Align, Don’t Grind: The Power of Cycle Syncing for Women | Functional Practitioner Hope Pedraza - Generational Tea

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Well, thank you for joining us.
We are so excited to talk tosomeone that understands cycles
and how to sync'em, because Ifeel like I've seen that
increasingly on social medianowadays, but I've never taken
the time to like really dig inand understand it.
So now we're gonna talk to aprofessional.
Mm-hmm.
Which is exciting.
Yes.
Well, yeah.

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Welcome everybody to theGenerational Tea Podcast.
Ronnie's filming from her car'cause she had to get her hair
done.
But I am Cana and welcomeeverybody.
And I'm Ronnie, and we're soglad you guys tuned in.
We got a great show for youtoday.
Woohoo.
Heck yeah.
On that note, we're gonnawelcome our guest, so Hope
welcome.
She is going to talk to us aboutunderstanding and sinking our

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menstrual cycle today.
I.
So to get us started, do youjust wanna share with the
listeners a little bit aboutyourself so that they know your
background and your expertise onthese things?
Yeah, for sure.
So I am a functional diagnosticnutrition practitioner, and I
know it's a mouthful, butessentially it means I use
functional labs to help peopleget to the root cause of chronic

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symptoms.
And as a functionalpractitioner, I use multiple
modalities'cause I'm also.
Certified in a lot of otherthings to help.
I use human design.
I use NLP, I use hypnosis.
I use subconsciousreprogramming.
And so when we're, you know,quote, getting to the root
cause, this is like mm-hmm.
Physical, emotional, mental,spiritual.
So we're putting the wholeequation together.

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So that's what I do on that.
And I have my online business.
As a functional practitioner.
I work with people all over thecountry, all over the world,
which is awesome.
And then I also have a brick andmortar pilates and fitness
studio that I've had this yearis my 14 year anniversary of
that.
So I've had that for a while.
Nice.
And yeah, so I I am blessed tobe able to have kind of the best

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of both worlds, having the brickand mortar and the online
business, but with the cyclesinking part, this is a part
that I started tying into a lotof my work with clients a few
years ago, and just recognizingthat.
Women.
I mean, honestly, women justdon't understand their cycles.
Like we just don't understandhow our bodies work and we
weren't given a manual.
Yeah.
We were not given good educationon any of this, or if, if any,

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at all.
And so, you know, recognizingthat women are, you know, I work
with a lot of high performingwomen, a lot of women who, you
know, they're career driven orthey're goal oriented, or
they're entrepreneurs or womenin business and they're, they're
doing a lot, you know, they're,they're doing the mom thing, the
relationship thing, the businessthing, the career thing, all the
things and.
They're doing it in a way that'sdraining their body or running

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them into the ground.
It's like, okay, well you don'tunderstand how your hormones
work, so there's that.
You're not understanding howyour energy works.
There's that, there's all thesepieces where we're fighting
against each other, trying to,you know, build the mission and
the dream and all that.
And, and if we just put thesepieces together, we could do
this in a sustainable way thatdoesn't require us to sacrifice
our bodies and our minds and theprocess.

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Alright, well you, you got medefinitely interested now.
Yeah, I've seen or heard thatlike men operate on like a 24
hour hormone cycle, whereaswomen, it's a monthly thing and
that's why we have all thedifferent phases that are so key
to understand.
Is that true?
Yeah, it's totally true and Ithink that's really another big
reason why so many women dealwith things like burnout and

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just, even if it's not burn, I.
I hesitate using that wordburnout.
I feel like it's such a likecatchphrase now, and it's
overused and it's kind.
I think we're all like mm-hmm.
Dumb to the word now, like, ohyeah, we're all burned out.
Which, I mean, we are, but Ithink that just'cause we're
like, now we're just allsurviving in it.
So it's like, okay, whatever.
I'm still, you know, I'm stillalive and I can still function.
But the fact is that yes, men dorun on a 24 hour hormonal cycle

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and men or women run on a 28 dayhormonal cycle, which is why so
many women deal with.
Chronic issues, even if it's notquote unquote burnout.
It's, you know, it's hormonalissues, it's reproductive
issues, it's period issues, it'sthyroid issues, and there's so
many things that women dealwith.
And I really feel like so muchof it stems from this piece of
not understanding how ourhormones work throughout the

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month.
And, you know, if we look at theway our system is set up, it,
it's set up for a man's body.
I mean, a man can go to bed andwake up the next day and do the
exact same thing he didyesterday, the next day, and the
next day, the next day.
Women's bodies don't work likethat.
So we're trying to operate inthe same way as a man, and we're
wondering why we're tired allthe time, or we have brain fog,
or we have migraines, or wehave, you know, all these things

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are happening to our bodies.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well now that we have a greatunderstanding of why we need to
learn, uh, and listen towhatever you have to say, let's
just talk a little bit about youfirst as well.
So like, you kind of gave us anintroduction to, you've worn a
lot of hats, so like a Pilatesstudio founder, nutrition coach,
functional practitioner.

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So can you walk us through likeway back when the journey that
led you to do all of thesethings and why you're so
interested in it?
Yeah, for sure.
so with my brick and mortarbusiness that came from my love
of dance and my background indance.
Mm-hmm.
I was a dancer for 20 plusyears, and so that led me into
this, this love of movement andwanting to bring that to the
masses.

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When I opened my Pilate studio,I wanted to create this one stop
shop where everybody could comein and get whatever they want.
I mean, we have the Pilates, wehave the HIIT stuff, we have the
mindfulness.
I, um, at, at the time I justdid just a basic nutrition
coaching certification, so Icould give just.
Basic nutrition coaching.
Mm-hmm.
And when I started working withwomen, it was mostly women at
the time.
I was recognizing that, youknow, they were coming to me

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'cause they're like, oh, I wannadrop 10 pounds or 15 pounds, or
I wanna, you know, I wanna toneup or whatever, which is fine.
There's nothing wrong with thosegoals.
But when I'm having conversationwith these women, I'm seeing
that.
What's actually going on intheir bodies requires deeper
conversations than talking aboutcalories and macros.
Like there are deep hormonalthings going on.
There's gut things going on,there's thyroid, like there's
all these things.

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So that led me down the path of,becoming a functional
practitioner, really being ableto go deeper with clients.
And at the same time, I thinkkind of parallel to that in my
own journey was also my ownjourney with my own health.
I, I grew up with a lot of gutissues, which.
Eventually was diagnosed as IBS,which is basically doctor speak
for like, we don't know.
Your stomach's messed up and wedon't really know what to do

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about it.
And so that kinda set me on myown path to figuring out, you
know, how to heal my own gut andhow to heal that part of me.
And then now, it's obvious to menow that these things are very
related, but I also, I was verytype a perfectionist and had
disordered eating behavior foryears.
Which was a hundred percent whyI had IBS.
So we can see it now.
But so that was another thing.

