E.142 Periods, Contraception and Cycle Tracking with Empower Periods

In My Kitchen This Week I’m joined by Victoria, the founder and creator of Empower Periods—a platform and community where girls can connect and talk openly about all things periods. Think of Empower Periods as your online big sister, always ready to share honest, helpful advice about your time of the month.

Victoria’s own journey includes a decade of struggling with chronic period pain, only to be offered contraception as a quick fix—a common recommendation that often masks the problem rather than solving it. But here’s the truth: chronic period pain isn’t normal.

In this episode, we break down what should feel normal, what shouldn’t, and share practical tips to help ease period pain. We also dive into the power of cycle tracking—highlighting the best apps to use and how understanding your cycle can transform everything from your workouts to your relationships and overall well-being.

It’s a real, unfiltered girl talk about the topics we often think about but rarely discuss. Don’t miss it!

The topics include:

•  Your journey with your periods
• 1 in 4 women don’t understand periods - so shall we break it down into the different phases of the menstrual cycle and what that mean?
• Contraception what did you do - did it make it better or worse?
• I know doctors sometimes prescribe people with contraception in order to help the battle with period pain - this seems backwards - thoughts on this?
• What symptoms are “normal” to feel on your period and what’s “not normal”?
• What has helped you when your experiencing bad periods? Any tips that people listening could take away from this?
• Tracking your period - has this helped? What app do you use and
• How have you changed your lifestyle according to tracking your cycle?
• When did you have the idea to start empower periods and what impact has it had on you and also the community
• What are some of the best things that have come out from it?
• Talking about it with your housemates - the socials..let’s talk about it because it’s great

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This episode is sponsored by Wylde 

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This episode was hosted and produced by Georgia Symonds

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