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015: Her Blood Is Gold with Dr Lara Owen

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In this episode Dr Lara Owen, author of Her Blood is Gold talks about menstruation, spirituality and how women can heal from the dominant medicalized approach to women’s bodies.

Lara is a writer and researcher whose interests circulate around the everyday and our potential for living more intelligently, compassionately and sustainably. She has written on spirituality and on women’s wellbeing, and is best known for her ground breaking book on menstruation, Her Blood Is Gold, which was first published in 1993 and has been updated twice, most recently in 2008. The book investigates the impact that cultural constructions of the menstrual cycle have on women, society and the environment, how women are traumatised and minimised through menstrual stigma, and what happens when normative behaviours change. Lara holds a PhD from Monash Business School on innovations in the organisation of menstruation.

In Her Blood is Gold, Lara also talks about:

  • The Sabbath of Women
  • Ceremony and menstruation
  • Celebrating menstruation
  • How period advertising gaslights women
  • The painful relationship with being female
  • Mothers, daughters and menstruation
  • PMS
  • Ritual, spiritual power and wisdom

Connect with Lara:

Dr Lara Owen’s website

Dr Lara Owen on Facebook

Dr Lara Owen on LinkedIn

Dr Lara Owen on Twitter

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About Jodie Gale

Jodie Gale is the founder of TraumaWarriors.Online, host of the Trauma Warriors with Jodie Gale podcast, an Eco-Psycho-Spiritual Psychotherapist, Complex Trauma Expert, Mind Body Eating + Plant-Based Nutrition Coach. She is a leading specialist in women’s emotional, psychological and spiritual health and well-being. Over the last 20 years, Jodie has helped women to transform and heal their lives from complex trauma, disordered eating and the trance of unworthiness. She has a private psychotherapy, counselling and life-coaching practice in Manly, Frenchs Forest and Allambie on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. Jodie is passionate about helping women befriend, connect and nourish their whole selves: body, feelings, mind and SOUL!

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