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I'm not going to tell you what to do for your experience.
I'm just going to tell you what my experience is, and you can
take away from that what you desire.
But what I do know is that I wasn't as mentally unstable as I
thought. Like, I really didn't need to be
going to therapy every single week.
In fact, I realized that the root cause of so much of my
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mental health angst was caused by my hormone imbalance.
So that's my experience and we're going to talk about it
today. Hello, beautiful skinny dipping
listeners. I love you so much.
I am Kayla Rose, I am the host of Skinny Dipping the podcast.
If you're new here. We love mental health, we love
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spirituality. We love talking about the woo
woo and just demystifying it andmaking it so tangible and so
real and so actionable. And today is a very highly
requested episode. If you're watching on Spotify,
you can see me on my video in mycar and I'm just really excited
to strip down and dive in today,guys, skinny dipping fans and
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lovers. I love you guys.
I'm skinny dipping lovers and community.
I love you guys. Like, I'm so grateful for you.
And I wanted to let you know before we get into this episode
where we're going to be talking about how I balance my hormones.
And it really significantly improved my relationship to
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myself and my mental health and my body and just the PMDD that I
experienced from this hormone dysregulation.
We're going to get into that today and what I personally did
for myself and just the takeaways that I've learned from
this literally like over 10 yearexperience from like getting on
hormonal birth control at a veryyoung age of like 1617, getting
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off of it, feeling like my libido was completely shot.
And you know, I just didn't havelike a sex drive because that is
a side effect of the pill that they don't tell you about and
how I got off of it. And then so, so much, there's so
much in the story, but there is also just so much that I've
learned along the way through education and I cannot wait to
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But let's strip down and dive into this episode about just my
hormone imbalance journey and how I genuinely feel like a
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different person now because I Ilearned about my hormones and
just really worked on my hormonehealth.
I really struggled with PMDD andif you don't know what that is,
it's premenstrual depression disorder.
And it's basically like I never really experienced depression
growing up. But when I started experiencing
hormone imbalance was when I would experience these extremely
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low lows that I didn't even fully understand what it was or,
or was it depression? Was it not like I didn't know
how to classify. I just knew that every single
month, like around 3 days beforemy period in that late lewdial
part of your cycle, I would literally feel like my life was
completely falling apart. And I would want to break up
with my partner and I would wantto quit my job.
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And I would just like start doubting myself so deeply.
And I would get these intrusive late lewdial thoughts.
And it really impacted my mentalhealth more than my physical
health. I felt like my hormone imbalance
really impacted my mental healththe most.
And now I literally like have myperiod right now and I'm
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menstruating and I'm like, Oh myGod.
Like I didn't have a breakdown before.
I do feel like I have a handle on my hormones and there's so
much healthier. My period is synced to the new
moon and my ovulation is synced to the full moon.
And it just feels so incredibly good to feel in tune with my
body. And I want to teach you guys
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what I personally did. And it's going to be different
for you than it is for me because all of our bodies are
different. But this is a highly requested
episode. So yeah, let's strip down and
dive in. I'm Kayla Rose.
This is skinny dipping. Go sign up for the Soul and
Progress community and let's getinto it.
So I just want to say like before we get into it, that it's
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never just one thing. It's never just one fix.
It's one thing will change your life.
Oh my gosh. And like we can't put so much
pressure around one thing fixingwhat we're experiencing.
Because the truth is it's a holistic approach and the best
way to gain autonomy and responsibility for your physical
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well-being, your body's actual health.
Or in this case, like our hormone health, or in this case
our hormone health, it's so important to approach it in this
holistic way where it's like it's a lifestyle shift.
It's not just, oh, I'm going to do this one thing and it's a
cure all. Because I think that leaves us
in any sense, whether it's, you know, a beauty product that we
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want to buy that we think is going to like make us look a
certain way, or, you know, a health product that we think is
going to heal this for us, heal our acne or heal our gut.
It's never just one thing. And I know that's a brutal truth
to hear because we want it to beone thing.
