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Hormones

Most health research was done on men. Once I understood that, a great deal of my own experience finally made sense, and so did the advice that had never quite worked.

Living in alignment with your cycle is the core of the work I do. Learning to track it, learning what to eat and when, and letting your energy rise and fall the way it was always going to. Less a protocol than a way of coming back to your own feminine nature.

These posts cover the four phases and what each one asks of you, the patterns many women are told are simply normal, and preparing the body in the season before motherhood.

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Eating for Your Cycle: What to Eat in Each of the Four Phases Eating for Your Cycle: What to Eat in Each of the Four Phases Around day eight, a big raw salad is exactly what I want. By day 24 the same salad looks like homework. For years I read that as inconsistency. One week I was the woman who ate beautifully, the… How to Track Your Cycle & Find Your Own Monthly Pattern How to Track Your Cycle & Find Your Own Monthly Pattern Your body is not the same woman on day four as she is on day fourteen, and she keeps changing all the way through. Here is how to follow your own rhythm, and what it can show you that a single day of testing never will. Coming Off the Pill: What the First Year Was Actually Like Coming Off the Pill: What the First Year Was Actually Like This one is for the woman who has already decided, with her doctor, that she is coming off the pill, and who would like somebody to tell her honestly what the next few months might look like. Female Intuition & Your Cycle: When You Hear Yourself Most Clearly Female Intuition & Your Cycle: When You Hear Yourself Most Clearly You are probably here because you would like to feel more connected to your own female intuition. And you may be wondering why she seems to come and go, why you can be so certain of something… What to Eat in Your Luteal Phase: The Two Weeks Before Your Period What to Eat in Your Luteal Phase: The Two Weeks Before Your Period The luteal phase is the stretch between ovulation and your period. Roughly two weeks, days 18 to 28, though bodies do not read the textbook and yours may run to a different clock. Cyclical Living: Unlock Your Feminine Superpowers Cyclical Living: Unlock Your Feminine Superpowers For a stretch of the month you feel unstoppable, and a fortnight later you cannot face the list you wrote. Nothing has gone wrong with you. Here is what each phase tends to ask for, and how to plan a month around it. Preparing for Pregnancy: Why I Am Giving It Years, Not Months Preparing for Pregnancy: Why I Am Giving It Years, Not Months Three months is how long it takes to make sperm. It is not how long it takes to get a nervous system, a relationship and a support network ready for a child. Here is what I have been doing with the years instead. Wisdom Women Needed to Learn in School, & What We Missed Wisdom Women Needed to Learn in School, & What We Missed Almost every woman I know worked out how her own body operates somewhere in her thirties, alone, on the internet. We learned the mechanics of reproduction at school and essentially nothing about… Symptoms of Hormonal Imbalance in Women, & What to Write Down Symptoms of Hormonal Imbalance in Women, & What to Write Down The symptoms women most often describe, why so many of them arrive at the same point every month, and what to have written down before you sit in the appointment.
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