The truth about periods, pain, and hormone health with Tanya Borowski

Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Send us a text here A note before you listen: this episode talks about harm in the medical system and touches on childhood trauma and abuse. Please take care of yourself as you listen. When did you last check in with your own body before you checked in with someone else’s opinion of it? In this episode, Dr Peta Wright, Dr Thea Bowler and Sam Lindsay-German talk honestly about women, medicine and power. It’s not an anti-medicine conversation bec...

Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Send us a text here In our last episode, Peta and Thea talked about Vera's practitioner training, and why no one should have to do this work alone. This week, we're introducing you to one of the women who reminds us of that every day. Lauren Williams has been a midwife for most of her life. She'll tell you it's part of the thread of who she is. She's worked in birth suite, led research that changed how a large hospital cares for women in early labour...

Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Send us a text here A quick note: this is a conversation about our practitioner training, so we're talking clinician to clinician at times. But if you're living with pelvic pain, we hope it's a comfort to hear that there are practitioners out there learning to slow down, listen and work this way. If you've ever sat across from a woman in pain, done everything you were trained to do, and still gone home feeling it wasn't enough, we know that feeling w...

Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Send us a text here What if the disconnection you feel from your body isn't because something's wrong with you – but because you've forgotten you're divine? In this episode, we explore the power of recognising the goddess within – not as a spiritual concept you have to strive for, but as the truth of what you already are. We talk about why goddess energy has been suppressed, shamed, and severed from our collective consciousness – and what happens whe...

Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Send us a text here A quick note: We recorded this at our practitioner event, so we're talking clinician-to-clinician in parts. But if you're navigating pelvic pain yourself, you might find it really validating to hear how we think about symptoms, nervous system states, and what actually drives lasting change. If you're a practitioner working with pelvic pain, you've probably felt the pressure to fix, the complexity of trauma and chronic symptoms, an...