WomenKind Collective Jinty Sheerin and Lou Hockings-Thompson

 
We kick off series 10 with a fantastic guest, chartered psychologist and founder of The Psychology School, Serena Simmons. We’ve been looking forward to chatting withSerena since we met her at Therapy Expo where she blew us away with her talk.
Serena has worked in the area of psychology and mental health for almost 30 years, she has over 22 years’ experience working in the field and is a senior lecturer at NottinghamTrent University.
She is heavily involved in a variety of forensic based work too. Serena specialises in serial murder and she still advises on a consultation basis. Much of her work now however is in the capacity of profiling and media work, for example you may have seen her in the TV series ‘Cops Who Kill’.
Serena says, ‘many people struggle to see the link between forensic psychology and positive psychology and behavioural change.’
With her speciality in effecting change using positive psychology and with so many of us in midlife trying to negotiate so many changes we wanted to hear more. We find out why making healthy lifestyle changes can be so hard, we also discuss self-care, guilt, the importance of play and serial killers- not necessarily all at the same time! 
You can watch the full unedited interview on our Womenkind Collective YouTube channel. 
We discuss guilt, self care (& why it's not easy), the importance of play, boundaries and much more. You will come away with some ideas of how you can to implementing some positive changes into your life.
 
In the Book Collective we begin our book for series 10, Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn, it’s got us hooked from reading the introduction. You can join in with our Book Club, send us a DM or voice note with your thoughts on the book.
 
We catch up on your comments and find out what we got up to on our Easter break, and Jinty tells us about the Bolivian Aymara women climbing Everest in traditional dress. It’sanother episode brimming with chat and all the usual shenanigans! So, settle in for this hour(ish) podcast full of meaningful chat. 
 
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Serena Simmons:
W:  https://thepsychologyschool.co/
I: @serenapsychologist
F: The Psychology School
L: @Serena Simmons
Sponsor the Bolivian Cholitas Escaladoras aim for Everest here https://gofund.me/45860404
 

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In this Episode we chat with the multi award winning founder of The Adeno Gang Tanya Simon-Hall about Adenomyosis, we catch up on your comments, discuss our book club book, there's also some Shakespeare and empty nest chat.
April is Adenomyosis awareness month so who better to talk to than the fantastic Tanya Simon-Hall, she is the multi-award winning founder of The Adeno Gang. We first met Tanya at the Cura-h Awards back in March. 
Tanya is a UN Women U.K Delegate, a menstrual health educator, a women's health campaigner, a menstrual health consultant, a key note speaker, an ambassador for The Lowdown & the Eve appeal and an Adenomyosis & Endometriosis advocate!
Adenomyosis is thought to affect around 1 in 10 women in the UK. It happens when the cells from the lining of the womb are found in the muscle wall of the womb. It differs to the more well-known condition, Endometriosis, where cells similar to the ones in the lining of the womb are found elsewhere in the body.
Tanya has lived experience of both these conditions, but when diagnosed she was given no information, treatment or support and that’s why she started The Adeno Gang. Today, she runs workshops to help girls and women get ahead of this. She says, ‘We need to educate ourselves so we can see the right specialists and ask the right questions’. 
The Book Collective gets us all worked up as we read chapters 1 and 2 of our book for series 10, Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn, there’s an awful lot to talk about and we’re only at the beginning! You can join in with our Book Club, send us a DM or voice note with your thoughts on the book.
We catch up on your comments and Jinty discovers some west country Shakespeare that you never knew you needed to hear until now! And Lou talks empty nest syndrome. It’s another episode brimming with chat and all the usual shenanigans! So, settle in for this hour(ish) podcast full of meaningful chat. 
If you’ve enjoyed our Podcast you may like to consider buying us a Ko-Fi at https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcast
Here you can find updates, photos and some inclusive content we won’t post anywhere else and your donation will help us ensure we continue to bring you great quality of content and sound.
Our campaign for a Menopause Clinic in Devon is moving closer but we still need signatures on our petition: https://www.change.org/p/wheresmyclinic
Or to send your testimonials please email us: menopauseclinicdc@gmail.com
And finally, if you would like the templates to send to your MP or CCG please visit our website: https://menopauseclinicfordevon.co.uk
Tanya Simons-Hall
W: https://www.theadenogang.com/
I: @theadenogang
F: The Adeno Gang
L: Tanya Simon-Hall

