November 18, 2025 • 17 mins
I'm Bridget Walton, a Women's Hormone Coach helping ambitious women ages 25-40 naturally restore hormone balance, fix irregular periods, feel confident in their fertility, and resolve gut health issues without restrictive dieting.
If you struggle with missing periods, PCOS symptoms, bloating, or unpredictable cycles, this women's health podcast will teach you how to support your hormones through strategic nutrition and lifestyle changes that actually fit your busy life.
On I'm Hormonal, you'll discover natural solutions for period problems, learn how gut health impacts your hormones, and get practical hormone balance tips from a functional nutrition perspective - no more guessing what your body needs.
This episode walks you through five foundational--and simple--areas to focus on as you move through your hormone balancing journey. If you want to restore regular periods, kick PMS to the curb, or enhance your fertility then you need to start with these five recommendations. For some of you, once you nail the basics then a personalized approach is what your body needs; Bridget walks you through some of the ways that her clients see rapid change with personalized approaches.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Sometimes when you're on your hormone journey,
it is the worst because you'refrustrated.
You're like, damn, nothing thatI'm doing is working and I don't
know why.
And that is one of the worstfeelings.
So that's why in today'sepisode, what I'm gonna be
talking you through are some ofthe foundations, right?
What do you need to start with?
(00:22):
And then we'll talk a little bitabout what personalized
approaches can do for you whenyou'll know if you're ready for
them.
So you're gonna have someactionable takeaways to walk
away from this episode with, andhopefully a greater sense of
what's next for me.
What do I need to really movethe needle?
(00:42):
So, with that, welcome to theI'm Hormonal Podcast.
I'm your host, Bridget Walton, awomen's hormone coach helping
busy, ambitious women just likeyou through personalized
coaching and science-backedsolutions.
Whether you are working with meone-on-one or you're listening
here, my goal is the same, whichis to help you stop guessing
about your hormone health andstart seeing real progress.
(01:05):
So let's get into it.
Alrighty, well, welcome again.
I'm so glad that you joined me.
This is episode number 152 ofthe podcast.
We are creeping up on holidayseason.
I don't know about you, but I'mlike, how is it already
December?
In my mind, it's December, butwe've got some days, some work
(01:29):
to get through before we arethere.
What I want to talk about todayis something that I hear a lot
from my clients when I firstmeet them, when I'm on discovery
calls with you gals, and you aretelling me that nothing that
you've tried works for you.
And believe me, I know howfrustrating this can be.
I experienced this myself when Iwas trying to figure out what
(01:51):
the F was going on with my guthealth, as I was trying to
understand how my gut health andmy hormone health are related.
And maybe you're in the samespot.
So what you're gonna get fromthis episode are some of the
basics.
It's easy to forget the basics.
This is also something that Isee with my clients time again.
(02:14):
That even myself, you know,yesterday it was probably 2 p.m.
And I thought, okay, Bridge,maybe you want to get a glass of
water, right?
We we just need reminderssometimes.
And that's what you're gonna getfrom this first part of the
conversation.
Let me run you through thesefive areas that I want you to
focus on because if you haven'trefined or you haven't focused
(02:37):
on these areas, then you'releaving some progress on the
table.
This is what will help you out.
First of all, focusing on yoursleep.
It's so basic, but I really wantyou to focus on getting at least
eight hours of sleep.
Quality is arguably moreimportant than quantity, but
we're starting with quantity forthe sake of this one-to-many
(03:00):
conversation.
A couple of questions for you tothink through.
Do you need to set someboundaries around your bedtime
routine?
Do you need to create a bedtimeroutine?
Do you need to or can you adjustthe time that you wake up in the
morning?
It's not rocket science, butwhen you sit down to make an
actual plan for what you'regoing to change, you're going to
(03:22):
be infinitely more likely toaccomplish those goals.
Tell your partner, tell yourkids, tell your whoever, so that
you can get to bed on time.
Because when you are gettingmore and better sleep, that is
one thing that is going toabsolutely benefit every single
cell in your body.
