Have you ever read a book and you just can’t stop recommending it to people? Maybe even start to feel like everyone is going to think you are paid to recommend it to them? Yeah, that. That’s how I’ve been feeling about Period Repair Manual by Dr. Lara Briden. I bought the book basically the… Read More
The largely overlooked player in your hormonal health
Charting your cycles is such a cool way to get a window into what is happening with your hormones, but it can also be nerve wracking for some people. When I was going through teacher training we were sharing what they “hard” part of charting was for all of us. A lot of people mentioned… Read More
How charting your cycles can help with hormonal imbalance
When I first started charting my cycles I wanted to do it purely, 100%, for the natural birth control method it’d provide me. I didn’t want to be on hormones, didn’t want to keep my IUD, and didn’t have any other alternative that I wanted to use, so charting my cycles it was! While I… Read More
Recipe: Banana Milkshake (no sugar, no fake sugar)
There is nothing like a delicious milkshake to chug down (wait, you don’t chug yours?… ok…). But the problem is when you don’t want to eat tons and tons of milkshake everyday because of the amount of refined sugar in there. There are good things about milkshakes, too: good fats (in fact, studies have shown… Read More
How important is it to use natural products for your hormonal health?
I’m actually forcing myself to sit here and write this right now because I want to do a few things. Make some sugar wax because, though I’m quite fond of most body hair, I am not fond of my leg hair and I want it gone (For some reason the color and sparseness of my… Read More
How to get rid of acne after using hormonal birth control
Acne is decidedly common. And decidedly obnoxious. Obviously, you don’t care about it on other people. It’s when it decides to grace your face (or anywhere else) that you have the problem. And it can feel like a huge problem when you are getting acne when you are coming off hormonal birth control, or when… Read More
Does hormonal birth control (like the pill) affect your sex drive?
You may have heard that using hormonal birth control can change (*ahem* lower) your sex drive as a passing joke, your friend saying: “Yeah, that worked for me as birth control because I never wanted to have sex!”, but is it more truth or fiction? Your hormones certainly play a role in your sex drive… Read More
Natural Endometriosis Relief: An interview with Melissa Turner
Endometriosis is… Sh*tty, terrible, awful stuff. If you don’t know much about it, it is basically the growth of uterine lining in places that it should not grow. This tissue is still hormonally sensitive and it goes through the changes your uterine lining goes through monthly, including swelling and “bleeding.” The estimite is that about… Read More
Book Review: Fertility Cycles and Nutrition
As I’ve mentioned before, I used to be (and still am in a lot of respects) a nutrition geek. I got my degree in nutrition and spent a lot of time doing different “diets” (of course I never considered it a diet, it was a lifestyle change, you know). I have some different new… Read More
Don’t neglect yourself
Do you ever feel bad about taking care of yourself? For you it may be taking that extra time you need to do your thing. Spending extra money on healthy food or some kind of program or service you need. Not associating with people who aren’t good for you anymore. Etc., etc. Why is… Read More