Advertising for periods likes to paint a picture that your ‘time of the month’ is no bother at all. Except anyone who has lived with the reality of heavy periods knows what a nonsense this is. Excruciating pain and leaks from gushing/flooding events that no sanitary product can prevent make you either fearful of leaving…
*Trigger warning: this podcast episode discusses infertility.* Your husband quits his job to help you build the next phase of your business only for the panic of the pandemic to hit just a couple of months later. Your thriving face-to-face career supporting women in their 40s through complex fertility issues needs to pivot…fast…but you’re homeschooling one…
“We don’t wait until all our teeth have fallen out to go to the dentist. So why do we wait until we’re in crisis to deal with our mental health?” 🤷 This is just one of the brilliant nuggets dropped by Kathryn Cettina, who jumped onto the Sparkle and Thrive Podcast to chat about MYNDUP,…
⭐ Trigger warning: this episode discusses workplace bullying and stillbirth. If you are affected by any of the issues raised, please check out the links below for details of organisations offering support. Redundancy, the death of her parents, moving house, menopause, and a lifetime of mental health issues created a perfect storm for Jo Fentiman.…
Are you codependent? How can you tell if you’re in a codependent relationship? And what even is codependency anyway? 🤷 All questions the brilliant Maria Wybrow tackles in this eye-opening podcast episode. Because if you seek the approval of others as a fixer, rescuer or people pleaser, place your self-worth in the hands of others…
They say that health is wealth, and Melanie Lee knows this better than anyone. After experiencing burnout not once but three times in her life and following a bout of Covid right at the beginning of the pandemic that left her and her kids wondering whether she would wake up to see another day, Mel…