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The Soft Rebellion Podcast

The Soft Rebellion Podcast

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 A homecoming, a return, and a (re)discovery of the creative power of your female body. Our world uproots us from the gifts of the Feminine; the intuitive, the instinctual, the cyclical, the soft. What is the result? Patriarchal cultures of perfectionism, shame, and disconnect that leave us constantly running, never arriving. Imagine a world of women softly rebelling; claiming our cyclicity, our weirdness, and our rest as we courageously cultivate a deep and delicious relationship to our female bodies. My name is Flurina, I’m an Osteopath, dancer, writer and coach, I’ve been on my own journey sparked by an eating disorder to come home to the wild, poetic anatomy of my female body and awaken my creative power… and I invite you to join me and my guests, trailblazing teachers, healers and creatives as we each reclaim our own soft rebellion.

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  • Ep. 73: The Wintering Body: Rewriting Illness, Rest, and Healing with Asha Frost

    Ep. 73: The Wintering Body: Rewriting Illness, Rest, and Healing with Asha Frost
    Dec 23 2025
    In this end-of-year (and Christmas 🧑‍🎄) conversation, I’m joined by Asha Frost for a deeply grounding and timely exploration of cyclical wisdom, rest, and healing. As we move toward winter solstice and the intensity of the holiday season, we speak about slowing down, honouring ancestral knowledge, and remembering that our worth is not tied to productivity. This episode invites you into the deep medicine of inner wintering — in the body, the creative process, and life itself.Asha Frost is an Indigenous (Ojibwa) healer, best-selling author of the book You Are The Medicine, speaker and guide. Drawing on her ancestral knowledge and innate gifts, Asha has become a prominent figure in the field of Indigenous healing, garnering recognition on both local and international platforms.She has created transformative experiences for thousands with heart, profound wisdom and unwavering dedication to her heritage.In this episode we talked about:💫 The origins of The Inner Winter: Asha shares what led her to write the book, emerging from a deep place of survival and her own resistance to rest, shaped by oppressive systems that equate worth with productivity.💫 Writing as decolonial healing: She reflects on how creating the book became a personal journey of unwinding colonial harm and internalised narratives around doing, striving, and earning rest.💫 Living with chronic illness: Drawing from her lived experience with lupus, Asha speaks honestly about illness, rest, and healing, challenging the shame and blame often attached to diagnosis and the belief that being unwell is our fault.💫 The gifts of the Inner Winter: The Inner Winter invites us to release productivity-based self-worth and recognise wintering as a powerful phase of intuition, connection, learning, and deep inner evolution.💫 Wintering in a fast, capitalist world: Asha explores how to honour rest and wintering in a culture that values speed and output, emphasising trust in our inherent enoughness simply as we are.💫 Illness, healing, and deep medicine: The Inner Winter speaks to those navigating chronic illness, mental health challenges, postpartum seasons, or feeling unseen and left behind—offering illness as an invitation to go deeper, where profound healing and creative medicine can emerge, even if cure is not possible.💫 The power of Spirit Animals: We spoke about spirit animals and explored the symbolism of the bear and the butterfly, and how spirit animals can support us through different phases of healing, transformation, and rest.Enjoy!---🌟 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 softrebellion@flurinathali.com.---Links:- Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali / www.flurinathali.com- My guest, Asha Frost: Find out more about her work through her website here. Follow Asha on Instagram here.Credits: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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    47 Min.
  • Ep. 72: Mapping Menstrual Activism with Dr Chris Bobel