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So there's like these multiplefacets of me on my own healing
journey that also led me downthe path as a functional
practitioner.
I think especially bringing inthose other pieces of being able
to do like the energetic and thespiritual and the mental work.
'cause that was a huge part ofmy healing and kind of putting
all those pieces together forthe people that I work with.
Yeah.
That's really cool.
I like how what you do has somany different layers of

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healing.
It's not just like physical ormental.
It's everything coming together,which I do think is really
important.
'cause our bodies are designedto work in tandem.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I, I, I remember youtelling us a little bit about
just sharing like yourexperience with IBS, or I think
I was watching some of yourInstagram videos or something on
it.
And that's really interesting.
I feel like that happens a lotnowadays where you're seeking

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answers in traditional Westernmedicine is like, sometimes they
just really can't becausethey're only looking at the
physical side of things insteadof, of the whole picture.
Mm-hmm.
So yeah, that's why I think it'sso fantastic about what you're
doing and, just really helpingwomen to understand how layered
and multifaceted their bodiesand.
Everything is is fantastic.
So I'm excited to learn a littlebit more.

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For cycles sinking, let's diginto it.
So for listeners that areunfamiliar, maybe haven't heard
of this before.
What exactly is cycle sinking?
And I know you talked a littlebit about why it's important for
us to understand it, butanything else you wanna share on
that as well?
Yeah, so cycle sinking is justwhat it sounds like.
It's literally sinking to yourcycle, sinking to your hormonal
cycle.
And because like we just talkedabout, you run on a 28 day

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hormonal cycle, give or take.
Not everybody's exactly too manydays, but give or take, your
hormones are changing andfluctuating throughout the
month.
Your energy is changing andfluctuating throughout the
month.
And so it's really learning.
What that looks like for you,how that affects youth
throughout the month, yourenergy, your mental capacity,
your physical capacity, and thenknowing that and using that in

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your everyday life.
In my case, you know, I workwith a lot of entrepreneurs, so
it's using it in their businessor their careers to be able to
optimize their energy.
For me, it's all, the cyclesinking is all about working
smarter, not harder.
That's, that's the goal.
Yeah.
Okay.
I love that.
I feel like I'm very much aroutine person.
Like I like to try and get aroutine stick to the whole, same
thing, but I find itunsustainable.

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Like unsustainable because Ilike notice like, yeah, some
weeks I just feel like absolutegarbage.
Mm-hmm.
Or I need more sleep, or I needdifferent foods.
And so yeah.
I'm excited to learn like whatI'm doing wrong.
Yeah.
And how I can maybe adjust myroutine.
Yeah.
To work with my body, notagainst it.
For sure.
That's it.
That's exactly it.
So can you walk us through thefour phases of the menstrual
cycle?
Mm-hmm.
And how that affects our energy,mood, physical health, anything

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else?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So the way I like to explain it,and I didn't come up with this,
I'm not taking credit for this,but the way I like to explain it
to my clients is looking at itthrough the seasons.
I think it gives us a goodvisual to be able to understand
like what's going on, on withthe four seasons of, the seasons
themselves and looking at theseasons of your cycle.
So if we start with the firstseason, and, and I, you know,
it's funny to me, when I'veworked, I've worked with so many

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women.
That a lot of, and, and there'sno shame, no, no shade, no hate
on this, but a lot of men don'teven know when their first day
of their cycle is.
So if you're listening and youdon't know what the first day of
your cycle is, it's your firstday of menstruation.
So now, you know, so that wouldbe first day of winter.
So if you think about winter,right?
So your menstruation phase is,it's when you're bleeding, it's
when you have your actual cycle,your period, you're bleeding.

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This is winter.
So think about winter.
Winter is when.
Things are resting, things go,they, they die so that they can
grow again and be born again.
That that's it.
Because literally you'reshedding parts of you, right?
That's what's happening.
Mm-hmm.
And I think we all at least knowthat part, that's, we're
shedding your uterine lining.
So there's a part of us that'sessentially dying away, So
during winter, your body needsmore rest, your mind needs more

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rest.
So this is the time where you dowanna give yourself compassion
and grace and space to rest.
The other piece that I loveabout this part of the cycle is
because, the two hemispheres ofyour brain are synced together.
They're, they're talking to eachother more closely during this
part of your face.
So this is a really great timeto get intuitive and kind of go

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inward and do a, uh, maybe dosome deep work.
So I always encourage myclients, you know, maybe this is
the time when you're going deepinto meditation and you're
really reflecting andcontemplating on, you know, next
steps in life or next steps inbusiness or whatever it is, but
taking that time to go inward,and this is the time where you
can get those intuitive hits,those intuitive downloads,
because our intuition is sostrong during this phase of our
cycle, and there's this story.

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From, Eastern religion andEastern, tradition that the
reason that so many women, orwomen, not so many, but all
women, women, weren't allowed inthe temple.
When they were bleeding.
And a lot of people think it wasbecause of this, men feared how
much knowledge and how muchintuition women had during this
phase of their cycle.
And so they weren't allowed togo into the temple because they
were so intuitive.
And it's like, God speaking toyou at this time, you can't come

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in here.
So anyway, I love that story.
I love to share that with women.
Wow.
But I think we can really usethat as our superpower.
And so taking time to, toreflect and rest.
Maybe if you set goals, I mean,this is a good time for thinking
about, you know, goal settingand what you wanna do next.
So that's winter phase.
When we go into the next phase,so the first half of your cycle
is the follicular phase.

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So we go into the latefollicular phase that this,
after you've finished bleeding,you're moving towards,
ovulation.
So we're not quite there yet.
We're moving towards it so thatafter comes winter comes spring,
right?
So when spring is wheneverything starts growing and
flourishing, and that's kind ofwhat's happening in your body.
So we think about what'shappening during menstruation.
Your, your hormones areessentially at their lowest.

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Which is why we're, you know, wedon't feel so great.
A lot of times we feellethargic.
Mm-hmm.
We feel kind of blah.
We might feel bloated.
We might feel like we feel a lotof things.
Our hormones are at their.
Lowest.
So now our hormones are gonnastart coming up.
So we kind of feel our energystart to lift.
We kind of feel our creativebrain come back on board.
I always tell my clients too,your menstruation part of your

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cycle.
This is not the time to try tobe creative like your creative
brain is.
Like, for me, it's like astatic, it's like static or fog
covering your creative part ofbrain.
Like it's not time to get cuteand creative.
Like hold that, hold that off.
Like we can get cute andcreative later.
So during spring is when thatpart kind of comes back online.
So now you feel your energystart to kind of rejuvenate.
Maybe you feel more energized todo some high higher intensity

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workouts and you have moreenergy to actually just work out
in general.
Right.
Move your body and, and get upand do things.
Mm-hmm.
Your creative brains coming backon.
So now we can kind of startacting on things.
Maybe we.
Set out as goals in our, in ourmenstrual phase and in the, in
the winter phase from spring wego to summer, and summer is
ovulation.
Now summer ovulation is whenhormones are at their peak.

