What if your progesterone problem has nothing to do with your hormones, and everything to do with your alarm clock? Stay with me. Your body steals progesterone to make cortisol every time you're stressed, physically or emotionally, and it does this without asking your permission, often before you've even gotten out of bed.

In this episode, I'm going rapid-fire through a list of everyday habits that are quietly draining your progesterone production. This isn't a beginner list, and I admit I’m guilty of some of these too! These are the sneaky, "literally everyone does this" kind of habits that feel so normal you'd never think to question them, but your body absolutely notices every single one. So, if you get through this whole episode and somehow find that you don’t identify with any of them, please message me, because I will be genuinely shocked.

And this matters even if a baby isn't on your radar right now. Building good progesterone today is basically how you bank yourself a smoother perimenopause later, and that's a season I'd love for you to walk into feeling like yourself.

Here's what I'm breaking down for you:

• Why your phone in the morning is priming your nervous system to be stressed for the rest of the day, and yes, switching to email counts just as much
• The real cost of always needing something in your ears, and what I noticed when I finally let myself sit in silence for five minutes
• What it actually means if you're waking up to pee at night, because "I drink a lot of water" probably isn't the full answer
• Two light habits almost everyone gets wrong, one in the morning, one at night, and what they're quietly doing to your cortisol and progesterone
• The way you're eating lunch that's messing with your hormones, and it has nothing to do with what's on your plate
• Why eating less can slow your metabolism and raise your cortisol, and why discipline has nothing to do with it

Some of this stuff is so woven into our daily lives that it feels impossible to even question. My husband legitimately cannot understand why I bought an actual alarm clock instead of just using my phone, and I get it, it sounds a little extra. But once you hear why I made that switch, you'll probably want to make a couple of these same "extra" swaps too. Same goes for the friend who insists she sleeps fine even though she's up to pee twice a night, or the one who can't sit in her car for a five-minute drive without a podcast playing. We've all just normalized so much that our bodies are quietly screaming about it, and a lot of it has nothing to do with food or supplements at all.

Here's the thing about progesterone: your body treats it like a luxury hormone. The second you're under any kind of stress - physical, mental, emotional, doesn't matter - your body will steal the raw materials meant for progesterone and use them to make more cortisol instead. So, if a few of these sound a little too familiar, that's not a coincidence. That's your body trying to tell you something.

You do not need to overhaul all of these at once; please don't, that never sticks for anyone. Pick the one that hits you the hardest, give it a few consistent weeks, and just watch what shifts. Progesterone doesn't respond to perfection; it responds to consistency, and that's actually really good news.

This episode is your permission to question the things you've just always assumed were part of being a busy woman. Hit play, and let's get into it.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

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Book a FREE Hormone Strategy Call with me
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Hormone Imbalance Quiz - Find out which of the top 3 hormone imbalances affects you most!
Join Nourish Your Hormones Coaching for the step-by-step and my eyes on YOUR hormones for the next 4 months.

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Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast is to be taken as medical advice, please take informed accountability and speak to your provider before making changes to your health routine.

This podcast is for women and moms to learn how to balance hormones naturally in motherhood, to have pain-free periods, increased fertility, to decrease PMS mood swings, and to increase energy without restrictive diet plans. You'll learn how to balance blood sugar, increase progesterone naturally, understand the root cause of estrogen dominance, irregular periods, PCOS, insulin resistance, hormonal acne, post birth-control syndrome, and conceive naturally. We use a pro-metabolic, whole food, root cause approach to functional women's health and focus on truly holistic health and mind-body connection.

If you listen to any of the following shows, we're sure you'll like ours too! 
Pursuit of Wellness with Mari Llewellyn, Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark, Found My Fitness with Rhonda Patrick, Just Ingredients Podcast, Wellness Mama, The Dr Josh Axe Show, Are You Menstrual Podcast, The Model Health Show, Grounded Wellness By Primally Pure, Be Well By Kelly Leveque, The Freely Rooted Podcast with Kori Meloy, Simple Farmhouse Life with Lisa Bass

You can have zero cysts on your ovaries and still be diagnosed with PCOS. Wild, right? But that's exactly how loose this diagnosis really is.

