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Beauty & Bone PodcastConversation with Caro GilesEarlier this week myself and Caro Giles sat down to have a conversation about her wonderful new memoir Unschooled: The story of a family that doesn’t fit in. We could have spoken for another hour on all she touches on in it, we had so much to say, but I think we managed to cover some really fascinating topics in the hour we did have together !Unschooled is a book about trying to advocate for your children’s needs in an education system that does not serve them and describes the often Kafkaesque bureaucracy Caro is forc...
2025-09-1252 min
Mothers' Hood7- From Supermum Addiction to Softening & Slowing Down with Layla O'MaraWe live in a culture that celebrates and almost idolises mothers who appear to do it all and have it all together. It’s a self-perpetuating cycle - we do more and more and are praised for doing so, so we continue to do more and more because that praise and recognition feels good. But this is often an appearance and frequently masks burnout and exhaustion. In episode 7, Layla O’Mara shares her experience of being Supermum and the effect it had on her.Listen as Layla shares The sta...
2025-07-0741 min
Beauty & Bone PodcastBeauty & Bone | The Element Sessions | Episode 6“Fire calls us to reveal our true nature, to open to the unbearable beauty of creation, to riskthe heartbreak of loss in order to love the world more deeply.”- Lorie Eve DecharHello friends,I’m really looking forward to sharing this episode of the Element Sessions with you. As we step across into the summer season we are exploring the FIRE element in Chinese medicine. Last week I shared a Deep Dive into the FIRE element which you can catch up on using the link at the end of this post, plus as a paid...
2025-05-231h 09
Unravelling with Lauren BarberThe Stories of our Body with Layla O'MaraIn this episode I talk to Layla O'Mara is a writer, mother and acupuncturist living at the foothills of the Wicklow mountains in Ireland.In this episode we discuss…The season of life Layla is finding herself in right now; identifying with the daffodils, wild garlic and Spring energy as well as a shedding the ‘shoulds’.Layla’s journey to her true heart work and what she feels deeply called to create in the world.How she weaves together all the differing threads of her passions and heart work to birth her upco...
2025-04-0958 min
Beauty & Bone PodcastBeauty & Bone | The Element Sessions | Episode 5This episode of the Element Sessions podcast uses the WOOD Element as a jumping off point for a conversation around ANGER.In Chinese Medicine each of the Five Elements has an emotion connected to it, and for the WOOD element (which is also connected to the season of Spring that we are stepping into right now on this side of the globe) the emotion is ANGER.There is no emotion that does not have its place, and there are times when appropriate anger is a really important catalysing force. There is also, from a Chinese...
2025-02-2858 min
Beauty & Bone PodcastA map to our true selvesHello friends and welcome to week 2 of our REST series. This week, I’m delighted to share with you a conversation I had recently with coach, mentor and writer Lauren Barber about Human Design. I wanted to share with you my experiences of discovering and integrating this powerful way of understanding our energy into my life, and have Lauren explain to us what Human Design is, how it works and how it can be useful for us in terms of being more easeful in our lives.It felt really appropriate to have this conversation during th...
2025-01-1743 min
Beauty & Bone PodcastWater & Grief | A healing practiceHello friends,The morning after the conversation I had with Easkey Britton about the power of WATER for the Element Sessions she emailed me to say that she had woken with a sense she wanted to share a little more with us all around the healing and holding power of water when it comes to grief and loss.She offered to share with us a practical embodiment practice, a water ritual, as a way to honour our loss and express our grief, a way to be with our heartbreak, which has been immense for us...
2024-12-0812 min
Beauty & Bone PodcastBeauty & Bone | The Element Sessions | Episode 4The Element Sessions Podcast | WATER with Dr Easkey BrittonI recorded this conversation with writer, big wave surfer & social ecologist Dr.Easkey Britton a number of weeks ago. I can honestly say that the time since I spoke with her has been different. I’ve engaged with the water around me in a different way, I’ve placed myself in and beside bodies of water more often, I’ve thought about my relationship to water, within myself and, rippling out, within the planet we call home, in a deeper, more present way. I am so excited to share...
