Radically Thriving

It's everyone's favorite style episode. Catch up with us after the holidays and new years goal setting! We spent a LOT of time together over the holidays and even ended up doing a whole bunch of our friends enneagrams at a birthday party. It was so fun to get deep and really get to know our friends on another level. We talk about new years goal setting, we talk about LET THEM! Which I am sure this...

We are loving learning from our friends journey's. Michelle is a bit older than us and has DONE the research. Literally. She's a smarty pants academic who read up on all of the choices she made about taking HRT. She sits down with us today to talk about what she's using and how it's made her feel. We're still trying to figure out where we will go, and where we stand with this. But we love bringing...

Ariel has carried 5 babies as a gestational surrogate which resulted in 4 live births – the most recent in the summer of 2023. Although Ariel is now retired as a surrogate, she continues to be an active presence in the fertility community and leverages her strong social media following to normalize all roads to parenthood for women and couples around the world.  Just this summer she took a solo tr...

Christina, a wife and mother to four children, dedicates herself to supporting women and their families as a Traditional Birth Companion. Her journey into the realm of birth work started 13 years ago, following the birth of her fourth child. Opting for a home birth with a midwife after three conventional hospital births proved to be a pivotal decision that reshaped the trajectory of her life. Chri...

Now that we're old, we take our skin care SERIOUSLY. One of the things that makes us feel the MOST grown up, is using our Understory Botanicals products! They are beautiful AND effective. Maria is smart, and passionate about all things skincare, wellness, and balance. Listen in while we chat with her about being 40, upgrading your skin care, and taking good CARE of yourself. You can find Maria onl...

When you are approaching your due date there are a lot of decisions to be made, and things to consider. We usually have to give this pep talk to our clients just to remind them their body is wise, and they do not need to be medically managed to go into labour. Being overdue isn't a sickness or disease. **disclaimer this episode is not medical advice, please listen to your care providers at your ow...

Like a birth story, but different. Today we chat with Mel Ublansky (co-owner of Kure Yoga in Ingersoll) about her perimenopause and menopause journey. She has had an amazing experience with HRT and has an empowering message to share! Perimenopause is overwhelming, but we can be empowered with education, and knowledge. Sharing stories is a huge part of that for us! IF you have a perimenopause exper...

We're back babes!!!! (second time is the charm!) If you listened Mon/Tues, that was an error! An old episode snuck through but now we've fixed it! We're chatting about our summers, our social media break, and what is going on in our perimenopausal worlds lately!! We've got some incredible guests lined up for season 6 and would LOVE if you could rate, review and subscribe to our lit...

We've got another birth story episode today where we are talking about feeing supported in birth, knowing what you want, and how to get it. We talk about the white board which we tell all our clients to do. We discuss faith's role in the birthing space. We also talk a whole lot about how empowering birth can be. This episode is for you if you think you want a home birth, and you need some...

TRIGGER WARNING: We discuss sexual assault, rape, trauma, sex, and masturbation in this episode. Listen to it away from young ears, and skip if any of those topics are triggering. Today on Radically Thriving we have the passionate, amazing, magnetically beautiful Caitlyn Dale. We met because she's a teacher at my yoga studio, and I fell in love with her soul. We discuss her history with trauma...

Today is your favourite ADHD style all over the place podcast! We talk about our cycles class coming up, where we are at with our training lately, psychology and random questions.

In today’s conversation, we are introduced to Laura McLennan, biologist, nutritionist and owner of Health Scope here in Dorchester. Laura gives us insight into her new lifestyle and the importance of being a rested women after she got her permission slip of a lifetime in the form of breast cancer.  After a double mastectomy, Laura knew she had to change her hectic lifestyle, and her career. Now sh...

Today Sarah and I catch up, reflect, talk about perimenopause of course and the lack of research for women's health, and then list the 5 things each of us love doing for our health right now: Broken down here they are: 1: exercise/movement 2: sleep 3: protein 4: supplements 5: community, routine, and prioritizing self If you loved this episode please screen share and tag us! We'd love to g...