I sat down for this episode with Dr. Angela Potter, a PCOS and fertility specialist who works with women every day who hear the exact same thing I hear all the time: "Your labs are fine, here's Clomid, good luck."

If you've been told you have PCOS, you've wondered if you might, or you've just been collecting random symptoms for years with nobody connecting the dots, this one's for you.

Here's a glimpse of what we get into:

• Why PCOS can look completely different from one woman to the next, and why "one path for everyone" was never going to work
• The "biological safety" signal your brain sends to your ovaries, and the everyday things that might be quietly sending the opposite signal
• Why "your labs are fine" doesn't mean nothing's going on, and what that conversation usually misses
• Why "just go low carb" is some of the most common PCOS advice out there, and why it can backfire
• What egg quality really has to do with timing, and why that matters before jumping into a medicated cycle

PCOS stands for polycystic ovarian syndrome, and the name is a little misleading. You don't actually need cysts on your ovaries to have it. Doctors look at three things, called the Rotterdam criteria: ovulation issues, elevated androgens like testosterone (which can show up as acne, extra hair growth, or stubborn weight around your belly), and cysts on the ovaries. Two out of three of those, and that's your diagnosis.

Here's where it gets interesting. Because PCOS is a syndrome and not one specific thing, three women can both technically "have PCOS" and look completely different. One might be dealing with insulin issues. Another might have an adrenal driver. Another might be dealing with inflammation. And yet the standard medical playbook treats all of these women the same way: a few rounds of ovulation induction medication, and if that doesn't work, on to IVF.

Dr. Potter put it so well. She said the fertility algorithm for PCOS is linear, basically one path for everyone, and that path doesn't account for the fact that your PCOS and my PCOS could be driven by completely different things. No wonder so many women feel like the system is failing them. Because in a lot of ways, it is.

So we went deeper into something I talk about all the time, which is that your hormones are never the whole story. Your estrogen and testosterone aren't just randomly out of whack for no reason. There's something underneath creating that picture, and a huge piece of it comes down to whether or not your body feels safe.

Your brain is constantly scanning for threats, the same way it would have hundreds of thousands of years ago. If your body senses there isn't enough food coming in, or your blood sugar is all over the place, or your nervous system is stuck in stress mode, your brain's response is to shut down ovulation. Not because it's broken. Because it's trying to protect you.

This is why so many women with PCOS get told to "just go low carb" or "just lose weight," and then feel even worse, or stay completely stuck. If your body is already in a stress response, restricting food sends an even louder signal that things aren't safe. The research doesn't actually back up low carb as the magic fix for PCOS, but it's everywhere, so women try it, it doesn't work, and then they think something is wrong with them. The advice was never built for your specific body in the first place.

We also got into what happens when someone's told to do a medicated cycle without addressing any of this first. Your body might be saying "not safe to ovulate" for a real reason, and a medication can override that signal for one cycle, but it doesn't change the underlying picture. Dr. Potter talked about egg quality and how it takes about 90 days to develop a healthy egg. So if you go into a medicated cycle without those building blocks in place, you're already starting from behind. This isn't an anti-medication conversation. It's about giving your body what it needs first, so that if medication is part of your path, you're working with your body instead of against it.

By the end of this conversation, so many things clicked into place for me, even with everything I already know about hormones. 

Grab your coffee, hit play, and let's get into it together.

CONNECT WITH DR. POTTER:
The PCOS Lab Podcast
PCOS Ovulation Assessment 

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Book a FREE Hormone Strategy Call with me
Grab your Happily Hormonal Quick Start Guide
Hormone Imbalance Quiz - Find out which of the top 3 hormone imbalances affects you most!
Join Nourish Your Hormones Coaching for the step-by-step and my eyes on YOUR hormones for the next 4 months.

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Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast is to be taken as medical advice, please take informed accountability and speak to your provider before making changes to your health routine.

This podcast is for women and moms to learn how to balance hormones naturally in motherhood, to have pain-free periods, increased fertility, to decrease PMS mood swings, and to increase energy without restrictive diet plans. You'll learn how to balance blood sugar, increase progesterone naturally, understand the root cause of estrogen dominance, irregular periods, PCOS, insulin resistance, hormonal acne, post birth-control syndrome, and conceive naturally. We use a pro-metabolic, whole food, root cause approach to functional women's health and focus on truly holistic health and mind-body connection.

