕️ Male Fertility Is 30% of the Equation

🌱 Tips to support egg health

🍷 How alcohol impacts fertility

👨‍⚕️ Why 30% of infertility cases are male-factor

🩸 And why your menstrual cycle is more than just your period


Whether you're trying to conceive now or simply want to feel empowered about your body — this one’s for you.


Please note: as highlighted in this episode, many people experience infertility even though they are perfectly healthy. Sometimes, there is no other solution than being medically assisted.


A short definition of Fertility Awareness Method: a natural way of tracking your cycle to understand when you're most and least likely to get pregnant. You pay attention to things like your temperature, cervical mucus, and cycle length — basically, your body’s own clues — to either plan or avoid pregnancy (without hormones). Think of it as body literacy meets contraception.


Find Michelle on LinkedIn here


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more, go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up for our FREE cycle-synced newsletter here: Learn Your Menstrual Cycle


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5 months ago
1 hour 3 minutes 9 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
Surgical Menopause at 35—Breast Cancer, Recovery & Rebuilding, with Kirstie

In this episode, Kirstie shares her deeply personal journey through breast cancer, surgical menopause, and what it really means to rebuild your life after both.


At just 35, Kirstie was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. What followed was a whirlwind of treatments: chemo, a double mastectomy, and the removal of her ovaries—plunging her into surgical menopause overnight. She tells us what it felt like to go from full hormone health to zero, the mental health toll it took, and how she found strength, purpose, and even joy on the other side.


We cover:

🩸 Six months of non-stop bleeding after the wrong HRT

🩸 The BRCA gene and deciding to remove her breasts and ovaries

🩸 What surgical menopause actually feels like (and why no one warns you)

🩸 Hair loss, wigs, and the emotional rollercoaster of chemo

🩸 The big mental health toll—and how she got help

🩸 Rebuilding life after treatment, and becoming a coach for breast cancer survivors


This episode is honest, raw, and packed with wisdom. Whether you’ve faced breast cancer or want to better support someone who has, you’ll come away with insight—and hope.


How to check your breasts resource: https://coppafeel.org/breast-cancer-info-and-advice/how-do-i-check/


Find Kirstie at:

Website: www.breastcancercoaching.co.uk

Instagram: @breastcancercoaching

Facebook: the beyond breast cancer coach


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more, go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up for our FREE cycle-synced newsletter here: Learn Your Menstrual Cycle


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6 months ago
1 hour 7 minutes 23 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
Period Poverty Exists Where You Live, with Aaliyah

"It was quite difficult managing menstruation and education..."


Aaliyah from Bloody Good Period has joined me to discuss how period poverty is more common than you think, how it is affecting our young women in schools and what they are doing at BGP to help one day dissolve this issue. Everyone who bleeds has a right to clean facilities and free menstrual products.


We Cover:

🩸What is period poverty exactly?

🩸What is the scale and impact of period poverty?

🩸What do Bloody Good Period do?

🩸How can governments work towards eliminating period poverty?

🩸How does Bloody Good Period break taboos around periods?

🩸What keeps you hopeful?


PS: 10% of all Understand Your Cycle profits go to Bloody Good Period!


Find Bloody Good Period here:

https://www.bloodygoodperiod.com/

https://www.instagram.com/bloodygoodperiod/


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more, go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up for our FREE cycle-synced newsletter here: Learn Your Menstrual Cycle


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6 months ago
33 minutes 28 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
I’ve Tried Every Type of Period Product—Here Are My Hot Takes, with Emily

"The first ever pad that was manufactured still hasn't broken down."


In this episode, Emily joins us to talk all things period products—from the first tampons we tried as teens to the eco-friendly innovations we're loving today. She shares her personal journey, a few strong opinions (aka hot takes), and plenty of surprising facts along the way.


Get 10% off Mooncup products with discount code: CYCLEPODCAST


We cover:


🩸 Emily's period product journey—from cardboard applicators to menstrual cups

🩸 The full range of period products out there today (and how to pick what's right for you)

🩸 New trends in period care and why they matter

🩸 The plastic problem in pads:

→ Each of us uses roughly 11,000 period products in our lifetime

→ A mainstream pad can take at least 800 years to decompose

→ Period products are washing up on EU coastlines more than plastic bags

🩸 What actually causes that period smell (spoiler: it's not you)

🩸 How your menstrual cycle can impact your yoga practice


Whether you're curious about trying something new, wondering about the environmental impact of your current go-to, or just love a good period chat—this one's for you.


