The Soft Rebellion Podcast

Dearest listener, dear community, Welcome back to the Soft Rebellion. I hope this message and new episode finds you in a good health and spirit and I wish you a WONDERful week ahead. The conversation I share with you today was one of those rare, deeply honest, intuitive exchanges where each question opened another door, and together we unearthed something neither of us could have planned. My guest...

In this episode, I sit down with poet, essayist and academic Natalie Rose Dyer to explore the ideas behind her groundbreaking book The Menstrual Imaginary in Literature: Notes on a Wild Fluidity . We begin with Natalie's own journey into this work - what drew her to menstruation as a site of philosophical, political, and creative inquiry, and how her doctoral research evolved into a call to reimag...

“Our bodies are made for pleasure”, yet we are tamed and shamed into cages that domesticate our sexuality and relationships. - Carly Mountain I am so excited, grateful and honoured to welcome Carly Mountain back to the Podcast! Since our last conversation a year ago, Carly has completed her second book Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature which launches THIS FRIDAY! Huge congratulatio...

Have you ever wondered if your body is speaking a language you’ve just never been taught how to understand? And what if your hormonal or pelvic health challenges were actually an invitation into deeper alignment with yourself? In today’s conversation - the final round of the Healthy Vagina Project - I am sitting down with Claire Dabreo . Claire is a Five Element acupuncturist and women’s health sp...

Dear Listeners, The Healthy Vagina Project is gradually cycling itself to an end … but not quite! Today I have the great joy to introduce you to Natalie Meddings ! She has been supporting women through birth for over twenty years as a mother, doula and active birth teacher. She is also the author of How to Have a Baby and Why Homebirth Matters . Natalie approaches birth with deep respect for the b...

If you’re curious to explore natural approaches to support menstrual health challenges today’s episode is for you. My guest, Melinda McDougall , is a registered Medical Herbalist specialising in women's health and runs a busy online clinic seeing patients across the UK and beyond. She combines the latest scientific research into botanical medicines with the traditional knowledge women have used fo...

Painful, heavy, chaotic periods have become so normalised that many women are told to simply “get on with it.” But what if that narrative is wrong? In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Gemma — former NHS nurse, herbalist and founder of The Well Woman Project — to challenge the deeply rooted cultural and medical narratives around menstrual pain. We explore why period pain has been normali...

Yes, how do rites of passage shape women’s lives? In this episode, former homebirth midwife, teacher, writer, and menstrual, childbirth, and menopause educator Jane Hardwicke Collings joins me to explore how menstrual shame, birth trauma, and menopause have shaped women’s identities for generations — and how we can reclaim these rites of passage as sources of power rather than pain. Together we ex...

In this grounded and liberating conversation, we speak about birth work, abortion, and reproductive justice through the lens of doula work, activism, inclusivity, and embodied experience. My guest, Sara Bakr invites us to rethink who birth support is for, what care can look like, and why bodily autonomy must be at the center of it all and a free Palestine. Sara is a Black, mixed, pro-abortion full...

Dearest listener, dear community, THANK YOU for all your feedbacks and messages for the health vagina project - it is my absolute pleasure! 💜 In this episode together with Dunya Ntinizi we continue and deepen the conversation about how somatic movement practices can support us in healing pelvic health challenges and reconnecting to the wisdom of the female body. Dunya shares her lived experience,...

Welcome to the fourth conversation of The Healthy Vagina Project - through the lens of Somatic Movement and Birth Work! This conversation follows a golden thread woven through the landscapes of this project: the cyclical nature of the pelvis, sensation, movement, and life itself. The pelvis as a place of deep sensory intelligence. A place that holds grief and pleasure, descent and rising, birth an...

What does it mean to truly listen to the body — especially the pelvic bowl — rather than trying to fix it? In this conversation with Avni Trivedi, we explore women’s pelvic health through touch, osteopathy, grief, and embodiment. Together, we speak about how personal health journeys shape our work, how unprocessed experiences live in the body, and how practices of touch, movement, and self-care ca...