If you listen to any of the following shows, we're sure you'll like ours too! 
Pursuit of Wellness with Mari Llewellyn, Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark, Found My Fitness with Rhonda Patrick, Just Ingredients Podcast, Wellness Mama, The Dr Josh Axe Show, Are You Menstrual Podcast, The Model Health Show, Grounded Wellness By Primally Pure, Be Well By Kelly Leveque, The Freely Rooted Podcast with Kori Meloy, Simple Farmhouse Life with Lisa Bass

This one will step on all of our toes (including mine!)

 Women who do everything "right" - the supplements, the sleep hygiene, the breakfast protocols - are still struggling. And the reason isn't what most practitioners will tell you. It has nothing to do with the magnesium you forgot to take or the genetics you were handed. The root cause goes deeper than that, to something a little more uncomfortable to look at: how you're actually showing up in your life, day to day.

If stress is coming in faster than it's going out, and if energy is leaving faster than it's being replenished, physically and emotionally, your brain receives a very clear signal: not safe. And a body that doesn't feel safe will not balance its hormones. Full stop. And I say that as someone who has had to look at her own life and ask some hard questions about it.

Here's what you'll hear in this episode:

• Why your symptoms might actually be serving you - and I mean this in the most uncomfortable, eye-opening way possible. (Spoiler: a free pass to be grumpy for one week a month is still a pass you're cashing in)
• The stress math no one talks about - what happens when more is coming in than going out, and why the women who seem to be doing the most are often the ones running the biggest deficit without even realizing it
• What I've been working on in my own life - including something a coach I love shared about the words you speak over yourself every day, and why what you're saying before 8 am might be keeping your nervous system stuck in a way no supplement can fix

If you've ever thought "I know what I should do, I just can't seem to make myself do it", that sentence alone is worth sitting with after you listen.

This one is for you if you're holding everything together but running on empty. If you wouldn't totally mind a migraine once a month just to have one day when nobody expects anything from you. (Yes, I said it. Yes, I've felt it too.)

Grab something warm, maybe a journal, and hit play. I'd really love to hear what comes up for you when you listen.

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NEED HELP FIXING YOUR HORMONES? CHECK OUT MY RESOURCES:
Breakfast Guide
Nourish Tracker - Discount code: HAPPILYHORMONAL
Book a FREE Hormone Strategy Call with me
Grab your Happily Hormonal Quick Start Guide
Hormone Imbalance Quiz - Find out which of the top 3 hormone imbalances affects you most!
Join Nourish Your Hormones Coaching for the step-by-step and my eyes on YOUR hormones for the next 4 months.

Send us a text with episode feedback or ideas! (We can't respond to texts unless you include contact info but always read them)

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Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast is to be taken as medical advice, please take informed accountability and speak to your provider before making changes to your health routine.

This podcast is for women and moms to learn how to balance hormones naturally in motherhood, to have pain-free periods, increased fertility, to decrease PMS mood swings, and to increase energy without restrictive diet plans. You'll learn how to balance blood sugar, increase progesterone naturally, understand the root cause of estrogen dominance, irregular periods, PCOS, insulin resistance, hormonal acne, post birth-control syndrome, and conceive naturally. We use a pro-metabolic, whole food, root cause approach to functional women's health and focus on truly holistic health and mind-body connection.

If you listen to any of the following shows, we're sure you'll like ours too! 
Pursuit of Wellness with Mari Llewellyn, Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark, Found My Fitness with Rhonda Patrick, Just Ingredients Podcast, Wellness Mama, The Dr Josh Axe Show, Are You Menstrual Podcast, The Model Health Show, Grounded Wellness By Primally Pure, Be Well By Kelly Leveque, The Freely Rooted Podcast with Kori Meloy, Simple Farmhouse Life with Lisa Bass

Are you going to feel good all summer, or hit August wondering why you became a different person from the neck up? 

Summer always feels like the healthiest (and happiest) season - lighter food, a few drinks at the barbecue, more movement, sunshine, a slower pace. So why do so many women feel worse in July and August than any other time of year?

Turns out, summer is one of the sneakiest seasons for progesterone. It’s because everything you do looks completely right and healthy, but the habits that look the most innocent are the ones that cause harm. 

