🎙️ Episode 11: Hormones, Healing & Finding Balance – with Roxy Shahidi
The House of Hormones Podcast with Leah Christian
This week on The House of Hormones, we're joined by the radiant and multifaceted Roxy Shahidi—actress, yoga teacher, and passionate wellness advocate—whose journey through motherhood, acting, and hormonal health offers a powerful reflection of resilience, self-awareness, and balance.You may know Roxy best for her long-standing role as Leyla Harding on ITV’s Emmerdale, where she’s captivated audiences for years with her emotional depth and dynamic performances. But behind the scenes, Roxy is just as inspiring—using her voice and platform to open up honest conversations about women's health, body image, and the ever-shifting hormonal landscape so many of us navigate daily.
In this episode, Roxy shares how supplementing hormones and tuning into your body’s cycles has helped her shift her perspective and show herself more compassion. She speaks candidly about being hard on herself, managing physical and emotional shifts as a performer, and what it was like continuing to play the same character on screen while living through different hormonal phases off-screen. From Dancing on Ice—where stress caused her to miss two periods—to navigating the possibility of having more children, Roxy opens up in a way that’s vulnerable, grounded, and deeply empowering.We also explore her passion for yoga—how it became a personal sanctuary and a professional mission, leading her to launch YogaRox UK and teach at The Yoga Space in Yorkshire. Her holistic approach to wellness, commitment to clean living, and long-standing vegan lifestyle all speak to a deeper ethos of honoring the body, listening to its needs, and embracing the power of natural rhythms.
Whether she’s talking about bone density, bio-identical hormones, or simply how important it is to put yourself first so others benefit too, Roxy is a reminder that emotional flexibility and physical strength go hand in hand.This is an episode for anyone who’s ever felt overwhelmed by their hormones, stretched thin by expectations, or in search of tools to feel more like themselves again. Roxy’s perspective is compassionate, grounded, and refreshingly real—and we’re so grateful she joined us for this one.