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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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66 - Coming Home to Your Body with the Po Spirit with...

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2025/11/28

Today we welcome Lorie Dechar acupuncturist, psychotherapist, author, teacher, poet and mentor to Changing Seasons podcast to talk about the spirits in TCM. Lorie shares how she came to understand the spirits and describes how her menopausal experience helped her to connect with them. Lorie spends time describing how the five elements are a wheel and the spirits operate more on a central axis. She speaks about how the Po spirit calls us back home to our bodies possibly through grief and loss ...

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65 - Know Your Element, Know Yourself with Ashley Abbs.

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2025/11/21

Today Jody welcomes author, acupuncturist and artist Ashley Abbs to the podcast to speak about the five different personality types in Chinese Medicine. Ashley describes in detail the occupation that each element is drawn to, the way they approach challenges or setbacks and what sends them out of balance. We discuss how each element is impacted by perimenopause and Ashley gives some helpful tips that she uses with clients to help restore balance. This is a fascinating episode for anyone who i...

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64 - Stop Asking Others. Your Body Knows with Nidhi...

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2025/11/14

In today's episode of Changing Seasons Jody welcomes Ayurvedic Practitioner, teacher and author Nidhi Pandya to speak about her new book 'Your Body Already Knows'. Nidhi shares how growing up and sharing her home with her grandfather whose life was deeply informed by Ayurvedic wisdom informed how she views health and wellness. She believes that we have become so conditioned to asking others to prescribe what is right for us that we have lost touch with the inner wisdom of the body. In h...

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63 - Jody Vassallo: Returning to Balance with Ayurveda.

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2025/11/07

Today Jody discusses how we can balance our doshas when they go out of balance. We look at what we can do with nature, sight, sound, mantra, exercise and emotionally to help settle us. Ayurveda uses the opposite quality to help treat an imbalance so if your body is dry you will need to use moisture internally and externally to remedy that, if your body is cold eating warm cooked food will be beneficial. This is a great episode for anyone who is new to Ayurveda and looking to unde...

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62 - Edwina Peden: The Perimenopause Summit -...

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2025/10/30

Edwina sits down with Ayurvedic health coach and author Jody Vassallo for a candid, nourishing conversation on meeting perimenopause as a rite of passage - not a problem to “fix.” Through the lenses of Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jody shares the practices, foods, and mindset shifts that cooled her hot flushes, eased anxiety, and helped her honour this season with grace. Expect practical guidance (hello, coriander–cumin–fennel tea), nervous-system care (yin yoga, Yoga Nidra, bre...

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61 - Marissa Clohesy: Conceiving and Mothering in...

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2025/10/23

In today's episode Jody welcomes Marissa Clohesy. Marissa gave birth to her first child at 49 years of age through egg donorship from a kind woman who worked at a clinic where she regularly had bloods done. Following the birth of her first child had three more viable embryos that she needed to use, she explains she looks at IVF through a very scientific lens - you need a womb, an egg and sperm. The next attempt saw Marissa miscarriage and she believes it was due to her doing too much, not res...

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60 - Jody Vassallo: Loneliness Through The Lens Of...

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2025/10/17

Today Jody ponders how the space element relates to loneliness. In Ayurveda the elements of air and space (ether) combine to create the vata dosha. Although we can clearly see and feel the elements of air, earth, water and fire, space is a little different. Space or too much space between us and others equates to loneliness, fear of too much space leads to overshopping, overeating and clutter in our homes. We know space by feeling it. Jody touches on each of the doshas and how they may ...

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59 - Kimberly Ann Johnson: Menopause - The Only Way...

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2025/10/10

Today Jody welcomes Kimberly Ann Johnson to the Changing Seasons podcast. Kimberly is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Sexological Bodyworker, author and postpartum advocate. We discuss how Kimberly's own postpartum journey has informed her menopause story and why she has chosen to focus on the positive changes she has seen in her body and life in menopause. She tells how at one point during menopause she went to a naturopath thinking she may need some estrogen only to be given a raft ...

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58 - Sole Del Riccio-Smith & Dylan Smith: Our...

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2025/10/03

Today Jody is joined by Sole Del Riccio-Smith and Dylan Smith to discuss their fertility and postpartum journey. In this conversation we cover their preconception preparation and how they did 30 days of Panchakarma at home during COVID under the guidance of their Ayurvedic doctor. They both highlight how important it was for them to surrender themselves totally to the process even up to the point of waiting for their Vaidya (Dr) to say the time was right for them to start trying to conc...

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57 - Kimberly Ashton: Making Food Your Medicine.

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2025/09/26

Today Jody welcomes Kimberley Ashton from Qi Food Therapy to the Changing Seasons podcast. We discuss in detail why certain foods will soothe and nourish the digestive system and other foods will aggravate and inflame it. She highlights the role of the sweet and salty flavours in our body. Kimberly explains why we need to consume good quality sweet flavoured foods to help relax and satiate the body and high and that salt is needed to strengthen the body. We have a diet culture and the reducti...