Find Emily on:

LinkedIn

Instagram


🎉Discount code for Mooncup coming soon!!


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more, go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up for our FREE cycle-synced newsletter here: Learn Your Menstrual Cycle


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7 months ago
42 minutes 39 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
PART 2: Living with Endo—What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why It’s Personal, with Alice

"Endometriosis doesn’t just affect your body—it affects every part of your life."


In Part 2, Alice dives deeper into the realities of living with endometriosis, tackling the tough topics no one talks about enough. She shares her thoughts on fertility, breaks down how to reduce inflammation caused by endo, and explains why movement is one of the most powerful tools for managing symptoms.


We also explore the biggest misconceptions about the condition, how to approach conversations at work, and the advice she wishes she had when she first started her journey.


We cover (PART 2):


🩸 Fertility and endo—how Alice thinks about it and why everyone’s experience is different

🩸 Reducing inflammation and her pillars in managing endo (without the overwhelm)

🩸 How movement can be a game-changer for managing symptoms

🩸 The biggest myths about endo—and the truth behind them

🩸 Talking to work about endometriosis and advocating for yourself

🩸 Alice’s advice for anyone living with or suspecting they have endo


This episode is part of UYC's Endometriosis Awareness Month Campaign. Listen to Jasmin's story, as well as Part 1 of Alice's story, on our podcast!


Find Alice on Instagram:

Mindset Coaching

Women's Health Specialist


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more, go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up for our FREE cycle-synced newsletter here: Learn Your Menstrual Cycle


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7 months ago
28 minutes 15 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
PART 1: It’s Not Just a Bad Period—Endometriosis, Surgery & Challenging the System, with Alice

"It’s not just a bad period—it’s living with pain no one can see."


In this episode, we sit down with Alice, who shares her raw and honest journey with endometriosis—from navigating the emotional toll of a delayed diagnosis to undergoing surgery and challenging the one-size-fits-all approach to treatment.


Alice opens up about how endometriosis runs in her family, how COVID affected her menstrual cycle, and why the usual advice to "just go on hormonal contraception" doesn’t always cut it.


Expect candid conversations, personal insights, and a deeper understanding of how endo shows up differently for everyone.


We cover (PART 1):

🩸 What endometriosis really feels like for those living with it

🩸 How endo symptoms can shift with your menstrual cycle (or break the pattern entirely)

🩸 Alice’s personal endometriosis story—from early symptoms to surgery

🩸 The genetic side of endometriosis and how it affects her family of three sisters

🩸 How COVID disrupted her cycle and worsened her endo

🩸 What it’s really like to have surgery for endometriosis

🩸 Hormonal contraception as a common "treatment" for endometriosis —and Alice’s honest take on it


Subscribe and follow to not miss Part 2! This episode is part of UYC's Endometriosis Awareness Month Campaign. Listen to Jasmin's powerful endometriosis journey, through diagnosis, fertility to perimenopause, on our podcast as well.


Find Alice on Instagram:

Mindset Coaching

Women's Health Specialist


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more, go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up for our FREE cycle-synced newsletter here: Learn Your Menstrual Cycle


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7 months ago
26 minutes 31 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
PART 2: Grieving My Periods—Endometriosis, Perimenopause & Self-Healing

"I can't explain the feeling, but it's as if everything was going to fall out of you"


In this episode, we sit down with Jasmine from Emerald and Tiger, a meditation teacher and energy healer, to explore her journey through endometriosis, perimenopause, and self-healing. From enduring a 20-year diagnostic delay to finding empowerment in her cycle, Jasmine shares raw, honest insights on body awareness, pain management, and the emotional highs and lows of women’s health.


Expect real talk, no taboos, and plenty of wisdom. Tune in as we break the silence around menstrual and hormonal health—one conversation at a time. 


"I’m grieving my periods—even with the pain, I loved them"


We cover (PART 2):

🩸the onset of perimenopause

🩸the experience of perimenopause and endometriosis alongside each other (and how some symptoms are hard to disentangle)

🩸her work with women experiencing chronic conditions, through reiki and sound healing

🩸How does Reiki actually work?


