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The Happier Life ProjectCyclical Living: Harnessing our Natural Cycles & Rhythms with Lou PerhamCyclical living is the practice of aligning with the natural cycles and rhythms present in our lives, whether it’s the seasons, the Moon, your menstrual cycle, or your circadian rhythm. It can also apply to how we approach projects, meetings, or plan activities at work.
Everything in our environment and bodies operates in cycles—our sleep patterns, hormonal shifts, breathing, and heartbeat. The essence of cyclical living involves being mindful of these rhythms and adapting to the natural ebbs and flows of energy and emotions. For instance, in women's health, cyclical living often focuses on the menst...2024-10-2949 min
Life - An Inside JobCyclical Living Unwarapped featuring Lou PerhamCyclical Living Unwrapped explores the gifts and challenges of cyclical life with experts in menstruation, perimenopause and cyclical living.This podcast is brought to you by Leora and Kate at Woman Kind. We'll hear how Lou manages heavy periods, how she cares for herself in each season, how her birth experience affected her ovulation, how Medicine Circles supported her, and most importantly the different kinds of rest Lou uses in each season. Lou is a Menstruality and Cyclical Living Mentor, educator, speaker and Mum. She connects people to their cyclical nature so they can live...2023-09-0222 min
Cyclical Living Series9. The moon and our menstrual cycle with Hannah DudleyThis 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 influenceHow the moon cycle mirrors the menstrual cycleThe corker question she asks herself to ensure she’s being disc...2023-05-0655 minCyclical Living Series8. Confidence, Leadership & Rewriting stories with Lauren Currie OBEToday 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 Manage...2023-04-2855 minCyclical Living Series7. Mental health and the menstrual cycle with Le'Nise BrothersLe’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....2023-02-1046 minCyclical Living Series6. Running a cyclical business with integrity and activism with Sophie Jane HardySophie Jane Hardy has over a decade of experience building successful marketing strategies and launches for individuals, organisations and non-profits, like the TreeSisters ‘Million Trees’ campaign and Red School‘s global menstruality movement.She is the creator of Your Cyclical Business course, 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. I know you're going to love hearing her share.In this episode cover everything from running a cyclica...2023-02-0353 minCyclical Living Series5. The power of rest with Barbara DopferWe 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 restThe truth behind resting (this is not what you think)Why having a guide helps when you’re starting outHow we landed on agreeing we need rest groupsWhat rest is notWhat rest feels likeIf you’d like to connect with Barbara, you can do so below:https://barbaradopfer.com/https://www.instagram.com...2023-01-2742 minCyclical Living Series4. The subtle and slow journey to self love and self acceptance through cycle awareness with Laura WilkesLaura 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 workWhat ‘living in alignment’ means and how she shar...2023-01-2059 minCyclical Living Series3. Awaken to your cycle wisdom with Jane BrennanJane 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 treadmillWhat her concerns were coming off birth control and what actually happenedThe first book she read which opened her eyes by Alissa Vitta How she works with her cycle in her role as an...2022-12-1747 minCyclical Living Series2. Working with the two energies of your cycle and the inner seasonsThis 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...2022-12-0922 minCyclical Living Series1. Your menstrual cycle is your permission slip with Jennifer GrahamJennifer 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 WinterHer recommendations on books to help you get informed about your cycle and to start chartingIn learning about her cycle, it helped her switch from a medical approach to a more holistic...2022-12-0248 min
Cyclical Living SeriesCyclical Living Series - TrailerWelcome 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.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 gr...2022-12-0202 min
Starting the Conversation211 | Working with your period and menstrual cycle, not against it, with Lou PerhamHow can we better understand our menstrual cycle? And what does it look like to run our business in a way that compliments it? This week I'm joined by cyclical living expert Lou Perham to pick her brain on the link between periods and productivity. _____ Lou | Instagram, Free Cycle Tracking Toolkit, Productivity POD Online Community AB | Website, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok 2022-11-1559 min
The Victoria Sardain PodcastWorking with your cycle not against it with Lou PerhamThis episode we are speaking with Cyclical Living Coach and Mentality Mentor Lou Perham about what it means to work with your menstrual cycle instead of against it. In this episode Lou describes how to find and connect with our superpower at every stage of our cycle and gives us the permission to "be more tree" AKA unapologetically ourselves. Lou helps to completely reframe our view of the female cycle from something that causes us pain, makes us emotional and "forces us" to slow down - into a magical internal sustainability system that keeps us pr...2022-05-091h 02