Wild Flow with Charlotte Pointeaux Charlotte Pointeaux

The Witches say the veils between the worlds of the dead and the living, the seen and unseen, are thinnest at Samhain, the name of the cross-quarter sabbat (celebration) between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice. It's a time of high magick, ceremony and celebration to honour the dead and celebrate the years' harvest at the witches new year. its also a mirror for the pre-menstrual time of the menstrual cycle, a time to be revered, not feared, when truth-telling and listening is highly necessary for growth and healing.

Mystics, pagans and those who appreciate the seasons and cycles of life find much magick, power and transformation available in listening to what the spirits tell us, and in facing the darkness, arriving frosts and scent of death on the air of Samhain, because it gives us a chance to go inwards, to reflect on whether you're living your most authentic life, and to discern what needs to die so you can come closer to your truest essence. 

At Samhain I'm sharing why listening and courage is the medicine we need to be able to surrender control, shed our skins, and compost the rot of what's not working in our lives. I explain how Samhain is a powerful mirror for our deep pre-menstrual phase, when we realise we can't sustain our high-energy lives, and realise something has to give. Do you dissociate from yourself and deny your truth, or do you listen to your soul, learn and transform?

Like Inanna and Persephone choosing to journey to the Underworld to see their dark reflections, we too can reframe our pre-menstrual experiences by radically listening to ourselves, bearing witness to our truth, and facing our vulnerabilities to die-off, re-vision and give birth to our new selves with the arrival of the Spring.

Tune in for Samhain magick, and tools to revision your most authentic, embodied and inspiring life. 

Reflection prompts shared in this episode are:
What kind of ancestor are you becoming, what kind do you want to be?What is rotting, and begging to be let go of?What are you harvesting, and saving?How do you feel this descent showing up in yourself and your life right nowAre you living up to your potential?Are you tricking yourself?
Get the full show notes and blog post for this article here https://charlottepointeaux.com/samhain-descent-autumn-premenstruum/

Blessed be and blessed do!
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Charlotte xxx

Grief isn't sexy but its a powerful presence in everyone's lives - so why don't we talk about it, welcome it and let it work us? Grief is all around us, in our lived experiences of losses and woundings, and it has the potential to break us open - if we have support and the capacity to meet it and come out changed the other side. Today's conversation is a rich, evocative, poetic and powerful exploration of grief, and pleasure and why we need to be better at meeting grief. 
My guest today and our grief guide is Kate Leiper.  As Creatress of the SensuAlchemy School of Embodied Grief & Pleasure and the SensuAlchemy School Podcast, has developed a powerfully embodied, pleasure-oriented approach to grief and loss. Through the lens of the archetypal feminine, and with an emphasis on sensual movement, ritual and creative expression, Kate is devoted to sharing the healing gifts and leadership power of the SensuAlchemy Method to women all over the world.


In this episode we wove a conversation around:
Kate's story of loss and grief and how this cracked her open and called her home to herself,Why we collectively are grief-illiterate, and unable to openly feel, express and own our grief or hold others in their pain and grief,How we can express our grief even when it makes others uncomfortable.How grief can be a portal through which we can grow our capacity to transmute pain of loss into pleasure,How grief can fuel our creativity and a feminine style of leadership, and why the world needs leaders who are capable of meeting grief, and How pleasure and grief can co-exist within us, and how we can meet these opposing emotions in us through embodiment work.For all the links and to connect with Kate find the full show notes here


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Charlotte xxx

Madeline MacKinnon wants everyone to know that food truly is powerful medicine that can quickly improve your menstrual cycle symptoms and challenges which you've been putting up with, when you understand your underlying hormonal imbalance type and eat nourishing foods full of the right vitamins and nutrients that your body needs. 
Beyond the many fads we've seen in the diet culture across the last few decades, its time we took back our understanding of how the right foods can be so simple, so nourishing and so easy to take, to heal issues like PMS, heavy and painful periods, low energy, mood changes and more. 
In this episode of Wild Flow Madeline joins me to talk:
What the common hormone types are and how we can figure out which we might have,Foundational foods that are good for everyone, such as the whole family,Diving deeper into eating to nourish hormone imbalances, rather than needing conventional drugs or relying on supplements, Simple recipes, tips and tricks to get us on the way, including her Moon Brews and Stews (yum),Results that Madeline's clients see from getting real (but not obsessed) about food,and her new book "The Hormone Type Cookbook" which provides foundational recipes right down to specific menu plans for different hormone imbalance types and much more! I learnt plenty in this conversation and know you will too, so have a pen and paper handy as you listen to this one as you might want to take some quick notes! 


