Women's rites of passage and how they shape our lives -peri-menopause and the role of Autumn Women -An interview with Jane Hardwicke Collings

In this episode, we have the absolute delight of interviewing
Jane Hardwicke Collings about women's rites of passage and how
they shape our lives. We pay particular attention to the
peri-menopause and the role of Autumn Women as leaders and change
agents in the maternity system. This episode is jam-packed with
intelligent, jaw-dropping and wonderful insights into
womanhood.

Let us introduce Jane...

Jane Hardwicke Collings is a post menopausal grandmother. She was
an intensive care and operating theatre nurse, and then a
homebirth midwife for 30 years. Now her work focuses on teaching
the Women’s Mysteries and writing about them. She gives workshops
on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation, the
spiritual practice of menstruation, and the sacred and shamanic
dimensions of pregnancy, birth and menopause. Jane founded and
runs The School of Shamanic Womancraft, an international Women’s
Mystery School.

Links:
More about Jane


Jane Hardwicke Collings 

School of Shamanic Womancraft 

Jane's forthcoming online courses:
Autumn women, harvest queen 
Snake medicine: shedding menstrual shame



Mentioned in the podcast


About Bloody Time by Karen Pickering & Jane
Bennett: 

Dr. Christiane Northrup 

More about the slang use of 'Karen'



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