And your body keeps a running tab. So by mid-July, it starts sending you the bill, in the form of PMS that's crept back, mood swings you thought you'd fixed, and that specific kind of exhaustion that no amount of sleep seems to touch.

I’d like you to know: this is not a willpower problem. Your body is just running on less safety than it needs to make progesterone, and it's been doing that since May.

Here's what we get into:

• The summer-specific breakfast habit that feels like a healthy upgrade but spikes your cortisol every single morning (yes, even the organic macro-balanced version)
• Why your luteal phase in July and August is almost always the worst of the year, and the one thing that actually protects it
• What GLP-1s and rapid summer weight loss do to your estrogen and progesterone, and what to watch for if this is you (or your friend)

No one is telling you to skip the barbecue or eat a hot breakfast in a heatwave. This is an honest conversation that helps you actually feel good when August gets here, instead of just surviving it.

If you've ever looked at your calendar in September and thought, "Okay, now I actually have to fix myself," this episode is for you. Because the fix is a lot simpler than a full reset, and it starts right now, in June, before compounding even has a chance to happen.

Pop it on while you're making dinner tonight. It's about 20 minutes, and it might be the most useful thing you'll listen to all summer.

Fix Your Breakfast, Fix Your Hormones Podcast Course

E57: How Much Does Alcohol REALLY Impact Your Hormones?

NEED HELP FIXING YOUR HORMONES? CHECK OUT MY RESOURCES:
Breakfast Guide
Nourish Tracker - Discount code: HAPPILYHORMONAL
Book a FREE Hormone Strategy Call with me
Grab your Happily Hormonal Quick Start Guide
Hormone Imbalance Quiz - Find out which of the top 3 hormone imbalances affects you most!
Join Nourish Your Hormones Coaching for the step-by-step and my eyes on YOUR hormones for the next 4 months.

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Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast is to be taken as medical advice, please take informed accountability and speak to your provider before making changes to your health routine.

This podcast is for women and moms to learn how to balance hormones naturally in motherhood, to have pain-free periods, increased fertility, to decrease PMS mood swings, and to increase energy without restrictive diet plans. You'll learn how to balance blood sugar, increase progesterone naturally, understand the root cause of estrogen dominance, irregular periods, PCOS, insulin resistance, hormonal acne, post birth-control syndrome, and conceive naturally. We use a pro-metabolic, whole food, root cause approach to functional women's health and focus on truly holistic health and mind-body connection.

If you listen to any of the following shows, we're sure you'll like ours too! 
Pursuit of Wellness with Mari Llewellyn, Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark, Found My Fitness with Rhonda Patrick, Just Ingredients Podcast, Wellness Mama, The Dr Josh Axe Show, Are You Menstrual Podcast, The Model Health Show, Grounded Wellness By Primally Pure, Be Well By Kelly Leveque, The Freely Rooted Podcast with Kori Meloy, Simple Farmhouse Life with Lisa Bass

Have you done all the right things and still spent two weeks a month feeling like a completely different, much less pleasant person? I get it.

Most PMS and PMDD conversations stop at estrogen and progesterone. But if you're still dealing with mood swings, brain fog, or symptoms that show up around ovulation, too, there's a piece nobody's named for you yet. It's histamine. 

And before you say, "I don't have allergies" - that's not what we're talking about here. In this episode, I'm walking you through why histamine can be a very real driver of your hormonal symptoms, why it tends to spike at two specific points in your cycle, and what's actually going on underneath that your body has been trying to flag.

You'll learn:

• The estrogen-histamine feedback loop that makes symptoms spike at two points in your cycle, including mid-cycle, when you're supposed to feel good
• The specific signs that point to histamine as a contributing factor in your PMS/ PMDD 
• Why supplements like DAO enzyme or Quercetin can help temporarily, and what the real question is that nobody's asking

If histamine has never once crossed your mind as a reason you feel terrible two weeks out of the month - buckle up, because this episode is about to make a lot of things click.

And if you're currently tracking your basal body temperatures and your PMS is still not where you want it to be, I have something for a few of you at the end of this episode. Stay all the way through, you'll want to hear it.

