WomenKind Collective

In this first podcast Jinty and Lou discuss friendships and the importance of friends in a women’s life. There’s menopause talk and plenty of laughter along the way. Jinty challenges Lou to the Weekly Invite challenge and the women discuss their 3 tips for life. The read along book of the month is More than a woman by Caitlin Moran. So put the kettle on and settle in for 30 minutes of collective chat and laughter. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/message

In this weeks episode Jinty and Lou investigate hormone and menopause headaches and migraines. Jinty finds out why we get them and Lou shares her own story and shares tips on what works for her. There’s 3 lovely tips for life from Linda and Jenny, Lou and Jinty’s Mums, and the girl’s discuss the first 5 chapters of the Book Collective, Caitlin Moran’s More than a Woman. There’s a creative WI for Jinty and Lou reports back on how she’s been getting on with her WI -meditating. Put the kettle on or grab a glass of wine and settle down to enjoy the Collective. (Join our collective by following or subscribing, DM us on instagram with ideas or reviews, or send us a recording via anchor or email us at womenkindcollective@gmail.com We’d love to hear from you. Resources https://www.menopausedoctor.co.uk/ Magnesium https://shop.emmasnutrition.com/products/magnesium-plus?variant=31487334613055. https://www.womens-health-concern.org/help-and-advice/factsheets/migraine-and-hrt/ TIGER BALM WHITE - Tiger Balm UKhttps://www.tigerbalm.com › product_type › TIGER_B... https://www.spacemasks.com/. If you’ve enjoyed this podcast we would love it if you could buy us a Ko-Fi, you can also find extra content, photos, and updates. It helps us create quality content and sound. We really appreciate it. https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/message

In this weeks episode of the Collective Jinty and Lou talk about Menopause and Postpartum hair loss. Lou gives some facts about hair and investigates why more women than we realise suffer from loss or thinning of the hair and Jinty talks about her personal struggle with hair loss. Jinty comes clean in her WI (weekly Invite) about how she’s getting on crocheting and Lou finds out what Jinty has planned for her. The Foodie Collective begins with the theme for the month - gut health, with this in mind the girls cook up a Miso Spanish Stew and Lou admits her lack of ability to follow a recipe. The 3 tips for life come from a gorgeous woman who is part of the collective, Sylvia, who imparts some very wise words of wisdom. The Book Collective catch-up and chat through chapters 6-10 of Caitlin Moran’s More than a Woman. With some interesting comparisons of what life is like for a woman with a family and commitments. So put the kettle on and settle down to enjoy this weeks Collective. If you’ve enjoyed this podcast we would love it if you could buy us a Ko-Fi, you can also find extra content, photos, and updates. It helps us create quality content and sound. We really appreciate it. https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcast Please subscribe, follow and review if you like what you hear. This really helps us. Find us on Instagram for more info https://www.instagram.com/invites/contact/?i=7whh8ml05oyo&utm_content=l57ouu5 https://trichologists.org.uk/qualified-trichologists-united-kingdom/ Apple Cider Vinegar. https://www.willysacv.com/product/willys-acv-live-fermented-apple-cider-vinegar-with-the-mother/. Hair toppers and extensions for hair loss. Tracy at. http://www.headquartersunisexsalon.co.uk/remy-hair-the%20lauren-ashtyn-collection.html. Miso Spanish Stew Recipe; Miso Spanish Stew Serves 4 people Serve with brown rice, jacket or mash potato You will need: 1 Sweet Potato 1 Leek 1 red pepper 2 carrots 1/2 cabbage 1 Onion 2 Garlic cloves 400g tin butter beans or chickpeas 2 Tbsp Miso paste  1 tsp Turmeric 1 heaped tsp Smoked paprika 1 tsp Oregano 1 pint veggie stock 1 tbsp flour Natural unsweetened yogurt (coconut yogurt if vegan) 1 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil  Salt and pepper to taste If eating meat Organic chicken thighs Pasture for life, grass fed beef, diced Enough for who you are feeding. 1. Peel and Chop sweet potato in to 2cm (approx) cubes 2. Peel and slice the onion, leak, garlic and carrots 3. Chop pepper into cubes 4. Put you EVOO in a large saucepan and heat on medium  5. Add Sweet potato, carrots, onion, and leak 6. Turn to low and Cook for 10 minutes stirring  7. Add Garlic and peppers, miso paste, and all the spices 8. Cook for a further 5 minutes  9. Whilst this is cooking if you are using meat you can brown this off in a separate pan in EVOO 10. Add Veggie stock, making sure most of the meat is covered (add more water if needed) 11. Slow cook in a slow cooker or low oven for a few hours OR Cook on the hob on a low to medium heat for about 45 minutes 12. Meanwhile finely slice the cabbage 13. Drain and rice (if needed) butter beans or chick peas 14. Put the rice or potato’s on 15. After 45 minutes turn up the heat and add cabbage 16. Mix the flour with a little water to make a slurry 17. Pour into your stew and keep stirring for a couple of minutes 18. Bring to simmer and add beans or chickpeas 19. Cook for a further 15 minutes 20. Turn off the heat and add 1 tbsp yogurt (or more) 21. Salt and pepper to taste Serve in bowls with mash, jacket or rice Yum --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/message

