A podcast for women, those socialised or who identify as such, and people with menstrual cycles. Together, we explore the journey of healing and recovery from all types of pain - physical pain, mental, emotional and even spiritual pain. In this podcast we discuss a range of topics that support us in our journey from pain to power including: women's health, the menstrual cycle, menstrual cycle awareness, hormones, the nervous system, trauma, chronic pain, embodiment, relationships, spirituali ...
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The creator of MakesMeWannaHoller.com now presents the Pain To Power Podcast. From hardship to heroism and sheroism - this is the spot where we get down and dirty and talk about how with the right attitude you can truly turn lemons into lemonade. We'll also talk a little love and relationships, politics and race, and of course, music and culture.
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The Pain To Power Podcast is your personal resource for learning and growing in order to resolve chronic pain. You’ll hear fresh ideas, proven techniques and get powerful inspiration for your journey. If you are hungry for insight and real conversation about what’s possible and how to actually get there you are in the right place. While many others are centered around pain itself, our aim is to highlight the antidote. We lean into spaces of self-development, creativity, flow and play in the ...
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79: Taking A Break And 1:1 Support
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In this episode, I share my decision to hit pause on the From Pain to Power Podcast and chat about my plans for 2024 including 1:1 coaching and the Menstrual Cycle Coaching Professional Training. Be sure to follow the @menstrual_coach_academy to stay up to date with exciting developments throughout 2024. We are really making waves in this space, an…
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78: Belonging, Fitting In, And Building Her Yoga Practice With Gilly Bow
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Do you ever crave a more aligned place to belong and fit in? In this episode I had a gorgeous conversation with fellow peer and yoga teacher, Gilly Bow. Gilly shares about her journey to becoming a yoga teacher, to finding spaces where she feels belonging, and the power of self-compassion through yoga. The topics we chatted about: Belonging and fit…
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77: Your 2023 Personal And Professional Reflection Exercise
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In this episode I share a simple and enjoyable reflection exercise for your personal life and professional life in 2023 to get you clear for the year ahead. This reflective exercise contains 15 short questions that take you on a journey to clarity and celebration. This exercise is for people in employment, people in business, stay at home parents, …
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76: Inspiration For Loving On Yourself This Season
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We are at the end of the year. Let's take a minute to reflect on the year, the holiday season ahead, and how you can practice a little self-love during this time. The world needs more love now more than ever, and that includes you! In this episode I share some personal updates with you, some thoughts about planning for 2024, and why it's important …
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75: Chronic Pain And The Mind-Body Connection
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My friends, I'm excited to share a new Group Coaching Course starting in January 2023 called Women and Pain. Read more here. In this episode we chat about the mind-body connection, women's health, chronic pain, the menstrual cycle, hormones, and the nervous system. Join us for this chat to support you on your healing journey. We chatted about: The …
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74: Rewriting Our Healing Story ~ With Aoife McCormack
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We loved this episode with friend and colleague Aoife McCormack! Aoife is a mindbody coach and we chatted about all things healing, chronic pain, our core beliefs and values, rewriting our identity story, and so much more. Aoife has an incredible recovery story from chronic pain and we are excited to share this with you today. What we chatted about…
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73: Taoist Healing Practices With Máire Ní G
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In today's episode I had a lovely chat with Taoist instructor Máire Ní G. Having been a student of Máire's courses, I'm excited to share this conversation on the many benefits of Taoist healing practices. This episode will serve those on a healing journey with their menstrual cycle, sexuality, nervous system or any of the other topics we discuss …
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72: When You Regularly Get Stuck In A Cycle Of Overwhelm Or Burnout
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On today's episode I talk about overwhelm and burnout when things get busy. As we shift into the autumnal energy we may feel a higher tendency towards overwhelm, and we may even be unconsciously contributing to our own burnout. I'll share some ideas about how to think creatively in order to manage the busyness from a place of more ease and less str…
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71: From Tolerating To Thriving With Sara Slattery
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In today's episode I had a lovely chat with Sara Slattery, a colleague and graduate of The Menstrual Cycle Coaching and Facilitation Professional Training. We spoke about Sara's experience in the programme, honoring cyclical changes, managing our experiences of societal expectations, and more. Sara Slattery supports values-led women to liberate the…
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70: Navigating Life's Ups And Downs From A Regulated Place
