Understanding your menstrual cycle
Close Friends: The Podcast
Lucy Mountain, Tara Margulies & Sarah Barrington
4.9 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Lucy cheated on us this week while she recorded with a different podcast so in today's episode, Tara and Sarah are joined by friends Char and Imogen as they dissect menstrual cycles. We talk about misinformation around our periods, how to work with our bodies and contraception. You can also find Tara's new website (!!!!!) at https://www.understandyourcycle.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends. Welcome to the Close Friends podcast. This is where we talk about surviving, |
| 0:11.2 | thriving and diving headfirst into life, trying to be adults, but also trying to have a |
| 0:15.3 | fucking good time. This week, I'm your host Tara and I'm joined by my co-host Sarah. |
| 0:20.1 | Hello. And I've got two very special guests with me today. |
| 0:23.6 | I've got Charlotte. |
| 0:25.6 | Hello, I'm Shah. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm old friend of Tara, yoga teacher and model. |
| 0:29.6 | And I've got Imogen. |
| 0:31.6 | Hi, I'm Imogen, friends with Tara and Shah and I am a model and someone. I feel like we do a whole episode on it which is being a stunt woman, but that might have to be another time. So fucking cool. Yeah, casual. It's the coolest shit ever. Yeah. We shot a, what was it, an audition today for you? Oh my God. Literally the coolest shit ever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:10.6 | On audition for a brand where she had to do like little flips and like kicks and shit and I was just sat in a chair like trying to act cool. I don't know, it was awesome. It was hilarious. Honestly, it was brilliant. If I don't get a job, it's a tragedy. You're going to get the job. You are going to get the job. Like we're putting it out into the universe and all that shit. |
| 1:13.0 | Refer back to our manifesting episode. |
| 1:20.7 | It's episode episode episode two anyway so today we are going to be talking about menstrual cycles and periods and contraception and all of that fun stuff but before we |
| 1:26.5 | get into that Sarah how are you I haven't spoken to you all week. |
| 1:29.4 | I know. It feels like it's been forever. I'm all right. Also, we, you know how every week we're like, |
| 1:33.8 | oh, we're on bad Wi-Fi. We're on bad internet. We really have outdone ourselves this time. We're now, |
| 1:39.2 | it's been 40 minutes of technical issues. So if you hear the awkward lag, then just know that we just couldn't |
| 1:48.0 | be bothered to edit it out. Like, that is just how this conversation is going to go. Just the |
| 1:52.3 | awkward silences, delayed laughs. It's all good. Apart from that, I'm okay. I was just telling |
| 1:58.1 | you all I'm a little bit hung over. It, I mean, it is a Thursday morning. There's no excuse for that really, especially because I thought I was going to be cutting down and drinking a bit. But I graduate in two weeks, so it's all part of that like departure mindset, you know. It's like, oh, we're near the end. So yeah, I'm all good. Tara, how are you, well, how are the three of you? Because |
| 2:18.1 | you've got your retreat coming up this week, this weekend. Yeah, we're good. It starts in two days. So, yeah, we're super excited. It's going to be really good. We sold out. Oh, my God, huge. we've sold our second treat so yeah life is good is good. It's going to be it's going to be |
| 2:35.5 | intense as always but it will be it'll be really good fun so we're all we're all very |
| 2:40.9 | excited and the other thing that's happened this week is that I launched my bloody |
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