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Now, technically ovulation isjust a one day thing, right?
This is scientifically, it's aone day thing, but we're gonna
feel the effects of that, thosepeak hormones, you know, for a
few days before and after.
So you're gonna feel that peaknow during ovulation.
Your hormones are at theirhighest.
You're gonna feel your best.
You're gonna feel energized,you're gonna feel, um, social,

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you might feel really confident.
This is the time I tell my gun.
It's like social activities,social events, networking, like
putting yourself out there,getting on camera.
And that's, for me, in mybusiness, I do not schedule, I
don't have calls.
I don't do interviews during mymenstrual phase ever.
Like that's the time I, I knowwhen it is, but I know my cycle
to a t.
The, the time to do it is whenyou're spring and summer, like,

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I'm feeling good, I'm feelingenergized.
I'll get on camera, I can beright.
So that's the time to, to, to dothose kind of things.
You're feeling good now.
Okay.
When you get through yourfollicular phase, we're now
gonna go to your luteal phase,right?
And that's kind of basically thesecond half.
Now the first part of yourluteal phase, your estrogen's
gonna drop and yourprogesterone's gonna go up

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before it crashes back downagain when you get back to your
menstrual phase.
So your hormones are gonna kindof come back down on on the
down.
They're gonna come on the waydown, go, heading towards
menstrual.
So if you think about fall, wethink about fall is kind of
this, uh, like things arestarting to settle down.
We think about fall, like theleaves are falling off, right?
So things are not dying away,but they're slowing down.
So the luteal phases for that.

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Now, during your luteal phase,because your hormones are in a
particular place where yourprogesterone, your estrogen are
doing certain things, this isthe time of the month.
I tell my clients.
Your BS meter is at its highestbecause this is the time that,
and y'all know what I'm talkingabout.
Y'all know what I'm talkingabout.
A couple of my clients, one ofmy clients a couple weeks ago,
she was like, I turn into araging bitch.
I'm like, that, that's, that'sthe, that's your BS meter coming

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out strong.
It's just, it's just there.
So, because our hormones are ina particular place.
We are very attuned to what wedo and don't like during this
part of our cycle, but I alsothink that we can use this to
our advantage and use this againas a superpower.
And because it is a time to, toreally think about what is
serving me and what is not.

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Like, this is a great time tohave those conversations with
yourself.
And so whether it's in yourhouse, in your living space, in
your environment, whether it'sin your business, your career,
relationships, like this is thetime to think about those
things.
The other thing with lutealphase is your creative brain.
I'm not gonna say it's gonna gototally offline, but because in
this part of your cycle, it,it's kind of like checking

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things off the to-do list.
So for me, all my admin thingsand all like the not fun things
that I don't wanna waste mycreative brain on, this is what
you do during your luteal phase.
So for me it's like.
The admin stuff, like thespreadsheets and the QuickBooks
things, like, I hate doing thatstuff, but I know it doesn't
require a whole lot of creativebrain power and it requires like
staying power.
Like that's what your lutealphase is about.

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So it's like admin things, tasksyou can check off your to-do
list, your cleaning out yourclosets type stuff.
Like that's the stuff that yourluteal phase is four, and then
we go back into winter and backinto your menstrual phase.
So.
I think thinking about the FourSeasons and tying that into your
cycle, I really feel like that'sthe best visual for you to
remember.
And I think, I wanna say thistoo, I think the, the biggest

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thing to get all of this startedis to really understand your
body.
That's the first thing.
'cause if you don't know what,what's happening in your body,
then it's gonna be hard for youto be able to track these types
of things.
So I think the first step isgonna be, mm-hmm.
Well, let's see how long,'causemaybe your cycle is 29 days or
you know, 26 days, right?
Like understanding when yourcycle is, check tracking, like,
you know, when are youovulating, how long is your

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menstrual phase?
'cause some people have ashorter or longer menstrual
phase of their cycle.
So the, the big thing gettingstarted with this is really
understanding your specificcycle.
Okay.
Wow.
First of all, I love the visualof like the seasons.
'cause I.
That is like very easy toremember.
I feel like it's, it's in mybrain now.
It's not leaving.
And second of all, I feel likeyou just explained like the key
to life.

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This is it.
This is all you need to know.
This is all you need and you'regood.
But I mean, really this, this isamazing'cause I feel like women
and including myself, and it'salmost just like a staple of
being women is being hard onourselves for not being able to
do everything a man can.
When like in reality we'redealing with all these other
complex things that arehappening in our body that are
making us feel a certain wayand.

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The idea of like givingcompassion to yourself, like
when you're going through thewinter phase, because I think I
tend to not do that a hundredpercent.
Most people.
Yeah.
So many.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's so, yeah, that's, it's big.
I think that's such a big piece,and I know that was a big piece
for me because I, I know,because here's the other thing.
We grow up, and at least inwestern society, like dreading,

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hating our period.
Yeah.
And it's such a shameful thing.
There's a lot of shame aroundthis too, which it's, for me, is
bonkers.
'cause literally every woman onthe face of the planet has one.
Like, why are we embarrassedabout it?
It's like, I don't know why wemake such a big deal about it.
Mm-hmm.
So there's so much shameattached to it.
And so yeah.
So we end up dreading it orhating it.

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And so we don't know how to useit to our advantage like we're
talking about here.
And I think that's the thing isit's we, well, no, I'm just
gonna push through.
Like that's the mindset we have.
Well, I know I feel like trashand I don't wanna, do anything,
but I'm gonna force myself to doit.
And this is how we end up with,you know, chronic symptoms
really, because it's like, well,I've just pushed through.
Mm-hmm.
But no, you're not designed topush through.
You're not supposed to pushthrough, like this is your rest

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season.
And it's the thing, if you thinkabout it in the big scheme of
things.
Your period's not that long.
It's only really a few daysreally, that you feel, yeah.
Like, you know, so in the grandscheme of things, it's really
not that big of a deal.
But if we use that, like I wastalking about, we use it to
like, okay, let's go inward andlet's, you know, reflect and
let's contemplate like you'resetting yourself up for the rest

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of the month to use that in sucha powerful way.
And so it's not just like, well,I'm sitting here laying on my
couch with my heating pad,feeling like trash and not doing
anything.
Like I can still use the time.
To be, I don't wanna sayproductive.
'cause it makes you, it makes itsound like you have to be
productive, but I'm using thetime in a Yeah.
In um, like an empowered way.
A different kind ofproductivity.