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In today's episode I talk about a big piece of the work I do with women and people with menstrual cycles, which is learning to regulate your nervous system through life's ups and downs. This topic is important because the reality is that life is always going to have high and low points and while we can't control what happens, I believe we can learn…
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69: From Pain To Power With Money And Finance
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On today's episode I'll be sharing about something I'm passionate about both personally and professionally, money and finance. I believe this topic is really important when it comes to our nervous systems, our wellbeing, our identity and our mental health. Here is what I talk about: My personal journey with money management and how that's evolved s…
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68: Sneak Peek Into The 2023 Menstrual Cycle Coaching And Facilitation Professional Training
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On today's episode I talk about the 2023 Menstrual Cycle Coaching And Facilitation Professional Training for anyone who is interested in joining us, or for those who've already signed up and are trying to prepare for our work together in October. My intention is to provide clarity, give you some insight in terms of what to expect and how I work in …
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67: Reclaiming Body Sovereignty After Institutional Trauma ~ With Elizabeth Tidwell
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Elizabeth Tidwell joins me today to speak about reconnecting with herself after leaving a high-demand religion, and how menstrual cycle awareness has played a key role in her journey. A graduate of the 2023 Menstrual Cycle Coaching and Facilitation Professional Training, Elizabeth Tidwell is a menstrual cycle coach who helps women and menstruators …
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66: Cyclical Business Episode: Exploring Uncertainty ~ With Briana Villegas
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Briana joins us today to speak with me about her journey with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) and how that's helped form the foundation of her business, navigating uncertainty as an entrepreneur, and how she's embodied the learnings from the professional training. Join us for this engaging chat! Briana Villegas is a graduate of the 2023 Mens…
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65: Updates & Recent Life Events!
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In this episode I share some personal updates, how I am currently managing my energy and preventing a near burnout, moving in with my partner, and the decision to now publish podcast episodes every two weeks instead of every week. Sign up for the Life Info Webinars for the Menstrual Cycle Coaching & Facilitation Professional Training here. Work wit…
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64: Healing Starts With Being Authentic - With Meredith Ochoa
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In this episode I have a powerful conversation with artist, author, photographer AND podcaster, Meredith Ochoa all about her 17 year long journey with healing from debilitating Endometriosis. What if there were powerful intuitive messages in your pain? What if your pain had wisdom to offer you? Listening deeply to those inner voices are what will s…
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In this episode, Lisa shares a personal update from her own journey with period pain and PMS. We discuss the pressures from the wellness industry to have a "fixed period" and no period pain, which is often not the reality. We chat about the importance of healing not being linear and learning how to "be with what is." If you are on a healing journey…
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62: Cyclical Business Episode: On "Receiving" In Business
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In this episode as part of the Cyclical Business Series, I chat with you about the different ways that you can "receive" in business that are not financial. At the beginning of starting a business or coaching practice, we invest a lot of time and energy into marketing, giving things away for free, planning the business, setting things up. After a w…
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61: IVF And The Fertility Journey ~ With Sinéad Kelly
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In this episode, I had to pleasure of speaking with Self Health Coach, Sinéad Kelly about her personal journey of navigating fertility and IVF. We chatted about the ins and outs of her journey, the emotions and thoughts, and moving between trying to control the outcome vs. surrendering to the process. It was such an honest and intimate conversation…
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Episode 60: When Things Don’t Go Your Way
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This is part and parcel to persistent pain. Understanding your unique pattern for dealing with life when things do go your way will help you immensely. You’ll hear: 3 most common responses to life not going your way 1 Step by step guide for navigating unhelpful responses 1 statement that changes everything Listen in to get the clarity you need to m…
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60: Feeling Disillusioned When Things Don't Work On Your Healing Journey
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In this episode, I reflect on and discuss the feeling of disillusion that often comes when things don't work for you on your healing journey. Feeling hopeful about healing our health issue is a great first step on the path, but when we try lots of things and they don't work, we end up exhausted, hopeless, and disappointed. What do we do then? Do we…
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59: Should I Go On The Pill For Period Problems?