It's going to support your bloodsugar, which supports your
(03:43):
hormones, which supports thequality of your period, the
regularity of your period, andall of these things.
So get some sleep.
Similarly, and number two on thelist, something that will help
every single cell in your bodyis focusing on hydration.
This is easy to forego, but ifyou don't have, you know, a big
(04:03):
water bottle that you can bringwith you, if you don't have a
regular cadence of getting up tofill up your cup, if you don't
have that habit of getting inwater every day, you're leaving
progress on the table.
In short, what happens when youare dehydrated is that your
stress hormone cortisol goes upa little bit.
And we know that cortisol is notdoing any favors for your sex
(04:28):
hormones.
Your body needs water.
Just drink up, drink up.
Number three on the list,something that I want you to
incorporate and focus on beforeyou approach a personalized
approach, would be to stoplooking at your screens so close
to bedtime.
And why is this important?
(04:49):
This is important because if youare all up in your screens right
until the minute before you goto bed, the blue light from your
screens is likely impacting yourcircadian rhythm, impacting your
sleep.
We're coming back to oldcortisol here again because the
blue light that's emitted fromour screens, from LED lights,
from these bright ass lightsthat are shining at us when
(05:11):
we're driving down the roadsthese days.
These are essentially signalingto your brain, hey girl, it's
the middle of the day, becausethat's when we get the most blue
light from the sun, is in themiddle of the day.
And um, so our brain says, okay,I guess I need to be up.
You can build these good habits.
You can read.
Actually, you know what?
(05:31):
One of my friends, and did Imention this last week?
Anyway, one of my friends, shewas telling me how she has a no
scroll box that she made in herhouse.
And I'm like, ooh, that's a goodidea.
No scroll box, what is that?
When you feel like scrolling,you're actually gonna just go on
over, wiggle on over to your boxthat has a coloring book, that
(05:53):
has a uh if you crochet or knit,or if you want to play a game of
cards with your partner orwhatever that looks like for
you, easy options that arescreen-free that can help you
feeling good.
You know, this reminds me too,because stress levels are so
important for your hormones.
I heard about a study recently,it was talking through how doing
(06:18):
something creative really helpsto reduce the anxiety in your
brain.
So, like picking somethingcreative, whatever that means to
you, that can help support yourmental health, which in turn is
going to support your hormonehealth.
(06:38):
So moving on from getting sleep,making sure you're hydrating,
quitting being addicted to yourscreens.
The fourth thing I want you tostart doing is swapping out
plastics, especially plasticsthat are in your kitchen,
because those are going to besources of endocrine disrupting
chemicals.
They're not doing you anysolids, they're not supporting
(06:59):
your hormone balance, they'renot supporting your, you know,
weight loss goals if you have aweight loss goal.
It's something that you can dolittle by little.
You don't need to do it all atonce.
You maybe shouldn't do it all atonce.
That would be a little bitoverwhelming.
And you don't have to buyeverything new, right?
If you just thought, oh gosh,yeah, but that's so expensive.
(07:20):
I am a huge goodwill or homegoods kind of gal where I'm
like, how do they even sell themat this price?
If it's been a hot minute sinceyou've made your way to a resale
shop or a place like Home Goods,then check it out because they
are going to make this swappingof plastics in your kitchen to
(07:42):
glass or to stainless steel orwhatever that looks like for
you.
They're gonna make it muchsimpler and much more
attainable.
Now, the fifth and final thingthat I need you to remember is
that vegetables are your friend.
The goal that I want you toshoot for is two to three cups
of vegetables each day at least.
(08:03):
Like that's that's the minimum.
Go big, go above and beyond.
But if you are trying tounderstand what's going on with
your bloating, if you're tryingto figure out why your period is
always MIA, why you have a lotof period pain, any other crazy
reason your hormones are on thefritz, if you're not
incorporating vegetables intoyour diet, then that is a place
(08:27):
that I need you to start.
You can make so much change inthe way that you feel based on
what you're putting into yourbody.