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Yeah, yeah.
Right, right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That intuition piece that you'retalking about was really
interesting to me.
'cause I mean, we do a lot oflike self-growth topics on this
podcast and understanding thatat some points in your cycle
you're gonna be more equipped todo that kind of thinking, right?
Mm-hmm.
That piece is really interestingto me'cause I do feel like that
way, like.
I struggle to like journal andlike do therapy or whatever

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during certain mm-hmm.
It feels random to me, butyou're explaining to me that
it's not, it's not.
That's it.
That's exactly it.
Yeah.
Yeah, because that's the thing.
If you think about like duringyour, you know, late follicular
phase towards ovulation, I.
Sitting still and going reallydeep into meditation might feel
like, blah.
Like, I don't wanna sit still, Idon't wanna do this.
So it, it's totally, there's arhyme and reason to it.
And so I encourage my clients,okay, if maybe,'cause like I've

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had a lot of clients who arelike, oh, I don't like
journaling.
Well, how about you just tryjournaling just for the few days
of your cycle?
Like, let's just try that andsee what comes up.
And it's such a powerful shiftand understanding like, okay,
there's these different toolsthat I can use in different
parts of my cycle that aregonna, you know, benefit me the
most.
Yeah, for sure.
So next question, what are somesigns that a woman might not be

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in sync with her cycle orutilizing it to the best that
she can, or that just that herhormones are out of balance?
Hmm.
Yeah, this is, it's a trickyquestion because it could
literally be anything, and Ithink that's why, yeah, so many
women deal with symptoms for solong because they can be similar
symptoms as 28,000 other things.

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They can be symptoms that aren'tnecessarily serious enough to
warrant a quote diagnosis andfrom Western medical standards.
So they're often brushed offand, or'cause, like I said
before, a lot of times like,well, I'm still Functioning
human being.
It doesn't mean I'm completelynot functional just because I
have, you know, headaches,whatever.
I think the biggest ones forhormones is brain fog and

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energy.
I think those are the biggesttwo.
Now that, I'm not saying thatthat's not an extensive list,
obviously, but I think those arethe most common.
Mm-hmm.
And then with that, it could be,it could be headaches, it could
be joint pain, it could bepainful periods, it could be
missing periods or irregularperiods.
It could be, anxiety,depression.
Trouble concentrating.
I've had clients before whothought they had a DHD.
It was just their hormones.

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It wasn't a DHD.
It could be, food sensitivities.
Like, there's so many things,there's so many symptoms that
could be, but like I said, Ithink the most common, or
probably the brain fog and theenergy, and when I say energy,
it's like lack of energy.
It could be like energy crashesthroughout the day.
It could be.
You wake up and you feel likeyou're not rested like you, even

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though you slept, you don't feelrested.
It could be just feeling likelow energy the whole day.
Just energy, physical energy,just kind of all over the place.
Okay.
So as it kind of pertains tothis question, you're right.
It's probably hard to reallydetermine the, the signs and
symptoms and how it relates tothat issue specifically.
So maybe it's more of somethingwhere you really have to like,
give it a try and kind ofevaluate how you're feeling to

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realize like, oh, that symptomwas maybe because I wasn't in
sync with my cycle.
Yeah, yeah.
And stuff like that.
Yeah.
So I'm interested,'cause yousaid like mental health can be
an aspect of that too.
Mm-hmm.
And a sign that maybe you're notin, in touch with your body or
your hormones are outta whack.
And I do feel like I've, I'vestruggled with mental health
issues over the course of mylife and.
A lot of times I've felt likeI'm doing everything right, like

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I'm going to therapy, I'm doingX, Y, and Z, and I'm still like,
at the end of the day, I stillhave these issues.
And I know it's not that simplelike, you go to therapy, you're
healed.
But I am really curious toreally give the cycle, sinking a
try and see how that affects mymental health issues.
Yeah, maybe that is somethingthat's contributing to it.
Totally.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
And like you said, I don't thinkit's ever gonna be like a one

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trick thing that fixes it all,but I think it's definitely a
tool to help regulate.
Things in your body mm-hmm.
That could a hundred percentplay a part in that.
'cause that's the other thing,I, I, I've worked with a lot of
women with anxiety, and it'sanxiety.
I know there's like a spectrum,just like depression.
There's a spectrum.
Some are like clinical anxietywhere they're on medication,

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like clinically diagnosed.
Some of it is just like, I just,I feel anxious.
I get, you know, anxietyattacks, I feel anxious.
So it's been kind of across the,the spectrum and, mm-hmm.
It's so often.
I mean like, and yes, there'slike multi-layers here as I, I
don't wanna say it's justhormones.
'cause here, here's the otherthing with hormones, hormones
are just chemical messengers inthe body.
Hormones are just telling uswhat's going on.

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Hormones are never the rootcause.
They're, they're just not.
Mm-hmm.
And so I have women who come tome that are just like, ah, my
hormones are all over.
Good place.
Like, fix my hormones.
And that's fine.
Like, I'd love to fix yourhormones, but I'm not gonna
directly address your hormones'cause your hormones aren't the
problem.
Like, there's other things thatdeeper that are happening with.
Your gut and your minerals andyour nervous system and a bunch
of other things.
This is probably like a wholeother conversation, but I do

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think that just this piecealone, again, it's just another
tool in your toolbox to helpstart to regulate your body.
So at least your body isstarting to run in a way that
it's designed to, right?
As a woman, it's running in away.
Your energy is operating a waythat it's designed to, rather
than pushing and forcing things.
You know, 24 7, 365.

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Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah, I love that.
So is the work you do, is italways focused around cycle
sinking first and then you moveon to like other issues once you
kind of are at that thresholdwhere you're working with your
body and then if you're stillhaving other issues, you can
work through like the otheremotional, physical, spiritual
means to improve?
I mean, how does that work withyour business in particular?

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Yeah, so, so no cycle thinkingis never where I start.
Cycle singing is just kind ofanother.
Kind of like we were justtalking about, kind of another
tool that I give my clients tohelp them with.
Everything else where I usuallystart minerals are where I
usually, I wanna say 99% of thetime is where I start minerals.
And I talk about minerals a lot.
Like on my podcast, on my socialmedia, all that.