Meet Madeline 
Madeline Mackinnon is a passionate nutritionist with ten years of experience helping women to recover from debilitating hormone imbalances. To pursue her mission, Madeline founded Natural Hormone Healing because she believes women need a holistic, day-to-day strategy to balance their hormone health and fertility without synthetic hormones or medications, and she has just released her book "The Hormone Type Cookbook". 
Find all the shownotes and links here >


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Charlotte xxx

If you're struggling with period problems, you might be wondering why some women love their period and menstrual cycle, and question whether you too, can have a better period? Le'Nise Brothers is my guest today, and she's here to share her tips for helping you to improve your hormone health, which in turn improves your menstrual health. Her mantra Eat Love Move giving people a path to walk along, to learn about their body, to heal, and to love their body and cycle.
In this conversation Le'Nise and I meandered through:
Le'Nise's personal journey from a family history of bad periods to healing and specialising in women's health, Why she invites women to Ear, Love and Move their way to better health, Her book "You Can Have A Better Period" and what I loved about it, Why she believesso many people are struggling with painful periods and other unpleasant - sometimes debilitating- menstrual cycle symptoms right now, What’s normal and not normal in terms of a period and when should someone be looking for help,The foundations to good menstrual wellbeing, andWhy Le'Nise invites women to share their own Period Stories on her podcast.Thanks beloved listener! I'd love it if you could please leave a review and share your fave episodes on your IG stories and tag me @charlotte.pointeaux.coach. Want more? Subscribe for your free cycle magick guide, and dive deeper in my courses, classes and private coaching.

Charlotte xxx

What does Nature, Culture and the Sacred teach us about becoming the leader we need to be: for ourselves, our communities, and the Earth? Plenty, actually! As the world we inhabit crumbles around us, its takes courage, humility, deep listening skills and activism to create a safer world that is respectful of women, people of marginalised identities, and greater values than chasing money and power to create resistance and change. And what can we singularly do about it? 


My guest on the new episode of Wild Flow podcast is Nina Simons, Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers, a nonprofit that features and connects practical and visionary solutions for transforming how we relate to ourselves, each other and the Earth. Nina is recipient of the Goi Peace Award, and throughout her career, she has worked with over a thousand women leaders who are diverse across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development. She produces and speaks at large-scale events to work intimately to help small, diverse groups of women leaders knit together to strengthen each other’s work pursuing intersectional healing and ecological justice. 


This conversation inspired me so much. We touched on:
Nina's connection to her cyclical nature and the sacred in her post-menopause, Her journey from theatre studies to change-maker and activist,To how we can decolonise and decondition our beliefs around what leadership is, so that more women and underrepresented peoples can step into their leadership roles,How we can re-establish Eldership, especially by encouraging post-menopausal women to share the harvest of their life lessons, And how we can mentor young people to bring in their fresh ideas and energy to help change the world. With much more besides... 

If you are leading the way in your community, in your work, or your family, this is for you. And if you resist embodying your full leadership potential, this too is a powerful transmission to receive. 


Find all the show notes, free book excerpts and 20% off the Bioneers Conferece at https://charlottepointeaux.com/nature-culture-and-the-sacred-reimagining-leadership-for-women-with-nina-simons



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Charlotte xxx

It's safe to say that sacred women's circles are making a big come back. No longer lost ancient forms of gathering in community, circles are now becoming increasingly available around the world as an opportunity to gather with shared intention, possibly to meet new friends, devote time to spiritual practice, to experience particular ceremony. Whatever happens and whoever you meet, you are sure to come home to yourself. The way of the circle offers us a very different form of connection and community in which we can come to understand ourselves and each other- and to find the magick and medicine we need at the time.


Circles are an ancient way of life, but are now being held in towns everywhere, in schools, board rooms, and online, and they have the potential to support healing and transformation of communities on many levels. I believe that when you attend your first Circle, you awaken to a new way of relating and being, and its addictive. 


My first ever circle was with today's guest Mitlé Southey in 2018, when I attended her 3 day circle facilitator training, and that immersive experience changed me deeply, and revealed a deeper path forward for me personally in my own healing, as well as in my work that I do. I'm overjoyed to welcome MItlé to the podcast, and to share with you a delicious conversation about:
What circles are, and what may happen in a circle, Our first circle experiences, and how they shaped our lives,How circles are medicinal, transformative experiences that can set deep healing in motion,Why receiving guidance and training in how to hold circles is an important consideration as space holders,How circles are available for all people, and how the circle process can be imbued into our work, lives, and relationships,The role circles can play in rites of passage processes for all people, and how Mitlé is hosting Mother-Son circles, and I am host Mother-Daughter circles particularly. 

Happy listening to Episode 60 of Wild Flow, and come over to instagram to share with us 3 words that encapsulate your first ever circle experience! 
First Moon Circle Facilitator Training: discover our certification program and join our waitlist / apply from 1st March 2023 at  HTTPS://FIRSTMOONCIRCLESCHOOL.COM/TRAINING/Mitlé's website: HTTPS://MITLESOUTHEY.COM/ All the show notes can be found here >>




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Charlotte xxx