We want it to be simple. But the truth is like, it's
never just one thing. It's a holistic approach that
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creates true healing. And I want us to keep this in
mind as I'm telling my story because it's a combination of so
many different things. And also, I want to say I'm not
an expert on hormone health. I am simply here telling you my
experience. And like I said before, our
bodies are different. Our experiences are going to be
different. But if you can learn something
from my story, that's all that matters.
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So today we're going to talk about like what my story is,
what worked, what are my takeaways are and I'm just
really letting you into my personal world because this was
a big struggle for me. Like, you know, last year I went
to a hormone specialist because I was like, Oh my gosh, my, my,
my therapist, she looked at me and she's like Kayla, like, I
think it's your hormone. She's like every single month
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around this time you have this breakdown, manic episode,
depressive episode, what it whatever it was in that certain
months, just this really intensemental health period that I was
experiencing. And, and it always came right
before my period. And it was like, OK, let's look
at what's happening. We, we need to get you help.
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And I'm so grateful for her saying that because that really
opened my eyes because I didn't see what it was.
I didn't fully understand that because I'm just young, you
know, I'm growing up in my early20s.
Like I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.
This is the first time I'm navigating this whole
circumstance in this lifetime ormaybe in any lifetime, but all I
knew is that I had a shot libidolike This is why I actually got
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off birth control because I was like, my libido is gone.
I my sex drive is gone, like this is affecting me, my
relationship and I just it was just not fun.
And I feel like that's really healed now and I feel my sexual
energy returning to my body and I'm so incredibly grateful.
So a little background on me. Hi, wait, why am I being so
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weird? Like I don't know you guys,
silly, silly. So I got on hormonal birth
control at the pill when I was 1716 and a half, 17, somewhere
around there because I was, you know, going to have sex.
So that's why I got on it at that young age and I felt like
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it worked for me until it didn't.
I was really irresponsible with it.
I would take it through the month and I wouldn't let myself
get my period for like 3 months at a time because I was like, I
need to be busy and like this hustle mindset that I had like
seven years ago that now I've like gone on this healing
journey and spiritual journey and have healed that hustle
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mindset within me. I'm like, no, I know now that my
body as a woman needs periods every single month of rest and
rejuvenation and just realigningmyself each and every month.
And that's when my body actuallyfeels its best.
But I didn't know that. Yeah.
Yeah. You know, when I was young.
So I would just take the pill. It's actually so bad, guys.
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I would take the pill and then eventually I lost my period
after like 7 years, yeah. 17181920212223, yes.
So seven years, seven years of birth control and being
irresponsible with it and not actually anyway, I learned that
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birth control is a fake period. Like it's not actually your your
real period when you are on thatpill hormonal birth control.
I don't really know about other birth controls that that much.
So I'm just going to talk about my personal experience, but I
basically lost my period. I lost my libido and I was like,
OK, this isn't working for me anymore.
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And I learned that, you know, our period is our fifth vital
sign. It's, it's our ability to tell
if our body is healthy or not, but you can't tell anything
about your health if you're on this like fake period because
you're kind of forcing your bodyto have this period.
And I was definitely forcing it because I was like not taking
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the pill and then taking it exactly when I wanted to.
And the truth is like my body wasn't supposed to operate in
that way. And it really did ruin me.
I experienced such bad PMDD where I got incredible intrusive
thoughts before my period and that's when my mental health was
the lowest and I felt like everything was falling apart.
So my mental health, the libido,and just like through education,
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I learned like, OK, this is not really what I want.
And I'm not judging anybody for being on birth control.
Like your experience is your experience.
Please do whatever you need to do for your health, for your
body. This is your own journey.
I'm not judging anyone. I'm not thinking anybody should
do XYZI. Just want to tell you about my
personal experience. So I got off and then my period
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returned like three months later.
But it literally took two to three years to heal the after
effects of the birth control. So the PMDD, the getting
insanely depressed and before myperiod, what else?
Just like I didn't really experience like acne, that
wasn't really my journey, but itwas mainly like the mental
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health effects and the libido and the sex drive.
And it really took two to three years.