2024-12-061h 03
Beauty & Bone PodcastMid-life Chat | Part 2Hi friends,{ words below are mostly penned by the wondrous wordsmith Lindsay Johnstone ! }We wanted to get this out to you ASAP so you can dig in over the weekend. This is the second part of our chat inspired by All Fours by Miranda July, which far more famous women than us implore you to read :We talk about leaning in to the messiness of midlife; fear of what’s going on inside our bodies; our relationship to our sexual bodies and how midlife offers us an opportunity to (re)discover who we are and wh...
2024-11-161h 02
Beauty & Bone PodcastDoors Closing on €20 membership : why I'm here & how I want this community to feelHello dear friends,I’m sending this video by way of both introduction, and also as a way of telling you a little more about why I’m here on Substack, what my intentions for the beauty & bone community are and most importantly how I want this space to feel.I’ve a special offer running until midnight tonight for my membership (GMT, Nov 9). The offer is for €20 a year for as long as you subscribe versus the usual €50. I will be putting my prices up next year (but you’ll still pay €20).To get more of...
2024-11-0905 min
Beauty & Bone PodcastBeauty & Bone | The Element Sessions | Episode ThreeOK, let’s dive in to the second spiral of the Element Sessions, which is exploringM E T A LThe Metal Element is connected to the season of Autumn, to a shedding, releasing, letting go. It is a deeply powerful time of the year. It was said in ancient China that the emperor would wait until Metal season to decide on which prisoners were to be release and which executed, because there was the greatest access to discernment and truth at this time. It is a a time of release, of return, of re...
2024-11-011h 03
Beauty & Bone Podcastour mid-life chat! | recordingMyself, Caro Giles, Lindsay Johnstone and Chloe George thoroughly enjoyed this thought-provoking chat, with a wonderful gathering of well over 30 of you, about how we are feeling at this wild time of mid-life.We’d all read and adored Miranda July’s All Fours, and thought it would be a wonderful spring board from which to explore so many of the experiences we find ourselves having in our 40’s.We spoke candidly about how we are feeling in our bodies now in our 40’s, what we are not ready to let go of, what we are grie...
2024-10-201h 01
Beauty & Bone PodcastHRT - on taking it & being cross about itI started taking HRT about two months ago. I was quite cross about starting to take it. I felt a little ashamed about it. A little bit like I’d failed. I’m also feeling remarkably, annoyingly, pretty great on it. I’d be lying if I said this didn’t piss me off quite a bit.A voice recording of a post in which I explain why.... This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit laylaomara.substack.com/subscribe
2024-10-1114 min
Beauty & Bone PodcastBeauty & Bone | The Element Sessions | Episode TwoHi dear friends, Welcome to the second conversation in this series of slow seasonal explorations of the five elements : The Element Sessions. Today, I’m sharing, for all subscribers, a glorious conversation I had with writer, mother, grower and holder Kerri ní Dochartaigh. (More on this below!)Next Tuesday morning I’ll be holding a live workshop and journalling session focussing on the element of EARTH. I’m so looking forward to putting some faces to names and meeting some of you in person. If you are curious about the offering but not yet a paid su...
2024-09-2058 min
Beauty & Bone PodcastBeauty & Bone | The Element Sessions | Episode OneI’m delighted to welcome you to The Element Sessions. If you would like to follow along with this year long gentle exploration of the elements, please subscribe to my Substack beauty and bone.I’m thinking of these slow, seasonal sessions as small pitstops in our year.𖥸 Ways to pause, take a breath, take a look around.𖥸 See what is working for us, reflect on what is not.𖥸 Connect to different fundamental aspects of ourselves.𖥸 Be curious about what is challenging for us, absorb what has been good.𖥸 Be in community with other like-minded p...
2024-09-1342 min
Beauty & Bone Podcastoctopus wombIn April 2020, at the age of forty one, I had a hysterectomy. It had been a long time coming. I’d been told at age thirty, after I’d had two big operations to remove aggressive fibroids from in, on and around my uterus, that I would probably need to have my womb removed at some later stage. The surgeries I had back then were in many ways a stop-gap, a way of holding back time long enough for me to be able to try and conceive. Which in and of itself seemed like a long shot – post the two op...
2024-03-2411 min
The Sinéad de hÓra Podcast22: Let nature be your teacher with Layla O'MaraLayla O’Mara joins Sinéad today to talk about Five Elements Acupuncture and how you can bring balance into your life by listening to your needs and learning from nature.