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Minerals are really at thefoundation of everything.
So minerals are where I startand I, I really believe that so
many of the hormonal issues thatwomen deal with are because of
mineral imbalances or mineraldepletions are just.
Yeah, just overall and balanceswith minerals.
Minerals are the spark plugs inthe body, so everything that's
happening in the body mineralsare involved, whether they're
the catalyst for that or thecofactor.

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But every hormone, every enzyme,every neurotransmitter, like
everything in the body, itstarts with minerals.
So for me, that's the startingpoint and mm-hmm.
The cycle sinking is just a toolwe use along the way throughout
everything we're doing.
So we're addressing minerals.
Mm-hmm.
We're addressing.
The gut.
We're dress, you know, all thephysical things we're doing the
emotional work, we're doing thespiritual work.

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We're looking at all the, butthe, the cycle singing is just a
tool to use along the way with,with all of that.
Gotcha.
Okay.
I gotta have a betterunderstanding now.
Next question.
What are some common mistakeswomen make when it comes to
cycle sinking or understandingtheir cycle, especially as
they're probably first gettinginto it?
Mm-hmm.
I think going back to what Isaid before, understanding your
specific cycle, I think that'sthe first thing because they

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just assume that my cycle's 28days'cause that's, you know,
standard.
So it's like, oh, I just assumeit is, but, but then it's not,
and so if your cycle's 25 daysor I've even had clients where
their cycle's like 31, 32 days,like that's actually going to
affect things prettysubstantially.
Mm-hmm.
And so I think that's probablythe first thing is just not
understanding.

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Their cycle specifically andtracking, you know, I started on
this day, I started my period onthis day and it lasted this
long.
And then I know this part of themy I ovulated on this day.
So just tracking andunderstanding that part.
Um, and, and I do wanna say thistoo, as just like a, a side note
for those listening who eitheryou don't have a period, like if
you're on some sort of birthcontrol or something, if you're

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menopausal or postmenopausal,you can still, you can still
cycle sync.
You just and know, and I knowfor a lot, this sounds very woo.
But you can cycle sink to themoon.
The moon, it goes on a 28 daycycle and the moon is the
feminine energy and theuniverse.
And that's the whole, that's thewhole point.
That's the whole reason.
And so you can still cycle tothe moon.
And so it's the, the full moon,you know, going to the new moon

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as the winter, the full moon asthe summer and going in between
so you can still cycle, sink tothe, to the moon and, and keep
your 28 day cycle.
But anyway, I wanted to say thisa side note, but going back to
your original question.
Yeah.
I think the biggest thing is.
Not understanding your cyclefully.
And I would say probably, like,Expecting too much of yourself

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during the times where we needto give ourselves that grace and
compass, like we were talkingabout the menstrual cycle.
I feel like there's a lot of, Iguess judgment is the word
that's, there's a lot of like,judgment around that.
Mm-hmm.
You're judging yourself like,oh, I can, I just get it
together and, you know, do mything and do these things that I
wanna do.
Right.
And oh, oh, the other thing, Ido wanna say this too, the other
thing I find my clients, and Ialways have a laugh on this, so

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during your ovulation phase, orlike spring summer, we talked
about like late follicular intoovulation.
Right.
You're feeling energized, you'refeeling social.
You're feeling like, yeah, I cando whatever, and then you're
committing to things that are.
Happening in your winter part ofyour cycle, and then you get to
winter, you're like, crap, whydid I say yes to this?
Like, keep that in mind.
'cause that happens a lot.

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Like, I didn't wanna do this.
Why did I say yes?
So that's another thing, likerecognize where you're
committing to things and whenit's happening and, and just
recognize maybe you, maybe youdon't give people a definitive
yes when you know you're makingplans or to do things and yeah,
that's just keep it in mind.
Yeah, as someone that is anintrovert and I like hate being
flaky with people or canceling,I feel like that's gonna be life

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changing for me.
Totally.
Totally.
Because there's definitely timeswhere I'm like, yeah, I just
wanna like go out and be social.
And then there's times where I'mlike, Nope, nobody talk to me.
I wanna stay in my house thisentire a hundred percent.
I'm hundred percent.
I'm the same.
I'm very introverted and I'm thesame way.
Like you don't have to say yesor no in the moment.
Like you can be like, oh, okay,I'll let you know.
Like it doesn't have to be a,because I think that's your
thing too, you feel like.
Well, if you say yes, I can't goback at my word.

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'cause then I feel like, youknow, so you don't have to say
yes in the moment or you couldjust say, no, there's that too.
That helps.
She is always there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We've talked a lot about beinglike people pleasers and
learning the power we have andjust saying no to things.
That's it.
And yeah, that's very importantthere, especially now when we're
talking about our cycle.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.

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So, yeah, I, I think it's agreat side note you included for
women that don't have periodsbecause.
That would include me because Ido have an IUD that removes my
period, and so I was wonderinghow that was all gonna come into
play.
So I can just go with the moonfor real.
Yes.
Follow the cycles.
That's it.
Yeah, it's, it's really simple.
Just follow the cycle of themoon and you can follow like the
waxing and waning the full moon,the new moon.

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Let the new moon be the winterphase, the full moon is the
summer and you know, fill in theinbetweens with the waxing and
waning moon and yeah, you justfollow the moon, it's easy.
Okay.
That's very good to know.
Mm-hmm.
Awesome.
For a beginner, beginner tips,how can someone begin seeking
their workouts, eating habits,or productivity with your cycle?
Yeah.
So I know you've kind of givenus little, little teasers here

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and there.
Mm-hmm.
But if you can just talk aboutthat a little more in depth.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think the biggest thinggetting started is as like not
exciting as this sounds.
It's like not the reallyexciting answer, but it's really
just listening to your body.
I, I think if we, as womenespecially, just really were

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intentional about listening toour bodies that.
So many things could change.
Like we don't even have to thinkthat hard about things if we
were just listening to ourbodies.
'cause if you listen to yourbody, you know that during your
menstrual phase, your body wantsto take a rest.
Now, I'm not saying you have tojust veg it on the couch, which
is also okay by the way.
But you can still move, right?
You can still move and exerciseand movement typically does help

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when you're feeling crampy andbloated and all that.
But point is.
Like maybe your menstrual partof your phase isn't when you
wanna go do your really intense,crazy hit workout, right?
Maybe we save that, let's wait afew days.
Maybe we do that after you knowit, it's that at least, you
know, five, six days in orwhatever, mm-hmm.
Maybe you're feeling like, oh, Ican, you know, I can go run the

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six mile run or whatever, whenit's this part.
So I think it's just listeningto your body and recognizing
when your energy is fluctuating.
And when your body is sayinglike, Hey, I really want you to
slow down, or, Hey, I reallyfeel like I don't wanna do that
today.
Or, Hey, I really feel like Iwanna be pushed today.
So I think that's the biggestthing is just listening, because
sometimes our body does wanna bepushed, sometimes it doesn't

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like it, it goes both ways.
Yeah.
So just listening and honoringwhat your body body's saying, I
think is the biggest advice Ican give on that, especially as
beginners.
If, Tracking all this seems likeone more thing you have to do.
Like it feels like it'soverwhelming.
Sorry.
Just, just recognize that like,can I just tune into my energy
throughout the month andrecognize when I don't have as
much, when I have more?