    Ep. 72: Mapping Menstrual Activism with Dr Chris Bobel
    Dec 7 2025
    In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Chris Bobel, one of the most influential (scholarly) voices in menstrual activism and critical menstruation studies. For more than twenty years, Chris has been pushing the boundaries of how we understand menstruation - not just as a biological event, but as a powerful lens into culture, politics, and social justice. Our conversation explores how menstrual health sits at the intersection of human rights, feminist activism, and collective liberation, and why examining the systems and stories that surround our bodies matters more than ever.Chris Bobel is a Professor of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Since 2003, Chris has been a pathbreaking scholar of menstrual activism, exploring how menstrual health is a matter of both human rights and reproductive justice. As past president of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research and frequent media consultant on menstrual activism, Chris unites feminist thinking with feminist doing. Her major publications in this area include New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation and The Managed Body: Developing Girls and Menstrual Health in the Global South. Her co-edited open-access Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies has been downloaded over 3 million times worldwide. In this conversation we talked about:💫 Chris’s personal journey into menstrual activism and how her early research, including New Blood, led her to map the menstrual movement and identify its core activist groups.💫 What surprised her during that research—especially the points of resistance she encountered—and why critically examining the movements we love is essential.💫 The concept of cultural inscription and what it reveals about how society shapes our understanding of bodies, menstruation, and belonging.💫 How privilege shows up within menstrual activism and why awareness is necessary to create more inclusive, justice-centered work.💫 Why menstrual advocacy must extend beyond individual self-improvement into collective action and broader social change - and how menstrual literacy becomes a tool of resistance.💫 How menstrual stigma sits at the root of so many challenges in this field and why naming it openly is key to transforming the narrative.Enjoy!---🌟 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 softrebellion@flurinathali.com.---Links:Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali / www.flurinathali.comMy guest, Dr Chris Bobel: Dr Chris Bobel is working at the University of Massachusetts Boston, you can find her contacts here, you can find direct free access to the Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies here, you can find her book New Blood here.Credits: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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    1 Std. und 27 Min.
  • Ep. 71: Why Menstruation Matters — A Conversation about Activism, Economics, and Wholeness with Dr. Lara Owen

    Ep. 71: Why Menstruation Matters — A Conversation about Activism, Economics, and Wholeness with Dr. Lara Owen
    Nov 12 2025
    What might change if we treated menstruation not as something to hide, but as a source of knowledge - about ourselves, our society, and the systems we live in? What if the way we relate to the menstrual cycle could teach us how to build a more humane world? Could paying attention to menstruation be a way of paying attention to what our culture has forgotten — care, rest, and integrity?In this episode I have the great honour to talk to Dr. Lara Owen. Lara is recognised internationally for her pioneering and continuing work on menstruation. She is the author of Her Blood Is Gold, first published by HarperCollins in 1993, and Reorganizing Menstruation, published by Oxford University Press in 2024. She holds a PhD in menstrual organisation from Monash Business School and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Lara teaches a Master’s level course in Contemporary Menstrual Studies that attracts students globally and consults with organisations worldwide on menstrual policies and practices.In this episode, Lara shares generously from both her academic and spiritual paths — the “both/and” of menstruality: holding intellect and embodiment, activism and inner work, courage and stillness. We talk about how her life’s work evolved from a dream and a deep listening to the soul, to becoming a leading global voice on menstruation and menstrual organisation.Together we explored:🌙 How Lara followed and follows her soul path - from acupuncture to writing Her Blood Is Gold and pursuing groundbreaking menstrual research …❤️ … and ow living and working from the heart — even in humble, small ways — nurtures both the individual and the collective.🩸 Why menstruation is the “canary in the coal mine” of capitalism — and what it reveals about our economic and social systems.💡 The idea that our lives are activism — that living with integrity and wholeness is a radical act of resistance.🧘 The importance of slowing down, trusting timing, and avoiding shortcuts in a world obsessed with productivity and profit.🔬 The need for nuanced, empirical research in menstruality — and Lara’s vision for bridging the embodied and the academic.📚 Her latest book Reorganising Menstruation, and how menstruation offers us a model for reorganising society toward care, commons, and wholeness.🌏 The rise of menstrual literacy and the revolutionary potential of women reclaiming their cycles.This is a conversation about embodiment, integrity, and imagination — about how deep trust and alignment can become the quiet revolution our world needs.Enjoy!🌟 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 softrebellion@flurinathali.com.---Links:Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali / www.flurinathali.comMy guest, Lara Owen: www.laraowen.com - you can find all informations about her course on her webpage, follow Lara on instagram @drlaraowenCredits: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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    1 Std. und 25 Min.
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