If you're anything like me, symptoms of peri/menopause took you totally by surprise! What are those hot flashes? That moodiness? The fatigue? The feeling that if your head weren't attached to your neck that you'd lose it? I remember being in North Carolina on a family vacation when it occurred to me that it wasn't business as usual and in that moment I took control of my menopause instead of letting it control me! I spent years discovering the foods to eat, lifestyle changes and the herbal,vitamin and mineral supplements to take that kept me from having to rely on traditional hormone replacement therapy. I became a real biohacker....Someone who spent their days really looking at what was making their body tick and learning everything that she could about making the changes that would bring abut the most balance through a personal recipe of nutritional , medical , philosophical studies and because I'm truly a geek, the use of the latest technologies! I made the choice to turn menopause into one of the sexiest and most satisfying times of my life and you can too! My 50's are better than my 30's ever were..no question! I look and feel better at 54 than I ever did at 24 ! I'm not saying that it was always easy because it required some very hard work and more than a little courage on my part, but it was worth it! Just ask my husband who was really patient and kind through the whole process once he understood what was really going on! So you can trust me when I say that life can be good..even great as you move through these changes! Goodbye mercy sex! When we're done you'll want to flirt more, love more , hug more and trust me, sex IS even better than before because you will learn to get comfortable enough to express what you really want in bed. You want your best friend back? Trust me..he's as confused as you are! You'll be thrilled because you're going to stop putting up with what you don't want and start having a life you love filled to the brim with the vitality and sensuality you deserve. Doesn't that sound like lot's more fun? One of the things that I learned in my journey is that you've got to know where to look for help and that starts with getting clear about how you're feeling about things.You're not alone here so don't be afraid to ask for help.Choose courage...you'll never regret it! As a result of my personal journey through hormonal hell, I was led to Dr. Sara Gottfried's book "The Hormone Cure" and after loving what I read and practicing her protocols on myself, I chose to become trained to coach her methodologies so that I could add these brilliant techniques to what I already knew about creating optimal hormone balance through primary food and wellness management. To be clear, you're not crazy...your sex drive did just disappear overnight and your hair is probably getting thinner. Yes, that's teenage acne and I know that you're in your 40s! That muffin top around your middle that no diet in the world has gotten rid of? You're not lazy...your cortisol levels are probably out of balance. I can promise you that you probably don't hate your husband, but maybe you've got an inbalance of estrogen or a sluggish thyroid! You haven't had a good nights sleep in months? Lets take a look at your cortisol levels, your blood sugar and melatonin. Sex hurts? You've got aching joints? Serious crabbiness & drastic mood swings? 95 percent of the time the answers to these problems can be found in your lab work and once we have those answers, the solutions can be as easy as some very simple nutritional and lifestyle changes. I'm living proof that you can get all of your vitality back and more without necessarily having to submit to hormone replacement therapy in your 40's or birth control pills in your 50's ! I even had my gynecologist ask me why I thought I needed him, but that's why he's my Dr.... So here's what I know. From your first to your last period, there are unique challenges that all of us will face and you shouldn't have to do it alone. I can help you and if I can't , I'll know where to send you so that you can get the knowledgable medical help that you seek and then I will work hand in hand with your Doctor to make sure that you get the support that you need. Believe it or not, most of these complaints can be addressed through simple lifestyle changes. Like I said, I'm living proof! If not, there are physicians who will be happy to help you heal without making you feel like an idiot. I'll give you ask all of the right questions to ask, so we get you all of the right answers! So ladies its time to toss the botox, the unnecessary emotional baggage AND the baggy sweat pants - Are you ready to fall madly in love with your whole life? Contact me and I'll send you a link to a quick quiz that you can take that will give us an initial yet effective assessment of where your hormones aren't in balance! Then we'll schedule a time to talk by phone where you'll get a complimentary half hour with me to discuss your results. There's no time to waste and only happiness and health to gain! I can help! Contact me today!
