The Soft Rebellion Podcast

• Ep. 65: The Alchemy of Menopause: A Journey Into Power, Spirit & Self-Care.

  What is our Second Spring? Who are we after menopause? How can we harness the wisdom we’ve gained from previous cycles and transitions to navigate this shift? AND how can the wisdom of menopause plug us deeper into our cyclical summer years too?This is what I talk about in today’s episode with guest Kate Codrington. Kate is a mentor, speaker, facilitator, artist and podcaster. She is also the author of Second Spring: The self-care guide to menopause, one of the seven best books on menopause according to the New York Times. Kate mentors professionals and people in perimenopause and beyond, is a nature-based Yoga Nidra meditation guide, hosts Life - An Inside Job podcast, has been a therapist for over 30 years and creates multi-level art textile projects.In this liberating and permission-giving conversation we explored:* Kate`s “homecoming journey” and how the tough experience of navigating kids and perimenopause led her to the depth of her cycle (just as she lost it!) and initiated her into becoming a trailblazing teacher and mentor in the field of (peri)menopause.* The seasons and cycles of a woman’s life, from menarche, to our cyclical years, menopause and beyond.* Why in the summer season she needs her spirit recognised, is invited to plant the seeds of her dreams - and if at times we give ourselves away too much it’s NOT a mistake!* How menopause is a beginning as this season asks us, very intensely, to come into relationship with ourselves and shows us where we need to put our attention to.* Why we deeply need to re-write the menopause narrative, and colour in the vibrant, creative life that happens in our Second Spring.* How learning about menopause can plug us youngsters ever deeper into our creative summers!---🌟 Join my softly rebellious on Substack: Subscribe here.🌟 Sign up here to receive a copy of my free workshop about The wild and poetic anatomy of the female body.🌟 Work with me 1:1 online or in person, find out more here.---💛 The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email [email protected]:Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali / www.flurinathali.comMy guest, Kate Codrington: www.katecodrington.co.uk, follow Kate on instagram @Kate_codringtonCredits:Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here.Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit flurinathali.substack.com

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• Ep. 64: The Wild Woman’s Way: Returning to Sensation, Instinct, and Pleasure - with Michaela Boehm.

  You are never not embodied. You are a body — a treasure trove of wisdom and native intelligence. There’s a bubbling abundance of insight within you, but it’s not something you can access through the mind alone. That’s why we’re called to give authority back to the body — to let her know she can be trusted, and to rewild our experience which is the sacred return to our true nature.But what does it really mean to live in our body again — to stop outsourcing truth to the mind and remember the language of sensation, instinct, and pleasure?In this episode, I’m joined by the incredible Michaela Boehm. Michaela teaches and counsels internationally as an expert in intimacy and relationships. Born and raised in Austria, she combines a background in psychology and extensive clinical counseling experience with deep training in the yogic arts. Her unique body of work sits at the intersection of embodiment and intimacy. Michaela is the author of The Wild Woman’s Way and the founder of The Non-Linear Movement Method®, a powerful somatic release practice.Together, we explore:- Michaela’s journey from effortless embodiment in childhood, to a period of disconnection and being “stuck in her head,” and finally to discovering profound embodiment practices that now shape her life’s work.- What embodiment really means: giving authority back to the body, cultivating interoceptive awareness, and deeply listening to the messages the body constantly sends us.- How we can rewild ourselves — returning to the body, to pleasure, and to the art of being rather than always doing— even in the busyness of modern life. Michaela shares powerful embodiment practices that allow us to live a wildly creative life without burning out.- Why so many of us end up as “thinking heads on sticks” — and how we can reconnect with the lower body to awaken intimacy, pleasure, and aliveness. We also discuss how to meet the shame that can arise in this reconnection, especially around the lower body.---🌟 Join my softly rebellious on Substack: Subscribe here.🌟 Sign up here to receive a copy of my free workshop about The wild and poetic anatomy of the female body.🌟 Work with me 1:1 online or in person, find out more here.---💛 The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email [email protected]:Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali / www.flurinathali.comMy guest, Michaela Boehm: www.michaelaboehm.com, follow Michaela Boehm on instagram @micboehm77 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit flurinathali.substack.com

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• Ep. 63: You are the portal. Exploring ancient secrets of female power with Liz Childs Kelly.