In this Special Easter Sunday episode we thank defiant pagan women & the Goddess, Eostre, for all the tasty bits about this festival. A time of celebration & new birth it is fitting that in this weeks episode of the Collective we have a lovely guest, Kerrie Preston, Mum of two boys, 5yrs & 5 months, founder of Teddy & Millie teething necklaces and also writer of a mum blog, The Midnight Mum Club. Kerrie opens up about how her second pregnancy differed during a pandemic and the highs and lows of birthing, how her partner nearly missed it, and overcoming post natal health issues whilst in lockdown. We learn the challenges for both mum & midwife of building a relationship over the phone or through PPE & that even in the latter stages of labour and post birth the difficulties new mums have to overcome in a lockdown. Kerrie gives us 3 brilliant tips for life and they really will resonate with most women. Jinty and Lou discuss their WI’s and has Jinty completed her crotchet square yet? Lou is very honest about how she is getting on with her gut health challenge from Jinty! The book collective chat through chapters 11-15 of Caitlin Moran’s More Than A woman. We discuss the patriarchy and why we should all give the men in our life flowers, and agree dungarees are Big Bum Proof. Jinty tells us why hangovers are worse as we get older. We hear from a member of the collective, Laura, who has another Migraine tip and an intriguing question, will you know the answer? So put the kettle on and settle down to enjoy the Collective this Sunday. Please subscribe and leave a review if you like what you hear. Campaign to help and support working mums https://pregnantthenscrewed.com/. The innovative hands free shoe https://news.nike.com/news/nike-go-flyease-hands-free-shoe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/message

