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Changing Seasons: Ayurveda, Women’s Health, Menopause & Food as Medicine

A podcast exploring women’s health through the wisdom of Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, with empowering conversations on menopause, natural healing, and food as medicine to support every stage of life.Hosted by Jody Vassallo, Ayurvedic guide, intuitive cook, and founder of ‘Gather’.Each episode is an invitation to slow down, listen in, and reconnect with the wisdom of your body and the cycles of nature.Through the lens of traditional medicine and lived experience, we dive into the big topics:

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26 - The Importance of Healing Deep Core Wounding...

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2025/02/21

Send us a text Lisa Darveniza is a counsellor, psychotherapist. Growth work teacher and group facilitator and the founder of Awareness Work. She joins Jody today to talk about the importance of healing the core wounding we experience in childhood. Lisa has developed a 6 month program that guides participants through the steps of rediscovering their authentic self. We discuss the positive impact work in a group setting can have on growth and healing as it allows people to see there are n...

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25 - The Wounded Witch & The Unwounded Womb with Dr....

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2025/02/14

Send us a text Dr Jimi Wollumbin returns today to speak with Jody about The Wounded Witch/ Healer archetype and the magnificent unwounded womb. We speak about the womb being far more than a home for babies and its important role of connecting a woman to her soul. In this episode Jimi introduces us to the world of mythopoetic thinking which helps us understand a concept through the lens of myth. He speaks about the importance of owning our wounds if we want to become healers. Suffering i...

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24 - How your adrenals manage cortisol and estrogen...

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2025/02/07

Send us a text In this episode Catie talks about her personal perimenopause journey. As a naturopath entering this phase of life in burnout meant she was acutely aware that had to closely manage her health, especially her adrenals. She became vigilant about avoiding cortisol spikes and started making big changes to her life. Catie reveals how sudden weight gain was a catalyst for her to investigate and recently began taking HRT. This is a must listen episode . Online Course: Perimenopau...

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23 - The magic of fasting the heart and mind with...

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2025/01/31

Send us a textIn todays episode Jody speaks with Tahnee Taylor. Tahnee is a Taoist energetic teacher, yin yoga teacher, mother to 3 beautiful babes and owner of Superfeast with her husband Mason.Jody and Tahnee talk about traditional approaches to menopause and how menopause is considered to be the autumn of a woman’s life in Chinese medicine. Tahnee explains the principles of Wu Wei the Taoist concept of non-doing and meeting things as they are instead of where you would like them to be...

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22 - Reflecting on my menopausal journey with Jody...

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2025/01/24

Send us a textIn this episode Jody speaks about her menopausal journey. She reflects on the changes she has seen in the menopausal arena, in the science and the recommendations around hormone replacement therapy. Jody looks at how grief has been ongoing for her as she navigates the autumn of her life and she speaks honestly and vulnerably about how she struggled to make her peace with the non-negotiable changes that were happening to her life, body and brain.

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21 - The Pelvic Floor - what all women need to know...

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2025/01/17

Send us a textIn this episode Jody talks with Kim Vopini, Vagina Coach, about all things pelvic floor. We discuss prolapse, incontinence, urgency and hormones. Kim shares her personal experience with prolapse and Jody reveals her own journey and how strengthening the pelvic floor may not be a good thing and why.This is an episode you won't want to miss. We cover so many topics including vaginal estrogen and the benefits women can experience from using it.Instagram: vaginacoachWebsite: https:/...

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20 - Learning how to honour the “pause” with Edwina...

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2024/12/20

Send us a textEdwina Peden guides women through perimenopause using the wisdom of Ayurveda. As a perimenopausal women herself Edwina has learnt to honour rest. Edwina notices how her mood, energy and interactions with her two young boys is impacted if she doesn’t pause more often these days. Nature is a medicine she uses to help calm herself and her clients.Instagram: @edwina_peden

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19 - Navigating perimenopause without HRT as an...

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2024/12/12

Send us a textJane McCann is a total inspiration for any aging woman. She has embraced this stage of life with vigour and has no fear around speaking up about the lack of options available to perimenopausal women who have a history of cancer or cancer in their family that means HRT is not an option for them. After being offering anti-depressants that didn’t work for her Jane found herself alone and unsupported by the medical profession during perimenopause. Doctors were unable to offer her an...

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18 - Trauma and how it can resurface during...

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2024/12/05

Send us a textLucy Slater is a Somatic psychotherapist who helped people come home to their bodies and feel their emotions. Jody talks to Lucy about how important it is for women on their perimenopausal women to acknowledge and feel their feelings and what happens if they discount their emotions in this season of life. Disturbances in sleep, digestion and fatigue are symptoms women can encounter if they are bypassing their feelings. We discuss how hormonal changes can impact our feelings and ...

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17 - How I managed modelling and perimenopause by...

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2024/11/29

Send us a textToday Jody speaks with Gen X model, writer and yoga teacher Kate Bell about her experience working in the modelling as a perimenopausal woman and what it was like being the oldest woman in the room. We discuss how Kate tendency to face difficult situations head on helped her navigate perimenopause along with the support of herbal medicine and yoga. Instagram: @i_am_katebell

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16 - Grey area drinking and how it can slowly unravel...