And I'm going to get into the things that I personally did.
I went to a specialist last yearand we actually fell into place
so perfectly. Like the universe actually
really wanted me to get this done because I actually got this
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free sponsorship opportunity to do blood tests and they were
going to help me with my birth control and they paid for all my
blood tests. We did it and then the
partnership fell through and I never got to complete the
program, but I had all the bloodtest results, so I took that to
a hormone specialist, Molly May,who I love her so much.
I've had her on the podcast before.
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She's so amazing. I really credit her for helping
me in this. She actually switched over to
photography now, so I don't evenknow if she's doing hormone
therapy anymore, but she was amazing and she was very
holistic and intuitive with it. So with the blood test, her
looking at my results as well asher asking me questions on this
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like 300 page questionnaire, just like about my health and my
experience with my period and mymood and my food and my, you
know, lifestyle and movement andstress levels.
She asked me about all these different things that have such
a big impact on your hormone health.
Note that all those things are very important.
Your stress levels. You can write this down if you
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want your stress levels. Like I will not get my period
only not like OK, I have a 28 day cycle.
Like it's very accurate. But I won't get my period if I'm
like super super stressed or if I've been traveling a lot and
there's a lot of stress on my body from flying in airplanes.
And just like the change in the altitude so quickly, I'll like
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have my period get super delayedso I can tell that my body is
being affected. So stress and then like, yeah,
the what you eat, your diet, what how you move your body,
your lifestyle, your mood, your relationships, all these things
impact your hormones. Like I said, it's not just one
thing. It's finding a holistic balance
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So we did the blood test, we didthe questionnaire, and then she
found out for me personally thatshe said there was 5 things that
typically caused this type of response that I was experiencing
like the PMDD, the loss of libido.
She said there was 5 things and by looking at my blood test, at
my questionnaire, she could see that it was mainly my blood
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sugar. And I was like whoa, like I
didn't realize that my blood sugar would have such an impact.
But what I do know is that I'm the type of person that I'm like
I'm not hungry. I'm not hungry.
And then I'm like Oh my God I'm literally starving.
Like I'm literally so hungry andit hits me like that.
And if I don't eat, I get so hungry.
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So because I feel like in my undiagnosed ADHD, sometimes I
get really into work Oregon justinto my day and I like forget to
feed myself. And then I'm like, Oh my gosh,
I'm so hangry right now. And I've had to learn how to
take care of myself and how not taking care of my body is
actually a form of self sabotagebecause I can't get anything
done when I'm not showing up andtaking care of my vessel that
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allows me to create and be and interact with the world.
So we realized that it was my blood sugar and I realized that
I was eating a lot of like tofu and soy and salads because I
would go to like health food stores during the day.
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And I feel like that's just a thing here on Maui in Hawaii.
I feel like health food stores are just part of the culture.
And I, yeah, would go to these places and get like, a salad
with like, tofu. And that was really impacting me
because I wasn't having enough protein in my diet, true
protein. And yes, of course tofu is
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protein, but that was affecting me.
The soy was affecting me in other ways.
And I was never, like, vegetarian or vegan or anything.
It was just like a personal choice because I like, enjoyed
eating that way. But the truth is it wasn't
helping my body. It was actually hurting me and I
realized that I needed to start eating high protein meals.
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So I eat a lot of like avocado toast with eggs, eggs in the
morning. I love like salmon bowls.
I love chicken and veggies. I love steak tacos.
I think the more protein the better for me and my body.
I just genuinely think that she taught me this.
Like the hormone socialist MollyMae taught me that if I just
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increased my protein levels, it would stabilize my blood sugar.
So I started doing that and I feel like after a year of
teaching myself how to feed myself, teaching myself how to
cook for myself, and just showing up for myself in that
way where I'm really nurturing my body and paying attention in
a healthy, loving way to what's going in it.
I'm never like restrictive. I'm never like, you can't have
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this, you can't have that. I'm very like healthy with my
approach to food and I really eat what feels good to me.
