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What if our bodies held the key to healing both ourselves and the planet?
Theme: Learn about the climate crisis
Topic: Eco-anxiety & mental health
Language: English & German
In this debut episode of KÖRPERMACHT, host Stephanie opens a heartfelt and honest conversation with her first guest, Caitlin, a physiotherapist, sustainability consultant, and climate communicator.
Together, they explore the often-unspoken: menstruation, incontinence, shame, motherhood, climate grief, and the quiet questions we carry in our bodies.
You’ll hear about:
Why climate anxiety can lead to action
The emotional weight of deciding whether to have children
Why reclaiming body knowledge is a form of empowerment
How sustainability starts with how we relate to ourselves
This episode is intimate, raw, and radically human–an invitation to feel, to question, and to reconnect with the power of your own body power.
Key Quotes:
“Your body is your body. And we have the power to decide what happens to it.”
“I don’t have to flip the world upside down. If I can make a 1% difference—and if many of us do—that’s how real change happens.”
“Can I justify bringing a child into a world on fire?”
(…followed by:)
“And yet—I choose to act from hope, not fear.”
Guest Bio:
Caitlyn Socwell, Millennials Gone Circular
Caitlyn Socwell is your token “Austramerican” on the show. She was born and raised in Wisconsin, USA, is most recently from Australia, and is now coming to you from the Netherlands. She’s a Doctor of Physiotherapy turned founder of The Waste Not Spot and she geeks out on all things waste—reducing it, reusing it, upcycling it, recycling it and most importantly, eliminating it. She is wildly passionate about mainstreaming sustainability and has made it her life’s mission. Fun fact, she hails from the Home of the Hamburger!
Host Bio:
Stephanie Oppitz, Founder, WindelManufakture
Stephanie invented modern, practical washable cloth nappies for her own children and subsequently founded her business, WindelManufaktur, in Dresden, Germany, in 2011. Since then, she has educated more than 120,000 families about the benefits of cloth for diapering, menstruation, and incontinence. She is a key figure in Saxony’s innovative textile world, inventing products and upholding craftsmanship and female leadership in the hygiene sector dominated by men and waste-producing companies.
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