Today Sarah and I chat with Dr. Stephanie Cowie, a naturopathic doctor from Toronto, Ontario. She helps women conquer bloat, burnout, hormonal imbalances and perimenopause to unlock their best selves. We chat about why THESE years do matter, and that you can feel amazing through this time! Perimenopause does not have to suck! We discuss burnout, bloat, long covid, hysterectomies and cervical ablas...

When we meet with new clients we get to hear their stories of conception, and often are saddened by the experiences of people with infertility, PCOS, and endometriosis. We KNOW not enough research is done on women's health, and we see first hand how that affects all of us. We need to demand better. We need to make change. But we all need to understand from a young age that we WILL have to advo...

In the wise words of Sheryl Crow: A change will do you good. We're in a changing season. We are growing, adjusting, tending to our soil and trying to grow into beautiful perimenopausal dahlias. LMAO. Today we talk about our health journeys, perimenopause, our trip to Sedona.

On today's episode we are talking with Briar Culbert. Briar is a mother, multi-passionate learner, healer, and therapist. In her work with clients as a Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO) she combines her training in Spiritual Psychotherapy with her background in movement, biochemistry, and ceremony to foster a truly holistic and integrative approach. Through Briar's embodied practices, thou...

A conversation with Sarah’s 12 year old son. We cover his love of engines, what farm life has been like, and what he misses from the city. We touch on what it’s like being a twin, if it’s weird knowing so much about birth, and feelings - what it’s like being a boy. Lastly we discuss what our schooling journey has looked like to date, with jumping around from unschooling, homeschooling, French imme...

On today's episode we catch up after the holidays, Sarah starts us off with some heavy topics, and then we talk about our planned sabbatical, our Sedona Trip, new years word of the year's and so much more. This episode is all over the place, which is our favorite kind! This episode today mentions Understory Botanicals, our FAVORITE skin care brand! Check her out at @understorybotanicals on...

On today’s episode we’re talking to Lara’s current Health Coach, her friend Colin Jackson.  He’s a beautiful human being, with the absolute biggest heart. Specializing in Women’s health over 35, I learned so much from him about hormones, rest, and honouring what my body truly needs. You wouldn't believe how good a nourished, safe nervous system feels!! We talk today about  Why him. Why a man i...

**sensitivity warning, you are ALWAYS allowed to protect your heart and soul, so if hearing about traumatic birth is NOT something that will serve you right now, please skip this episode** Today on the podcast we have Teela,  a Registered Provisional Psychologist specializing in Birth Trauma  We talk about: Victim blaming  Why are we not asking the SYSTEM how to prevent birth trauma!!!!?  How do w...

This conversation answers nothing and is a whole lot of ranting and rambling: TRIGGER WARNING - We talk about stillbirth, and babies not making it in this podcast a lot. Please do not listen if you aren't feeling safe with that kind of content. This is a great conversation for any doulas to listen to who are tired of the system!

On Radically Thriving today we talk all about: Experiences with Birth Control  Ways to track your cycle more deeply - Oura ring  Temp drop  How Lara has never touched her cervix  Cervical fluid  Period rituals for day one of your cycle  Priotizing Fats in the first half of your cycle  The importance of Protein  Normalizing Periods.  Find Olivia at @oliviapjones on instagram Take her class Hormonal...

On todays episode we have the amazing Cassidy Lee Bell  She’s a 13 Moon (True Sky) Astrologer, who is reweaving the ancient earth ways. She is a craniosacral therapist and a bodyworker, and also helps bring women back to their truest most powerful self.  She walks us through our systemic beliefs about astrology, and explains why I don’t need to be embarrassed I have a tattoo of Libra, when I may t...

On today’s episode we have Jessica London, Postpartum PT specialist. We chatted with her about our online education a couple months ago and really loved her, and her brain! We had such an awesome time getting to know each other that we HAD to have her on the podcast. She specializes and has a passion in treating the pre/postnatal community after having experienced the birth of her son. It was at t...