Not only do the nutrients fromthose plants benefit your body,
certainly, but also the fiberfrom it, that's going to help
support your gut microbiome.
That's gonna help support yourbowel movements.
And if you've listened to thepodcast before, you know that
(08:50):
having regular quality bowelmovements is really important
for your hormone health too.
So hopefully some of those werejust reminders and you're
saying, yeah, yeah, Bridget, Igot it.
I already do all those things.
If so, this next section isgoing to be particularly
interesting to you.
If not, well, this next partwill still be interesting, but I
(09:13):
need you to focus onincorporating those five things.
Like press pause and make a planto do those things tomorrow.
Within the next 24 hours, startimplementing them.
Because I promise you, thosewill get you a step up, you
know, up to the next ledge,whatever this metaphor is when
it comes to your hormone andyour gut health journeys.
(09:36):
Now, like I mentioned, what Ireally want to talk about in
this second part of the episodeis like reassurance for you that
you are not crazy.
If you've done those fivethings, if you've got it locked
down, nailed down, whatever, andstill nothing is changing about
your hormones, then I just wantyou to know that it's it's not
(09:56):
you.
Health is complex, your hormonesare complex.
But I want to run you through acouple examples of how my
clients who thought the samething that you might be thinking
right now, how we overcame someof those thoughts, because I
want you to take inspirationfrom that as well.
Before I get into the examples,I'll just continue to say that
(10:19):
you can know all of the tips inthe world.
I could put out a seven-hourpodcast every single day telling
you exactly what to do, when todo, how to do it, you know.
But if you aren't looking at itthrough the right frame of mind,
if you aren't actuallyimplementing it, if you don't
believe that you can change andthat you can actually influence
(10:42):
your hormone health, your guthealth, then you're not gonna
see those changes.
The way that you think aboutyour health, the way that you
talk about your health, the waythat you talk about yourself to
yourself is really important.
You can do this, I promise you.
So, with that, I want to giveyou this first example.
(11:02):
I have a client who she has beenstruggling with fertility.
She did her labs with herprimary care doctor.
Everything came back lookingpretty good, save for one
marker.
So she's like, hey, I know thatmy cycle is regular, I know that
things are in good shape, butnothing is working.
(11:24):
I'm not losing weight and I'mnot getting pregnant, and I
don't know why.
So, what we did for her was astool test uh to take a look at
her gut microbiome and see whatwas going on in there.
And what we found was that shehad a lot of inflammatory
bacteria that were overgrown.
And what happens when you havethat overgrowth of inflammatory
(11:47):
microbes or bacteria in yourdigestive system is they create
this inflammation, this stressthat has a follow-on impact on
your hormones, of course.
So, with that, we did a foodsensitivity test too.
And this is the thing that Iwant you to really take away,
right?
The overall context isimportant, Delby, you get to
know what's going on.
(12:08):
But once she started toeliminate the foods that we
found she was sensitive to onthat MRT food sensitivity test,
she noticed within the first sixdays that uh her body shape was
already changing.
She noticed that after takingout some of those foods for just
six days, she saw a differenceand a difference that she hadn't
(12:34):
been able to see for months andmonths.
And so that's just this firstexample of how it's not that
you're not doing it right.
You just might need, probablyneed some of this personalized
approach so that you can reallyget clear on what you need
bioindividually and not, youknow, the advice en masse that's
(12:57):
out there.
I want to give you a secondexample of a client, and I've
talked about her before too.
If you've joined any of the umtraining, those virtual training
workshops I've done, then you'veprobably heard about her as
well.
But I have a client who hadspent years experiencing
constipation.
Now, you know that constipationis going to impact your hormone
(13:19):
balance, it's going to impactyour estrogen levels.
But within the first week ofworking together and actually
looking at what was going on inher digestive system, saying,
How can we focus on the rootcause of what's going on instead
of just putting a band-aid onthis?
Within one week of doing that,she was able to have regular
(13:42):
bowel movements for the firsttime in years.
So she really felt like, this isjust, I don't know, is this the
rest of my life?
