86: Menstruality with Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer

08/08/23 • 60 min

“Connection is the substrate of parenting and that rests on my connection to myself. When I have connection, the creative possibilities are endless just as they are when I have connection with my children. We come out of a stuck place and the space between us opens up and there is so much more room for everyone’s experience in that connection.”

Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer join me in today’s episode about Menstruality.

Alexandra and Sjanie are the co-founders of Red School, and co-authors of the iconic and hugely celebrated book, Wild Power, and their new book Wise Power.

We discuss menstrual cycle awareness, the inner seasons, and how to honor our cyclical needs in parenting shifting 1% at a time.

Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast86.

Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer join me in today’s episode about Menstruality.

Alexandra and Sjanie are the co-founders of Red School, and co-authors of the iconic and hugely celebrated book, Wild Power, and their new book Wise Power.

We discuss menstrual cycle awareness, the inner seasons, and how to honor our cyclical needs in parenting shifting 1% at a time.

Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast86.

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85: Polyvagal Theory with Claire Wilson

“Children behave their way to safety.”

Claire Wilson joins me in today’s episode about Polyvagal Theory.

Claire is an author, speaker, trainer, and therapist with her book Grounded and her program Grounded Grown Ups, who uses Polyvagal Theory to help children and their grown ups.

We discuss the autonomic nervous system hierarchy, being grounded, neuroception, trauma, co-regulation, and autonomic flexibility.

Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast85.

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87: Self Compassion with Sarah Peyton

“We get to upgrade the mother within us. We get to move toward a sense of our mother’s essential self as the part that gets to mother us. If our mother were completely supported, if she had gotten to receive her re-mothering, if she had gotten to heal her emotional trauma, if she had gotten to live with resonance and self-warmth, what would she be like to us? How would she be in relationship with us? We get to bring that essential being in to become the mother that we carry in our cells.”

Sarah Peyton joins me in today’s episode about Self Compassion.

Sarah is the bestselling author of Conscious Uncoupling and an award-winning marriage and family psychotherapist.

We discuss unconscious contracts, resonance, self-warmth, neuroplasticity, default mode network, hemispheres, body-centered awareness, vagus nerve, accompaniment, the time-traveling amygdala, and circuits.

Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast87.