Have you ever wondered what it truly means to practice yoga through a woman’s lens — one that honors the body’s wisdom, its fluid nature, intuition and (hormonal) life transitions? In this episode, I’m joined by Lynn Murphy, an experienced practitioner and teacher in women’s yoga, the active birth movement and pelvic health. We explore how her personal journey — from menarche to menopause, activis...

I am so excited and deeply grateful to be launching The Healthy Vagina Project with this conversation. This project has been living in my body and heart for a long time, and it feels incredibly meaningful to begin it with a topic that is so often unnamed, misunderstood, or shamed: Intimacy, sexuality, and sexual energy as a vital part of pelvic and vaginal health. In this episode, I’m joined by Da...

In this end-of-year (and Christmas 🧑‍🎄) conversation, I’m joined by Asha Frost for a deeply grounding and timely exploration of cyclical wisdom, rest, and healing. As we move toward winter solstice and the intensity of the holiday season, we speak about slowing down, honouring ancestral knowledge, and remembering that our worth is not tied to productivity. This episode invites you into the deep...

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Chris Bobel , one of the most influential (scholarly) voices in menstrual activism and critical menstruation studies. For more than twenty years, Chris has been pushing the boundaries of how we understand menstruation - not just as a biological event, but as a powerful lens into culture, politics, and social justice. Our conversation explores how menstrual heal...

What might change if we treated menstruation not as something to hide, but as a source of knowledge - about ourselves, our society, and the systems we live in? What if the way we relate to the menstrual cycle could teach us how to build a more humane world? Could paying attention to menstruation be a way of paying attention to what our culture has forgotten — care, rest, and integrity? In this epi...

What if descent wasn’t something to fear, but a sacred invitation — to soften, to surrender, to remember who we truly are beneath the noise? This conversation with Carly Mountain felt like sitting beside a fire, slowly warming the parts of ourselves we’ve hidden away. With tenderness and deep wisdom, Carly guides us into the mythic, sensual, and often-forgotten terrain of the body, of feminine cyc...

What if the act of creating — a book, a poem, a life — is also an act of soul retrieval? In this tender and powerful conversation, Coco invites us into the deep terrain of trauma, healing, and divine remembrance. Her voice carries the wisdom of one who has walked through fire and returned with medicine: the sacred feminine, the regenerative force of the body, and the healing power of creative expr...

What if motherhood isn’t just a role we step into — but a rite of passage that invites us to heal, transform, and reconnect with the cycles of life? In this rich and nourishing conversation, Naomi Glass shares her journey from disconnection to deep embodiment, from inner patriarchy to cyclical living. Together, we explore the sacred messiness of motherhood, the healing power of nature, and the qui...

In today`s episode I`m talking to Dr. Cacky Mellor who invites us to reframe shame as a sacred space - a place where healing begins, stories are reclaimed, and the body becomes a source of power rather than pain. We explore how trauma, illness, and cultural conditioning shape our inner narratives - and how somatic work can help us come home to ourselves. Dr. Cacky Mellor is a teacher, healer, and...

Have you ever wondered what it really means to be female? Do you sometimes resent being female in a man’s world? Do you feel like something is missing in your experience and don’t know what it is? Today’s guest, Dr. Sharon Moloney, has spent a lifetime exploring and writing about exactly these questions — and the body of work she has created is pure healing. She says, “I’m a proud and passionate a...

What is our Second Spring? Who are we after menopause? How can we harness the wisdom we’ve gained from previous cycles and transitions to navigate this shift? AND how can the wisdom of menopause plug us deeper into our cyclical summer years too? This is what I talk about in today’s episode with guest Kate Codrington. Kate is a mentor, speaker, facilitator, artist and podcaster. She is also the aut...

You are never not embodied. You are a body — a treasure trove of wisdom and native intelligence. There’s a bubbling abundance of insight within you, but it’s not something you can access through the mind alone. That’s why we’re called to give authority back to the body — to let her know she can be trusted, and to rewild our experience which is the sacred return to our true nature. But what does it...

The Sacred Feminine is about your power, my power, and the deep, ancient wisdom that guides us toward authenticity, healing, and transformation. Herstory and mythology - often erased or forgotten - reveal that women have always been undeniable forces of nature. These stories offer us new frameworks for leadership, creativity, and courage in a world crying out for change. If we allow Her to lead, t...