Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You

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With the Autumn Equinox recently behind us here in the Northern hemisphere, we find ourselves at a powerful time of year to reflect and make decisions that align with our wellbeing. Whether it’s regarding your time, money, energy, or attention, it’s time to do some life pruning and decide where you want to put those resources to get what you want out of your life.

So if you found this episode helpful then you’re going to love Perimenopause Power because there’s a lot of helpful information and strategies in there to really equip you for your perimenopause and post menopause whether you’re already in it or just wanting to be prepared. Writing this book, I have to say has been such a gift to me personally because it’s allowed me to make decisions ahead of time and to start implementing things now so that I’m really just preparing to have a positive experience of perimenopause. And that’s what I want for you too.Understanding Your Menstrual Cycle: How learning to understand your cycle can help you understand your behaviour, and how you can use your cycle to get what you want out of life. To harness your “period power,” you just have to become familiar with the science behind your menstrual cycle, as well as the strengths and challenges that accompany each stage. By learning to go with the flow – quite literally – you’ll be able to access a power you never knew you possessed. That’s why I wrote my book, Period Power, and it’s also why I created a free guide to help you understand and work with your cycle.

So, I’m really thrilled that we’re doing this podcast. And the podcast is for you whether you want to improve cycle-based symptoms, or you want to use your cycle to get what you want out of life. And believe me, I know what it’s like to have menstrual cycle issues that stop you from living your best life or even just getting through the day. I initially rated this 3 stars but have now downgraded it to 2 after I ruminated on it some more over the weekend. This was mainly due to a level of unease that Period Power left me with, as well as a feeling that I didn't really take as much away from it as I'd hoped. Perimenopause on the other hand is the timeframe before you go through menopause when you still experience a cycle but you start to notice a difference with your cycle in terms of length and experience, perhaps your cycle shortens by a few days and your period changes in volume, things like that. New symptoms might emerge or existing symptoms might worsen. And perhaps this might be happening just around the time that you start your period to begin with. And you might be surprised to hear that I plan on taking it when it becomes appropriate for me to. My mum had osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease runs in both family lines. And hormones have a huge influence on conditions like these. So I’m up for taking it in addition to other nutrition and lifestyle measures. I also find that the research that’s been done around brain function and conditions like Alzheimer’s to be very convincing. So I’m up for taking it.

Changing hormones

Then there’s the toll of all the emotional labour and unpaid work that you’re probably doing, the years of people pleasing, of saying yes when you really meant no, of hustling your way through life trying to succeed and achieve, often skipping meals in the process. So this woman read the guidelines and when her GP suggested more blood tests she was able to say, “Look, I think I meet the criteria, this is what the NICE guidelines say.” And because of that she was just referred to a menopause clinic. And I will link to the NICE guidelines in the show notes so that you can read them too and perhaps take them into your appointments if you’re having any discussions with GPs or other healthcare professionals.