Raising Flora Podcast
Welcome to the Raising Flora Podcast where we talk about periods, parenting, and everything you need to give your tweens and teens a healthy, positive start to their cycling years. I'm your host, Liz Vivian, a mom and a menstrual health educator and coach. I love teaching about menstrual cycles — from biology and hormones to inner seasons and cyclical self care. I love inviting stories, answering questions, and making periods a little less taboo every day. I’m warm, down to earth and here to help — you can ask me anything.
Season One is all about the back-to-school season. As a mom, I know this season can be a lot to manage both logistically and emotionally as we nurture our tweens and teens through so many beginnings – new classes, new sports seasons, new bus routes, new friendships. So I reached out to experts for good ideas and support. We’ve had amazing conversations about important topics like mental health, nutrition, mindset, friendship, academics, and love. And I’ve brought a cycle aware spin to each chat. I invite you to listen in.
Raising Flora Podcast
Nourishing Tweens and Teens with Brandee Hommerding
Today, I talk about nourishing our tweens and teens through puberty with Brandee Hommerding of Bee Collective Wellness. Brandee is a certified nutrition therapy practitioner and a self-proclaimed diet culture dropout who works with women to overcome challenges like bloating, fatigue, PMS and irregular menstrual cycles.
I so enjoyed our conversation because it's both deep and practical. We talked about
- how to talk with your kids about macronutrients and why breakfast really is their most important meal of the day;
- how our bodies change during puberty and menopause and ways to nourish ourselves and our daughters through these big life changes;
- and I asked Brandee the million dollar question on all our minds... What does a healthy relationship with our body look like? And how do we help give that to our daughters? I hope you'll take her answer as a gentle reminder that self compassion is everything.
Download Brandee's Seed Cycling Guide here: https://www.beecollectivewellness.com/seed-cycling-guide
Liz Vivian
Raising Flora