In this episode we get to meet Jane Tarrant - a breathing re-trainer and awareness coach;  founder of LiNK BREATHING. On average, a human being will take 670 million breaths in our lifetime.   That’s roughly 25,000 inhales and exhales a day.  Research shows that asthma, anxiety, ADHD and other modern maladies could be reduced or reversed by simply changing the way we inhale or exhale.   We explore how our diet has played a major role in changing the shape of our faces and our breathing  and why many of us have  become a nation of mouth breathers and over-breathe ..read more

This episode features Clarissa Kristjansson who is a mindfulness and menopause expert, author of the ‘Mindful Menopause’, host of ‘Thriving through Menopause’ Podcast and international speaker on menopause. As a self-professed ‘anxiety sister’ Clarissa shares her insights into how the function of our brains change during perimenopause with the fluctuation of estrogen and progesterone which alters our stress response and how hormones alter parts of the brain that regulate emotion such as the hippocampus and amygdala. Anxiety manifests as a physical experience of hormone changes and Clarissa’s p ..read more

In this episode I speak with Sarah Clein, founder of Wildflower Fire Coaching. Sarah is a coach, counsellor and a writer, writing on topics related to shame, burnout and divorce, all of which is born out of her own life experience.  We discuss these in relation to menopause, mid life choices and empowerment ..read more

The first episode in a series of conversations with people about their lived experience of menopause.   I chat here with Amantha King , strengths performance coach and a 'menopauser', about her journey through menopause, and in particular, the discovery that she is histamine intolerant.  We learn about the role of histamine in menopause and estrogen dominance and the impact on physical and mental health.   We also discuss how to encourage more male voices to be heard in conversations about menopause and hear about 'male privilege' and the different 'life course' of men and wom ..read more