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This week we welcome back a friend of ours who was one of our very first guests back in 2021, sexual health and pleasure expert Sam Evans, who is the co-founder of Jo Divine, an online sex toy company which she set up with husband Paul in 2007.
We have been looking forward to chatting to Sam again and as usual Sam was full of practical and useful information about all things sex, intimacy, and pleasure.
Sam has a background in nursing, and has written hundreds of practical articles about sexual health and pleasure for Jo Divine and for leading websites, she has also featured in Radio fours women's Hour and the Channel 4 Documentary 'Sex, myths and menopause'
A fellow Menopause activist and campaigner, Sam works hard to ensure anyone going through the perimenopause, menopause and beyond can continue to enjoy good sexual intimacy and pleasure if they wish to. She says 'No one has to give up on enjoying pleasurable sex when there is practical advice, skin safe products and irritant free sexual lubricants and moisturisers that can transform your intimate health and sexual pleasure'
Sam has given our listeners a 10% discount code at Jo Divine: www.jodivine.com valid from 5.5.2024 - 9.6.2024
using the code: WKC2024
The book Sam talks about is Mind the Gap by Dr Karen Gurney.
In the Book Collective we continue reading Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn, we met two incredible women, in chapters 3 and 4, one who quite literally defied death twice.
You can join in with our Book Club, send us a DM or voice note with your thoughts on the book.
We catch up on your comments and Lou asks why clothes models look so glum, and also do you have a noisy eating partner? Jinty ponders the question of why we name inanimate objects. It's another episode brimming with chat and all the usual shenanigans! So, settle in for this hourish) podcast full of meaningful chat.

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Now, most people have heard of the body’s Circadian Rhythm but do you know what it means and how it affects our wellbeing and sleep? Well, someone who does is our guest today Dr Kat Lederle, who is a sleep and body clock scientist, a sleep coach and also the author of Sleep Sense. 
Dr Kat is passionate about helping individuals sleep well and feel good. She sees sleep as an act of self-care, and her focus is on providing one-to-one therapeutic sleep coaching to women who experience insomnia and sleep problems. Her work combines sleep science with and learnings from Mindfulness, Acceptance Commitment Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy. We chat about why women sleep differently to men.
You can watch the full unedited interview on our Womenkind Collective YouTube channel. 
 
The Book Collective this week seems to be getting all of us furious as we continue reading Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn, we realise it’s no wonder women’s health is as dire as it is today with male medics taking charge of birthing and a really heinous man called Dr Isaac Baker Brown who insisted clitoridectomy was a way to cure women of pleasuring themselves. 
You can join in with our Book Club, send us a DM or voice note with your thoughts on the book.
 
We catch up on your comments Jinty asks a deep question from Gina Martin’s new book and Lou finds out about casting clouts! It’s another episode brimming with chat and all the usual sweary shenanigans! So, settle in for this hour(ish) podcast full of meaningful chat. 
 
If you’ve enjoyed our Podcast you may like to consider buying us a Ko-Fi at https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcast
Here you can find updates, photos and some inclusive content we won’t post anywhere else and your donation will help us ensure we continue to bring you great quality of content and sound.
Our campaign for a Menopause Clinic in Devon is moving closer but we still need signatures on our petition: https://www.change.org/p/wheresmyclinic
Or to send your testimonials please email us: menopauseclinicdc@gmail.com
And finally, if you would like the templates to send to your MP or CCG please visit our website: https://menopauseclinicfordevon.co.uk
 
