Hormonal Balance: Eating Right for Your Cycle

Did you know that you could have a powerful effect on your hormonal health through your diet?

What you put into your body greatly affects your hormonal balance. As your hormones shift and change throughout your cycle, you can find ways to support your body’s natural rhythms, optimizing your energy and minimizing the negative effects of hormonal swings like PMS.

Here are some of the key points I’ve learned on my own journey toward hormonal balance and overall well-being. Read More “Hormonal Balance: Eating Right for Your Cycle” >

October 8, 2014October 15, 2014

How to Navigate Fertility with Age: The Facts and Your Many Options

Granted it is hard to distill the truth through a fog of questionable data, and I know at least for me, the feeling of overzealous doctors who wanted to talk about declining fertility since our first PAP exams, as teenagers, can be overwhelming. But here’s the real situation made simple: As women, we’re born with all the eggs we were ever going to have. We aren’t perennial flowers, growing new buds and flowers after each winter. Instead, we’re annuals, and we just get one good flowering with regards to the amount of eggs that we have.

September 26, 2014October 28, 2014

From Our Resident Doula: Charting Your Cycle

Ladies, you may have noticed that you’re special. Your body does incredible things! And, it has its own unique way to promote your individual female health, sexuality, and reproduction. Experiencing changes throughout your lifetime, your body goes through puberty to fertility, pregnancy to menopause, and every month the cycle of menstruation (the build up and release of the lining of your uterus). This indicates another cycle of fertility that has come and gone, but it can also tell us about our bodies.