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Menopause Conversations

Angela Counselembracemenopause.com.au
Discover the Menopause Conversations Podcast – your go-to resource for natural solutions to thrive during the menopause transition! Hosted by Angela Counsel, a qualified naturopath and menopause coach, this podcast dives into everything you need to know about navigating menopause without relying on HRT. From tackling stubborn weight gain, hot flushes, and brain fog to addressing hair loss, skin changes, and gut health, each episode delivers expert advice and actionable tips to help you feel confident and energised. Whether you’re looking for personalised health strategies, insights into managing hormonal changes, or just want to understand your body better, Menopause Conversations is here to empower you to take charge of your health and live your best life through menopause and beyond. Don’t let menopause hold you back—tune in today and join the conversation!
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Episodes

Sex and Sensuality in your 40s and beyond

In this episode of Wise Women Conversations I have a chat with Taryn Harvey who is a Tantra Intimacy Coach. We cover so much in this conversation and I think it is a very important conversation that needs to be had more often. Firstly Taryn shares how she went from being a pharmaceutical rep who sold Viagra to being a Tantra Coach who teaches men and women how to re-connect to their sensuality. Other topics of the conversation were: •the difference between sex and intimacy •the role of self-love...

Jan 31, 202045 min

Your body is speaking to you

If you have unprocessed emotions which you suppress and hide at some point your body will react with symptoms. The longer you ignore your emotions or suppress your symptoms the worse your health will get until you develop a serious disease. Your body speaks to you with symptoms, are you ready to listen? In this week's episode of Wise Women Conversations your host Angela Counsel shares the concept of the BodyMind or Mind Body Connection. These concepts are no longer in the realms of woo woo, ther...

Jan 23, 202038 min

Racial Acceptance and Love

In this week's episode of Wise Women Conversations I chat with Faith Agugu who is the creator of a fantastic event for mid-life women called Silver Sirens. Faith invited me along to her last event and it was fantastic to see such a great line up of women who are in mid-life sharing their stories and wisdom. Faith has a special interest in the mental health in African and Australian aboriginal communities and in this conversation we also touch on a very important topic and Faith shares how she go...

Jan 18, 202049 min

Getting a good nights sleep

This week's episode of Wise Women Conversations is another solo episode and I am speaking about the importance of sleep. I often get asked what single thing I would recommend to improve someone's health and well-being and my answer would always be to get a good nights sleep. Sleep is highly underrated in our society yet it is one of the most important things we need to be doing if we want to be healthy. Poor sleep leads to hormonal imbalances, weight gain and can increase your risk of certain ca...

Jan 07, 202041 min

Talk to the Animals

This week's episode of Wise Women Conversations is a fun one with Bianca De Reus, Animal Communicator. Bianca shares how a snake encounter was the catalyst that changed her life from a analytical corporate financial employee to a self-employed animal communicator and energy healer. Whilst Bianca loves communicating with animals this conversation centres around opening your heart to connect to other beings, animals and humans included. Bianca shares how you can tune open a communication channel w...

Dec 30, 201949 min

Connecting Body and Mind with Yoga Therapy

In this week's episode of Wise Women Conversations I have a chat with Liama Aesha who is a Yoga Therapy Teacher and Shiatsu Practitioner. We talk about the role that yoga can play in healing the mind, body and spirit. Liama has a particular interest in working with people who experience anxiety and depression. She shares that yoga helps women get out of their head into their body where the healing process can start.

Dec 15, 201941 min

Release and Let Go

As I record this podcast it is Dec 12th 2019 and we will be experiencing the final full moon for the year and for the decade. As the full moon is a time when I reflect on what has happened sine the last full moon I decided it was time to reflect on the year that was 2019 and the past decade. I invite you to join me in this reflection. In this episode I share with you some journalling prompts which will help you to reflect on the highs, the challenges and the lessons that 2019 had for you. At the...

Dec 11, 201926 min

Getting out in nature and outdoor adventures

In this week's episode of Wise Women Conversations I am talking about 2 of my favourite subjects with Yvonne Shepherd - being in nature and walking. Yvonne shares her adventures from joining a gym, to buying the gym and then becoming the Marketing Director for the gym franchise for Australia and New Zealand. Not only was this a bit of an unusual career path for Yvonne it set her on the path to building a business based around outdoor adventures for women. During this conversation we chat about h...

Dec 02, 201944 min

The personalised approach to health and wellbeing

This week's episode of the Wise Women Conversations Podcast is another solo one from me. I share with you what real personalised health solutions mean to me and how I discovered the particular system that I use. We go right back to the beginning of you and consider your genes as well as many different environmental factors that make you the you that you are today (there are a lot of you's in that sentence). When we look at both your genes as well as what is called epigenetics (your environment, ...