Breakfast Guide
Nourish Tracker - Discount code: HAPPILYHORMONAL
Book a FREE Hormone Strategy Call with me
Grab your Happily Hormonal Quick Start Guide

NEED HELP FIXING YOUR HORMONES?
Hormone Imbalance Quiz - Find out which of the top 3 hormone imbalances affects you most!
Join Nourish Your Hormones Coaching for the step-by-step and my eyes on YOUR hormones for the next 4 months

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Don’t forget to subscribe, share this episode, and leave a review. Your support helps us reach more women looking for answers.

Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast is to be taken as medical advice, please take informed accountability and speak to your provider before making changes to your health routine.

This podcast is for women and moms to learn how to balance hormones naturally in motherhood, to have pain-free periods, increased fertility, to decrease PMS mood swings, and to increase energy without restrictive diet plans. You'll learn how to balance blood sugar, increase progesterone naturally, understand the root cause of estrogen dominance, irregular periods, PCOS, insulin resistance, hormonal acne, post birth-control syndrome, and conceive naturally. We use a pro-metabolic, whole food, root cause approach to functional women's health and focus on truly holistic health and mind-body connection.

If you listen to any of the following shows, we're sure you'll like ours too! 
Pursuit of Wellness with Mari Llewellyn, Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark, Found My Fitness with Rhonda Patrick, Just Ingredients Podcast, Wellness Mama, The Dr Josh Axe Show, Are You Menstrual Podcast, The Model Health Show, Grounded Wellness By Primally Pure, Be Well By Kelly Leveque, The Freely Rooted Podcast with Kori Meloy, Simple Farmhouse Life with Lisa Bass

Have you ever looked at your husband doing absolutely nothing wrong and felt nothing but irritation?

You know it's not really about him. But knowing that doesn't help when you're already in it, snapping at him for breathing too loudly, or crying and unable to explain why, then drowning in guilt afterward. Because you love him. Your hormones are throwing a very convincing party in your nervous system, and nobody sent you the invite.

Here's what this episode breaks down for you:

• Why your brain is literally in threat mode before your period, and why small things feel like actual emergencies 
• The serotonin and dopamine piece nobody explains, including why you can't feel satisfied even when he's doing everything right
• How cortisol piles on and why doing more actually makes the second half of your cycle harder, not easier

This episode won't tell you to just "track your cycle and eat more greens". It will give you actual context for what your body is doing - and more importantly, what it's trying to do - so that the next time you're in that phase and you feel like a completely different person, you have some language for it. Not just "sorry, PMS," but a real understanding of why your brain is scanning for danger in a safe marriage.

If you're a husband reading this: this one's for you too. It will help you understand what's happening on a brain and hormone level so you can stop taking it personally (as hard as that is) and start working together on it.

Breakfast Guide
Nourish Tracker - Discount code: HAPPILYHORMONAL
Book a FREE Hormone Strategy Call with me
Grab your Happily Hormonal Quick Start Guide

NEED HELP FIXING YOUR HORMONES?
Hormone Imbalance Quiz - Find out which of the top 3 hormone imbalances affects you most!
Join Nourish Your Hormones Coaching 

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Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast is to be taken as medical advice, please take informed accountability and speak to your provider before making changes to your health routine.

This podcast is for women and moms to learn how to balance hormones naturally in motherhood, to have pain-free periods, increased fertility, to decrease PMS mood swings, and to increase energy without restrictive diet plans. You'll learn how to balance blood sugar, increase progesterone naturally, understand the root cause of estrogen dominance, irregular periods, PCOS, insulin resistance, hormonal acne, post birth-control syndrome, and conceive naturally. We use a pro-metabolic, whole food, root cause approach to functional women's health and focus on truly holistic health and mind-body connection.

If you listen to any of the following shows, we're sure you'll like ours too! 
Pursuit of Wellness with Mari Llewellyn, Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark, Found My Fitness with Rhonda Patrick, Just Ingredients Podcast, Wellness Mama, The Dr Josh Axe Show, Are You Menstrual Podcast, The Model Health Show, Grounded Wellness By Primally Pure, Be Well By Kelly Leveque, The Freely Rooted Podcast with Kori Meloy, Simple Farmhouse Life with Lisa Bass

Have you ever left a doctor’s appointment feeling like something's off, even when told, “everything looks fine”?

