Changing Seasons: Ayurveda, Women’s Health, Menopause & Food as Medicine
A podcast exploring women’s health through the wisdom of Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, with empowering conversations on menopause, natural healing, and food as medicine to support every stage of life.
Hosted by Jody Vassallo, Ayurvedic guide, intuitive cook, and founder of ‘Gather’.
Each episode is an invitation to slow down, listen in, and reconnect with the wisdom of your body and the cycles of nature.
Through the lens of traditional medicine and lived experience, we dive into the big topics: perimenopause, menopause, fertility, gut health, grief and loss, surrogacy, Ayurveda, and food as medicine.
This is a space for real conversations, tender truths, and practical ways to nourish yourself no matter what season you're in.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 68 minutes
- Episodes
- 54
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
54 - Sonia Lloyd: Is Your Skin Care Aging You?
Today Jody meets Sonia Lloyd from Rasara Skinfood about how to treat your skin using the principles of Ayurveda. After a skin flare up in her late teens Sonia tried many things unsuccessfully to trea…
53 - Holly Davis: Respecting What We Eat.
Today Jody welcomes whole-food chef and cookbook author Holly Davis to Changing Seasons podcast to discuss Food as Medicine.
We speak about how Holly discovered macrobiotics at the age of 14 and how …
52 - Jody Vassallo: What Should I Eat?
Today Jody talks about how Ayurveda looks at digestion and how we can learn what foods are best suited for the different body types and their relevant doshas.
Digestive fire or agni is dependent on a …
51 - Jody Vassallo: Understanding Your Body in Perimenopause.
In today's episode Jody touches on the common physical and emotional symptoms she sees in Perimenopause from an Ayurvedic perspective.
Weight gain, anxiety, hot flashes, anger, forgetfulness, waking u…
50 - Jody Vassallo: The Qualities of the Doshas.
Today Jody talks about the qualities of each of the Ayurvedic Doshas and how they show up in the body, mind and emotions.
She explains how Ayurveda balances disturbances in the qualities of the Doshas…
49 - Lisa FItzpatrick: Sexy Menopause.
*Caution this conversation contains references to sexual assault.
Today pelvic floor and sexual therapist Lisa Fitzpatrick returns to Changing Seasons podcast to speak to Jody about Sexy Menopause. Li…
48 - Lucette Romy: No Greater Grief.
Today on the podcast Jody speaks with Lucette Romy about the death of her baby boy Dash. Lucette birthed Dash at home and the birth was beautiful and without complications. However, six hours after h…
47 - Paula Rastrick: Is It Your Nervous System Or Your Hormones?
Today Jody speaks to Trauma Therapist Paula Rastrick about how the nervous system impacts our hormones. Paula shares her story of being prescribed HRT and the complications that arose from being over…
46 - Shonali Sabherwal: Gut Health Is Everything.
Today Jody speaks to Shonali Sabherwal Macrobiotic Nutritionist & Chef about the Macrobiotic and Ayurvedic approach to gut health. Shonali shares that she has attended a Panchakarma (an Ayurvedic det…
45 - Nicole Lange: Trauma and How It Can Impact Fertility.
Nicole Lange is an acupuncturist who has a Masters in Chinese Medicine, she has spent her entire career focused on working with women. Today she chats with Jody about her wholistic approach to suppor…
44 - Sarah Megginson: My Surrogate Journey.
Today Sarah Megginson returns to the podcast to speak with Jody about her decision to be a surrogate for her friend Lisa Messenger.
Sarah had given birth to three healthy children of her own and at t…
43 - How the Changing Seasons Impact Us with Jody Vassallo.
In today's episode Jody explores how the changing seasons of the year impact each of the different Doshas.
Ayurveda says that we need to protect our bodies around the junctions of the seasons and we …
42 - Dr Jimi Wollumbin: The Distressing State of Male Fertility.
Today Dr Jimi Wollumbin returns to chat with Jody about the distressing state of male fertility across the globe. Jimi shares disturbing research figures on the declining rates of male fertility acro…
41 - Psychological Characteristics Of The Doshas.
Today Jody is speaking about the psychological characteristics of the Ayurvedic constitutions (doshas) Vata, Pitta, Kapha.
The intention of this episode is to help listeners understand why they behav…
40 - Jody Vassallo: Babies Aren't Made By Wishing.
Today Jody speaks about her personal failed fertility journey.
After realising in her mid-forties that she may not meet the man of her dreams and have a family she embarked on a solo mission to have …
39 - Lola Berry: So you want to freeze your embryos? You may need your therapist on speed dial.
Today Jody talks to nutritionist, actor and presenter Lola Berry about her and her partner Matt's decision to freeze her embryos instead of eggs. Their choice to delay having a family came after Lola…
38 - Catie Gett: My Experience with HRT (Part 2).
Today Catie Gett returns to discuss her ongoing experience with HRT. Catie speaks about how HRT is not a fix all and that women need to monitor its efficacy and communicate their symptoms with their …
37 - Improve Your Agni And Heal Your Digestion And Hormones with Myra Lewin.
Today Jody speaks with Myra Lewin, founder of Hale Pule about the power of Agni (digestive fire) and how by healing our digestion we can bring our hormones into balance and also change our bodies.
We …
36 - Using Ayurveda to Find Calm & Beauty in Menopause with Christina Covington.
Today Jody speaks to Ayurvedic Practitioner Christina Covington about how we can use Ayurveda to find beauty in the menopausal journey. We discuss the importance and value in having a regular self ca…
35 - Why Tending To Our Fascia Is So Vital To Our Health with Brooke McPoyle.
Today Jody speaks with Brooke McPoyle about the body's scaffolding system - the fascia.
We talk about what it is, it's role in the body and why keeping it hydrated is so important as we age. Brooke de…