Nov 28, 201954 min

What do your thoughts have to do with the way you feel?

In this week's episode of Wise Women Conversations we go on a bit of a journey to discover the role that your mind plays in the way you are feeling. My guest on this episode is Shan Withnell, a dear friend of mine, she is an intuitive massage therapist and hypnotherapist. Shan has always had a special gift of understanding how the body works and more importantly how it heals. Shan shares a story about when she was training how she had to be able to feel a single strand of hair through the London...

Nov 21, 201953 min

Managing Stress through Connection

This week's episode of Wise Women Conversations is a recording of an interview that I did with Bianca De Reus of Connected Beings for her summit last year. This conversation goes in many different directions as we discuss stress and how it impacts your body and your life and how by being connected to our body and our inner wisdom we can create the life we have dreamed of.

Nov 14, 201951 min

Breaking the cycle of period poverty

This week's Wise Women Conversations is one that I wish we didn't have to have but it is a very important topic. I am speaking to Rochelle Courtney from Share the Dignity about a very real problem in this country - Period Poverty!! To be honest until I came across the work that Rochelle was doing a few years ago I never realised that there were women who were unable to purchase the menstrual products that they needed each month. Because of period poverty there are girls who can't go to school wh...

Nov 06, 201942 min

What happens to your hormones after 40

This week's episode is a recording of a live video that I did with Jodee Monckton from Enhance Your Healing. I share what happens to your hormones as you move through your 40s and beyond. We talk about how you can tell if you have a hormonal imbalance and what you can do to re-balance your hormones. I spend some time explaining what personalised health is all about and why there is not a single dietary and lifestyle solution that suits everyone. This conversation goes in many different direction...

Oct 31, 20191 hr 2 min

Ageing is an Attitude with Lynda Dyer

In this week's Wise Women Conversations I chat with Lynda Dyer (Coach, Speaker, Author of 11 best selling books and NLP Master Trainer) about the mindset around ageing. I have often said that we live in an ageist society where youth is idolised and older women often find themselves feeling invisible and unworthy. But is it just society that has this type of beliefs, what about our personal and family beliefs around growing older? Lynda has written a book called Age is an Attitude and she shares ...

Oct 21, 201938 min

Balance your Hormones by Loving Your Liver

Wise Women Conversations is back after a short break with a solo episode from Angela. In this weeks episode Angela shares with you the importance of a healthy liver when it comes to balancing your hormones. Many of the common symptoms associated with peri-menopause are related to an under functioning liver. Angela shares: •the role the liver plays in hormone regulation and feeling great •the common signs of a sluggish liver •the causes of a sluggish liver •what you can do to support your liver a...

Oct 17, 201948 min

The Power of a Peaceful Woman

In this episode of Wise Women Conversations I chat with Jennifer Forster who is the author of the book "The Power of a Peaceful Woman - 49 Ways to Drop the Armour and Defuse the Drama". I loved this conversation with Jen as she shared the story of when her life fell apart and a wise woman came along and helped her to find herself again. You will have to listen to the episode to hear the twist to the story which had me in tears. Jen talks about being aware of what is happening in your life, accep...

Jul 17, 20191 hr 8 min

How food impacts your hormones

In this week's episode of Wise Women Conversations Angela discusses the impact of food on your hormones and any symptoms of menopause that you might be experiencing. Many women don't understand the important role that food plays in the way in which they feel and food is even more important as our hormones start to shift. But is there one single diet that works for every woman as she transitions through peri-menopause and beyond? The answer is no. Everyone is different and every body has differen...

Jul 09, 201937 min

Wise Women Gathering in Circles

In this episode of Wise Women Conversations I chat with Mitle Southey all about Women's Circles. Mitle started her career off in the corporate world as a corporate Lawyer, she then went on to be a health coach, run an organic cafe and now her life is all about women's circles. Mitle shares the power of women coming together in circle, to share, to listen and to be present for each other. We discuss the difference between having a catch up with your girlfriends and sitting in circle and how both ...

May 29, 201952 min

Menopause for women without children

In this week's Wise Women Conversations I speak with Chantal Vanderhaeghen about a very important topic - women who reach menopause without having children. For some women the choice not to have children is a conscious one but for Chantal it wasn't. She had always wanted to have children but going into an early menopause meant that she ran out of time and this impacted her feelings about herself as a woman. Chantal shares her journey and is very open about how she felt at the time and the impact...