That's exactly where my guest, Dr. Amie Hornaman, started. At 22, despite eating clean and working out twice daily, she gained 40 pounds in three months. After seeing six doctors, including two endocrinologists, she was still told she was normal. But no one had properly tested her THYROID. 

So, we went deep into the stuff most doctors overlook:

• Why your thyroid impacts progesterone, which could explain brutal PMS
• The full marker panel you need, including a test to see if your thyroid hormone is even making it into your cells 
• Insights on postpartum, fertility, and what nobody tells you before you try to conceive. Dr. Amie gets personal about why getting your thyroid right before pregnancy is crucial

There are cycle symptoms that can indicate thyroid dysfunction before you ever get a diagnosis. A lot of women spend years cycling through diagnoses, being told their labs are normal, when nobody has run the right tests yet. Normal isn't the goal. Optimal is.

If you've ever felt “something is off” despite normal test results, this episode is the one you send to your doctor.

RESOURCES:

The Thyroid Fix Book
Dr. Amie’s FB Group
Breakfast Guide
Nourish Tracker - Discount code: HAPPILYHORMONAL
Book a FREE Hormone Strategy Call with me
Grab your Happily Hormonal Quick Start Guide

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Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast is to be taken as medical advice, please take informed accountability and speak to your provider before making changes to your health routine.

This podcast is for women and moms to learn how to balance hormones naturally in motherhood, to have pain-free periods, increased fertility, to decrease PMS mood swings, and to increase energy without restrictive diet plans. You'll learn how to balance blood sugar, increase progesterone naturally, understand the root cause of estrogen dominance, irregular periods, PCOS, insulin resistance, hormonal acne, post birth-control syndrome, and conceive naturally. We use a pro-metabolic, whole food, root cause approach to functional women's health and focus on truly holistic health and mind-body connection.

If you listen to any of the following shows, we're sure you'll like ours too! 
Pursuit of Wellness with Mari Llewellyn, Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark, Found My Fitness with Rhonda Patrick, Just Ingredients Podcast, Wellness Mama, The Dr Josh Axe Show, Are You Menstrual Podcast, The Model Health Show, Grounded Wellness By Primally Pure, Be Well By Kelly Leveque, The Freely Rooted Podcast with Kori Meloy, Simple Farmhouse Life with Lisa Bass

Do you ever feel like you have two completely different versions of yourself living in the same body?

Like one half of the month, you’re calm, patient, productive, and enjoying your life.
And then something shifts. Suddenly, you’re overwhelmed, snapping over small things, exhausted by the afternoon, and wondering where you went.

And what makes it even more confusing is - you’re not careless about your health. You eat well, take care of yourself, you’re paying attention… And it still keeps happening.

I wanted to sit down and really talk this through, because this pattern isn’t random, and it’s not you “failing” every month.

In this episode, I get into:

• What’s going on behind the scenes in your brain and body when that shift hits (and why it can feel so intense, so fast)
• How constantly adding more (supplements, routines, pressure...) can quietly pile onto the problem
• The piece most high-functioning women miss: how constant “go mode” and stress start working against your hormones

This is one of those conversations where you might feel a little called out, but also a little relieved. You’ll realize that you’re not doing it wrong. It’s just that your body’s been working hard to keep up with everything you’re asking of it.

Press play; your “week before your period” self might have notes.

Breakfast Guide

Nourish Tracker - Discount code: HAPPILYHORMONAL

Book a FREE Hormone Strategy Call with me

Grab your Happily Hormonal Quick Start Guide

NEED HELP FIXING YOUR HORMONES? CHECK OUT MY RESOURCES:
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Join Nourish Your Hormones Coaching 

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Don’t forget to subscribe, share this episode, and leave a review. Your support helps us reach more women looking for answers.

Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast is to be taken as medical advice, please take informed accountability and speak to your provider before making changes to your health routine.

This podcast is for women and moms to learn how to balance hormones naturally in motherhood, to have pain-free periods, increased fertility, to decrease PMS mood swings, and to increase energy without restrictive diet plans. You'll learn how to balance blood sugar, increase progesterone naturally, understand the root cause of estrogen dominance, irregular periods, PCOS, insulin resistance, hormonal acne, post birth-control syndrome, and conceive naturally. We use a pro-metabolic, whole food, root cause approach to functional women's health and focus on truly holistic health and mind-body connection.

