Cyclical Motherhood

Kids EN ↓ 10 episodes

Welcome to the cyclical motherhood podcast with Hayley Anderson and Marinella Benelli, where we explore motherhood with the menstrual cycle and wider cycles as our guides. We created cyclical motherhood CIC to centre mother's and cyclical wisdom to help midwife the new, emergent story for motherhood that we all need. Our work together has its roots in the ongoing sharing of our mothering journeys with cycles in mind, and how much we feel this territory has to offer when it comes to supporting mothers through times of transition and uncertainty.

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Cyclical Motherhood

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Following the moon cycle 18.12.2025 45:42

Welcome back to the Cyclical Motherhood Podcast! Today’s episode is our final for season 1 and is dedicated to the moon. Together we explore how we can follow the moon cycle as support/guide/inspiration at times when we don’t experience our regular cycle for any reason: pregnancy, postpartum, amenorrhea for medical reasons or unexplained ones, being on hormonal contraception, after hysterectomy, d...

Why is Cyclical Motherhood needed now? 12.04.2025 48:46

Welcome back to the Cyclical Motherhood podcast! Today's episode is a shared exploration about why Cyclical Motherhood is needed now: for mothers for our children and families for the collective and beyond We found this conversation super rich and inspiring. We leave you with a powerful enquiry to hopefully support you on your own exploration of being a cyclical mother during these times. ___...

Raising menstrual aware boys 28.03.2025 36:40

Welcome back to he Cyclical Motherhood podcast! Today's episode, together with episode 7 are at the heart of Cyclical Motherhood, the second foundational piece of this work. In this episode Hayley interviews Marinella on her journey of raising her boy (8 years old at the time of recording), as a menstrually aware and cycles aware boy. We discuss: how we can share about our menstrual cycle with...

Raising menstrual aware girls 28.03.2025 38:51

Welcome back to he Cyclical Motherhood podcast! In this episode (& the next episode - episode 8), we introduce the second foundational piece of Cyclical Motherhood: raising menstrual aware children. In this episode Marinella interviews Hayley on her journey of raising her daughter (4 years old at the time of recording), as a menstrually aware and cycles aware girl. We discuss: how we can sha...

Navigating inner winter as mothers & carers 28.02.2025 43:40

Welcome back to the Cyclical Motherhood podcast! This is the first of four episodes focusing on the inner and outer seasons. Understanding and embodying the seasons is one of the foundational pieces of our work with Cyclical Motherhood. In this episode we discuss: nature’s winter our inner winter or menstruation winter in our motherhood journey our understanding and experience of this season with...

Navigating inner spring as mothers & carers 28.02.2025 34:57

Welcome back to he Cyclical Motherhood podcast! In this episode we continue our exploration of the seasons and discuss Spring: Nature’s spring our inner spring or follicular/pre-ovulatory phase spring in our motherhood journey how our inner springs have changed since motherhood (and in relation to the perimenopause) some monthly spring rituals that carry us through our mothering ___ References a...

Navigating inner summer as mothers & carers 28.02.2025 33:09

Welcome back to the Cyclical Motherhood podcast! In this episode we explore Summer: Nature’s summer our inner summer or ovulation summer in our motherhood journey how our inner summers have changed since motherhood some monthly summer rituals that carry us through our mothering It is a very juicy conversation with some great insights, reflections and stories. ___ References and resources: Hayl...

Navigating inner autumn as mothers & carers 28.02.2025 39:14

Welcome back to the Cyclical Motherhood podcast! Today’s episode is the final one of our exploration of the seasons, where we explore Autumn: nature’s autumn our inner autumn or luteal/premenstrual phase autumn in our motherhood journey how our inner autumns have changed since motherhood some monthly autumn rituals that carry us through our mothering It’s another very rich conversation - one th...

At the heart of cyclical motherhood 25.01.2025 30:55

Welcome back to the Cyclical Motherhood podcast. In this episode we share what is at the heart of our work through offering Cyclical Motherhood: - centre mothers and cyclical wisdom - acknowledge our whiteness and privileges - welcome and amplify marginalised mothers - welcome and amplify mothers whose physiological experiences of the cycles are disturbed or medicated and don’t fit in the standar...

An introduction 25.01.2025 27:53

Welcome to the Cyclical Motherhood podcast! This episode is an introduction to the mothers hosting the podcast, Hayley Anderson & Marinella Benelli & our journey with Cyclical Motherhood so far. - Our journey connecting as mothers during the pandemic, whilst going through some big transitions and hardships. - Supporting one another through our mothering & our love & understanding...