Is this what I've got ahead ofme?
Because no doctors, no one onher care team had been able to
help her make any progress.
But within the first week, shewas like, wow, okay, it's not
(14:07):
me.
And I'll say this to you too,it's not you.
You're not doing somethingwrong.
You just might not be a healthpractitioner and you might not
have the context on what yourbody needs from that holistic
perspective to move the needle.
One more example for you.
Because are you a gal who feelslike you need to nap every day
(14:30):
and you are tired?
You're a sleepy bitch, as one ofmy friends described herself.
Well, another client that I had,she felt like this.
She felt like every single dayshe needed to sleep.
And what we did for her, wesaid, okay, let's think
critically about what's going onwith your circadian rhythm based
on when are you tired?
(14:50):
When are you eating?
When are you energetic?
How much are you sleeping?
And counter to what is out thereon the social media machine from
time to time, we decided thatshe should try switching her
workouts from the evening whenshe felt like she had more
energy to actually getting upearly and going in the morning.
(15:12):
And that's what made thedifference for her.
And this is what I'll say to youis that the advice that's out
there in the mainstream, youknow, one-to-many platform, and
even some things that I sayhere, right?
I don't know you or I don't knowyou yet.
So I don't know exactly what'sgoing on with your hormones.
And maybe something that worksfor, for example, a lot of gals
(15:34):
with estrogen excess doesn'twork for you for some reason
that I'm not aware of because Idon't know you yet.
And so the same thing applieshere.
When you have that personalizedapproach that's tailored to you,
that can be the tool that youneed, the boost that you need to
really understand, hey, it's notme.
Because one more time and thenI'll wrap it up.
(15:57):
But you can do it.
You have the tools, you have thepower.
If you have the right mindset,then you can make this change.
And that is the one thing that Iknow for sure because you have
the ability to make theseadjustments, to bring back a
regular cycle, to bring back aneasy cycle, to bring back easy
regular digestion.
(16:18):
But you might just need thatnext step and one more tool.
So that's what I wanted to sharewith you on this episode today.
Quick reminder (16:27):
everything that I share with you is for
educational purposes only, not areplacement for medical advice.
But if what I talked about todayresonated with you and you feel
like you've already triedeverything for your hormones,
but you're still stuck, Icreated a free guide that is
specifically for you.
You can go over toimhormonal.com slash guide to
(16:48):
grab it for free.
And if you have any questions orrequests, find me on Instagram
at I'm underscore hormonal.
Thanks so much for listening,and I'll see you next time.
Sometimes when you're on your hormone journey,
it is the worst because you'refrustrated.
You're like, damn, nothing thatI'm doing is working and I don't
know why.
And that is one of the worstfeelings.
So that's why in today'sepisode, what I'm gonna be
talking you through are some ofthe foundations, right?
What do you need to start with?
(00:22):
And then we'll talk a little bitabout what personalized
approaches can do for you whenyou'll know if you're ready for
them.
So you're gonna have someactionable takeaways to walk
away from this episode with, andhopefully a greater sense of
what's next for me.
What do I need to really movethe needle?
(00:42):
So, with that, welcome to theI'm Hormonal Podcast.
I'm your host, Bridget Walton, awomen's hormone coach helping
busy, ambitious women just likeyou through personalized
coaching and science-backedsolutions.
Whether you are working with meone-on-one or you're listening
here, my goal is the same, whichis to help you stop guessing
about your hormone health andstart seeing real progress.
(01:05):
So let's get into it.
Alrighty, well, welcome again.
I'm so glad that you joined me.
This is episode number 152 ofthe podcast.
We are creeping up on holidayseason.
I don't know about you, but I'mlike, how is it already
December?
In my mind, it's December, butwe've got some days, some work
(01:29):
to get through before we arethere.
What I want to talk about todayis something that I hear a lot
from my clients when I firstmeet them, when I'm on discovery
calls with you gals, and you aretelling me that nothing that
you've tried works for you.
And believe me, I know howfrustrating this can be.