If you listen to any of the following shows, we're sure you'll like ours too! 
Pursuit of Wellness with Mari Llewellyn, Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark, Found My Fitness with Rhonda Patrick, Just Ingredients Podcast, Wellness Mama, The Dr Josh Axe Show, Are You Menstrual Podcast, The Model Health Show, Grounded Wellness By Primally Pure, Be Well By Kelly Leveque, The Freely Rooted Podcast with Kori Meloy, Simple Farmhouse Life with Lisa Bass

Are you doing all the “right” things for your skin, and still breaking out every single month?

You know, like using clean products, improving your diet, maybe even trying some supplements, but somehow your skin doesn’t get the message.

I wanted to bring this one back because it’s one of those older episodes that’s still so relevant, especially if you’ve been stuck in that loop of trying things, seeing a bit of progress, and then ending up right back where you started.

I’m talking with Danielle Gronich (the Acne Guru and founder of Clearstem), and we go way beyond “just use this product.” Because most of the time, it’s not just one thing that’s causing the issue; it’s how all the pieces are (not) working together.

We get into:

• Why some clean skincare products might still be clogging your pores (this one catches a lot of women off guard)
• What those same-time-every-month breakouts can be pointing to in your body
• The gaps that often get missed when you’re doing a lot right, but still not seeing clear skin

This conversation might help you see that you’ve been on the right track, but maybe not in a way that your body needs. So, if you feel like nothing has worked for you so far, give this a listen. And don’t be surprised if you start questioning your bathroom shelf after!

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This podcast is for women and moms to learn how to balance hormones naturally in motherhood, to have pain-free periods, increased fertility, to decrease PMS mood swings, and to increase energy without restrictive diet plans. You'll learn how to balance blood sugar, increase progesterone naturally, understand the root cause of estrogen dominance, irregular periods, PCOS, insulin resistance, hormonal acne, post birth-control syndrome, and conceive naturally. We use a pro-metabolic, whole food, root cause approach to functional women's health and focus on truly holistic health and mind-body connection.

If you listen to any of the following shows, we're sure you'll like ours too! 
Pursuit of Wellness with Mari Llewellyn, Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark, Found My Fitness with Rhonda Patrick, Just Ingredients Podcast, Wellness Mama, The Dr Josh Axe Show, Are You Menstrual Podcast, The Model Health Show, Grounded Wellness By Primally Pure, Be Well By Kelly Leveque, The Freely Rooted Podcast with Kori Meloy, Simple Farmhouse Life with Lisa Bass

If you've been told your hormone labs are normal but you still feel bloated, moody, and exhausted - this episode is for you.

Estrogen dominance is one of the most common hormone disruptions in women, and it's also one of the most misunderstood. Most women have heard the term but don't actually know what's driving it in their body, or why conventional testing keeps missing it entirely.

In this episode, I'll walk you through exactly why estrogen builds up in the body, what's blocking it from leaving, and why creating safety in your body is the long-term key to getting your hormones back in balance.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• What estrogen dominance actually means, and the two ways it can show up in your body
• The difference between making too much estrogen vs. not detoxing estrogen well (and why this matters for how you approach it)
• The three exits estrogen needs to leave your body: liver, gut, and stress hormones
• Why an overburdened liver is often the first place to look 
• The gut-estrogen connection
• How chronic stress shuts down your detox organs by signaling to your body that it's not safe, and why this is the piece most practitioners miss
• Why doing more - more protocols, more supplements, more detoxes - doesn't fix this long term
• Symptoms that may point to estrogen dominance: PMS, mood swings, painful or heavy periods, clotty periods, irregular cycles, breast tenderness, acne, bloating, anxiety, and irregular ovulation

Why your labs keep coming back "normal":

Conventional blood testing gives you one snapshot of one estrogen number on one day of your cycle. It doesn't show how estrogen is being made, broken down, or cleared. The Dutch test looks at estrogen metabolites - the actual pathway estrogen is moving through your body - which is how you find out whether this is a production problem, a detox problem, or both.

