Embracing Flow

About Embracing Flow

Imagine celebrating Christmas with a newborn, a 9 year old, and your 39 year old husband passing away suddenly in your bedroom. On the outside, I looked calm and collected, yet internally, I was numb and actually telling myself to breathe, any thought beyond the inhale/exhale pattern was too overwhelming. Not only was I dealing with the passing of my husband and life with a newborn, my corporate life changed too when a new management team was assigned. As I pulled the broken pieces back together, realization hit, I needed a new start; I’d outgrown the corporate world, it was time to share my love of the products I’d been using, but sales felt gross to me. So, I went back to school, earning three health coaching certifications. In the process, I saw how little we know and talk about the menstrual cycle. We don’t know how it works or how it interacts with every single system in our body. The taboo of menstruation had to stop! Flashbacks of my grandmother giving me the period talk, the absolute hatred of my painful, heavy, nauseating, passing out periods, to the embarrassing nurse’s office trip with bled through dark pants and being handed WHITE sweatpants! I remember the shock and excitement of my first pregnancy, the frustrating 14 months of secondary infertility plus gestational diabetes with my second child, treatment of cervical dysplasia, and my own cycle syncing journey which has allowed me to appreciate and enjoy my period. Imagine embracing your period every single month? I wondered how much of this could have been avoided? I knew I wasn’t alone in these experiences. That’s why I created Vivydus, the Full of Life Company whose vision is to change how menstruation is viewed by society and the mission to provide an educational, holistic, safe space for all individuals to learn and discuss the menstrual cycle from puberty through menopause. Join me on this journey as we learn, break the taboo, and openly discuss how we can authentically and uncompromisingly be full of life. I am your host Heather Allmendinger and this is the Embracing Flow podcast.

Publisher

Heather Allmendinger

Category

health & fitness · kids & family · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Nov 2023

Latest episode

13 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 87 episodes have a transcript.

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   13 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   E86 – Kim Heintz: Burnout, Brain Fog & Migraines: What Your Body May Be Trying to Tell You

   Functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner Kim Heintz and host Heather Allmendinger discuss how migraines and burnout connect to gut health and hormone imbalances, offering insights to understand your body's signals.

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   13 Mar 2026

   85 - Dr. Jeffrey Brown: Painful Periods Are Not Normal: Rethinking Hormones, Endometriosis, and Women’s Health

   Painful periods are often dismissed as “normal,” but many women live with debilitating symptoms that deserve deeper attention. In this episode of Embracing Flow, Heather Allmendinger speaks with functional medicine physician Dr. Jeffrey Brown about hormone health, endometriosis, and why severe menstrual pain should never be ignored. Together they explore how stress, gut health, inflammation, and hormone balance influence the menstrual cycle, and why women deserve more than symptom management when it comes to their health. This conversation brings education, empowerment, and hope to women navigating painful cycles.

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   19 Jan 2026

   78- Erin Cutrone: Why “Powering Through” Is Quietly Wrecking Your Body — And What to Do Instead

   Many women are praised for their ability to push through exhaustion, stress, grief, and overwhelm — but what if that strength is slowly disconnecting them from their bodies? In this episode of Embracing Flow, Heather is joined by nervous system and trauma-informed therapist Erin Catron to explore how survival patterns live in the body, how they impact digestion, hormones, energy, and emotional health, and how we can gently begin to feel safe again. This conversation is for every woman who has learned to carry it all — and is ready to carry it differently.

Inside a recent episode

E86 – Kim Heintz: Burnout, Brain Fog & Migraines: What Your Body May Be Trying to Tell You

Published 13 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And so if you're depleted and you're low in these things, then it can make sense why you might be dealing with hormonal imbalances, right? And so a lot of times I'm recommending like, well, if we're going to run a Dutch, we should also run nutrients so we know exactly which nutrients you need and at what level. Because, you know, we start guessing too much. There can be too much of a good thing. For sure. And so that's how the hormones can be impacted. And same thing with the gut, because for digestion to properly take place, like we need to have those raw materials in place as well. Like a lot of nutrients like, you know, sodium, for example, can be really crucial for our body to create stomach acid to help us digest our foods. […]

Who has been a guest on Embracing Flow

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Kim Heintz
• Brittney Hobbs
• Dr Nathalie Beauchamp

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

455

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

29 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

62

Social presence

91

YouTube

66

Engagement

71

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