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Right.
That, that's a, that can be ahuge game changer.
Okay.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
You know, I'm a woman in, inperimenopause or menopause and
think that's probably a wholenother show that we should do,
but I'm listening intently tosee how I can possibly, use some

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of these tools.
For sure.
Yeah.
It's another great chapter.
To do the sinking with the moon.
Like if you have irregularperiods, if you're in
perimenopause and you're like, Idon't know, my period's all over
the place, just start there.
Just start with the moon andtracking it there, and I think
it'll help kind of manage yourenergy as you're navigating
that.
Like really irregular part of.
Yeah.
Your cycle.

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Yeah, So we, one thing we liketo do for our listeners is like
really like practicalapplication tips.
And I'm just like thinking abouthow I'm gonna start
incorporating this into my life,especially because I don't have
a period right now.
And you emphasize the importanceof really listening to your
body.
So would you recommend likejournaling every day, just like
jotting down, like, I feel likethis today, and then going back

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through that to kind of seelike.
Okay.
I'm probably at this phase in mycycle, especially for someone
that doesn't have the period tohelp them really schedule it.
Yeah, I think that's a greatidea.
I think journal, I think that'salways a good idea, is to
journal out how you're feelingand, and doing that for, you
know, more than just one month.
Like, letting that be somethingyou do for a while.
Yeah.
And, and tracking, you know, howdo I feel physically, mentally,

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emotionally?
Like what are my eating habits?
Like, am I, do I have more of anappetite?
Do I have less of an appetite?
Do I feel like I want a bunch ofcarbs or I feel like, like it is
just tracking all those things Ithink is a great way to get
started and just to kind of feelout what's happening throughout
the month.
I think that's a great, a greattool to do, to use.
And, there's all kinds of, Likecycle tracking apps that you can

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find too.
And you can, you can track it inthere.
And then they also let you takenotes in the app too.
If you're like a digital person,you don't wanna write it down.
Um, you can go track on the appsand you can also keep notes in
the apps and that can help youtrack things too.
And a lot of times those appswill kind of put it together for
you to kind of help you figureout like, you know, what phase
of the cycle it is.
So those are also the tools.
Okay.
Yeah, that's probably definitelya good tool for me and my whole

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generation in general.
Yeah, for sure.
Totally.
Totally.
We're very technology reliant.
That's it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, no.
I think y'all are analogingthings anymore.
Y'all need the digital stuff.
I, I do both.
I'm a fan of both.
Yeah.
But what, however you like tokeep track.
Yeah, one question quickly oneating habits, and I've seen a
lot of like, not necessarilylike diets, I feel like we're
kind of moving away from dietsin, in some ways, and I.

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Like intuitive eating.
I've seen a lot lately and I'vealso seen a lot of things too on
like what foods specifically youor you should be eating in
different phases of yourmenstrual cycle.
But I've also seen like otherthings as well.
Like for example, my brother,and of course he's a man, so
he's not in the same boat as weare, but he's actually been
following this blood type dietand is.

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It's, it's based on some book,but he was just saying like how
tremendously it's impacted himjust following a diet based on
his blood type and eatingspecific foods.
And it was like revolutionaryfor him in terms of like.
Productivity, energy, mentalhealth and stuff like that.
So can you just tell us a littlebit more about like, eating
habits?
Is it more specific to theindividual and how you're

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feeling or is there generallylike foods you should be
sticking to at different phases?
Yeah, that's a good question.
And there's a lot, I mean,people have all kinds of
thoughts on all this, so it'sprobably, you know, you can ask
different people, they're gonnatell you different things.
'Cause you know, some peoplelike, you know, there's this,
this school of thought aroundfasting around your cycle and
how you do intermittent fastingduring certain phases of your
cycle.
I.

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I will say first and foremost,this is never, I will never give
a prescriptive thing for dietever.
'cause it's always individual.
Every body is different.
Mm-hmm.
Everyone at a cellular level isjust different.
And so it's, it's never gonna besomething where I have like,
everybody should stick to thisthing.
Now I do think that there arethings that are like common

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threads throughout all thediets, like eating whole foods
and getting protein and fiber.
Like there's those kind ofthings I think are pretty
generally.
Widely accepted and should beincluded, you know, across the
board.
I will say this though, I dothink that specific types of
eating can work for different,but I've heard of the blood type
diet and there's, I, I think Imight have read that book years
ago.
I was thinking, I know whatyou're talking about with the

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book.
There's the blood type diet.
Mm-hmm.
You know, there's people likethe Keto or I like the
Mediterranean, they like thepaleo.
Like there's all the diets.
I think.
For women.
And then there's theintermittent fasting thing.
I have very strong feelingsabout intermittent fasting for
women specifically.
Um, and, and mainly because Ihave worked with so many women
and I've worked with so manywomen in full on burnout.

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That have wrecked theirmetabolism by trying to do
intermittent fasting.
So I've seen firsthand how it'sjust not, it just doesn't serve
women.
Because to your point, you weretalking about your brother,
like, well, he's a man and he'snot the same.
Right.
That's, there's so many studiesabout it around intermittent
fasting and all of them havebeen done on men.
It's, it's not studied on women.
So the findings that are outthere, it's just very

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misleading.
And now granted, I know thereare women like that.
You can go on their Instagrampage and they've had these crazy
results that intermittentfasting.
So I'm not saying it can't workfor everybody'cause obviously it
can.
But my point is.
The science behind it is basedon men's bodies.
So it, you can't say that thisis something every woman should
do because the science doesn'ttell us that.
'cause it just tells us that itcould work for men.

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So I think that when it comes toeating specific things, I think
for women especially, I thinkprotein and fiber are the top
two.
That should be our, top twopriorities, protein and fiber.
Most women don't get enoughprotein.
Most women are people.
Humans actually don't get enoughfiber.
So there's that.
But women, you know, so manywomen are afraid they're gonna,

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you know, get fat or get bulky.
I had this conversation with mymom a couple weeks ago, about
the protein thing.
'cause she's like talking aboutthis and, oh, I'm gaining weight
and I'm, and I'm like, okay,well I don't know how many times
I can tell you that you're noteating enough calories like
that.
I don't have any to tell.
You're not in a protein.
Like, as you get older, yourmetabolism's gonna slow down
because you're losing musclemass.