Resources mentioned:

Breakfast Guide

Nourish Tracker - Discount code: HAPPILYHORMONAL

Book a FREE Hormone Strategy Call with me

Grab your Happily Hormonal Quick Start Guide

NEED HELP FIXING YOUR HORMONES? CHECK OUT MY RESOURCES:
Hormone Imbalance Quiz - Find out which of the top 3 hormone imbalances affects you most!
Join Nourish Your Hormones Coaching for the step-by-step and my eyes on YOUR hormones for the next 4 months.

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Don’t forget to subscribe, share this episode, and leave a review. Your support helps us reach more women looking for answers.

Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast is to be taken as medical advice, please take informed accountability and speak to your provider before making changes to your health routine.

This podcast is for women and moms to learn how to balance hormones naturally in motherhood, to have pain-free periods, increased fertility, to decrease PMS mood swings, and to increase energy without restrictive diet plans. You'll learn how to balance blood sugar, increase progesterone naturally, understand the root cause of estrogen dominance, irregular periods, PCOS, insulin resistance, hormonal acne, post birth-control syndrome, and conceive naturally. We use a pro-metabolic, whole food, root cause approach to functional women's health and focus on truly holistic health and mind-body connection.

If you listen to any of the following shows, we're sure you'll like ours too! 
Pursuit of Wellness with Mari Llewellyn, Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark, Found My Fitness with Rhonda Patrick, Just Ingredients Podcast, Wellness Mama, The Dr Josh Axe Show, Are You Menstrual Podcast, The Model Health Show, Grounded Wellness By Primally Pure, Be Well By Kelly Leveque, The Freely Rooted Podcast with Kori Meloy, Simple Farmhouse Life with Lisa Bass

Can we talk about that moment right before your period when your boobs hurt so much you don’t even want to move, and then suddenly, they’re fine?

I used to just ignore it. Like, okay, this is just part of PMS, whatever. But once I started paying attention, I realized it’s actually not random at all.

It’s your body giving you a lot of clues about what’s going on with your hormones, your gut, your stress levels, and even how your body is handling everyday life.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• What that super sore → suddenly fine pattern is actually telling you about estrogen vs. progesterone
• The kind of everyday habits that seem harmless, but quietly build up over your cycle
• Why your gut, liver, and even how often you go to the bathroom play a bigger role than you think

There’s something important here that many of you overlook: you're managing symptoms instead of the root issue. And that’s the key difference. Next time, you can either ignore it or take the opportunity to understand it. 

Go listen and see what I mean.

Breakfast Guide

Nourish Tracker - Discount code: HAPPILYHORMONAL

More about progesterone & estrogen: E6, E185, E195

Book a FREE Hormone Strategy Call with me

Grab your Happily Hormonal Quick Start Guide

NEED HELP FIXING YOUR HORMONES? CHECK OUT MY RESOURCES:
Hormone Imbalance Quiz - Find out which of the top 3 hormone imbalances affects you most!
Join Nourish Your Hormones Coaching for the step-by-step and my eyes on YOUR hormones for the next 4 months.

Send us a text with episode feedback or ideas! (We can't respond to texts unless you include contact info but always read them)

Don’t forget to subscribe, share this episode, and leave a review. Your support helps us reach more women looking for answers.

Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast is to be taken as medical advice, please take informed accountability and speak to your provider before making changes to your health routine.

This podcast is for women and moms to learn how to balance hormones naturally in motherhood, to have pain-free periods, increased fertility, to decrease PMS mood swings, and to increase energy without restrictive diet plans. You'll learn how to balance blood sugar, increase progesterone naturally, understand the root cause of estrogen dominance, irregular periods, PCOS, insulin resistance, hormonal acne, post birth-control syndrome, and conceive naturally. We use a pro-metabolic, whole food, root cause approach to functional women's health and focus on truly holistic health and mind-body connection.

If you listen to any of the following shows, we're sure you'll like ours too! 
Pursuit of Wellness with Mari Llewellyn, Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark, Found My Fitness with Rhonda Patrick, Just Ingredients Podcast, Wellness Mama, The Dr Josh Axe Show, Are You Menstrual Podcast, The Model Health Show, Grounded Wellness By Primally Pure, Be Well By Kelly Leveque, The Freely Rooted Podcast with Kori Meloy, Simple Farmhouse Life with Lisa Bass