I experienced this myself when Iwas trying to figure out what
(01:51):
the F was going on with my guthealth, as I was trying to
understand how my gut health andmy hormone health are related.
And maybe you're in the samespot.
So what you're gonna get fromthis episode are some of the
basics.
It's easy to forget the basics.
This is also something that Isee with my clients time again.
(02:14):
That even myself, you know,yesterday it was probably 2 p.m.
And I thought, okay, Bridge,maybe you want to get a glass of
water, right?
We we just need reminderssometimes.
And that's what you're gonna getfrom this first part of the
conversation.
Let me run you through thesefive areas that I want you to
focus on because if you haven'trefined or you haven't focused
(02:37):
on these areas, then you'releaving some progress on the
table.
This is what will help you out.
First of all, focusing on yoursleep.
It's so basic, but I really wantyou to focus on getting at least
eight hours of sleep.
Quality is arguably moreimportant than quantity, but
we're starting with quantity forthe sake of this one-to-many
(03:00):
conversation.
A couple of questions for you tothink through.
Do you need to set someboundaries around your bedtime
routine?
Do you need to create a bedtimeroutine?
Do you need to or can you adjustthe time that you wake up in the
morning?
It's not rocket science, butwhen you sit down to make an
actual plan for what you'regoing to change, you're going to
(03:22):
be infinitely more likely toaccomplish those goals.
Tell your partner, tell yourkids, tell your whoever, so that
you can get to bed on time.
Because when you are gettingmore and better sleep, that is
one thing that is going toabsolutely benefit every single
cell in your body.
It's going to support your bloodsugar, which supports your
(03:43):
hormones, which supports thequality of your period, the
regularity of your period, andall of these things.
So get some sleep.
Similarly, and number two on thelist, something that will help
every single cell in your bodyis focusing on hydration.
This is easy to forego, but ifyou don't have, you know, a big
(04:03):
water bottle that you can bringwith you, if you don't have a
regular cadence of getting up tofill up your cup, if you don't
have that habit of getting inwater every day, you're leaving
progress on the table.
In short, what happens when youare dehydrated is that your
stress hormone cortisol goes upa little bit.
And we know that cortisol is notdoing any favors for your sex
(04:28):
hormones.
Your body needs water.
Just drink up, drink up.
Number three on the list,something that I want you to
incorporate and focus on beforeyou approach a personalized
approach, would be to stoplooking at your screens so close
to bedtime.
And why is this important?
(04:49):
This is important because if youare all up in your screens right
until the minute before you goto bed, the blue light from your
screens is likely impacting yourcircadian rhythm, impacting your
sleep.
We're coming back to oldcortisol here again because the
blue light that's emitted fromour screens, from LED lights,
from these bright ass lightsthat are shining at us when
(05:11):
we're driving down the roadsthese days.
These are essentially signalingto your brain, hey girl, it's
the middle of the day, becausethat's when we get the most blue
light from the sun, is in themiddle of the day.
And um, so our brain says, okay,I guess I need to be up.
You can build these good habits.
You can read.
Actually, you know what?
(05:31):
One of my friends, and did Imention this last week?
Anyway, one of my friends, shewas telling me how she has a no
scroll box that she made in herhouse.
And I'm like, ooh, that's a goodidea.
No scroll box, what is that?
When you feel like scrolling,you're actually gonna just go on
over, wiggle on over to your boxthat has a coloring book, that
(05:53):
has a uh if you crochet or knit,or if you want to play a game of
cards with your partner orwhatever that looks like for
you, easy options that arescreen-free that can help you
feeling good.
You know, this reminds me too,because stress levels are so
important for your hormones.
I heard about a study recently,it was talking through how doing
(06:18):
something creative really helpsto reduce the anxiety in your
brain.
So, like picking somethingcreative, whatever that means to
you, that can help support yourmental health, which in turn is
going to support your hormonehealth.
(06:38):
So moving on from getting sleep,making sure you're hydrating,
quitting being addicted to yourscreens.