May 19, 201953 min

7 Steps to Navigating Menopause with Ease

In this episode of Wise Women Conversations your host Angela Counsel takes you through the 7 steps to help you navigate the menopause transition with ease. These steps form the basis of Angela's work with her clients and her programs, it is also what she has implemented into her life. Angela describes the steps like a set of balancing stones, they all stack on top of each other and if one it not balanced properly the whole stack can fall. The 7 steps are - Foundations (values & vision), Phys...

May 01, 201947 min

Having the Courage to Bloom

In this week's episode of Wise Women Conversations I chat with Brenda Tsiaousis all about courage. Brenda has written a book called Courage to Bloom and she shares her story as a faith based business mentor. For many years Brenda hid her faith from the public eye because she was afraid that it would impact her business. There came a time when Brenda realised that she needed to own everything about her especially something as important as her faith. It took a heap of courage for Brenda to shift h...

Apr 10, 201933 min

Menopause in the Workplace with Thea O'Connor

In this week's episode of Wise Women Conversations I talk to Thea O'Connor about a very important topic - Menopause in the Workplace. For many years the topic of menopause was not discussed in public and certainly was not spoken about in the workplace. With more and more menopausal women in the workplace we need to start talking about what is happening to them and find ways to assist them to fulfil their job roles. Women report that their greatest concern at work is their brain fog and inability...

Apr 02, 201946 min

Sacred Conversation with Chantal Vanderhaeghen

In this Wise Women Conversation I chat with Chantal Vanderhaeghen from Unfold your Freedom. This conversation was taken from a facebook live that I did with Chantal the previous week and we talk all about menopause, what happens with your hormones, the physical symptoms that some women experience plus we also talk about finding your true self. I really loved this conversation which is why I wanted to share it on this podcast. We don't talk much about Chantal's story, we touch on it a little bit,...

Mar 27, 201956 min

Creating your Next Chapter with Angela Raspass

In this week's Wise Women Conversation I have a chat with Angela Raspass who is a Business Mentor who helps women create their Next Chapter Business. Many women in their mid-stage if life decide to start businesses that fulfil them and give them purpose. Our conversation takes many different paths as we discuss the longing for face to face connection that many women have as well as women's search for something different in their life. Angela shares that it is important to follow your heart but t...

Mar 20, 201946 min

How manage menopause symptoms naturally

In this episode of Wise Women Conversations your host Angela Counsel shares with you some great natural solutions to help you manage your menopause associated symptoms. She shares her favourite herbs, nutrients and food solutions for common symptoms such as hot flushes, insomnia, anxiety and depression. As with anything health related please don't use the information in this podcast to diagnose or treat a condition, consult a qualified health professional should you have any questions about what...

Mar 14, 201926 min

Dance Yourself Awake with Natalie Southgate

In this week's Wise Women Conversations I chat with Natalie Southgate who is the creator of Chakradance a fantastic dance technique that can help you connect to your body and heal yourself. Natalie shares how she created Chakradance 20 years ago and how it helped her to heal and to completely change her life. Natalie has so much wisdom to share as she guides us through each chakra. You can hear the beautiful energy in her voice as she steps through each different chakra and explains the differen...

Mar 06, 201931 min

Facing your Fears with Tegan Marshall

In this week's Wise Women Conversations I catch up with Tegan Marshall who is the author of the book Facing Fears. Tegan and I talk about some of my fears and how I can overcome them, while this was a bit of a personal coaching session for me I think the information that Tegan shares is valuable for everyone. I hope that you enjoy this Wise Women Conversation.

Feb 26, 201938 min

Connecting to self and others with Lisa Entwisle

In this week's Wise Women Conversations I catch up with Lisa Entwisle to talk all about connection. Connection to self, connection to others, connection to nature. The conversation takes down several different rabbit holes as we discuss the masks that women wear and the fear that some have when it comes to taking off their mask and connecting to their true self. We also talk about being clear about your values and making decisions based on your values. I hope that you enjoy this Wise Women Conve...

Feb 18, 201942 min

Finding Yourself with Keri Norley

In this week's Wise Women Conversation Keri Norley joins us to talk about finding yourself and accepting yourself. Keri shares her journey over the past few years from being sick and overwhelmed to thriving in a different country where she knows very few people. Keri had the opportunity to start again and at the same time show up as a different person, this time she stepped out from behind her masked and owned who she truly was. Keri shares how she learned to become comfortable with being alone ...

Feb 12, 201956 min

Making a Difference with Kathy Wong

This week's Wise Women Conversation is with Kathy Wong, who is making a difference in the lives of thousands of children in India. Having retired from her business to live in the country Kathy decided that sitting around gardening wasn't enough for her, she wanted to make an impact in the world. This led to Kathy moving back to Sydney with a mission to make a real difference in the lives of children in India. Kathy shares her story and the difference that she has made to over 7000 children to da...

Feb 05, 201933 min
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