In PART 1:

🩸Jasmin's endometriosis diagnosis

🩸ending up in A&E on her wedding anniversary

🩸finding out she had endometriosis, and skin cancer shortly after

🩸how her endometriosis symptoms impacted her socially and physically (e.g. painful sex)

🩸how she began to heal her symptoms through reiki


This episode is part of UYC's Endometriosis Awareness Month Campaign. Listen to Alice's powerful endometriosis journey, through diagnosis, surgery, and becoming an endo coach, on our podcast as well.



Find Jasmin on:

Website: emeraldandtiger.com

Instagram: @emeraldandtiger

Book: emeraldandtiger.com/ext-shop/

Endometriosis Facebook Community: Living With Endometriosis


Understand Your Cycle's episode with Le'Nise Brothers here 🎙️✨


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up to our FREE cycle synced newsletter here: https://www.understandyourcycle.com/learn-your-menstrual-cycle-free


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8 months ago
35 minutes 52 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
PART 1: It took me going to A&E to be diagnosed for endometriosis, with Jasmin

Periods, pain, and reclaiming power.


In this episode, we sit down with Jasmin from Emerald and Tiger, a meditation teacher and energy healer, to explore her journey through endometriosis, perimenopause, and self-healing. From enduring a 20-year diagnostic delay to finding empowerment in her cycle, Jasmine shares raw, honest insights on body awareness, pain management, and the emotional highs and lows of women’s health.


Expect real talk, no taboos, and plenty of wisdom. Tune in as we break the silence around menstrual and hormonal health—one conversation at a time. 


We cover (PART 1):

🩸Jasmin's endometriosis diagnosis

🩸ending up in A&E on her wedding anniversary

🩸finding out she had endometriosis, and skin cancer shortly after

🩸how her endometriosis symptoms impacted her socially and physically (e.g. painful sex)

🩸how she began to heal her symptoms through reiki


Don't miss Part 2!


In PART 2:

🩸the onset of perimenopause

🩸the experience of perimenopause and endometriosis alongside each other (and how some symptoms are hard to disentangle)

🩸her work with women experiencing chronic conditions, through reiki and sound healing

🩸How does Reiki actually work?


This episode is part of UYC's Endometriosis Awareness Month Campaign. Listen to Alice's powerful endometriosis journey, through diagnosis, surgery, and becoming an endo coach, on our podcast as well.


Find Jasmin on:

Website: emeraldandtiger.com

Instagram: @emeraldandtiger

Book: emeraldandtiger.com/ext-shop/

Endometriosis Facebook Community: Living With Endometriosis


Understand Your Cycle's episode with Le'Nise Brothers here 🎙️✨ (mentioned a few times in this podcast)


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up to our FREE cycle synced newsletter here: https://www.understandyourcycle.com/learn-your-menstrual-cycle-free


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8 months ago
31 minutes 42 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
PART 2: What Your Doctor Didn’t Tell You About Perimenopause, With Becs and Wizz from Valerie

Use discount code UNDERSTANDYOURCYCLE on www.wearevalerie.com.


This week, we’re back with part two of our conversation with the brilliant Bec and Wizz.


Why are they so brilliant? Because they’re on a mission to transform women’s lives with Valerie, the female health brand redefining perimenopause support through nutrition.


In this episode, we dive even deeper—exploring the real challenges women face during perimenopause, why nutritional support matters more than we realize, and the practical steps we can take long before we get there.


We cover (Part 2):

🩸 Why our grandmas didn't have as severe symptoms of perimenopause as today

🩸 Most common concerns of perimenopause

🩸 Why hair falls out during perimenopause and menopasue

🩸 The power of ashwaganda and adaptogens - and the rising trend of adaptogens

🩸 What would they tell someone entering perimenopause after all their experience


Find Bec and Wizz here!

Valerie IG: https://www.instagram.com/weare.valerie/

Website: https://www.wearevalerie.com/UNDERSTANDYOURCYCLE


🩸 What are adaptogens? 🩸 (discussed in episode)

Think of adaptogens as your body’s little stress-fighting sidekicks. These are natural herbs and plants that help you adapt (yep, that’s where the name comes from) to stress—whether it’s physical, mental, or hormonal. Instead of letting stress drain you or send your hormones into a spiral, adaptogens work behind the scenes to keep things balanced. Some calm you down (like ashwagandha), some give you energy (like rhodiola), and others help regulate hormones (like maca).


