Ep 26 Reducing Stress Might Not Be What You Think
This type of stress is generally not talked about much amongst our friends and family, and certainly not addressed when. you are sitting in your doctors office asking why you don’t feel like yourself anymore. Listen to this weeks’ podcast to get a better understanding of stressors that are actually IN your control.
Episode 25: Is Your Shampoo Making You Sick? What True Detox Really Means…
I honestly had no idea that the products I was using were really that bad for me…. What I discovered was ASTOUNDING. Listen to this week’s podcast to hear about what I found out, how I fixed it in my own life, and how I want to help you clean up your act, too!
Episode 24: Heavy Periods, Monthly Migraines, Weight Gain, Oh MY!
Why do we continue to live with our painful, heavy, or absent periods? There are things you can do to figure out what is going on, and it does not involve blood work or birth control. Get answers that your doctor is not going to tell you.
Episode 23: Why you find comfort in toxicity
We learn to live and adapt to things that damage our ability for greatness. Toxicity is one of them. Listen to my story of realizing that healing sucks sometimes.
Episode 22: Would gut testing help me? Yes. It would.
Symptoms like food intolerances, bloating, digestive discomfort, weight gain, acid reflux all could be signs you have an imbalance (overgrowth or undergrowth) of an important part of your gut environment.
Episode 21: How I knew I had Gut Issues
So how do we know there is something up?
I’m going to review the top ten signals that your gut tells you. One or many of these symptoms should clue you in, that your gut needs more support than it is currently getting, in order to get back to homeostasis.Where things go off the rails is when there is a constant sense of threat / stimulus (all the same or many different), and there is no retreat from the threat for the brain to rest, repair, and recover. You can even sleep in a heightened stress state.
Episode 20: My Personal Boundaries Were Costing My Happiness
Stress activates our nervous system, and it is defined as a stimulus that causes the brain to feel threatened in some way. When the brain senses this imbalance of safety, it manages it with a hormonal response, which is trying to make you feel safe again. This is a natural rhythm that works for our bodies that are designed to handle stress and normal for the body to experience throughout a typical day.
Where things go off the rails is when there is a constant sense of threat / stimulus (all the same or many different), and there is no retreat from the threat for the brain to rest, repair, and recover. You can even sleep in a heightened stress state.
Episode 19: Are You Tired of Being Hormonal?
Pulling all of these together can be overwhelming if you don’t know where to start. I lay out for you the plan of action and how women have been changing the narrative on hormone health and taking action for self advocacy.
Episode 17: Boundaries Change Hormones
Setting boundaries is how you take back control of your life, regulate your nervous system, and stay in tune with your body and your hormones. Well, this and the hormone happiness project! Jump into the next round to get answers about your own body and get the testing that is truly changing the lives of so many women who know they have hormone imbalances, they just don’t know where to start.
Episode 16: The Day I Realized my Exhaustion was not Laziness
I remember asking myself, what is wrong with me? All the things that I have been told to do just aren’t working for me. My body is different and I’m doomed…..