You’ll need a whole flask of tea for this weeks podcast as well as tissues, so settle in for a slightly longer episode with some beautiful stories from some amazing women. It’s autism awareness month and we have 2 very special guests mother and daughter, Lyn and Libby Curtis. Lou gets to the bottom of one of the collectives pube loss and chin hair gain. It’s the last 6 chapters of Caitlin Moran’s More Than A Woman and we discuss how truthful the book is for every woman including those of us at a certain age not packing the suspenders for a sexy weekend away but packing the M & S menopause pants! For our foodie collective Jinty talks probiotics and why we need them for good gut health and how to get probiotics into your body. During our interview with Lyn and Libby we learn that only 1:3 girls are diagnosed to boys, and diagnosis for girls can take much, much longer. Lyn was diagnosed when she was 40 years old and 3 of Lyn’s 5 children have autism, Libby is her youngest daughter and was diagnosed at 6 years old, but this was off the back of her brothers diagnosis. Lyn talks openly and honestly about parenting her children with autism, the struggles and reality, as well as trying to regulate her own symptoms, this fiercely loving family is full of love but can be perceived as cold by those who do not understand the gifts they have. There was a huge difference between her daughter and her son’s diagnosis - the internalization of Libby’s emotions and how it can manifest in girls as self-harm and eating disorders in an obsessive way. Lyn is also suffering from long COVID and she discusses how this as well as the menopause has massively impacted on her life. This episode is an emotional rollercoaster finishing with a beautiful letter from Jinty’s daughter who is waiting for a formal autism assessment. With much love and gratitude to the women of this week’s podcast for opening their hearts to us. We make this podcast ourselves so please share, subscribe, follow and review, it means a lot to us. Leave us a message or email us, we would love to hear your stories, suggestions and thoughts womenkindcollective@gmail.com. Disclaimer- These are stories told by real women with autism but everyone is different and there are many different traits or gifts in the spectrum. For advice on Autism https://www.autism.org.uk/. Books - More than a Woman by Caitlin Moran. Untamed by Glennon Doyle. If you’ve enjoyed this podcast we would love it if you could buy us a Ko-Fi, you can also find extra content, photos, and updates. It helps us create quality content and sound. We really appreciate it. https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/message

In this week’s episode of Womenkind Collective we celebrate Earth day on April 22, We recognise Mother Nature and the different planet friendly sanitary products available for women and girls and we have a Moon Cup story from one of our Collective. Out topic this week is HRT myth busting, we try and solve some of the questions asked by the collective and go through the different types of HRT that are available on the NHS. One of our amazing Collective Annie comes on to talk about her initial visit to her GP and unfortunately we learn her experience is not unusual. Our topic of HRT myth busting starts with Jinty going through all the different types of HRT that are available on the NHS and how as women we do have choices that we can take to our GP’s with what would be most suitable for us and our lifestyle. There is a difference between men and women’s sexual problems; the women talk about the divide and how this needs to be addressed. The Women have researched planet friendly varieties of sanitary wear and why we should be looking to buy from small companies, among the products are, period pants, re-usable pads and moon cups. Our new book for the book Collective is Glennon Doyle’s Untamed, a book about being authentic and truthful to yourself as a woman, we are going to read parts 1 and 2 and discuss this in next week’s episode. The Women talk about wine for the Collective ready for the end of the month. There is an alcohol free option that gets the thumbs up from Jinty. Lou gives Jinty a WI that Jinty is glad isn’t another crotchet project! The 3 tips for life come from Jinty and Lou’s daughters, with surprising tips that leave both mum’s feeling super proud and reaching for the tissues, they discuss being authentic and true to yourself. Book Collective - Untamed, Glennon Doyle If you’ve enjoyed this podcast we would love it if you could buy us a Ko-Fi, you can also find extra content, photos, and updates. It helps us create quality content and sound. We really appreciate it. https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcast Wine Collective - Red wine - Fleurie -available every in most supermarkets £7-10 M&S Champagne-Delacourt-ros-brut-champagne £22 Alcohol free - https://jukescordialities.com/ Featured Reusable sanitary pads and pants; https://wearemout.co.uk/. https://www.shethinx.com/collections/thinx-classic. https://www.heygirls.co.uk/ https://www.fluxundies.com/products/flux-bikini https://www.modibodi.co.uk/ https://wuka.co.uk/ Featured reusable nappies https://www.bambinomio.com/ To find out more about HRT https://thebms.org.uk/ https://www.menopausedoctor.co.uk/ Thank you for listening, Jinty and Lou x --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/message

