The Soft Rebellion Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

What does it mean to rebel softly — to walk a spiritual path that challenges, heals, and liberates, to let go of the costume which no longer fits you, feel an intuitive sense of flow to life and trusting your own experience?

In this soulful episode, I sit down with the amazing (and ever so inspiring!) Alice Grist — an award winning author, tarot deck creator and spiritual guide to rebellious women looking to invoke intuition and sacred connection through everyday lives — to explore the intersection of creativity, intuition, and mystical rebellion.

In this episode we explored:

* Alice’s journey which began in a mystical, other-worldly childhood as the daughter of a vicar and a radical feminist mother, and deepened in her teenage years within spiritual circles, laying the foundation for a lifetime of spiritual study and practice.

* What the Soft Rebellion means to Alice; namely to awaken as much as to who we are and to who we are NOT!

* The art of Tarot; Alice shared how tarot keeps transforming her life as it serves not as a tool of prediction, but as a mirror — reflecting the parts of ourselves we most need to meet.

* Intuition! We explore what it means to “follow our intuition”, how to actually do it … and how to meet the fear and doubt along the way!

This episode is a call to the wild, wise woman within — to begin trusting your intuition, unpicking the doubts, and riding the creative current until the wheel comes off!

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The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email softrebellion@flurinathali.com.

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Links:

Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali / www.flurinathali.com

Alice Grist: www.alicegrist.co.uk, follow Alice on instagram @alicegrist

What if your womb is the creation portals for your leadership? And the transformed leadership we want for our world and communities will be born through our wombs, and the work of tending to our wombs and bodies?

Today I am talking about womb healing and leadership with Tumelo Moreri who is an initiated Spiritual Healer, Womb Medicine Woman and Embodied Leadership Guide based in Botswana. She supports women seeking to heal their inner womb wounds and pains and reclaim the power and sovereignty of their wombs. Tumelo`s work is influenced by African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Psycho-spiritual Healing, and is grounded in the Kingdom of God, and in mentorship and training in Womb Healing, Quantum Healing, Cosmic Womb Wisdom, Menstruality and Cycle Awareness, Pleasure and Intimacy Work, Sacred Sexuality, and Trauma-Informed space holding.

This is such a deeply authentic and insightful conversation, from woman to woman and womb to womb - enjoy!

In this conversation we explored:

• ​Tumelo`s journey, and how she was guided to develop this work when being selected for a leadership development program in 2014 which set her onto a deep journey of inner healing, truly meeting herself, starting to converse with her womb and research this field extensively.
• ​What womb healing is and how we may heal our womb. Tumelo shared different modalities for healing our womb and self-care practices we can incorporate into our day-to-day life to support the healing of your womb.
• ​We talked about what might necessitate womb healing in general, and also specifically for us as women leaders. Tumelo shared why we need to do our inner healing work as leaders. We explored the potential of our body and womb to serve as creation portals for a new earth and for an integrated leadership.
• ​We talked about abortion and early pregnancy loss and that there’s a growing absence of resources (that women know of and are aware of) to facilitate healing for this experience as a Rite of Passage for women. Tumelo offers a womb healing program to restore and honor pregnancy and pregnancy loss as a Rite of Passage and an initiation of womanhood.

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The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email softrebellion@flurinathali.com.

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Links:

Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali / www.flurinathali.com

Tumelo: www.tumelomoreri.com, follow Tumelo on instagram @tumelomoreri

Credits:

- Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here.

- Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here

Do you catch yourself measuring your worth by how much you do, and how much what you do benefits others? If so, you’re not alone. As my guest today, Tamu Thomas, says – it’s not your fault.

Tamu Thomas is the author of the groundbreaking book, Women Who Work Too Much: Break Free from Toxic Productivity. She’s a transformational coach and thought-provoking keynote speaker, passionately advocating for the well-being and success of high-achieving women. Tamu’s mission is to dismantle the societal and systemic barriers that lead to burnout, helping women create work lives that feel deeply fulfilling and aligned with their values.

Through her coaching, speaking, and writing, Tamu addresses the complex relationship between productivity, joy, and well-being. She empowers ambitious women to transition from toxic productivity cycles to lives where rest, self-worth, and authentic ambition coexist.