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56 - Carly Merlo: The Good Oil - Understanding...

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2025/09/19

Today Jody welcomes Carly Merlo, owner of Bio Veda to the podcast to discuss the A-Z of Ayurvedic oils and how different medicated oils are prized for the healing process. Ayurveda has been using oils on the body, hair and internally for thousands of years, black sesame oil or coconut oil are used as the carriers for the medicinal herbs which are warmed and then applied to the skin before bathing. Bala oil is the oil of choice of Shirodhara, a therapeutic treatment that works to calm Vata in ...

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55 - Jody Vassallo: How Is Your Sleep?

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2025/09/12

Today Jody takes a close look at sleep through the lens of Ayurveda. Sleep or nidra is an integral part of your health and there are many factors that influence the quality and quantity of your sleep. The different doshas can all experience their own issues with sleep and as we age sleep can become more disturbed. Jody discusses how what you eat before bed, the time you go to sleep, the pjs you wear, the sheets you tuck into and the room you sleep in can impact the quality of your...

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54 - Sonia Lloyd: Is Your Skin Care Aging You?

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2025/09/05

Today Jody meets Sonia Lloyd from Rasara Skinfood about how to treat your skin using the principles of Ayurveda. After a skin flare up in her late teens Sonia tried many things unsuccessfully to treat the problem. Fast forward to today and Sonia now owns an Ayurvedic Skin & Hair Care range that is so pure you can literally eat it. In our conversation today we cover the magic healing properties of castor oil and how it is an absolute gift for the skin. We discuss the different skin p...

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53 - Holly Davis: Respecting What We Eat.

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2025/08/29

Today Jody welcomes whole-food chef and cookbook author Holly Davis to Changing Seasons podcast to discuss Food as Medicine. We speak about how Holly discovered macrobiotics at the age of 14 and how it continues to influence how she cooks and prepares food to this day. Holly shares about how she used to be a macrobiotic zealot and these days her approach to food is much more about respect and the nourishment and joy we can get from sharing food we have prepared with those we love. We di...

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52 - Jody Vassallo: What Should I Eat?

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2025/08/22

Today Jody talks about how Ayurveda looks at digestion and how we can learn what foods are best suited for the different body types and their relevant doshas. Digestive fire or agni is dependent on a range of things, the food we consumed yesterday and how it was broken down, our prana, sleep and lifestyle choices. When digestive fire it can not only impact our digestive system, it can lead to a change in our mood and our behaviour. Jody discusses the six tastes and the elements that make up e...

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51 - Jody Vassallo: Understanding Your Body in...

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2025/08/15

In today's episode Jody touches on the common physical and emotional symptoms she sees in Perimenopause from an Ayurvedic perspective. Weight gain, anxiety, hot flashes, anger, forgetfulness, waking up between 1-3am are all ways that our bodies are trying to communicate with us to stay something is not right, something is out of balance, something needs to change and it is up to us whether we choose to listen or medicate the messages. If you are looking for help navigating your way through pe...

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50 - Jody Vassallo: The Qualities of the Doshas.

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2025/08/08

Today Jody talks about the qualities of each of the Ayurvedic Doshas and how they show up in the body, mind and emotions. She explains how Ayurveda balances disturbances in the qualities of the Doshas by treating with the opposite quality in another Dosha. For example, if your Vata is out of balance and your skin is dry you start incorporating ghee into your diet to balance the dryness. This is part one of a three part series with Jody that will cover the Doshas and provide simple ways to und...

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49 - Lisa FItzpatrick: Sexy Menopause.

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2025/08/01

*Caution this conversation contains references to sexual assault. Today pelvic floor and sexual therapist Lisa Fitzpatrick returns to Changing Seasons podcast to speak to Jody about Sexy Menopause. Lisa believes it is possible for every woman to enjoy sex throughout perimenopause and beyond and describes the blocks standing in the way of women doing so. We discuss how women store tension and past trauma in the pelvic and how if it is not addressed it can lead to them experiencing pain, discom...

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48 - Lucette Romy: No Greater Grief.

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2025/07/25

Today on the podcast Jody speaks with Lucette Romy about the death of her baby boy Dash. Lucette birthed Dash at home and the birth was beautiful and without complications. However, six hours after his birth Dash's colour had not improved and after checking with their birth keeper and then their GP they finally made the decision to call paramedics. Unfortunately Dash did not survive. His body was sent away for an autopsy and Lucette describes how this was one of the hardest things for her to ...

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47 - Paula Rastrick: Is It Your Nervous System Or...

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2025/07/18

Send us a text Today Jody speaks to Trauma Therapist Paula Rastrick about how the nervous system impacts our hormones. Paula shares her story of being prescribed HRT and the complications that arose from being over prescribed estrogen. Following this she embarked upon a journey of trying to understand how trauma and a disregulated nervous system can play havoc with a womens hormones in puberty, pregnancy and perimenopause. Paula believes that we need to learn how to stay within our Wind...

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