Lisa Jara

Womb Whispers

Health EN ↓ 54 episodes

Let’s be honest: As a woman or menstruating person in this society, it isn’t exactly easy to grow up with a lot of reverence for your body, nor your cycle. In this spiritual-feminist podcast about menstrual wisdom and activism for our modern times, I share musings, reflections and conversations to make living as a cyclical being (ALL beings are cyclical, by the way!) in a world set up for linear progress more easeful for you. Let yourself be inspired to detox from the systems of oppression you’ve most probably internalised, so you can walk the spirals of your life with more confidence and trus...

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Lisa Jara

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What are cycle check-ins and why do they matter? 04.11.2022 15:27

Bringing cycle awareness into your daily life will help you move through difficult situations with more ease and compassion for yourself. Because you realise you're a cyclical being and don't have to be, show up or perform the same every day! A relief! In this episode you'll learn: - that everybody has shitty days and it's okay - how I do my daily cycle check-in - how to bring cycle awareness into...

Unpopular Opinion: Please stop saying you empower people! 21.10.2022 22:21

Working in the realm of empowerment, we have to navigate a fine line between our genuine wish to support people, having them feel like the powerful being they are, and perpetuating a world view that’s heavily influenced by patriarchal-colonialist thinking … So to anyone using the phrase “I empower XYZ (person)”: Stop it! You can’t empower another person, because the power is already in them! You c...

A different approach to boundary setting 14.10.2022 23:59

For many people I know, the concept of boundary setting feels like putting up a rigid wall, excluding or even taking away from other people. That's why the concept of boundaries has never really appealed to me. Listen to the episode if you want to know my approach to boundaries, which I see as a flexible, malleable process of taking care of your own needs and desires. You can find the links and th...

Walking the Spirals of Life 12.10.2022 17:51

All Life is cyclical. Yet living in a society that is built in a linear fashion, focused on progression and constant expansion - better, higher, faster -, we can sometimes forget that ebbs and the downward spirals belong to life as much as the flows and upward spirals. In this episode I share how our cyclical nature can help us get to know ourselves better and better and develop the inner trust th...