Adore Your Cycle, Love Your Body & Honour Your Feminine Flow with Claire Baker (AR #54)

These days as women, our relationship with our bodies has become one of our biggest sources of struggle, and also one of our greatest opportunities for healing.

Personally, I spent years being at war with myself and with everything that came with being a woman. I hated the constant weight fluctuations, emotional ups and downs and the energetic rollercoaster. And more than anything felt that our menstrual cycles were a hindrance and inconvenience.

As a result, I went into many patterns of control in an attempt to gain power over my body and it’s continual inconsistencies.

It was not until I attended a workshop called Adore Your Cycle that my whole perception shifted – not only shifted, but was blown out of the water.

I walked out of this event with a newfound respect and reverence for what it means to be a woman. I finally understood the power of surrendering, flowing and deeply accepting my body and it’s cycles rather than being at war with them.

I was cracked open to a whole new level of love and appreciation for myself and my body, and felt a desire to learn to understand and support her in a deeper way than ever before.

I have been so impacted this new awareness and practise, that I felt moved to share this with to you too, through an Awaken Radio episode.

Today I am speaking with the creator and host of this powerful workshop Claire Baker who is a coach, writer and speaker helping women practise exquisite self-care and radical self-expression.

Today we will be diving deep into how you can understand and work with your bodies cycles, love and support yourself in a more powerful way and truly honour what it means to be a woman. I have no doubt you will gain so much from Claire’s wisdom, just like I did.

In this episode we cover;

Why our attempts to be healthy may begin innocently, but can become an obsession and a way that we manipulate and control our bodies.
How to soften our approach to food, health and our bodies and make it less about perfection and more about self-love.
What it looks like when fear is driving our food choices, and how to instead eat with loving intention.
Why developing a connection to and awareness of your menstrual cycle is the missing link to understanding yourself and healing your relationship with your body.
How to see stop seeing your menstrual cycle as an inconvenience and more as an opportunity to honour what it means to be a woman.
Why being a woman can at times make us inconsistent, illogical, indecisive, emotional and chaotic and how to stop judging ourselves for feeling this way.
The phases that our hormones and menstrual cycle undergo each month and how to best support and care for yourself through the 4 seasons (Summer, Autumn, Winter & Spring) of your menstrual cycle.
The best self-care practices to support ourselves in our pre-menstrual (Autumn) phase, and why the foods or habits we use at this time can impact how our menstruation feels.
The power of planning and structuring your life, calendar and commitments around your own personal flow and cycle.