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: 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.
Episodes
55 episodes
55 - Jody Vassallo: How Is Your Sleep?
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 the...
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Season 6
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Episode 55
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44:20
54 - Sonia Lloyd: Is Your Skin Care Aging You?
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 to...
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Season 6
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Episode 54
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1:24:21
53 - Holly Davis: Respecting What We Eat.
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...
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Season 6
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Episode 53
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1:00:18
52 - Jody Vassallo: What Should I Eat?
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 ...
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Season 6
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Episode 52
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57:23
51 - Jody Vassallo: Understanding Your Body in Perimenopause.
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 51
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1:09:33
50 - Jody Vassallo: The Qualities of the Doshas.
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 50
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59:23
49 - Lisa FItzpatrick: Sexy Menopause.
*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 w...
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Season 4
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Episode 49
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1:03:37
48 - Lucette Romy: No Greater Grief.
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 a...
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Season 4
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Episode 48
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1:22:14
47 - Paula Rastrick: Is It Your Nervous System Or Your Hormones?
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 t...
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Season 4
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Episode 47
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1:28:04
46 - Shonali Sabherwal: Gut Health Is Everything.
Today Jody speaks to Shonali Sabherwal Macrobiotic Nutritionist & Chef about the Macrobiotic and Ayurvedic approach to gut health. Shonali shares that she has attended a Panchakarma (an Ayurvedic detox protocol) once a year since she was in...
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Season 4
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Episode 46
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49:21
45 - Nicole Lange: Trauma and How It Can Impact Fertility.
Nicole Lange is an acupuncturist who has a Masters in Chinese Medicine, she has spent her entire career focused on working with women. Today she chats with Jody about her wholistic approach to supporting women through their fertility journey. W...
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Season 4
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Episode 45
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1:10:29
44 - Sarah Megginson: My Surrogate Journey.
Today Sarah Megginson returns to the podcast to speak with Jody about her decision to be a surrogate for her friend Lisa Messenger. Sarah had given birth to three healthy children of her own and at the same time had watched Lisa and...
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Season 4
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Episode 44
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1:05:18
43 - How the Changing Seasons Impact Us with Jody Vassallo.
In today's episode Jody explores how the changing seasons of the year impact each of the different Doshas. Ayurveda says that we need to protect our bodies around the junctions of the seasons and we discuss how Vata types need to ta...
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Season 4
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Episode 43
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46:54
42 - Dr Jimi Wollumbin: The Distressing State of Male Fertility.
Today Dr Jimi Wollumbin returns to chat with Jody about the distressing state of male fertility across the globe. Jimi shares disturbing research figures on the declining rates of male fertility across all age groups of men.We speak abou...
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Season 5
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Episode 42
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1:31:49
41 - Psychological Characteristics Of The Doshas.
Today Jody is speaking about the psychological characteristics of the Ayurvedic constitutions (doshas) Vata, Pitta, Kapha. The intention of this episode is to help listeners understand why they behave in the way they do. Jody talks ...
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Season 5
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Episode 41
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46:38
40 - Jody Vassallo: Babies Aren't Made By Wishing.
Today Jody speaks about her personal failed fertility journey. After realising in her mid-forties that she may not meet the man of her dreams and have a family she embarked on a solo mission to have a child. She chose to...
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Season 5
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Episode 40
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48:35
39 - Lola Berry: So you want to freeze your embryos? You may need your therapist on speed dial.
Today Jody talks to nutritionist, actor and presenter Lola Berry about her and her partner Matt's decision to freeze her embryos instead of eggs. Their choice to delay having a family came after Lola chose to leave her life in Australia to purs...
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Season 5
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Episode 39
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55:21
38 - Catie Gett: My Experience with HRT (Part 2).
Today Catie Gett returns to discuss her ongoing experience with HRT. Catie speaks about how HRT is not a fix all and that women need to monitor its efficacy and communicate their symptoms with their doctor. Up until now Catie has been using pat...
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Season 4
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Episode 38
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1:04:39
37 - Improve Your Agni And Heal Your Digestion And Hormones with Myra Lewin.
Today Jody speaks with Myra Lewin, founder of Hale Pule about the power of Agni (digestive fire) and how by healing our digestion we can bring our hormones into balance and also change our bodies.We cover many topics in this episode star...
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Season 4
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Episode 37
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1:01:22
36 - Using Ayurveda to Find Calm & Beauty in Menopause with Christina Covington.
Today Jody speaks to Ayurvedic Practitioner Christina Covington about how we can use Ayurveda to find beauty in the menopausal journey. We discuss the importance and value in having a regular self care routine (Dinacharya) and how the practice ...
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Season 4
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Episode 36
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1:05:18
35 - Why Tending To Our Fascia Is So Vital To Our Health with Brooke McPoyle.
Today Jody speaks with Brooke McPoyle about the body's scaffolding system - the fascia.We talk about what it is, it's role in the body and why keeping it hydrated is so important as we age. Brooke describes her experience with Plantar Fa...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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1:05:39
34 - Is it Perimenopause or Hashimoto’s or Both? With Libby Munro.
Today Jody interviews Libby Munro, a nutritionist who specialises in the auto immune disease Hashimoto’s, thyroid and gut health. Libby describes the symptoms of Hashi’s – hair loss, moon face, brain fog, temperature regulation, ins...
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Season 3
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Episode 34
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1:12:13
33 - What Menopause Does to Women's Wealth with Sarah Megginson & Simone Clarke.
Today Jody speaks with Sarah Megginson, personal finance expert and Simone Clarke from UN CEO United Nations Women Australia. Sarah and Simone are two of the authors of the State of Women's Wealth Report 2025.They report the menopause ca...
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Season 3
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Episode 33
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1:08:06
32 - We Are Addicted to Yang with Dr. Anny Fodor.
Today Jody speaks with Dr Anny Fodor about women's approach to perimenopause and how we need less not more in our lives. Anny discusses the importance of slowing down, listening in and disconnecting from all of the noise of the outside world.
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Season 3
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Episode 32
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1:19:33
31 - Making Ayurveda Accessible to Everyone with Gabriel Perera.
In todays conversation with Gabriel Perera Founder and CEO of Wellness brand Ora Health.Jody talks about her journey with the teachings of Ayurveda. She shares how in the first 5 years of practising Ayurveda she was quite rigid in her ap...
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Season 3
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Episode 31
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1:29:23