The fourth thing I want you tostart doing is swapping out
plastics, especially plasticsthat are in your kitchen,
because those are going to besources of endocrine disrupting
chemicals.
They're not doing you anysolids, they're not supporting
(06:59):
your hormone balance, they'renot supporting your, you know,
weight loss goals if you have aweight loss goal.
It's something that you can dolittle by little.
You don't need to do it all atonce.
You maybe shouldn't do it all atonce.
That would be a little bitoverwhelming.
And you don't have to buyeverything new, right?
If you just thought, oh gosh,yeah, but that's so expensive.
(07:20):
I am a huge goodwill or homegoods kind of gal where I'm
like, how do they even sell themat this price?
If it's been a hot minute sinceyou've made your way to a resale
shop or a place like Home Goods,then check it out because they
are going to make this swappingof plastics in your kitchen to
(07:42):
glass or to stainless steel orwhatever that looks like for
you.
They're gonna make it muchsimpler and much more
attainable.
Now, the fifth and final thingthat I need you to remember is
that vegetables are your friend.
The goal that I want you toshoot for is two to three cups
of vegetables each day at least.
(08:03):
Like that's that's the minimum.
Go big, go above and beyond.
But if you are trying tounderstand what's going on with
your bloating, if you're tryingto figure out why your period is
always MIA, why you have a lotof period pain, any other crazy
reason your hormones are on thefritz, if you're not
incorporating vegetables intoyour diet, then that is a place
(08:27):
that I need you to start.
You can make so much change inthe way that you feel based on
what you're putting into yourbody.
Not only do the nutrients fromthose plants benefit your body,
certainly, but also the fiberfrom it, that's going to help
support your gut microbiome.
That's gonna help support yourbowel movements.
And if you've listened to thepodcast before, you know that
(08:50):
having regular quality bowelmovements is really important
for your hormone health too.
So hopefully some of those werejust reminders and you're
saying, yeah, yeah, Bridget, Igot it.
I already do all those things.
If so, this next section isgoing to be particularly
interesting to you.
If not, well, this next partwill still be interesting, but I
(09:13):
need you to focus onincorporating those five things.
Like press pause and make a planto do those things tomorrow.
Within the next 24 hours, startimplementing them.
Because I promise you, thosewill get you a step up, you
know, up to the next ledge,whatever this metaphor is when
it comes to your hormone andyour gut health journeys.
(09:36):
Now, like I mentioned, what Ireally want to talk about in
this second part of the episodeis like reassurance for you that
you are not crazy.
If you've done those fivethings, if you've got it locked
down, nailed down, whatever, andstill nothing is changing about
your hormones, then I just wantyou to know that it's it's not
(09:56):
you.
Health is complex, your hormonesare complex.
But I want to run you through acouple examples of how my
clients who thought the samething that you might be thinking
right now, how we overcame someof those thoughts, because I
want you to take inspirationfrom that as well.
Before I get into the examples,I'll just continue to say that
(10:19):
you can know all of the tips inthe world.
I could put out a seven-hourpodcast every single day telling
you exactly what to do, when todo, how to do it, you know.
But if you aren't looking at itthrough the right frame of mind,
if you aren't actuallyimplementing it, if you don't
believe that you can change andthat you can actually influence
(10:42):
your hormone health, your guthealth, then you're not gonna
see those changes.
The way that you think aboutyour health, the way that you
talk about your health, the waythat you talk about yourself to
yourself is really important.
You can do this, I promise you.
So, with that, I want to giveyou this first example.
(11:02):
I have a client who she has beenstruggling with fertility.
She did her labs with herprimary care doctor.
Everything came back lookingpretty good, save for one
marker.
So she's like, hey, I know thatmy cycle is regular, I know that
things are in good shape, butnothing is working.
(11:24):
I'm not losing weight and I'mnot getting pregnant, and I
don't know why.
So, what we did for her was astool test uh to take a look at
her gut microbiome and see whatwas going on in there.
And what we found was that shehad a lot of inflammatory
bacteria that were overgrown.