If you have found that you have been pushing yourself too hard and ignoring your need for connection and calm then this episode is for you.
You can find more about Layla and her work via her website www.nuanua.com
2024-02-0638 min
In Creative CompanyEpisode 970: Layla Mohammadi, The Persian VersionQ&A on the film The Persian Version with actor Layla Mohammadi. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company.
When a large Iranian-American family gathers, a family secret is uncovered that catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past, and to discover they are more alike than they know.
2023-12-0526 min
Beauty & Bone Podcastplug sockets & ugly clocksOne evening, about six months before I decided to say yes to a hysterectomy that had been recommended to me for some time (for constant, teeth grating, breath taking pain, collossal amounts of blood, bloating, pain during sex, & more), I got into bed beside my husband, we opened the laptop and we watched a documentary about an octopus. The film charted a relationship that unfolded between a small, common octopus and a man struggling to make sense of his life. Over the period of a year, the octopus and the man formed a remarkable bond with each other, deep...
2023-09-2209 min
Beauty & Bone PodcastIssue #2 : On why I'm becoming less interested in talking about motherhoodCan I be deeply honest with you for a moment? I am becoming less and less interested in talking about motherhood. Which, yes, I realise is a little strange for someone who has talked about little else on her socials for the last couple of years…Let me explain.As humans we naturally are drawn to a pack, to a ‘tribe’ - and motherhood is no different. It is comforting to feel seen and recognised and part of a community that is just like you.But there are problems with this too.For...
2023-06-0205 min
Beauty & Bone PodcastAmy Taylor Kabbaz on MatrescenceIn this conversation we talk about ::* Amy’s own story of realising that she could no long manage to continue to be the same woman she was before having her children and how it took a near pregnancy loss for her to realise that she needed to begin to let go of much she had held on to for so long* How she searched for and did not find an explanation for the massive changes she felt she was going through as a motherAmy also shares some incredible insights in to ::* why it is that so ma...
2023-05-1946 min
The Happy Mama Movement with Amy Taylor-Kabbaz#194 - Honouring the Seasons of Motherhood with Layla O'MaraMaybe matresence is so hard to define because of the vastly different experiences a woman can have from birth to birth. My guest today, Layla O'Mara is no exception. Layla had two of her children in Germany and her third in her hometown of Ireland. That led her on the journey towards matresence activism and also deepened her understanding of the different elements and seasons within us. Listen as Amy and Layla discuss:When our partners go back to work and how profound that can be in a country where there is little family support.Cultural expectations post...
2022-05-1730 min
The Women's PodcastEp 549 Matrescence: what happens to a woman when she becomes a mother?In this week's episode, we're talking about matrescence. That's the word used to describe the physical, emotional, hormonal and social transition to becoming a mother. Everyone understands that adolescence is an awkward phase, but during matrescence mothers are expected to be deliriously happy, while simultaneously losing control over the way they look and feel. With Mother’s Day this weekend, we thought it would be the perfect time to find out more about this transformative time in many women’s lives. Layla O’Mara, a post partum doula, acupuncturist and mum of three, and Caroline Foran, the aut...
2022-03-2443 min
Heart of the Matter'Mothering' Episode Two with Layla O' MaraWelcome to this second episode in the special 'Mothering' series. In this episode, I chat with Layla O' Mara. Layla is a mum of 3, an acupuncturist, doula and provides postpartum care for new Mothers through her business Nua Nua.
In this episode, Layla and I dive into the concept of Matresence, how we can better support new mothers and how to bring more awareness to all of the needs women will have at this time.
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2021-10-1354 min
A Duck in a TreeA Duck in a Tree 2021-05-22 | The Meaning of Without
The 463rd of a series of weekly radio programmes created by :zoviet*france:
First broadcast 22 May 2021 by Resonance 104.4 FM, and CJMP 90.1 FM
Thanks to the artists included here for their fine work.
track list
00 Roddy Hunter - Intro
01 John Cage - "I am here and there is nothing to say…"
02 Amy Cutler - Erthe Toc of Erthe (Layla Legard)
03 Kit Haigh - Aurora
04 France Jobin - #F6E36B
05 Lieutenant Caramel + Shaun Robert - Banquet des hiatus
06 Altered:Carbon - Imposter
07 Mara's Torment - Tactile...
2021-05-2558 min
Owning It: The Anxiety PodcastOwning It: Why my anxiety soared after having a babyFor this episode, I am joined by Layla O'Mara, founder of Nuanua.com, a wonderful online resource with courses that nurture mamas in their postpartum journey. Layla was someone I turned to in a moment of desperation, when I found myself, having come home from hospital with my new baby boy, feeling as though I had plummeted to the depths of anxiety. I didn't feel happy or excited or relieved, I felt consumed by anxiety, physically and emotionally. It's not nice to say this out loud, but it took me a while to feel happy. Layla here explains where...