In this weeks podcast Jinty and Lou welcome Nutritionist, author, chef, and all round fantastic woman, Emma Ellice-Flint to the Womenkind Collective. Emma is a clinical nutritional therapist, specialising in Women’s health. Her book, The Happy Hormone Cook book, combines nutritional facts and information to help balance our hormones as well as great practical tips and recipes. Emma works with Dr Louise Newson at the Menopause and Wellbeing Centre, helping women with the menopause transition, energy levels, weight issues, mood and mental health, sleep problems, IBS and histamine intolerance. Our Foodie Collective theme this month has been Gut health and this is a subject Emma is passionate about, running regular fermentation workshops (online) which Jinty has attended and says ‘they are fun, informative & demonstrate how easy it is to begin your fermented foods journey, which not only will your gut thank you for, but your body and mind too!’ You will learn a lot in this episode, (get a pen & paper) Emma answers your questions such as My body has changed shape, all around my middle is expanding yet I’ve changed nothing, is there an explanation for this & what can I do? Why do I crave beige sugary foods ? Do women become more intolerant to certain foods during menopause? I’m suffering terribly with indigestion, I have constant trapped wind - the menopause seems to have changed me completely, what do I do? Is looking after my gut going to be expensive and a big faff? How will pro and pre biopics benefit me in menopause? Emma talks us through how food effects our mood, sleep and physical well-being. Why our hormones in peri and menopause make our gut and food choices change. We learn that we have oestrogen receptors throughout our body, including our gut. We discuss intermittent fasting and breaking our bad food habits and creating new ones, and how this will benefit our gut, and consequently will improve our wellbeing. Emma tells us how we might begin to go about changing our diets and lifestyles, some of which will surprise you! The book Collective this week starts with part 1 and 2 of Glennon Doyle’s Untamed and this book is already resonating with Jinty & Lou. Jinty talks about how we hide our real self and expectation. As women we can lose ourselves and be who we think we should be rather than who we really are. Lou talks about how All feelings are for feeling, it’s not just happy it’s all emotions that should be felt, being true to self and learning to feel. Jinty ponders on Glennon’s ‘knowing’ and how it is just like Yoga- learning to recognise truths and be aware of what is happening ‘right now’. We know this book will speak to many in the Collective. Let us know how you are getting on with it? We would really love to hear your thoughts. We have 3 wonderful tips for life from Emma Ellice-Flint, staying with our Foodie collective theme of gut health. You will want to hear these. Much gratitude to Emma for spending the morning with us, we hope she will be back soon. & thank you for listening, if you enjoyed this episode please share with friends, this, in itself, is an act of kindness. If you’ve enjoyed this podcast we would love it if you could buy us a Ko-Fi, you can also find extra content, photos, and updates. It helps us create quality content and sound. We really appreciate it. https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcast Please subscribe, & leave a review, it will help others find us. Find Emma here https://emmasnutrition.com/ https://www.newsonhealth.co.uk/ Happy Hormone Cookbook https://shop.emmasnutrition.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/message

In this weeks podcast we follow up on episode 2 all about headaches. We seek expert advice from our guest this week, McTimoney chiropractor and qualified medical herbalist, Kathryn Vickery. She discusses headaches and migraines, and helps us understand the difference between Primary and Secondary headaches. We learn how our posture may affect us with some surprising ways we can alleviate pain. How often do we look down? And how heavy are our heads?! Kathryn explains the different types of migraines we can get with varying causes and ways of prevention. We learn about abdominal migraines (who knew!), particularly in children, ocular (eyes) and vestibular (ear) migraines and many more. And also Tension headaches, what they are, how to treat and prevent them. Kathryn also gives us her 3 very wise tips for life. We have the Book Collective where we continue to read from Glennon Doyle’s Untamed. Jinty and Lou discuss chapters Aches to Attendants and why we should all be a bit more Alicia Keyes in situations! We talk about how we may become martyr’s as well as mother’s, and why it is important to keep doing the things we love. The big question is why Jinty and Lou weren’t as wise as their daughters and realise it might have something to do with their book selections in the 80’s! Join us in our first Wine Collective (see list of wines below) - a tasting which ends in plenty of laughter! Lou talks and drinks through her wine choices, the rosè Delacourt from M&S for £22 for a more affordable champagne and also The Queen of Beaujolais a Fleurie for a lighter red wine. Jinty has a fantastic non-alcoholic drink Jukes No 1 mixed with sparkling water, the flavours are citrus and herbs with pineapple husk a lovely fragrant alternative to an alcoholic wine. It’s definitely another fun filled podcast so please leave a review, subscribe or follow, We’d love to hear your feedback, leave us a message or comment on our Instagram @womenkindcollective Thank you for listening. Kathryn Vickery DC BSc (chiro) MMCA Dip Phyt http://www.exmouthchiropractic.co.uk/ (Kathryn’s website is currently being updated) Phone 01647 221532 Email moorcarechiropractic@gmail.com Wine collective Wine Collective - Red wine - Fleurie -available every in most supermarkets £7-10 M&S Champagne-Delacourt-ros-brut-champagne £22 Alcohol free - https://jukescordialities.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/message