Dr Kat Lederle
W: www.drkatsleep.com
L: Dr Kat Lederle
I: @drkatsleep

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Our guest this week is the wonderful Author and Autism advocate Emily Katy. Emily’s book, Girl Unmasked: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life, is a powerful memoir where she shares her personal experiences with autism and mental health.
In this chat Emily highlights the challenges she faced in childhood and adulthood, emphasising the importance of understanding and acceptance.
We discuss the need for more resources and support for individuals with autism and mental health conditions. We also discuss the challenges of fitting in and masking autistic traits, and the misunderstanding of empathy in autistic individuals. 
We learn the importance of recognising and understanding autistic traits in children, and how much better it would be if we could recognise Autism in people before they reach crisis point. 
We chat about how autistic people have unique needs and experiences that should be acknowledged and respected. 
 In her book Emily has a list of Autism Myths, and Emily debunks a few of these for us, such as Autism is a condition that mainly affects boys.
 We loved this conversation with the incredible Emily Katy (and loved the book too), an essential listen for everyone.
Emily Katy:
Book: Girl Unmasked. How Uncovering Autism Saved My Life. By Emily Katy. Published by Hachette UK
W: www.authenticallyemily.uk
I: @itsemilykaty
 
In the Book Collective we continue reading, Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn, this week we read Chapters, 7 & 8, once again we learn about the appalling treatment of women and why male physicians thought it was a good idea to remove women’s ovaries.
You can join in with our Book Club, send us a DM or voice note with your thoughts on the book.
 
We catch up on your comments and you can find out what we’ve been up to this week. It’s another episode brimming with chat and all the usual sweary shenanigans! So, settle in for this hour(ish) podcast full of meaningful chat.
 
If you’ve enjoyed our Podcast you may like to consider buying us a Ko-Fi at https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcast
Here you can find updates, photos and some inclusive content we won’t post anywhere else and your donation will help us ensure we continue to bring you great quality of content and sound.
Our campaign for a Menopause Clinic in Devon is moving closer but we still need signatures on our petition: https://www.change.org/p/wheresmyclinic
Or to send your testimonials please email us: menopauseclinicdc@gmail.com
And finally, if you would like the templates to send to your MP or CCG please visit our website: https://menopauseclinicfordevon.co.uk
You can watch the full unedited interview on our Womenkind Collective YouTube channel.
 
 

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We have two fierce and fun guests on the podcast today, Kate Duffy and Gayle Stevens-White, they are grassroot campaigners who have collaborated and founded, Bloody Negligence, a movement that is exposing neglect in women’s healthcare from menstruation to menopause and everything in-between, they want to empower women to have their say and ‘get shit done’!
We have met these incredible women many times before on the campaign trail and it is always an absolute treat to chat to them, we leave no stone unturned, we talk menopause and get absolutely furious at the bias in women’s health care.
Get the kettle on and get ready for this lively chat.
 
In the Book Collective we continue reading, Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn, this week we read Chapters, 9 & 10, we meet the extraordinary suffragettes and learn about the hideous suffering they went through and the extraordinary women that fought for women’s freedom. We also find out about ‘silent births’ and why the patriarchy didn’t think this was such a good idea.
You can join in with our Book Club, send us a DM or voice note with your thoughts on the book.
 
We learn some new acronyms that might get you in a wordy spin and Jinty finds out how many swimming pools are closing in England and how it’s affecting women, she also talks avocados…. You may never look at one in the same way again!
It’s another episode brimming with chat and all the usual sweary shenanigans! So, settle in for this hour(ish) podcast full of meaningful chat.
 
If you’ve enjoyed our Podcast you may like to consider buying us a Ko-Fi at https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcast
Here you can find updates, photos and some inclusive content we won’t post anywhere else and your donation will help us ensure we continue to bring you great quality of content and sound.
Our campaign for a Menopause Clinic in Devon is moving closer but we still need signatures on our petition: https://www.change.org/p/wheresmyclinic
Or to send your testimonials please email us: menopauseclinicdc@gmail.com
And finally, if you would like the templates to send to your MP or CCG please visit our website: https://menopauseclinicfordevon.co.uk
 
Bloody Negligence:
I: @bloodynegligence
 
Kate Duffy:
I: @meno.mavekateduffy2
I: @pmddrepresented
 
Gayle Stevens-White:
I: @rockandrebellion

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