2021-05-0341 min
Ready To Pop: The Ultimate Pregnancy Podcast with Caroline Foran#8 Ready to Pop: Your Wellbeing in the 4th Trimester with Postpartum Doula Layla O'MaraFor the last episode in this 8 part pregnancy series, I am joined by Layla O’Mara, qualified postpartum doula and acupuncturist and founder of NuaNua.com (where she offers an incredible postpartum wellbeing course) to talk about coping with the fourth trimester. Yes there is a fourth. The baby has arrived but you are in recovery mode and everything is new to you. While the focus culturally tends to shift from you to baby, at this point, your wellbeing, mentally and physically has never been more important. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...
2020-06-2536 min
The Harvest SeasonGet a Library CardAl goes through the news of the fortnight, and then gives his initial thoughts about Sumemr in Mara Also, Raschelle appears for a very important statement. Black Lives Matter.
Timings
[00:00] BLM Statement
[08:30] Intro
[09:16] What have I been playing?
[09:45] News
[15:11] Summer in Mara Initial Thoughts
[18:53] Outro
Links
Summer in Mara on Steam
Summer in Mara on Switch
Ooblets Early Access Trailer
Ooblets on Epic
Friends of Mineral Town on Steam
Snacko Kickstarter
Forager Info
Village Monsters v0.75
Littlewood v0.96
2020-06-2420 min
TRANSFORMED with Britta Bushnell7. A White Woman's Mess: My Ongoing Process with Unpacking Racism - Special EpisodeThis episode is different. I don’t have a guest to talk with, it’s just me sharing my thoughts about racism. This episode is mostly for white folks or at least non-black people. Anyone is welcome to listen, but in this episode, I am a white woman speaking to other white people about racism. There are experts on the lived experience of being Black in the U.S. (pretty much all Black people living in the U.S.) and there are white people who specialize in talking to other white people about racism. I’m not either of these...
2020-06-0932 min
Newborn Mothers PodcastGerman And Irish Postpartum CareI chat with Newborn Mothers graduate Layla O'Mara from NuaNua. Together we discuss the system of ‘wochenbett’ in Germany - where you are cared for by a midwife in your home for 40 days, the difference this care makes in your long-term health and the contrast of its absence. At the core of this conversation, we explore how publicly funded or insurance provided postpartum care is the way of the future.Learn more about postpartum care. Visit newbornmothers.com
2018-12-1531 min
PoderFemenino"La transnochada: Espacio de empoderamiento de mujeres trans"En esta emisión compartimos el micrófono con nuestra invitada Layla Sánchez con quien tuvimos la oportunidad de hablar sobre "La transnochada" como espacio de empoderamiento de mujeres trans en el cual , mediante un proceso personal, se invita a otras mujeres trans a reapropiarse de sus cuerpos y de espacios de generación de opinión como la radio.
En nuestra sección de machirrines platicamos acerca de Jenaro Villamil y su irrumpimiento en la marcha convocada con motivo del feminicidio de #Mara en #Puebla.
Finalmente en la sección del lavadero comentamos el porcentaje de acoso cibernético viv...
2017-09-2956 min
The Leslie Marshall ShowSCOTUS Obstruction, Millenials & Wages, Anti-LGBT LawsMichele L. Jawando guest hosts the show today. She is the Vice President for Legal Progress at American Progress. Previously, she served as general counsel and senior advisor to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), where she was responsible for a wide-ranging portfolio of policy issues pertaining to the federal judiciary and nominations; voting rights; women and labor issues; LGBT issues; education; telecommunications; technology; and ethics.Here are the guests Michele interviewed along with the topics they discussed. (There were also callers dispersed throughout the show).1. Lauren Victoria Burke, Contributing writer for NBCNews.com and TheRoot.com, and...
2016-04-071h 19