New Woman Centred Podcast
Nicky Heppenstall, founder of Remember My Baby charity talks about how photography brings her to a place of peace and how she used her professional skills to help others after the loss of her baby, Kim.
“Break the taboo, talk about it … it’s a topic we need to get more comfortable with because it is a reality affecting more families every single day.”
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Mothering Through Loss: Navigating the Hormones, Body, and Emotions
Please note: This episode contains discussions of baby loss and bereavement, which some listeners may find emotionally difficult.
Susie Stonefield talks about life, coming out later, art, therapeutic creativity and her Jewish identity in Journal to Authentic Life.
Miriam and Rosie Wilby debrief just after their workshop at the Out & Wild Festival in Devon and discuss common lesbian relationship problems.
See the big reveal for Miriam’s new garden. The Garden Rescue episode is only available on BBC iPlayer until 17th November 2027, but you can listen to Finn & Miriam’s podcast here still.
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Nicky Heppenstall, founder of Remember My Baby charity talks about how photography brings her to a place of peace and how she used her professional skills to help others after the loss of her baby, Kim.
Caron Kirkham talks about not slowing down as she ages. Born in the 1950s, often living hand to mouth, her life path has taken twists and turns to arrive at a time of increased connection, fun, confidence and capacity for adventure.
Midlife and a “sandwich” situation of caring for elderly parents and young adult children brought Helen Samson Mullen literally to her knees one day. Diagnosed with auto-immune disease, in pain and housebound, Helen shares how she patiently worked to “tip towards thriving” rather than “fighting” herself to recover.
Gardening and good mental health are linked. Finn Raven talks to her wife Miriam Grace about how nature has rescued her at challenging times in her life and the two explore the healing experience of being rescued by the BBC’s Garden Rescue team.
A classic Woman of Steel, Dawn Brown from Sheffield worked as the lowest of the low from a young age with the animals she loved. After a crunch point during her time struggling to make ends meet as a single mum, Dawn listened to a quiet voice within and established herself a prize winner entrepreneur. An episode not just for dog lovers!
Rosie Wilby and Miriam Grace have a lot to talk about under the heading of Love, Loss and Lesbian Love. A great introduction to the duo and the early days of their collaborative work for queer women exploring relationships.
Michaela Johnson discusses her thesis From Dead To Femme as she and Miriam look at some of their favourite shows, the history of lesbians on TV and the impact of lesbian representation.
Cari Hunter is a beloved local sapphic author. Alongside her job as a paramedic she writes award winning crime books and lives locally to Sheffield the City of Steel. A fascinating episode with a favourite down to earth guest.
Friendships like the one Alexander Teacher Imogen Ragone and Psychotherapist Miriam Grace have, is a powerful form of co-regulation. The colleagues discuss what co-regulation is and why the practice of regulating our nervous systems is needed more than ever in the 2020s.
Returning guest, Alexander Teacher Imogen Ragone, shares the practices she used when visiting her mother in a nursing home, and she and Miriam practice one together with listeners.
A celebration of “cronehood”, witches and women in midlife and beyond. Karen Shimwell, witch and Sheffield based mental health nurse, now working in recovery and addiction charities, explores kitchen magic, outdoor swimming, and the joys of getting older! She also describes her involvement in the curious local tradition of well-dressing.
A diagnosis of MS was no laughing matter for Lotte Mikkelsen and her quest to reduce stress in life was serious. A chance invitation led her to laughter yoga, not just as a personal remedy but as a career and an ambassador for this seriously effective naturally inbuilt re-set mechanism in humans – laughter.
Suzette Mullen discusses her book The Only Way Through is Out and her own coming out later in life experience as well as talking with Miriam about some of their favourite authors.
Introducing Imogen Ragone who works with women to managing their bodies, their stress and their lives more gently. Imogen shares her personal story of being able to manage through one of the worst experiences in life with strategies learned from her professional work as she explores Alzheimers, My Mother and Me.
A diagnosis of ADHD was like a second coming out for gay photographer Nelly Naylor. Colourful, vibrant and talented, Nelly kept her issues of self confidence masked until she came to understand herself from a completely new perspective.
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Therapist Miriam Grace talks to women about their lives through a series of interviews with remarkable women, and discussions with colleagues.
Recorded in Sheffield, the UK’s City of Steel, ‘Women of Steel’ tells stories that challenge the power of the status quo by validating the voices of marginalised or disadvantaged women and exploring their capacity to create meaning within their lives.
Compassionate, joyful, wise, honest and irreverent, Miriam and her guests celebrate ways in which women endure. Through the psychotherapist’s lens the podcast focuses on the idea that unique, personal roads of self reflection become a strength which women can utilise and build upon.
Miriam Grace is a psychotherapist and author with 35 years experience. Find out more about Miriam and her therapy at Blue Skies.
Queering Gestalt Therapy
Chapter 6.
'Selfish and Destructive': Where does the late-in-life lesbian seek therapeutic support?
by Miriam Grace
Ayhan Alman (Editor), John Gillespie (Editor), Vikram Kolmannskog (Editor)
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