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We lose like three to 8% everydecade of life.
So the way we hold onto that,wow.
Is protein and strengthtraining.
So with the food is yourquestion specific specifically
about food, protein and fiber, Iwould say should be the top two
priorities for women.
And the fiber thing.
Fiber helps with satiation,keeps us satiated.
Fiber helps with blood sugarregulation, so that's another

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thing that we as women have tobe concerned about.
'cause the way our estrogenfluctuates is going to affect
how our blood sugar fluctuates,which is another stress around
the body.
Um, fiber helps with gut health,so there's so many benefits to
fiber.
So I think if anything I, I'mgonna give like big nutrition
tips.
I think I would just say thosewould be the two, like
prioritize protein and fiber.
Most women should be gettinglike, you know, about a gram per

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pound of body weight istypically the recommendation.
And most women aren't.
So I think that's the otherthing too.
And I think, you know, I, I hadthis conversation in this other
group of functionalpractitioners and we were.
Somebody was asking, like sentquestions about this patient's
labs they had, and we weretalking about the labs and their
estrogen levels were kind of allover the place.
And we were talking about this,and actually I had a guess in my

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podcast, um, a couple weeks ago,we talked about this as well.
I really feel like so many womendeal with so many estrogen
driven symptoms and estrogendriven diseases.
Because we're under calorie andwe're under protein and like
this patient we were talkingabout in the My functional
practitioner group, and some ofthem were using their own

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stories, like my estrogen levelsand my progesterone levels were
at their best.
When I had more muscle mass andmore body fat, like holding onto
more body and muscle, I'm nottelling everybody to go put on
body fat, but as a female, yourbody requires a certain amount
of body fat to functionoptimally.
You have to have a certainamount of body fat to have a
baby, like that's, our bodieswere made for that, whether you

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have'em or not, that your bodywas built to have a baby.
And so our bodies have require acertain amount of body fat for
our hormones to be able tofunction optimally for that
reason.
Which is why so many, there's somany women who struggle with,
you know, issues with theirperiods and all sorts of things
if you're undernourished andunder calorie.
So anyway, that was a longanswer to your question, but I
think the protein and fiber aresuch crucial pieces, and this

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is, as you know, at any stage,whether you're a menstruating,
woman, perimenopausal,menopausal, postmenopausal, like
across the board, protein andfiber is where we should be
focusing.
that was a great answer.
Thank you for being so in depth.
And it was really interesting tohear you talk about intermittent
fasting.
'cause we've actually both donethat.
I mean, somewhat recently, I dohave a history of disordered

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eating, so diets are a no go forme.
Same.
Like, it's just it, it gets meback into a very negative
mindset.
Yeah, same.
And I've always been veryself-conscious about weight,
like probably any other woman.
And I actually felt likeintermittent fasting was like.
The easiest way to manage myweight.
Mm-hmm.
Without getting back into like adisordered state of mind around
food.
But that being said, like was Igaining any weight?

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No.
In fact, I even lost weight, butI don't feel like my energy was
there.
Mm-hmm.
Because like I was fasting untillike later in the morning and I
was also.
Trying to work out during thatperiod of time, which I've heard
is like a big no-no for women.
Like we have to have food in ourbodies when we're working out.
We can't just do it like men do.
Mm-hmm.
So it's very interesting to hearthat all the studies have been
done around men and then alsojust to bring this all back to

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the cycle sinking.
Like it's just not sustainablefor us to do that.
Like.
The whole period of our cycle.
Yeah, exactly.
So, yeah, and I think veryinteresting.
I don't wanna say like demonizeit all together and say like,
nobody should ever, but I thinkif you're gonna do it, I really
think it should be justaccording to your cycle and
there's books on that.
Mm-hmm.
Like fasting with your cycle anddoing it specific parts of your
cycle.
So think if you're gonna do it,yeah.

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It's during specific parts ofyour cycle so it's not, you
know, all year, all the time.
I think that's the moresustainable way in a way where
it's not gonna jack up yourhormones and mess up your
metabolism.
So I think that's, mm-hmm.
Probably the better way to doit.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
So next question.
I wanna talk about the role ofstress, because I feel like
honestly, all the generationswere more stressed out than

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ever.
At least it feels like that.
What role does stress play indisrupting our cycle and
hormones?
Because I know, like when I usedto have a period, I could tell
when I was stressed that itwould not come on time, it would
be late, it'd be early, it wouldjust totally mess things up.
So.
Can you kind of ex explain therole that stress plays in that,
and then how we can maybe managethat holistically?
Because sometimes we just haveto deal with massive amounts of

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stress whether we want to ornot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, stress is the reasonthat anyone's cycle is gonna be
off.
I mean, let's be honest, stressis the reason for everything.
So I think, you know, you'reright.
We do live in a more stressedout society, stressed out
generation.
There's multiple stressors.
The stress of, you know, what'sgoing on in the world, or you

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know.
Politics or life and family andlike, there's so many things for
us to be stressed about, so,mm-hmm.
I do think that stress is thebiggest reason that so many
women deal with, you know,energy issues, hormonal issues,
chronic health issues, you nameit.
The biggest thing for me I cansay there is I, I do feel like
one way to help.

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Battle the stress within ourbodies is cycle sinking because
it's taking one less stressoraway because to, to what we've
been talking about, it's, again,it's that working smarter, not
harder.
So can I optimize the energy Ihave in each phase of my cycle
so that I'm not working againstmyself and feeling this
resistance all month long?
So I do feel like this cyclesinking is a big, really crucial

(42:59):
tool that we can use as women tohelp battle the stress that
we're dealing with every day.
Yeah, I think that.
You know, with my clients, we doa lot of nervous system
regulation.
I'm sure y'all have talked aboutin the show, we, you know, we,
I, we use energetics and youknow, there's a lot of tools we
can use, which is really thereason why I use all the
modalities that I use in mywork, right?
You can't compartmentalize thebody, right?
You can't separate the physicalfrom the emotional, from

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fundamental, from the spiritual.
Like we are, we aremultidimensional beings and so
to.
You know, just focus on thephysical and, you know, throw a
bunch of supplements or do thisdiet, like that's not gonna
solve everything.
And, and I know everybodylistening probably knows that by
experience.
Like how many times have youbeen like, oh, I'm gonna take
these supplements and it's gonnafix everything, and then it
doesn't, and you're like, whatthe heck?

