Jul 28, 2026 · 31 min · 10 segments
On today's episode, Liz Daniels chats to leadership coach and organisation development practitioner, Amy Martin, as she shares her experiences on women's health and understanding the impact that your…
So there's a couple of really interesting books that I can recommend to your listeners.
And the first one talks about the menstrual cycle and splits it into the seasons, which actually, you know, from being in a, you know, I was in a farming community when I was younger and the seasons really matter.
And Alexandra Papin and Sharni Hugo-Wurlitzer have done a lot of work around how the hormones affect us and actually harnessing the power of the cycle.
So I think what's really interesting is that because our world is very set up in productivity and we have to be go, go, go all the time.
They take the opposite view and they say, well, well, actually, do we, you know, a woman's cycle ebbs and flows across the month, spring, summer, autumn, winter, and actually the plants and animals don't fight the winter.
They kind of, you know, they, they get, they go into hibernation and they, and they get ready for the, for the next part of spring.
And she talks about how animals plan and prepare for winter and how if we did that as human beings, maybe that would be a little bit easier for us rather than fight it.
If we allow ourselves a wintering, maybe we could emerge a new and fresh in the spring rather than fight against it.
I think I read somewhere that in winter, the daylight hours naturally decrease your energy levels.
And winter is designed for you to be a little bit slower, a chance to recharge the batteries ahead of spring.
But when we're talking about the seasons in your cycle, what does that look like? So which part of your cycle is spring, which is summer, autumn, winter?
So if we think about the first day of our period, that is the beginning of winter.
So there's a couple of really interesting books that I can recommend to your listeners.
And the first one talks about the menstrual cycle and splits it into the seasons, which actually, you know, from being in a, you know, I was in a farming community when I was younger and the seasons really matter.
And Alexandra Papin and Sharni Hugo-Wurlitzer have done a lot of work around how the hormones affect us and actually harnessing the power of the cycle.
So I think what's really interesting is that because our world is very set up in productivity and we have to be go, go, go all the time.
They take the opposite view and they say, well, well, actually, do we, you know, a woman's cycle ebbs and flows across the month, spring, summer, autumn, winter, and actually the plants and animals don't fight the winter.
They kind of, you know, they, they get, they go into hibernation and they, and they get ready for the, for the next part of spring.
And she talks about how animals plan and prepare for winter and how if we did that as human beings, maybe that would be a little bit easier for us rather than fight it.
If we allow ourselves a wintering, maybe we could emerge a new and fresh in the spring rather than fight against it.
I think I read somewhere that in winter, the daylight hours naturally decrease your energy levels.
And winter is designed for you to be a little bit slower, a chance to recharge the batteries ahead of spring.
But when we're talking about the seasons in your cycle, what does that look like? So which part of your cycle is spring, which is summer, autumn, winter?
So if we think about the first day of our period, that is the beginning of winter.
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