Use Your Cycle As A Superpower

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In this week’s Life of Love, Julie welcomes integrative health practitioner and high-achieving-woman, Chelsea McLeod. Together they pull back the curtain on the divine feminine, hormone health, and how to listen when your body is whispering (or screaming) for a different way.

Chelsea shares her personal story of overachieving, chronic stress, a traumatic family event, and finally being diagnosed with PCOS and type 2 diabetes in her 20s — then choosing a path of true healing instead of numbing. She and Julie explore how our culture trains women to hang their worth on output, ignore their cycles, and normalize symptoms that are actually big hormonal red flags. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

You’ll hear about:
- Chelsea’s journey from competitive athlete and corporate hustler to hormone healer
- Why 4 out of 5 women may be dealing with hormonal imbalance without realizing it
- Symptoms that are common **but not normal**: night waking, crazy PMS, bloating, hair loss, constipation, anxiety, feeling “fluffy,” infertility diagnoses, and more
- How our industrial food system, chemicals, and seed oils quietly disrupt your hormones
- The simple practice of becoming a “package turner” and reading labels with discernment
- Easy daily tracking to understand your hormones:
  - energy check-ins through the day
  - mood swings
  - sleep quality and 2–3 a.m. wakeups
  - menstrual cycle patterns
- How heart rate variability and resting heart rate can reflect your stress resilience
- Using the phases of your cycle to guide workouts, social plans, and productivity (instead of fighting yourself)
- Honoring your bleed, seeing menstruation as sacred, and bringing ritual back into everyday life
- What it looks like to claim your divinity and step out of survival mode as a sovereign woman

**Key Takeaways**
- It’s not you being “lazy” or “dramatic” — it’s often your hormones trying to get your attention.  
- Common symptoms are not the same as *normal*. Your body is designed to feel good.  
- Healing hormones is a skill set, not a quick fix. You can learn it over time.  
- Your cycle is one of your greatest superpowers once you know how to work with it.  
- Resting, especially around your bleed and in your luteal phase, is not weakness — it’s strategy.  
- You don’t have to burn yourself out to be valuable. Your divinity doesn’t depend on your productivity.

**Favorite Quotes**
- “Women don’t need more hacks, we need habits and skills.” – Chelsea  
- “No, you don’t ‘fix’ your hormones. You *heal* your hormones.” – Julie  
- “Sometimes we need to ritualize the mundane to reconnect with our feminine energy.” – Chelsea  
- “No one else is going to crown you. Your divinity is yours to claim.” – Julie  

If this conversation lands in your heart, that’s your sign. Share it with a friend, revisit it around your next cycle, and let it be a loving reminder that you are not broken — you are divine, and your body is always speaking with you.

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