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I'm doing all the things right.
So you, you have to be able toput all the pieces together and
it's because it's, for thatreason, what you're saying, it's
the stress piece.
And whether you feel like youlive, you know, a stress-free
life or not, you're still like,there's stressors, whether even
environmental stressors, that'sa stress in the body, right?
It's, you know, relationalstress.
Mm-hmm.
There's situational stress,there's, um, you know, chemical

(44:03):
fit.
There's all kinds of stress thatwe're exposed to, and I think
it's just.
Understanding what tools we haveat our disposal to be able to
combat that.
'cause we're not gonna eliminateit, right?
We're, we're humans, so we'renot gonna eliminate it
altogether.
It's just having the tools andbeing able to know how to
mitigate it as much as we can.
And I really think that cyclesinking can be such a huge, just

(44:28):
a game changer for women in, inthat part of it, just managing
their energy.
Yeah, it sounds like it.
So it's kind of like.
Almost that's part of theanswer.
The whole answer in itself is tolike mitigating how stress can
affect our cycle.
Yeah.
Is just understanding andsinking our cycle.
So that's it.
Yep.
Okay.
That's it?
Mm-hmm.
All righty.
So what is your hope, no punintended for women when they do

(44:52):
learn to work with their bodyinstead of against it?
Yeah.
My goal for women is always.
Just to understand their body.
Again, I know that's kind of aboring answer, but I I kind of
to what we started thisconversation with at the very
beginning and recognizing thatso many of us don't understand

(45:14):
our body and we weren't, youknow, given the manual to
understand how it all works.
And a lot of women will gothrough their entire lives
without understanding how theirbodies work and they wonder why
they're anxious or depressed orwhatever.
So I think my hope for them, andmy goal is for them to just
understand their body at a deeplevel, understanding it

(45:37):
physically, physiologically,what's happening in my body
with, you know, my hormones andmy gut, right?
Understanding physiologicallywhat's going on, understanding
emotionally, energetically, howmy energy flows, like how I
interact with other people andthe world around me, and how my
energy's meant to move,mentally, spiritually, like,
understanding all of those.
Aspects of wellness, likeunderstanding those pieces of

(46:00):
the body.
For me, that's my goal, is justhave that deep understanding so
that you can make empowereddecisions for your body, and
that's the goal.
Like I, you know, the, themedical gaslighting thing is
such a real thing and I, I wouldsay 90% of the women that I have
worked with have experiencedthat.
They've been brushed off,ignored, told that it was all in

(46:22):
their head, like the stories Icould tell on that.
And so I want women to be ableto own what's going on in their
body, to trust their bodies,most importantly, so that they
can make empowered decisions forthemselves.
So they don't have to rely onsomebody else to tell them
what's wrong with their body orsomebody else to tell'em, no,
this is what's actuallyhappening.
No, I understand what'shappening with my body'cause I
know how my body operates so Ican advocate for myself.

(46:45):
Mm-hmm.
And make the best decisions forme because I know I and I trust
what my body is telling me.
That's my goal.
I love that.
And the medical gaslighting is,it's very real.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, I've heard like countlessstories of women just not being
taken seriously or pain notbeing taken seriously too, like
circling back to my IUD, like, Idefinitely think there should be

(47:06):
some kind of like you get put tosleep or, I don't know what it
is.
It's ridiculous what theyexpect.
Yes.
Oh my gosh.
I heard so many horror storieswith the IUDs.
Like, what the heck are wedoing?
gosh.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's pretty terrible.
I've had two put in and like,especially the second time,
because I knew how terrible itwas.
Like I was just like literallylike shaking because I was so
afraid of how much it was gonnahurt.

(47:26):
I believe you.
So, yeah, it it's crazy.
It's terrible.
But yeah, I mean, I a thousandpercent think it's so amazing
what you're doing and I'm reallyexcited to share all this with
our listeners and hopefully thatthey can start working with
their body and empoweringthemselves instead of going
against it.
It's awesome.
I don't know if you listened toany of our episodes, but our
signature kind of closingstatement or whatever is called

(47:48):
what she said, usually we willlike read a quote or something
that pertains to the episode,but during our interviews we
like to get it from the source.
So you, so far what she said,segment, I want to hear like a
mantra mindset or just somethingyou wanna share that's helped
you most on your personalhealing journey or your journey
to help others heal themselves.
Hmm.
I think for me, what's coming upfor me immediately is that

(48:13):
everything is just a season,which I feel like is relevant
'cause we just talked about ourcycle of seasons.
But for me it's recognizing thateverything is, it's just a
season.
The good parts, the bad parts,like it's all just a season.
The bad parts never lastforever.
The good parts never lastforever.
But that's the part of the humanexperience is to be able to take
the good with the bad.
The wisdom and the lessons fromthe bad and the joy and the

(48:35):
wisdom from the good, but justrecognizing that it's all just,
it just all happens in seasons.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's really great.
And I tend to like, get into badseasons and feel like it's gonna
be there forever.
Mm-hmm.
But that's, it's definitely notthe case.
Yeah.
So that's a, that's a goodmantra to keep at the forefront
of your mind.
Yeah.
Well, thank you so much forjoining us.
Sounds like you do fantasticwork for others and we

(48:58):
appreciate you coming on thispodcast to help women understand
their bodies more.
And we wanna honor, honor thatin your time.
So if someone wants to getaccess to your resources or just
learn a little bit more aboutwhat you do, where can our
listeners find you and thoseresources if they wanna dive
deeper into.
Whether it's cycle syncing orthe functional holistic
wellness.
Yeah, for sure.
So I'm most active on Instagram,so you can find me on Instagram

(49:19):
at the Hope Praza.
Uh, have a YouTube channel aswell.
Same name.
And I also have a podcast calledHopeful and Wholesome, and it's
just.
It's all wellness, nutrition,energetic spirituality, all the
things that I've been talkingabout today, seeing if I'm more
there.
Awesome.
And then I do have a resource,if you wanna put a link in the
show notes.
I have a cycle sinking guide ifthat helps people.
So I can give you that.

(49:39):
It's just a little free guide tohelp people.
So if you wanna get the guideand have like kind of a step by
step of getting started withcycle sinking, it could be
helpful.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I'll, I'll go ahead and put thatin the show notes.
I know you sent me, I think someother links too.
I'll put in the show notes aswell as your.
Social media handles so peoplecan find you.
But yeah, I I'm definitely gonnacheck out your podcast.

(49:59):
Yeah.
I feel like I am so muchintrigued into going like even
to all the deeper layers thatyou do, so Yeah.
Thank you so much for coming onGenerational Tea.
And ladies, it's time to empowerourselves and understand our
bodies and work with them.
That's right.
Thank you so much.
Hope.
Thank y'all.
Yes.
All right.
3, 2, 1.
And that's the, the.

(50:22):
Yay.
Love it.
Yay.

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