Changing Seasons Podcast
Changing Seasons is a podcast that gently explores the transitions we move through in life from fertility to menopause, surrogacy to grief, and the many shifts in between. 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: perimenopause, menopause, fertility, gut health, grief and loss, surrogacy, Ayurveda, and food as medicine.
This is a space for real conversations, tender truths, and practical ways to nourish yourself no matter what season you're in.
Changing Seasons Podcast
1 - 'Living The Medicine Of Subtraction' with Dr Claudia Welch
In our first episode of Changing Seasons Podcast Jody talks with Dr Claudia Welch about perimenopause and menopause through an Ayurvedic lens.
Jody and Claudia chat about:
- The importance of using the medicine of subtraction in our lives
- Rest and how essential it is during the perimenopausal journey
- Fat and oestrogen and why its beneficial to be carrying a little more fat in menopause
- The Ayurvedic Phases of life and how menopause takes us into the Forest Dweller phase of our lives
- How our habits now will impact our health in later years
- Resisting the seduction of another project during perimenopause when we need to take time to do less
Dr Claudia Welch has been a lifelong student of life and medicine. She has practiced Āyurveda, has worked in Eastern medicine education, is licensed as Doctor of Oriental Medicine, and the author of Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness Through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine and Western Science and, The Four Qualities of Effective Physicians: Practical Ayurvedic Wisdom for Modern Physicians.
Dr. Welch has lectured internationally on Oriental medicine and Āyurveda, exploring how Eastern medicine applies to Women’s Health, and today’s reality in general. She has served on the teaching faculty of The Āyurvedic Institute, Kripalu School of Ayurveda, Southwest Acupuncture College, and Acupractice Seminars.
Website:
https://drclaudiawelch.com/
Menopause Chronicles:
https://drclaudiawelch.com/shop/online-courses-shop/womens-health-courses/menopause-chronicles/
Instagram:
@drclaudiawelch
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