And what happens when you havethat overgrowth of inflammatory
(11:47):
microbes or bacteria in yourdigestive system is they create
this inflammation, this stressthat has a follow-on impact on
your hormones, of course.
So, with that, we did a foodsensitivity test too.
And this is the thing that Iwant you to really take away,
right?
The overall context isimportant, Delby, you get to
know what's going on.
(12:08):
But once she started toeliminate the foods that we
found she was sensitive to onthat MRT food sensitivity test,
she noticed within the first sixdays that uh her body shape was
already changing.
She noticed that after takingout some of those foods for just
six days, she saw a differenceand a difference that she hadn't
(12:34):
been able to see for months andmonths.
And so that's just this firstexample of how it's not that
you're not doing it right.
You just might need, probablyneed some of this personalized
approach so that you can reallyget clear on what you need
bioindividually and not, youknow, the advice en masse that's
(12:57):
out there.
I want to give you a secondexample of a client, and I've
talked about her before too.
If you've joined any of the umtraining, those virtual training
workshops I've done, then you'veprobably heard about her as
well.
But I have a client who hadspent years experiencing
constipation.
Now, you know that constipationis going to impact your hormone
(13:19):
balance, it's going to impactyour estrogen levels.
But within the first week ofworking together and actually
looking at what was going on inher digestive system, saying,
How can we focus on the rootcause of what's going on instead
of just putting a band-aid onthis?
Within one week of doing that,she was able to have regular
(13:42):
bowel movements for the firsttime in years.
So she really felt like, this isjust, I don't know, is this the
rest of my life?
Is this what I've got ahead ofme?
Because no doctors, no one onher care team had been able to
help her make any progress.
But within the first week, shewas like, wow, okay, it's not
(14:07):
me.
And I'll say this to you too,it's not you.
You're not doing somethingwrong.
You just might not be a healthpractitioner and you might not
have the context on what yourbody needs from that holistic
perspective to move the needle.
One more example for you.
Because are you a gal who feelslike you need to nap every day
(14:30):
and you are tired?
You're a sleepy bitch, as one ofmy friends described herself.
Well, another client that I had,she felt like this.
She felt like every single dayshe needed to sleep.
And what we did for her, wesaid, okay, let's think
critically about what's going onwith your circadian rhythm based
on when are you tired?
(14:50):
When are you eating?
When are you energetic?
How much are you sleeping?
And counter to what is out thereon the social media machine from
time to time, we decided thatshe should try switching her
workouts from the evening whenshe felt like she had more
energy to actually getting upearly and going in the morning.
(15:12):
And that's what made thedifference for her.
And this is what I'll say to youis that the advice that's out
there in the mainstream, youknow, one-to-many platform, and
even some things that I sayhere, right?
I don't know you or I don't knowyou yet.
So I don't know exactly what'sgoing on with your hormones.
And maybe something that worksfor, for example, a lot of gals
(15:34):
with estrogen excess doesn'twork for you for some reason
that I'm not aware of because Idon't know you yet.
And so the same thing applieshere.
When you have that personalizedapproach that's tailored to you,
that can be the tool that youneed, the boost that you need to
really understand, hey, it's notme.
Because one more time and thenI'll wrap it up.
(15:57):
But you can do it.
You have the tools, you have thepower.
If you have the right mindset,then you can make this change.
And that is the one thing that Iknow for sure because you have
the ability to make theseadjustments, to bring back a
regular cycle, to bring back aneasy cycle, to bring back easy
regular digestion.
(16:18):
But you might just need thatnext step and one more tool.
So that's what I wanted to sharewith you on this episode today.
Quick reminder (16:27):
everything that I share with you is for
educational purposes only, not areplacement for medical advice.
But if what I talked about todayresonated with you and you feel
like you've already triedeverything for your hormones,
but you're still stuck, Icreated a free guide that is
specifically for you.
You can go over toimhormonal.com slash guide to
(16:48):
grab it for free.
And if you have any questions orrequests, find me on Instagram
at I'm underscore hormonal.
Thanks so much for listening,and I'll see you next time.
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