  The Sacred Feminine is about your power, my power, and the deep, ancient wisdom that guides us toward authenticity, healing, and transformation. Herstory and mythology - often erased or forgotten - reveal that women have always been undeniable forces of nature. These stories offer us new frameworks for leadership, creativity, and courage in a world crying out for change. If we allow Her to lead, the Sacred Feminine offers a roadmap to the most powerful, embodied version of ourselves.In this episode, I`m talking to Liz Childs Kelly, a writer, award-winning researcher, educator, community builder, and host of the popular Home to Her podcast dedicated to amplifying the voices of the Sacred Feminine. She is also the author of Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine, a 2023 Nautilus Gold award winner.I can still feel my soul shimmer and my heart take flight when I think back to my conversation with Liz. Thank you, dearest Liz, for your work, your courage, and your truth-telling. It’s real, it’s urgent, and it’s so deeply needed.This conversation is a wake-up call—a power talk urging us to release what no longer aligns, even when it's terrifying. Especially when it's terrifying. Sometimes, we have to leap into the unknown to reclaim our power and remember our strength.In this conversation we explored:* Liz’s journey back home to herself and to the Sacred Feminine—how she has always been a seeker, and how the Sacred Feminine gifted her with the profound realization: “I am not crazy. The system is.”* The nature of female power, and how to reclaim it in a world built around entirely different paradigms. Liz explains why stepping into the unknown is essential to awakening our creative potential and bathing in the cosmic womb.* Liz shared about the 5 ancient secrets of female power and we can embrace and live them now!* The power of darkness—the place everything emerges from, the place we are born from. In the darkness, divinity unfolds. It’s where we begin to hear Her.* The importance of honoring liminality in our lives. We are cyclical beings, and the liminal is not just a transitional space—it is life-affirming, sustainable, and necessary.Take a rest, lean into darkness and enjoy this wonderful conversation. I`m looking forward hearing from you and what your greatest takeaways are. BIG LOVE, Flurina xxx This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit flurinathali.substack.com

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• The mother in the mother: Unearthing Hidden Stories with Pippa Grace

  We all come from the feminine — from the mother. You and I have unfolded from bodies within bodies. (Did you know the egg that created you was already in your mother’s ovaries when she was still a fetus in your grandmother’s womb?) And yet, we often take her — the mother — and her story for granted. We forget our greatest source, Mother Earth, and our maternal lineage, which is often tangled with shame, grief, and silence.In this episode, I speak with Pippa Grace — a socially engaged artist, writer, sculptor, and author of Mother in the Mother. This powerful anthology brings together stories from over fifty women, exploring the many layers of motherhood — particularly through the lens of the three-way relationship between grandmother, mother, and child.Pippa’s work is devoted to amplifying quiet, everyday stories that are often overlooked or forgotten. Where voices have been silenced, her practice helps them find expression through creative means. A lifelong feminist, she specializes in working with women to explore themes like motherhood, grand-motherhood, menarche, the female body, and trauma.In this conversation, we explore:* Pippa’s personal journey and what inspired her to write Mother in the Mother. She shares from her experience of estrangement from her birth family, how she felt the lack of mother, and how giving birth became a portal to reconnecting with her maternal lineage and the power of her female ancestors.* The themes of maternal lineage and women's experiences when they themselves became a mother. We touch on what are some of the challenges or joys women often encounter in their own relationships when they themselves become a mother, how becoming a mother in itself, can be healing for some women, and we look at how Pippa explored the role of being both a mother and a daughter in the same body.* Her work as an arts therapist, using creative methodologies that help participants rediscover their creative voice, share their stories, and connect more deeply with themselves, their communities, and their environments.* Practical and inspiring ways we can begin to explore our own maternal lineage for both personal and collective healing.Enjoy listening! BIG LOVE, Flurina xx This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit flurinathali.substack.com

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• Ep. 61: Coming home to the body through voice, circle and midlife wisdom - with Phoebe Rose.

  What if midlife wasn’t a crisis - but a calling?In this soul-stirring episode, I sit with Phoebe - heart-centred women’s coach, women’s circle facilitator, and voice activation guide - to explore the initiatory nature of perimenopause, the power of voice, and the transformative healing found in circle work.Phoebe shares from her personal journey: From feeling lost and stripped of identity to discovering her creative power through morning pages, voice, and sitting in circle with other women. We talk the power of circle initiation to guide us home to our cyclical bodies and how perimenopause is a rite of passage to remember and reconnect with the wild, intuitive wisdom we’ve long ignored.If you've ever experienced or are experienced at the moment this sense of dissolving, and despair - and yet you know that a deeper part of you is waiting to (finally) emerge and act upon - this episode is for you.In this conversation we explored:- Phoebe`s path: How perimenopause and the unraveling of identity led her to her experience and hold women’s circles and how the experience of losing her sense of self  opened the door to true feminine leadership. Phoebe shared what feminine leadership means to her and how she’s embodying it.- Phoebe`s moment of awakening through singing on  a women’s retreat, and how voice became a channel for healing and creativity.- The wisdom of the cyclical body and how we can return to it after years of living in our heads.- Why sitting in circle is a sacred act of rebellion, a return to ancient feminine ways and how it can guide us home to our bodies.Join my softly rebellious on Substack: Subscribe here.Register for my upcoming free workshop on the 25th of June 2025 about The wild and poetic anatomy of the female body. You can claim your seat here.---The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email [email protected]:Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali / www.flurinathali.comPhoebe Rose: www.phoeberose.co.uk, follow Alice on instagram @p.h.o.e.b.e.r.o.s.eCredits:Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here.Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit flurinathali.substack.com

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