Living Cyclically with Alexa Reidenauer

The Body Competence Podcast

Join Michelle and Alexa Reidenauer, the creator behind the instagram account @tellingourtails in this episode. Alexa shares about her journey to a PMDD diagnosis (premenstrual dysphoric disorder) and the changes that she’s made to living her life cyclically so that she can balance her mood disorder.

Michelle has learned so much from Alexa about menstruation and the way that the bodies and moods of menstruators might change over the course of a cycle. Alexa’s self awareness is striking, and she demonstrates how living cyclically has made not only her life better, but her dog’s life better, and the lives of the people around her. Michelle has always been significantly impacted by her cycle while also feeling like she had to “suck it up” in order to exist in our society. Alexa is teaching us that there might be a middle ground.
The Body Competence Podcast explores what it means to be and raise body competent humans. In each episode Michelle and her guests talk about getting back in touch with our needs, wants, and desires that were suppressed by the power hierarchies of patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, anti-fat bias, ableism, and even our own families.
Michelle navigates topics like body positivity, body neutrality, cycle breaking, food neutrality and so much more. This podcast is for you if you are a human or parent trying to imagine a future without diet culture and other toxic intergenerational cycles but aren’t quite sure where to begin.
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