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It’s not just the physical health consequences that concern me for women. It’s that they live their lives so out of touch with their beautiful hearts, out of touch with how extraordinary they are and in the cloud of false belief that they aren’t enough. I’ve noticed a shift in women’s health and behaviour over the past 16 years. Never before in my work have I witnessed so many females in a rush to do everything. Tobe all things to all people. Never before have I seen as many reproductive system and sex hormone challenges as I see now. These days women are often in a permanent state of stress – juggling their family, career, finances as well as a chaotic lifestyle. There are biochemical consequences to this constant rush – resulting in imbalanced hormones, HPA axis dysfunction, sluggish thyroid glands and so on. We rush around and do all we can to make sure that others love and appreciate us, so that we never ever have to feel rejected, ostracised, unlovable, criticised, yelled at, or like we've let others down.
Dr Libby Weaver explains Rushing Womans Syndrome. - Mamamia
It’s all for you, that life happens for you. It’s not happening to you. So even the big tough stuff that can unfold all of it for you. Park the fertility aspect of what I’ve just said and consider the additional biological impacts of this: we make too little of a hormone that helps us not feel anxious, not have a depressed mood and allows us to efficiently mobilise fluid. If a woman retains fluid, she usually feels “puffy and swollen” and this discomfort can impact the food choices she makes for the rest of the day, the way she speaks to the people she loves the most in the world and intimacy can fly out the window. That’s just the first half of the cycle!
A Rushing Woman Should Look At Their Perception Of Urgency
So why do we do it? One reason is because we care so much for the people in our lives. On one level this way of living comes from such a beautiful place. It happens because we have beautiful hearts, but even deeper than that it happens because we made up a story a really long time ago that we aren’t enough the way we are; that we aren’t good enough, tall enough, slim enough, pretty enough, brainy enough, on time enough, that we’re just not enough the way that we are, so we spend our lives trying to please everyone in our realm, putting their needs ahead of our own. We rush around and do all we can to make sure that others love and appreciate us so that we never, ever have to feel rejected, ostracised, unlovable, criticised, yelled at, and like we’ve let others down. Estrogen and progesterone are two of a woman’s sex (steroid) hormones and their ratio to one another has the potential to make us happy or sad, vivacious or anxious, pimply or clear skinned, and our clothes looser or tighter. Big roles for two little hormones!
Overcoming Rushing Woman’s Syndrome – Dr Libby
For the first half of the cycle, we make a small amount of progesterone from our adrenals glands, walnut sized-glands that sit on top of our kidneys. Progesterone’s job reproductively is to hold the lining of the uterus in place, yet it performs a host of other biological functions aside from those involved in reproduction. One of the hormones driving this is adrenalin, which communicates to every cell in the body that your life is in danger. As I described in my TEDx talk science suggests humans have been on the planet for between 100,00 and 150,000 years and for the entirety of that history, that’s what adrenalin has meant to the body. The nervous system doesn’t know that the adrenalin amping you up is not from a physical threat to your life but rather your body’s response to the caffeine you drink and/or your perception of pressure. Women get to blame rushing women's syndrome or PTSD or some other hormonal or psychological problem. Men get to shut up and tolerate it or else pay for the divorce and see their life's work get carved up so their ex-wives can "find" themselves in a two bedroom apartment, take trips to Bali with their girlfriends and go in with dates with men they meet on Tinder then complain all the men want of a single mother is sex. The way we speak to ourselves is of vital importance. Is the voice in your head a critic that is always telling you that you should have/could have done more; that what you did was not good enough; that you are failing? It’s possible to change that voice from a critic to a cheerleader that congratulates you on another job well done, praises you for being good enough and encourages you to take time for yourself. Get Support I’ll try and redeem myself later. To the caffeine or sorry, the adrenaline will be there because of caffeine or because of perceptions of pressure and urgency, because we might be subconsciously worrying about what someone else thinks of us. There’s, there’s lots of reasons but essentially, it’s psychological stress. It’s not a physical threat. But when that hypothalamus looks into the blood, sees the adrenaline and says, Am I safe? The answer’s no, because adrenaline has always meant danger. So then it communicates to the pituitary gland at the base of the brain, we’re not safe, and she’s the one who then says to the adrenal glands to the thyroid gland, to the ovaries, were not safe, you guys need to now make the appropriate hormones for danger. And the trouble is, if we did well, if we if we only did that for say, three hours a week would handle it. But the way we now live is that for most women, they have constantly circulating elevated levels of adrenaline. It’s constant it’s all the time. So we are our bodies are always getting the message that our life is in danger. And that’s a big part of what I want women to understand. We’re so capable, but we have to learn ways to communicate to our body the truth, which is that we are thankfully relatively safe.This episode will teach you to control your thoughts, lower your stress, and eliminate your anxiety. Dr. Libby will change the way that you look at hormones forever. One of the hormones driving this is adrenalin, which communicates to every cell in the body that your life is in danger. As I described in my TEDx talk, science suggests humans have been on the planet for between 100,000 and 150,000 years. For the entirety of that history "life or death situation" iswhat adrenalin has meant to the body. Yeah, and it’s just repetition. So it’s, it’s listening to yourself, not and just catching that moment. And if you do that over and over and over again, eventually you create a new brain. Yeah. And you go ahead. No, you go. Each time you stop that. So if I’m running the tape of Mrs. Smith, cortisol is going through my body. And I’m and I’m in maybe I call it the rabbit hole. Where do you go? Well, if this is going to go on, then this is going to go out. And then this is going to go on and you start down like 10 thought patterns that have nothing to do with whatever happened in the situation. So as long as you’re running, running that old brain and you’re in that old stress pattern, you’ve got cortisol going up, and when cortisol is going up, progesterone is going down. And so now if you want to stop cortisol immediately, you can stop it by asking a different question and evaluating where that initial thought came from. Is that correct?
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