If you’re doubting yourself in some area of your life, or finding yourself doubting somebody else’s capacity, this episode is for you.

This week, Lisa reflects on a conversation from the Menstrual Coach Academy, where a student brought her fears about starting her own menstrual cycle coaching practice.

Menstrual cycle coaching can be tender, delicate and deeply personal work, particularly when supporting clients with experiences such as PMDD, endometriosis, PCOS, period pain and difficult menstrual cycles. But what happens when our desire to honour someone’s vulnerability means we begin to see them only through the lens of their struggle?

In this episode, Lisa explores the balance between tenderness and empowerment. How can we acknowledge vulnerability, pain and difficult experiences while also trusting in our own capacity and the capacity of the people we support?

Lisa chats about:

• Her recent personal win of joining a new running club
• Her complicated relationship with sport and exercise over the years
• Learning to step into your own empowerment and believe in yourself
• Making space for tenderness and vulnerability without losing sight of your strength
• Power dynamics in menstrual cycle coaching and facilitation
• Supporting clients without unconsciously reinforcing disempowerment
• Empowerment when working with PMDD, endometriosis, PCOS, period pain and menstrual cycle challenges
• Why sometimes we need the reminder: you are well able, and so is your client

Whether you’re a menstrual cycle coach, therapist, facilitator, practitioner, or simply navigating your own self-doubt, this episode is an invitation to hold both truths. You can be tender and vulnerable, and incredibly capable at the same time.

🌷Links and References 🌷

🌻 Doors open soon for the Menstrual Cycle Mastery Collective over at: https://lisadejongcoaching.com/menstrual-cycle-coaching

💜 Join the Menstrual Coach Academy waitlist at:
https://www.menstrualcoachacademy.com/mentrual-coach-training

⭐️ Grab a free course at: https://lisadejongcoaching.com/take-a-course

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Follow Lisa on Instagram over at: https://www.instagram.com/lisa_dejong_coach/
Follow the Academy on Instagram over at: https://www.instagram.com/menstrual_coach_academy/
Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LisadeJongCoach

Is your inner critic giving you a hard time for where you are at? Or where you are not at? Take a step back and ask... "What am I already doing well?"

In this episode Lisa catches up with you after her house move, how life is a little bit in chaos at the moment, how the inner critic creeps in, and what she is doing well. We chat about yoga, self-care, our intuition, and how our intuition might always be guiding us!

🌷Links and References 🌷

🌻 Doors open soon for the Menstrual Cycle Mastery Collective over at: https://lisadejongcoaching.com/menstrual-cycle-coaching

💜 Join the Menstrual Coach Academy waitlist at:
https://www.menstrualcoachacademy.com/mentrual-coach-training

👉 In-person October Retreat Wicklow, Ireland
⭐️ Grab a free course at: https://lisadejongcoaching.com/take-a-course

🌿 Join Lisa's Newsletter over at: https://subscribepage.io/ibNdL0

Follow Lisa on Instagram over at: https://www.instagram.com/lisa_dejong_coach/
Follow the Academy on Instagram over at: https://www.instagram.com/menstrual_coach_academy/
Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LisadeJongCoach

Are you trying to control your menstrual cycle but getting stuck in fear-pain loops?

Today, Lisa catches up with Menstrual Coach Academy graduate Stepahny Abicha. She is a recent graduate of the programme. Stephany was drawn to this work and menstrual cycle healing because of her experience with chronic pain and endometriosis.

In the programme, Stephany learned how to regulate fear of pain and she learned how to create more peace in her body during her menstrual cycle.

Join us for this conversation as you go about your day!

We chatted about:

- Stephany's journey with period and endometriosis
- Medicalising the menstrual cycle
- Including our emotions in our menstrual healing
- Using our intuition to bring healing to our cycle
- Stephany's journey with intuitive coaching and the Menstrual Coach Academy
- How to self-coach through fear and anticipation of pain
- Hypervigilance and trying to control the menstrual cycle

🌷Links and References 🌷

🌻 Doors open soon for the Menstrual Cycle Mastery Collective over at: https://lisadejongcoaching.com/menstrual-cycle-coaching

💜 Join the Menstrual Coach Academy waitlist at:
https://www.menstrualcoachacademy.com/mentrual-coach-training

⭐️ Grab a free course at: https://lisadejongcoaching.com/take-a-course
🌿 Join Lisa's Newsletter over at: https://subscribepage.io/ibNdL0

Follow Lisa on Instagram over at: https://www.instagram.com/lisa_dejong_coach/
Follow the Academy on Instagram over at: https://www.instagram.com/menstrual_coach_academy/
Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LisadeJongCoach

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Stephanie's details:
Website: https://www.stephanyabicha.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephanyabicha/
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/stephany-abicha-8204b3381
Link to her song: She remembers https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/7y0jnVM1by9QKJhJD7Ffu4?si=d814ef7fc0264b9d