Make sure you listened to Part 1!


What we covered in Part 1:

🩸 how and why nutrition affects our hormones

🩸 why your GP may not be understanding your menopause

🩸 period stories & their journey into women's health from Bec and Wizz that are relatable and funny!

🩸 why liquid supplements may have 10x the impact your current ones do


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up to our FREE cycle synced newsletter here: https://www.understandyourcycle.com/learn-your-menstrual-cycle-free


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8 months ago
27 minutes 47 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
PART 1: The Nutrition Secrets You Need for Menopause, With Becs and Wizz from Valerie

Use discount code UNDERSTANDYOURCYCLE on www.wearevalerie.com .


We are so lucky this week to be chatting to two fabulous women, Bec and Wizz.

Why are they so fab? They are changing women's lives by creating and co-founding, Valerie.


Valerie is a female health brand for perimenopause that focuses on nutritional supplements.


They help women rediscover themselves through what can be a really hard time, and we freaking love that here at understand your cycle.


This incredible duo gave amazing insights to what exactly women are facing as we enter this part of our lives, why Valerie is helping so many women, tips for what we should doing before we enter that stage of our lives and so much more.


WE COVER IN PART 1:

🩸 how and why nutrition affects our hormones

🩸 why your GP may not be understanding your menopause

🩸 period stories & their journey into women's health from Bec and Wizz that are relatable and funny!

🩸 why liquid supplements may have 10x the impact your current ones do


Make sure to come back next week for PART 2!


Find Bec and Wizz here!

Valerie IG: https://www.instagram.com/weare.valerie/

Website: https://www.wearevalerie.com/UNDERSTANDYOURCYCLE


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up to our FREE cycle synced newsletter here: https://www.understandyourcycle.com/learn-your-menstrual-cycle-free


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8 months ago
27 minutes 22 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
Menstrual cycle syncing doesn’t have to be hard, with Caitlin

Menstrual cycle syncing doesn’t have to be complicated! In this episode, Caitlin shares her journey and tips to help you align your life with your cycle and take better care of yourself.


We cover:

🩸 How to start menstrual cycle syncing

🩸 Simple ways to support your body throughout your cycle

🩸 What we’re taught about being a woman vs. how we’re biologically designed

🩸 Caitlin’s personal contraceptive experience

🩸 Boosting productivity with cycle syncing

🩸 How to make cycle syncing fit into your job and daily life

🩸 The one piece of advice Caitlin wants all women to know

🩸 Why you might be more stressed than you realize


Find Caitlin here:

📷 Instagram: @caitlinfhormones

💼 LinkedIn: Caitlin Farquharson WHHHP

🌸 Free Cycle Syncing Community: Join here


Subscribe and follow so you don’t miss an episode! 🩸

👉 Learn more at: www.understandyourcycle.com

👉 Sign up for our FREE cycle-synced newsletter here: https://www.understandyourcycle.com/learn-your-menstrual-cycle-free


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9 months ago
48 minutes 19 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
SNIPPET: I finally remembered I had emotions when coming off contraception, with Caitlin

People always told me I was so cold, and then I came off it.


In this snippet, Caitlin describes her experience of the contraceptive pill & implant, and why she chose to come off it.


We cover:

🩸experience on the contraceptive pill

🩸experience on the contraceptive implant

🩸what it was like coming off contraception


You can find Caitlin on:

IG: @caitlinfhormones

LinkedIn: Caitlin Farquharson WHHHP | LinkedIn

Free Cycle Syncing Community: https://t.me/+vdG5pIOc-YAyYzM0


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up to our FREE cycle synced newsletter here: https://www.understandyourcycle.com/learn-your-menstrual-cycle-free


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9 months ago
5 minutes 10 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
Everything you wanted to know about menopause (but were too afraid to ask)

Could you get your period back through Hormone Replacement Therapy? And many more questions


This week, a 20-year-old boy asks his menopause-related questions. No taboos, no shame: all the burning questions you’ve always wanted to ask. This is part 2 of a two-part episode where he asks us everything he wants to know about women's health! Don't forget to listen to the first episode about periods and contraception.


