Feeling Female AF's Podcast
Welcome to Feeling Female AF, the podcast where we want to share everything we keep learning on our ongoing navigation through life as a woman. This is the stuff we wish we'd learned at school, or at least in our twenties and we know we have a duty to share it with you too.We are Kate and Vicky - two best friends, in our thirties who have both been on a journey experiencing loss, love, divorce, fertility difficulties, hormonal problems and all the other usual stuff that comes with being female. We have supported one another on our individual journeys and said yes to many new things to help us navigate why we feel like we do.If you would like to continue the conversation, please do join us in our FREE The Feeling Female AF Lounge on Facebook. This is a group for like-minded females to chat about the ways they are navigating life as a modern woman. Just search for the group and request to join.Follow us on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/feelingfemaleaf and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/feelingfemaleaf
Episodes
Gina is a fellow podcaster and an inspiring woman.
As well as being a yoga teacher, specifically womb yoga and holding women's circles, she educates people on menstrual cycles.
We speak to Gina about the path that took her towards teaching people about the menstrual cycle and we discuss the importance of cycle tracking.
Find out more about Gina and join her Menstrual Cycle Awareness courses via
This episode is all about the Autumn/Luteal phase of your cycle.
We share the best ways to look after yourself in this time with food, exercise and self-care.
As well as discuss the things that may show up for you during this phase of your cycle.
Remember everyones experience is their own so don't panic if yours doesn't match up perfectly to the next person. Your cycle is yours alone.
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This episode is all about the Summer/Ovulation phase of your cycle.
We share the best ways to look after yourself in this time with food, exercise and self-care.
As well as discuss the things that may show up for you during this phase of your cycle.
Remember everyones experience is their own so don't panic if yours doesn't match up perfectly to the next person. Your cycle is yours alone.
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This episode is all about the Spring/Follicular phase of your cycle.
We share the best ways to look after yourself in this time with food, exercise and self-care.
As well as discuss the things that may show up for you during this phase of your cycle.
Remember everyones experience is their own so don't panic if yours doesn't match up perfectly to the next person. Your cycle is yours alone.
Following on from our last episode this week is all about the Winter. That is the Winter/Menstruation phase of your cycle.
We share the best ways to look after yourself in these times with food, exercise and self-care.
As well as discuss the various ways you can honour your Winter and what things may show up for you in that time.
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Most of us have some idea of when our beloved time of the month is due. Although sadly not enough of us are tracking the whole of our menstrual cycles and using that knowledge to assist us through our daily lives.
We have put together the next group of episodes to discuss what we have learnt about cycle tracking and how it can benefit you and/or others around you.
From day one of the cycle we will openly discuss ...
You are invited to our long overdue catch up!
We review the fertility series and where we both are now, then we move on to discuss wolf whistles and our experiences as women with harassment...
We feel really strongly about sharing the message as to what harassment is and think we can all play a part in educating ourselves and each other on what it is and how to stop it.
#FeelingfemaleAF #Real #sharings...
This fertility series is a mixture of our own stories and others.
Our very own Vicky shares part 2 of her Egg & Embryo freezing process.
As previously discussed Vicky, a single woman on a mission to create a back up plan for motherhood, shares her thoughts and feelings on her experience of IVF and the process she has gone through.
Speaking about the side effects of the drugs she took as well as the ...
This fertility series is a mixture of our own stories and others.
This episode was pre-recorded in 2020. Our very own Vicky shares part 1 of her Egg/Embryo freezing process.
Vicky, wanting to safeguard her fertility and provide herself with an insurance policy on motherhood, shares her initial thoughts and feeling on the process.
Talking openly and as always honestly, Vicky explains the reasons behind w...
This fertility series is a mixture of our own stories and others.
This week David shares with us his own and his wife's experiences of fertility treatments both Innside and outside of the UK.
Having discovered they were pregnant just a week prior to starting treatment, David and his wife were hit with the devastating news that their pregnancy would be short lived. This was due to the embryo halting developmen...
This fertility series is a mixture of our own stories and others.
This week Hayley tells us of her rough ride into the world of fertility treatments.
Starting with being diagnosed with PCOS Hayley speaks to us about the various investigations and shock discoveries she has experienced since starting her treatment in January 2015.
It is a challenging and complex journey Hayley and her husband have been on a...
This fertility series is a mixture of our own stories and others.
The episode we are sharing this week is Kates story. One half of Feeling female AF.
Kate started trying to conceive just after her wedding in May 2014 or at least she stopped taking contraceptives.
In November 2017 Kate and her husband Nigel sort help from their doctors and were quickly referred to the Liverpools Hewit centre.
Thr...
Laura Wright is a business owner from the North West who has shared her fertility story with us in the hope it gives others hope and encouragement on their own journeys.
Laura speaks to us about the massive highs and lowest of lows with her fertility experience. From discovering that her inability to lose the weight that she wanted to was due t...
We start off by speaking with Embryologist David Gibbon. His wealth of knowledge comes from working in the medical field from the mid 90's as an Embryologist and in 2000 he joined the HFEA as a scientific inspector.
Now retired from the NHS David supports patients that are seeking to use fertility services abroad.
In this episode...
Author, radio presenter and coach Gemma Ray shares her stress story.
Having dealt with an unexpected loss and the pressures of work and home life Gemma felt the extreme effects of stress. It forced a stop. A stop which she was able to use to go forward and find her 'mental 1st aid kit' and other techniques to ensure she didn't suffer in the same way ever again.
Listen in as we discuss methods...
We love a bit of bush talk and before you get excited for learning how to survive in the wilderness this isn't that kind of bush.
We discuss our own hairy legs, pits, arms and vulvas and go through the various processes we have of removing any unwanted hair from them.
Not only do we realise that there is a lot of social pressure on us to remove the hair from these areas, but we have also become adjusted to ...
This weeks episode contains graphic talk on duh duh duh.......periods!
We Know we bang on about them a fair bit, but we wanted to share with you some of the not so good times behind them. As always we want to be as honest as possible and that includes us talking about feelings, blood and some of the ways we look after ourselves during our menstruation.
April is stress awareness month and as we are massive advocates of therapy we want to remove the stigma and fear when it comes to choosing a therapist that is suitable for you.
In this episode we speak to CBT therapist Elisabeth Thompson about what led her to become a therapist and the types of therapy available to everyone.
She shares with us the most common reasons why women in general seek therapy. From menopau...
In this episode we speak to Mel Meik about her experience with becoming hairless at age 20, just prior to her 21st Birthday.
Mel found a treatment that worked for her and amazingly her hair grew back.
Sadly this was fairly short lived, as at age 25 she experienced further hairloss only this time it didn't affect the whole head.
From working through the reasons behind these traumatic events and spend...
This episode is all about period pads. We chose two brands to review. These were Bloom and Nora and Eco Lily Pads.
We discuss the lesser talked about reasons why we aren't fond of disposable Sanitary items and as always we give you our honest opinions on the products used.
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