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Being a Lifestyle,Health and Wellness coach is really satisfying in so many ways although at times it can be really challenging! Today I'll tell the story of one of my clients, a woman that I love dearly who has struggled for years to lose the weight that she wants to! She's on several different medications which I discovered were causing many of the side effects that she struggles with including hair and libido loss, fatigue, muscle aches and pains, infertility and of course , weight gain. We've tried all kinds of approaches and finally I had her take a simple quiz that would give me a good initial gage as to where her hormones( you know those pesky little bits of our being that regulate EVERYTHING?) aren't in balance. Her results were not surprising... High Cortisol, Low Cortisol ( you can have both at different times throughout the day!) l, Low Thyroid, out of balance testosterone and progesterone , out of whack androgens. She was of course really upset and I assured her that I thought that we'd stumbled upon the root cause of her problems. The next step is a clear set of labs , lifestyle changes and after that , a straightforward discussion with her internist if we can't budge the scales in two weeks. This client is among my luckiest though. As an herbalist and coach I don't ever prescribe... I educate and suggest. I can't (out of professional responsibility ) educate her about some of the supplements that I normally might, because I'll never take the chance of allowing her to take anything on my watch that could blend badly with her prescribed medicines. Because of these limitations she has access to the most elegant and effective "prescription" that I can share with her and that is the clean , whole and healthy food found at the end of her fork! Adopting a 70 percent plant based diet, adding lots of clean water, exercise, meditation and removing all sugar and gluten will go along way to balancing her hormones and getting her on the path toward happy, relaxed and prescription free! To quote..." Food Matters! - You are what you eat!" I hope that you'll choose to follow me on Facebook! I'll keep you posted on her progress! Such a beautiful spring day...Jim has been working from home today and I left first thing this morning to come and work down at the herb gardens for The Western Reserve Herb Society. There is a lot of weeding to be done and for me it becomes a meditation... Breathe in, breathe out... Pull and begin again. I used to resist weeding until I learned from one of the sage women that I work with here that in a beautiful garden and even one that appears to be wild, everything has it's place. There's a structure here that's important to honor so that everything grows deep and healthy roots. When you garden with this intention, nothing is crowded out and there is a space for everything... Even the weeds! I've found that if I apply this same philosophy to my life that everything works... Go slowly, breathe deeply, prune with intention, cut away that which is old and dead so that new life can spring from the roots. Don't hang on to anything that no longer serves you and most importantly? Remember to feed the soil/soul! The end result of today us that Jim came back down here with me and is sitting under the sundial working while I sit under my favorite Hawthorn trees doing the same.. Life is working perhaps because I've finally learned to let go, weeding my own garden so that the strongest shoots can grow... I'm so excited because I've got a couple of really special announcements to share with you !
Special Announcement Number 1! I'm finally getting around to writing THE book! It's called "Skinny Sexy Food- 90 Days from Hot Flashes to Sizzling Hot" and I'm really excited about it! It will be out in November and is the manifesto that I'm writing for women of any age who are wondering how to reignite their zest for life. We'll be discussing diet and targeted hormone health for women, lifestyle enhancements that will smooth out all of your frazzled edges, Orgasmic Meditation (I'll bet that I have your attention now!), yoga, reiki, aromatherapy, herbalism and other relaxing pleasures, fashions, passions and lots of tips for luxurious self nurturing! I'm so excited to share this information with you and you'll be able to pre-order starting in October of 2014! Special Announcement Number 2! I'm thrilled to share with you that I am working with Dr. Sara Gottfried to become certified to teach her Hormone Cure! This is the most fascinating work that I've ever done! She has created "The Gottfried Protocols" ; a simple yet thorough program that I will be using starting in June! Our hormones are almost always responsible for all of the woes that we experience as women; PMS, Infertility, Low sex drive, Hot flashes, extra hair where it shouldn't be.....It's a very daunting list! We are continually juggling our estrogen, cortisol, progesterone, testosterone and our thyroids and if you're like most women that I know, your adrenal glands are working overtime! I'll be able to help you easily discover which of your hormones are out of balance and I'll be able to offer you some really simple yet scientifically proven protocols that will address lifestyle changes including food, lifestyle, movement and suggestions for effective botanicals and over the counter bio-identicals that you can try along with access to easy and effective lab testing if needed. If you're not working with a Doctor that you trust I'll be able to put you in touch with a medical hormone expert who will treat you with the empathy that you completely deserve! Im so excited to share what I'm learning with you! If you want to know more about Dr. Sara Gottfried and the work that I'm doing click here! |