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2024/11/21

Send us a textSarah Rusbatch is the author of the best-selling book “Beyond Booze”. She is a Grey Area Drinking Coach, menopause coach and key note speaker who shares about her journey to sobriety.In todays conversation we discuss the following:What is Grey Area drinking?When do we know we have a problem with alcohol and how to stop.The impact grey area drinking is having on your mental healthThe impact alcohol is having on the health of perimenopausal and menopausal women and the risk associ...

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15 - Nourishing oneself throughout perimenopause with...

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2024/11/14

Send us a textDr Lauren Tober is a clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, educator and author. Her new book Mental Health Aware yoga is a must have for any yoga teacher.In today’s episode here are some of the questions we have covered:You are a Psychologist and a yoga teacher who has spent a large part of your career trying to marry the two together. Have you seen a greater acceptance for yoga in the mental health world? You have a new book out called Mental Health aware yoga for people li...

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14 - How to maintain health and balance with Brad Hay.

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2024/11/07

Send us a textToday Jody speaks with Brad Hay. Brad is an Ayurvedic & Tantra Teacher, father and builder. We talk about how Brad manages the stresses of young children, a mortgage and a busy life using Ayurvedic wisdom. Jody and Brad discuss the different challenges the 3 Ayurvedic constitutions (doshas) come up against as they age and how knowing your weak points can help you avoid burn out.Brad highlights the magic practice of Yoga Nidra and why he recommends that everyone introduc...

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13 - Ayurveda & achieving good gut health in...

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2024/10/31

Send us a textToday Jody speaks to Kate O’Donnell Ayurvedic Educator and Author about the importance of good gut health as we enter perimenopause. Kate encourages us to include good fats in our diet to avoid dryness that naturally occurs in our body as we age according to Ayurveda.We discuss why leaving adequate time between our meals with aid digestion and how snacking can negatively impact some constitutions.Kate beautifully describes the process of digestion and encourages us to learn to o...

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12 - Ayurveda teaches us that nature is regenerative...

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2024/10/24

Send us a textJody speaks to Laura Plumb, Ayurvedic practitioner and educator about the elder phase in which a woman becomes ready to pass on the chores to the next generation and we rest and consider what is their legacy and purpose.Laura stresses the most fundamental thing a woman can do in their fifties is to find a way to believe in themselves and know their true value. They discuss the importance of having your own relationship with the elements instead of reading and researching. L...

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11 - Meditation, mindfulness and perimenopause with...

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2024/10/10

Send us a textJacqui Lewis – The Broad Place In this conversation Jody talks to Jacqui Lewis, founder of The Broad Place, a successful international meditation school and retreat business. Jacqui describes her own journey through perimenopause and how she at first struggled to identify what was happening and the shame she felt about entering perimenopause in her early forties.We discuss how meditation is not a silver bullet and that it won’t make us immune to our own human experienc...

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10 - My perimenopause & postmenopause journey through...

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2024/10/03

Send us a textJody Vassallo is an Ayurvedic Health Practitioner, cookbook author and yoga teacher.She has written two cookbooks on Ayurveda.Jody has been working in the women's health arena for many years and today she talks about her own journey through perimenopause to postmenopause through the lens of Ayurveda.You can purchase Jody's Ayurvedic cookbook The Yogic Kitchen and find out more about the yoga retreats for women and yin yoga teacher teacher trainings athttps://www.jodyvassall...

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9 - Aging, grieving & running a successful online...

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2024/09/26

In today’s episode Jody chats with beautiful Amy Crawford owner of The Holistic Ingredient an online store, host of the podcast Woman, Conversations for the curious.Jody and Amy discuss:Amy’s perimenopause journeyNavigating grief and the loss of a parent in the perimenopausal phase of lifeManaging stress, rest and an auto-immune diseaseHow resting is easier said than doneHer Holistic ingredients blends and maca powder and what led her to their creationAmy Crawford, founder of The Holistic Ing...

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8 - Can you create a sattvic life in perimenopause...

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2024/09/19

In this episode Katie Rose and I speak about the importance of living a Sattvic life and how modern life keeps us on this hamster wheel that is challenging to remove ourselves from.We speak about Bhakti, what is and simple Bhakti practices we can incorporate into our livesKatie reflects on being a mother of 5 and a business owner in her forties and how she manages it all with her less in more approach.We speak about rajasic food and stimulants like coffee and alcohol and the price we can pay ...

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7 - The impact chemicals are having on your health...

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2024/09/12

In this episode Jody talks with Alex about all things Low Tox and how chemicals can impact women and men as they age.We cover a lot of ground in this podcast talking about:Simple changes people can make in their homes to be living a more low tox lifeOne thing everyone can purchase for their homes to make them healthier places to resideSustainable fashion and the fabrics that are recommended for a healthy low tox wardrobeBedding and pillows and how we might reconsider what we are sleeping onSk...

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