Welcome to this weeks Womenkind Collective where Jinty and Lou talk all things women. On this weeks podcast we find out why we can’t drink as much alcohol as we used to, especially during menopause. There is a new foodie Collective, a recipe for ‘No bake flapjacks’. As it’s national pet month we hear from some of the Collective about how pets have helped, mentally and physically, during the pandemic and we catch up with the book Collective Untamed by Glennon Doyle. The main topic of this weeks podcast is Alcohol and the Menopause, Jinty and Lou find out that gender plays a big part in alcohol tolerances and why a woman’s alcohol intake might want to be less than a man’s, especially in menopause when oestrogen levels deplete, women have more fat and less water in their bodies causing blood alcohol levels to rise. The question is why is this information not readily available so women can make informed choices? The book Collective is on the penultimate read of Glennon Doyle’s Untamed, the book is resonating with so many of the Collective and has raised some interesting topics about parenting and being your true vulnerable self and why being more of a flight attendant as a parent will help through turbulent situations. We learn what pets have done for us mentally and physically during lockdown and not just the dogs! We have some global comments from the Collective and we meet Sammy the guinea pig! The foodie Collective is a ‘no bake’ month & both Jinty and Lou have made the no bake flapjacks from Emma Hollingsworth recipe and have a taste off, this is a simple recipe that is full of good gut ingredients and learn how some of the ingredients can be swapped for cheaper options. The WI’s from both Jinty and Lou have some positive results from Jinty’s gratitude’s (grateful not to be crocheting) from Lou’s invite to the shampoo bar that Jinty invited Lou to try. The 3 tips from life are from a lovely member of the Collective, Laura; she imparts her words of wisdom to the Collective about life. If you’ve enjoyed this podcast we would love it if you could buy us a Ko-Fi, you can also find extra content, photos, and updates. It helps us create quality content and sound. We really appreciate it. https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcast No bake Flapjacks; Ingredients For the flapjacks * 2 cups oats * 1/3 cup raisins * 4 tbsp maple syrup * 1/3 cup coconut oil, melted * 1/3 cup cashew butter (or any other nut or seed butter) For the chocolate fudge * 1/2 cup cacao powder * 1/2 cup maple syrup * 1/4 cup cashew butter (or any other nut or seed butter) * 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted To make the flapjacks, just combine the ingredients in a mixing bowl and stir well. Spoon into a lined baking tin or mould and press down evenly to make sure the mixture is all compact, otherwise it won’t stick together nicely. Pop it in the fridge while you make the fudge. For the fudge, again just add the ingredients to a mixing bowl and stir until you have a thick chocolatey mixture (don’t worry if it seems quite liquid as this will set in the fridge). Pour it on top of the flapjacks and put them back in the fridge for an hour or so to allow them to set. Alternatively if you’re impatient like me you can always put them in the freezer and they will set quicker. Cut them into squares! Yum ! Tell us what you think https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vegan-Treats-Emma-Hollingsworth/dp/0857835874 https://mrshollingsworths.com/ Jinty and Lou’s Shampoo bar B&S, vegan and cruelty free, no palm oil https://www.peacewiththewild.co.uk/product/botanical-shampoo-bar-tin-sea-salt-wood-sage-60g/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/message