We cover:

🩸What on earth happens in menopause?

🩸What are the symptoms of menopause and why do they happen?

🩸What happens after menopause?

🩸What about women's sex drive?

🩸What's Hormone Replacement Therapy?


Subscribe and follow to not miss an episode! 🩸

To learn more go to www.understandyourcycle.com

Sign up to our FREE cycle synced newsletter here: https://www.understandyourcycle.com/learn-your-menstrual-cycle-free


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9 months ago
13 minutes 49 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
Everything you wanted to know about periods (but were too afraid to ask)

I used a menstrual cup as a suction cup because I didn’t know what it was!


This week, a 20-year-old boy asks his period and contraception-related questions. No taboos, no shame: all the burning questions you’ve always wanted to ask.


We cover:

🩸What even is a bloody period? What hormones are involved?

🩸Can menstrual cycle length vary? Why?

🩸How do we use period trackers?

🩸Why do some women have cramps and period pain?

🩸Why does your lifestyle impact your menstrual cycle?

🩸How do you know which contraception is right for you?

🩸What sex-ed did we have? And what do we think we actually need?

🩸What are IUDs and how do they work? Is it painful?


Next week, this 20-year-old boy asks us everything he wants to know about… menopause!


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9 months ago
34 minutes 30 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
Better Periods, Brighter Plates: Nutrition, cycles & natural relief with Le'Nise

Make your plate as bright as possible!


This week, Le'Nise, nutritionist and author of You Can Have A Better Period, tells us about aligning exercise and nutrition with the menstrual cycle, what a healthy period looks like, and what natural ways we can relieve period cramps and not so comfortable cycles.


We cover:

🩸What is a healthy period? What does a healthy period looks like?

🩸When is the best time to make decisions during our menstrual cycle?

🩸How Le’Nise came to understand and keeps staying aligned with her menstrual cycle? And it’s impact on body and brain

🩸How Le’Nise took the leap from advertising to women’s nutrition health and came to write the book “You Can Have A Better Period”

🩸What are fibroids? What are the symptoms and how common are they?

🩸Why she’s excited about perimenopause

🩸What can we add into our nutrition for it to align with our menstrual cycle? (26 mins)

🩸What natural nutrients can we use to relieve period cramps?


"I just think about how much energy and time women spend thinking about food, and everything we’d achieve if we didn’t"


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9 months ago
39 minutes 8 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
SNIPPET: What makes a healthy period? With Le'Nise

We often talk about unhealthy periods, but what about healthy periods?


This week, Le'Nise tells us about what makes a healthy period:

🩸length of cycle

🩸colour of period

🩸spotting: how much is normal spotting?

🩸clotting: how much is normal clotting?

🩸mood

🩸energy


Only 30% of people with a cycle have a 28-day menstrual cycle


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10 months ago
6 minutes 33 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast
Menopause isn't just physical - it's mental, with Sarah

I had never even thought about perimenopause, until I connected my symptoms


This week, Sarah, a peri to post menopause coach, shares about her experience of menopause and how businesses can support their employees in menopause.


We cover:

🩸Sarah's experience of perimenopause

🩸Misconceptions around perimenopause and menopause

🩸The importance of a holistic approach to prevent overwhelm and burnout

🩸Women's health and ageing

🩸Your thyroid and hormonal issues may be linked to perimenopause

🩸Nutrition and looking after yourselves

🩸How business and governmental policies impact women's experience of menopause

🩸Mental health and menopause


"Women above 50 years old are the fastest growing group in the workplace"


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10 months ago
43 minutes 27 seconds

Understand Your Cycle Podcast

Understand Your Cycle is a medically-verified guide and platform to the menstrual cycle and women's health. The Understand Your Cycle podcast turns taboos into table topics, by sharing women’s health experiences with a human lens. We talk to women about going through these experiences, and how it actually feels. We also ask our women’s health specialist doctors our community's FAQs.


Keen to learn everything we should have been taught in school about our menstrual cycles? From period products, contraception, fertility, endometriosis, menopause, PCOS, PMDD, and lots more? Without taboo nor shame, you can ask our doctors all your questions and learn to love your menstrual cycle through Understand Your Cycle.


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