Join us in this conversation as we explore how to break free from toxic productivity, heal, and become the change the world so desperately needs.

In this conversation we explored:

- Tamu’s journey from growing up in a lineage of women who worked tirelessly and learned early on that hard work was tied to worthiness. We discuss the impact of intergenerational experiences, how these shape our epigenetics and the woman we become.

- How she realised that the struggle to work too much isn’t personal, but systemic. Tamu shares insights on how many of us end up caught in cycles of overwork, the addictive nature of productivity, and the damaging link between rewards and burnout. We also explore why rest often feels shameful.

- Why understanding our biology is key. We’re cyclical beings, we can’t be on 24/7, we must learn to listen to the needs of our body and name our feelings and emotions.

- How we can all break the cycle of toxic productivity, namely by honoring our legacies, healing ancestral wounds, and transforming trauma into power. Tamu shares simple and so powerful practices to navigate overwhelm and turn burnout into a pathway for renewal.

Enjoy!

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The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email softrebellion@flurinathali.com.

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Links:

Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali / www.flurinathali.com

Tamu Thomas:

Book website: https://www.womenwhoworktoomuch.co/

International Amazon link: https://hayhs.com/wwwtm_pp_pb_az

Live Three Sixty website: https://www.livethreesixty.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tamu.thomas/

Substack: https://livethreesixty.substack.com/

Credits:

- Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here.

- Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here

How do you meet resistance and anger in your lifeCheck if cnava left account twice ? How often do you say yes when you mean no? And how often did you betray yourself by neglecting the power of your female body to fight back?

I am so excited to have had the amazing Breanne Fahs as guest on the podcast. Breanne is professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University, where she specializes in studying women's sexuality, critical embodiment studies, feminist histories, and political activism. She has authored many books, including most recently Unshaved and Burn It Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution. She is the founder and director of the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at Arizona State University, and she also works as a clinical psychologist in private practice.

Together we explored all about Menstrual activism and why the world needs (menstrual) activists for the collective healing of the female body and women’s voices.

What a liberating conversation - wild and so true. Enjoy.

In this conversation we explored:

- Breanne`s experience of growing up in a menstruating body, how she met this strong narrative and what protected her from seeing her body as an object but a powerful individual.

- Breanne`s very rebellious writing and research, how she became a menstrual activist and how this path changed her understanding and meaning of the cyclical body.

- What menstrual activism actually means, namely to no longer fragment ourselves, to recognise our bodies needs and address them, to fight back against shame and stigma, against over-medicalisation of menstruation and the hatred for cycles all together.

- How we can all be (menstrual) activist by starting to recognise and acknowledge our anger and indulge the impulse to resist.

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The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email softrebellion@flurinathali.com.

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Social media:

Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali

Breanne' s webpage: www.breannefahs.com

Credits:

- Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here.

- Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here

In this short solo episode, I share my vision — the why behind all the work I do, from writing and coaching to research and teaching. This is more than just a declaration; it’s an invitation to join me on this softly rebellious quest to expand this vision into a larger energetic container where it can truly grow - thank you for being a witness!

I`ll read my vision three times:

As my personal vision.

A vision for the world.

As YOUR vision, imagining it is your own - power talk gift for you!

This episode is also a space for reflection and conversation. I’ll offer journal prompts to explore your own visions, and I warmly invite you to share your softly rebellious vision with me. Who knows? Perhaps your vision could find a place on this podcast!

Let’s dream boldly, reflect deeply, and co-create our visions together.

✨ Journaling Prompts for Reflection:

• What is your most heartfelt vision for yourself or the world?

• What softly rebellious steps can you take to honor it?

• How does my vision resonate with you?

I can’t wait to hear how this lands for you. Reach out and share your thoughts — or your vision — because this is a conversation we’re building together.

Receive my free online workshop: A guided journey to explore and reclaim your soft rebellion - access it ⁠here⁠.

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The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email ⁠softrebellion@flurinathali.com⁠.

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Social media: 

Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: ⁠@flurina.thali⁠

Credits:

* Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by ⁠Aspyrian⁠: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track ⁠here⁠. 

* Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click ⁠here⁠

Welcome to the first solo episode of The Soft Rebellion of 2025! In this moment of transition—from my personal wintering season into spring—I’m sharing an intimate look at my journey as I step back into the creative flow of this podcast and my life’s work. Over the last two weeks, I’ve navigated feelings of overwhelm, fear, and self-doubt, only to receive a simple but profound gift: a message from within that said, “You are enough. You’ve never not been enough.”

From that place of clarity, I embraced a theme for my year—and for this podcast season: An Abundant, Trustful Yes. In this episode, I explore what it means to say a courageous yes to life, to creativity, and to ourselves, even when the path feels uncertain. I invite you to join me in making this theme your own and to discover how this mindset can help us navigate transitions, honor our cycles, and step into the fullness of our power.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- The challenges of stepping out of rest and into action after a season of wintering.

- How the menstrual cycle mirrors creative cycles and offers wisdom for transitions.

- The power of saying yes to your enoughness - and what it can unlock.

- Why 2025`s theme for The Soft Rebellion is an ABUNDANT TRUSTFUL YES.

This episode is an invitation to you. How can you embrace this year’s theme of An Abundant, Trustful Yes in your life? Listen in for my reflections, and let’s walk this path together. Share your thoughts, your struggles, and your yeses with me on Instagram or through email. Let’s make this year a soft rebellion for all of us.

Receive my free online workshop: A guided journey to explore and reclaim your soft rebellion - access it ⁠here⁠.

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The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email ⁠softrebellion@flurinathali.com⁠.

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Social media: 

Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: ⁠@flurina.thali⁠

Credits:

* Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by ⁠Aspyrian⁠: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track ⁠here⁠. 

* Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click ⁠here⁠

Imagine a world where women meet with other women as the year comes to an end, together they reflect, process and collectively lean into their dreams and wishes for the new beginning, and because they do, the collective space holding and honoring awakens and plants the seed of their greatest vision and desire.

This is today’s conversation. A radical act of self-care. Intimate. Inspiring.

I am joined by my friend Valentina Thayer, a menstrual cycle coach & fertility awareness educator. Living in a world where the female body is often misunderstood in her natural rhythms, Valentina helps women reconnect to the pulse of their health and vitality - the menstrual cycle - so that they can live in alignment, harmony and Power. Valentina is based in Vietnam, offering in person workshops and online 1:1 coaching.

We share many things in common and most recently the shared experience of having followed the softly rebellious call to winter. In this conversation we explored:

- How both our wintering times unfolded, what filled and nurtured us during this time of turning inwards, what commitments we took and how we navigated fears and feelings of shame or guilt that arose with it.

- What we harvested during the past weeks: We share our greatest insights and inspirations - how wintering allowed us to (re-)align with nature and drop into the power of darkness.

- Why wintering in the season of winter is particularly profound … and that it is unnegotiable not to do it again this year!

- The invitation of our monthly bleed and inner winter to carry those gifts into the new year and beyond …

We wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR, may you be with the people you love, immerse yourself into the hunger of your female body and say YES to your unique version of the Soft Rebellion.

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The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email softrebellion@flurinathali.com.

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Social media:

Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali

Credits:

- Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here.

- Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here

Sometimes we just need to let go. For the time being. And trust that the arising emptiness will birth effortlessly what we have been working towards so hard.

I am feeling tired. I have a strong calling to invite women home to their soft healing power of their bodies … and reclaim their very own version of the Soft Rebellion, their unique, weird and wonderful self. Over the last months I have been playing in various ways how to do that … and I wish to be in a deeper conversation about this, with you. And right now, I don’t know how. So I follow my own softly rebellious knowing and I am going to rest for a month, let it winter and see what arises.

In this episode I share with you how I came to the decision to give myself permission to winter and why it feels so bloody good to go for it!

I am looking forward being with you again in January 2025!

Love,

Flurina

Receive my free online workshop: A guided journey to explore and reclaim your soft rebellion - access it ⁠here⁠.

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The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email ⁠softrebellion@flurinathali.com⁠.

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Social media: 

Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: ⁠@flurina.thali⁠

Credits:

* Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by ⁠Aspyrian⁠: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track ⁠here⁠. 

* Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click ⁠here⁠

What’s the story of the women’s bodies? And what can the evolutionary biology of the female body teach us about our health, agency, and creative power? The functions of the female body have always been shroud in mysteries, and often myths and misconceptions. As our understanding of our own anatomy and physiology evolves we still have such big questions such as why do women go through menopause? Why do we have periods unlike other mammals? What’s the function of the female orgasm? Why are we in the midst of a fertility crisis? And why is reproductive choice a vital instinct?

In this episode of The Soft Rebellion, evolutionary biologist, author, and teacher Dr. Deena Emera joins me to explore exactly that: The mysteries of the female body through an evolutionary lens. Her research on the biology of pregnancy in mammals and the deep history of our female bodies reveals powerful insights into how we can better understand and reclaim our innate feminine wisdom.

Talking to Deena expanded what the Soft Rebellion means (to me) so much: The Soft Rebellion is she who knows that her body is her own, she who knows its power, she who knows that reproductive choice is at the core of being a female mammal and a deeply ingrained and vital instinct.

This episode is for you if you are ready to let the ancient science and evolutionary biology of the female bod, change your view and experience of your own body, and to follow its invitation to slow down in a world where we are caught in a struggle between our bodies and cultural evolution.

In this conversation we talked about:

- Deena’s journey to dedicating her life’s work to study the evolutionary biology of the female body, unlock its powerful mysteries and share her work with the world.

- Deena’s research about the evolution of pregnancy in mammals, how studying our evolutionary history can change our understanding health and disease and what this lens taught Deena about mothering and the meaning of motherhood.

- The cultural vs. biological evolution of the female body and why this tension shapes our modern experience of health and wellness, we explored reproductive choice as an essential act of female agency, rooted in the evolutionary biology of mammals, and why it’s at the core of women’s fight for bodily autonomy.

About Deena:

Deena Emera, PhD, is an evolutionary biologist, author, and teacher. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley, a master’s degree in Physical Anthropology from NYU, and a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale. She currently serves as a senior scientist at the Buck Institute’s Buck Center for Healthy Aging in Women. Her current work is focused on the genetic basis of reproductive longevity in mammals. In her recent book A Brief History of the Female Body, Deena draws on her expertise as a biologist and experience as a mother of four to explore the mysteries of the female body through an evolutionary lens.  

Receive my free mini course: From body shame and disconnect to joy and into the fullness of your creative power: - www.flurinathali.com/

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The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email softrebellion@flurinathali.com.

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Social media:

Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali

Guest: Dr. Deena Emera @deenaemera

Deena’s webpage: www.deenaemera.com

Credits:

- Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here.

- Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here

Welcome to The Soft Rebellion Podcast, I am so happy that you are here.

In this episode I invite you onto a journey exploring the wildly poetic anatomy of your ovaries, `wombscapes` and the body of the egg. Yes, you knew and sensed ovaries before anything else, ovaries have been your first human experience, your first melting and meeting point with the feminine and its physical expression and they shaped first land you travelled upon …

… your ovaries are a temple of deeply grounded wisdom. And the home of the body of the egg, she who reminds us to own our size, to nurture body and enjoy rebellious rest.

We talk so often about the menstrual cycle, the inner seasons, the blood, the bleed, ovulation, but we don`t really take a deep dive into the world of the ovaries and the body of the egg do we? Do you know where your ovaries are in your body at all? What does ovary mean to you? And when did you last place your hands onto your lower belly, just above your pubic bone and allow your attention to meet your breath and your breath to bring you to the mind of your ovaries and allow their voice to speak to you ... what does she has to tell you? What does she need from you?

This episode comes to you from the center and joy of my womb, it is an amalgamation of the science and theory I learnt about the human body, my lived experience, and the ocean of poetry awaiting to be freed.

Receive my free online workshop: A guided journey to explore and reclaim your soft rebellion - access it ⁠here⁠.

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The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email ⁠softrebellion@flurinathali.com⁠.

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Social media: 

Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: ⁠@flurina.thali⁠

Credits:

* Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by ⁠Aspyrian⁠: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track ⁠here⁠. 

* Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click ⁠here⁠