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I regularly get asked about the pill. People wonder whether they should go on the pill, come off the pill, etc. I often hear from people who have been around the block to different medical professionals and holistic health practitioners, and are now back wondering if they should on the pill. In this episode I discuss this question from a trauma-inf…
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Episode 59: 10x Pain Relief Guidelines
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Some incredibly valuable offerings from a very unexpected place. . . In this episode I share with you the incredibly simple, extraordinarily useful tips that Grant Cardone offers in his book for entrepreneurs, The 10x Rule. You’ll really want to catch this one. Don’t miss it! If you are wanting 1-1 support in your pain relief journey you can book a…
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58: Being Busy From A Place Of Ease ~ With Ellen Franklyn-Carr
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In this week's episode I had the pleasure of speaking with Ellen Franklyn-Carr all about what it means to be busy from a place of ease. In the wellness space, we are all eager to have more ease in our lives. But how can this look in reality when we have things to do and places to be? Ellen and I explore this concept, where it comes from, and what i…
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57: Facilitation, Learning Design, and Minding Yourself as a Professional ~ With Pleun Andriessen
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Pleun Elsa Andriessen is a graduate of the 2022 Menstrual Cycle Coaching and Facilitation Professional Training. She now runs the Bloody Practical menstrual education and coaching platform, and has an extensive background of facilitation and learning design consultancy in the human rights space. Pleun joins us today to speak with me about her vast …
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Episode 58 - Clues In Your Inner Dialogue
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In this episode I offer you more support on how you can work through your fears and childhood patterns now. There are clues in your inner dialogue that can guide you if you know how to listen in and what to do with what you uncover. Listen in for more tips and guidance. If you are wanting 1-1 support in your pain relief journey you can book a free …
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56: Befriending Disappointment
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Today I chat with you about navigating disappointment and how when we learn to befriend it, it can be easier to be with. Often we avoid taking risks if life in order to protect ourselves from disappointment. Here I talk you through some mindset tips to get better at being with disappointment so that you can go after the things you want in your life…
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Episode 57 - Address The Fear, Not The Pain
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With persistent pain people always want to know, what is the root cause? The mistake is looking too narrowly, not going deep enough and not taking in the broader, holistic picture. In this episode I unravel this mystery for you and share some invaluable ideas for how to address the fear. If you are wanting 1-1 support in your pain relief journey yo…
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55: The Importance Of Celebrating Yourself
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Do you take time to celebrate yourself? The small wins? The big wins? The small steps towards progress in something? In this episode I reflect on what celebrating ourselves can look like and why it's so important to do. Last week during a supervision session for my work, I realised how important and helpful it is to celebrate how far we've come. Tu…
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Episode 56: A Case For Inner Child Work
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Neural patterns that served you in your childhood may be at the root of your current symptoms. This is a very hard one for people to understand and yet the science is clear. Neural patterns (i.e. beliefs and behaviors) that we developed in childhood stay with us into adulthood. In today’s episode I share a story of this happening right now with my …
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54: The Healthy Fight/Flight Response
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In this episode I chat about something that is not talked about much in the wellness and trauma space – the healthy fight/flight response. There is so much focus on calming, soothing, and down-regulating the nervous system, but it's also really important to have safe access to our healthy fight/flight energy. In this conversation I discuss: - What …
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In this episode I talk about how you can reorient out of fear and helplessness at pain and into power and agency. This is one of the most potent and effective antidotes to chronic pain. Listen in and find out how to do it. If you’re curious about working with me I walk people through a 3-month Transformational Pain Relief process. To find out if it…
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53: Trauma And My Relationship With Driving
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In this episode, I share with you my own personal relationship with driving and why I have had my challenges with it as a result of trauma. I also discuss how there seems to be a lot more aggression in society since the pandemic, and how to mind ourselves when we are navigating systems and cultures elements of life we cannot avoid e.g. driving. Enj…
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52: A Reflection On One Year Of Podcasting!
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I've officially completed one whole year of the From Pain To Power Podcast! In this episode on my reflections from the creative year it's been. We chat about: Why I started the podcast The unfolding creative journey Commitment and what that really means Choosing a form of marketing Being with discomfort My ups and downs with the podcast Imperfectio…
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Episode 54: The Secret To Overcoming A Limiting Diagnosis
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In this episode I share some key information about this aspect of addressing your mindbody symptoms. This can be a big hurdle on the mindbody body pain relief journey and there’s a good reason for that. Listen in to hear the tricky ways this shows up for people and what the exact steps and practices are to overcoming a limiting diagnosis. Book Your…
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51: Cyclical Business Episode: Looking For Approval
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In this episode as part of the Cyclical Business Series, we explore the common barrier to creativity and business which is "looking for approval" from family or friends. I explain to you exactly why it happens and how we can free ourselves from this pressure so we can finally focus on what it is you are here to create! We discussed: Why saying "you…
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Episode 53: How To Find Mindbody Pain Relief
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In this episode I share with you some practical techniques for how to shift your fears and focus around pain by way of using movement, breath and your intention. This is a common misunderstanding I see all the time and it’s important to speak clearly about it. If you would like to inquire about 1-1 support on your pain journey you can book a consul…
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50: Nutrition & Herbal Medicine With Siobhán Carroll
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In this episode I get to chat to naturopath and herbalist Siobhán Carroll who is based in Co. Clare, Ireland. Siobhan has a clinic treating her clients through naturopathy and herbs. We talked about all things healthy eating and herbs for hormonal health and period problems. We chatted about: Siobhan's journey as a naturopath and herbalist Period p…
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Episode 52: Pain And What Matters
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This episode is kind of a love note from my heart to yours. I share with you how I frame pain when it shows up in my body that allows me to remain grounded and to address it holistically. I also share something personal that happened recently that can help any of us shift our understanding of pain and therefore, ease our suffering and our struggle.…
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49: How To Regulate Your Nervous System
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In this episode, we chat about what "regulation" means exactly when it comes to your nervous system, and how to have more of it in your body and emotional life. When we have more access to the rest and digest, or the ventral vagal part of the nervous system, we are able to regulate ourselves more frequently. So, regulating the nervous system is abo…
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Episode 51 - Healing The Fear In Pain
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Fear is one of the biggest factors when it comes to migraines and chronic pain. Sometimes the most direct route to reducing pain is actually reducing the fear around it and the fear in other areas of our life. Listen in to hear real life situations and how to do this for yourself in an effective way. If you want my help to consistently reduce pain …
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48: The Nervous System And Polyvagal Theory
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In this episode I go into more detail on the nervous system and the Polyvagal Theory. We chat about the fight/flight response, the freeze response, trauma, and regulating your nervous system when you feel stuck. Join us to learn more about your nervous system, understand what is happening and why it's important to know how to come out of the hijack…
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Episode 50: The Antidote To Pain
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In this episode I will tell you the antidote to chronic pain (such as migraines and other persistent pain issues) and HOW to activate this powerful medicine in your body and mind. Listen to the end for a guided lesson to help you experience the effects of your natural healing abilities. If you want my help to consistently reduce pain in your body d…
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In this episode, I share a personal update from my life at the moment in relation to making difficult decisions. We reflect on our past difficult decisions, what decisions we might be facing today in the present, and why they are sometimes so important to make for our wellbeing. Episode mentioned: Reclaiming Our Relationship With Sport And Movement…
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Episode 49: Power Over Pain
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If you feel powerless to control or affect your pain this is the episode for you. In this episode I break down the brain chemistry of pain and how you can intervene to change your brain. Doing the exercise I describe in this episode in the WAY I describe utilizing it can have a big impact on lowering your pain levels as you feel more and more empow…
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46: Cyclical Business Episode: Investing In Support
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I've decided to launch one episode a month on running a "cyclical business." Running a cyclical business aims to integrate the values of inclusion, self-care, feminism, menstrual cycle awareness, and anti-oppressive values into the ways we do business and marketing. You can be a coach, healer, therapist, etc. AND be a great business owner! In this …
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Episode 48: A Real Life Story Of Pain Relief
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You’re going to get so much out of listening to my client, Amy’s account of her experience from debilitating migraines to a much improved state of confident health. Amy and I worked together for JUST 17 sessions over 4 months and this is the result. You CAN break the cycle of pain. I hope Amy’s story inspires you and helps you take action toward ac…
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45: Trauma And Chronic Pain
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In this episode, I chat with you all about what role trauma plays in chronic pain. I explore different types of traumas, what happens in the body and how to start thinking about trauma healing work in your body. Learn about the fight/flight response and why trauma causes inflammation in the body. Listen to the previous 2 episodes on trauma: - Episo…
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Episode 47: The Secret To Resilience Pt 2
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In this episode I share more GEMS from the book Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of REAL TOUGHNESS by Steve Magness. Listen and then join me January 27 for the free workshop: Mastering Migraine Relief (& Other Tension Headache Issues) REGISTER: movetonourish.ac-page.com/relief OTHER LINKS As of 01/25/2023 I hav…
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44: Trauma And The Mind-Body Connection
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"What can I do to shift my nervous system, so that these critical thoughts aren't there all the time?" In this episode, which is a follow-on from episode 43, I explore the mind-body connection when it comes to trauma. We chat about coming back into the body, what role the mind also plays, why our thoughts are still important alongside our feelings.…
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