And I'm going to tell you some of my recipes that I really
love. And I'm going to also drop one
of my favorite recipes on the community so that you guys can
see that. But I just feel like I didn't
know really how to cook for myself or how to feed myself or
how to really be healthier what my body needed until now.
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And I think it's just a part of growing up, exploring yourself,
exploring your own journey and seeing for you.
When does your body feel the most energized and when do you
feel the most groggy? When does your body feel the
most open? And when does it feel the most
contracted? And just paying attention,
learning to the to the ways thatyour body responds to certain
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lifestyle choices. So I realized that it was my
blood sugar and since eating high protein, I think that was
the biggest thing that I changedthat really did just heal my
hormones and allow me to be moreregulated, more grounded before
my period and allowed, you know,even just like my inflammation
to go down my gut to feel better.
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I, I just genuinely think that that was the key for me, the
main key that just unlocked it. So I would go from eating like,
you know, tofu salads, pasta tofu bowls.
And now I, you know, on the go Iget this lemongrass chicken
sandwich with pickled veggies that's like so yummy.
I make steak tacos at home with my boyfriend.
He makes them. He's they're so good.
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I make hot honey salmon bowls. We make chicken, BBQ chicken in
the air fryer. And then we do like Japanese
sweet potatoes and regular sweetpotatoes and broccoli and like
veggies and rice. I feel like my body responds
really well to rice. And those are kind of my
favorite meals. So I want to share those with
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you guys because I feel like when I was on this journey, I
didn't know what meals to make that I would enjoy because I
like a lot of flavor. I like spice.
Like I really just know that forme, the best way to feed myself
is to truly enjoy and love the food that I'm eating.
And I'm such a foodie. So I just wanted to share some
of my go to things so that you guys can, you know, figure it
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out for yourselves. And I just sometimes wish
somebody told me like this is what you should make like in the
morning. I love having like sourdough
with avocado toast and then likemaking an egg or I like, like
scrambled eggs with, you know, maybe some sauteed veggies and
an avocado and a piece of sourdough toast.
And then I love doing like an iced matcha or yerba matte for
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my caffeine. Those are my go TOS.
And then during the day, like die like to get bowls or
sandwiches or chicken plates or steak plates because we have a
lot of like plate lunches here in Hawaii.
OK, now that we're done with thestory, let's kind of summarize
all this up because you guys know that I like to be specific
for you guys. And I appreciate you listening
to my story and holding space for it.
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And, you know, just know that whatever your thing is, I'm not
judging you. And I ask that you don't judge
me in this. And yeah, I just remember this
is not medical advice. This is just my personal
experience. So the first thing that I did
was I got help from a professional and I went for
somebody who is a hormone coach,who is an intuitive, who is
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holistic. And for me, that really worked.
I did the blood tests and it just allowed me to learn about
my body. I also got educated.
I, you know, listened to podcasts about PMDD, about
hormones. I, you know, talked to other
friends who read certain books and asked them questions like my
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friend loves the 5th Vital Sign and I asked her questions about
the book. And just opening up the
conversation with other people who have healed it and who have
experienced something similar isso amazing because they may be
farther along in their journey of education and knowledge than
you. So it's like talking to other
people about it really does matter.
The second thing I did is more high protein meals to create a
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more balanced blood sugar in my body.
And also for me just eating frequently and making sure that
I'm not like not eating and thenletting my blood sugar drop and
getting hangry. Because I noticed that in the
month if I had a lot of that up and down in my blood sugar then
my PMDD and my intrusive thoughts and my mental health
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would be way worse before my period.
This is just my personal experience and I noticed when I
kept it regulated and I make made sure to eat frequently
throughout the day. Like I eat like five times
throughout the day. I love to have like a cheese and
cracker and honey snack. I love having like a protein
bar, a smoothie, like I love having like meals in between
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meals. I just feel like my body
personally needs that. I am a strong believer that we
as humans need healthy outlets of escapism because we obviously
need escapism right in some form, because the world can be
kind of dark sometimes. But I think when we use healthy
forms of escapism, like reading that put us into this other
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think that the high protein meals, taking care of my body,
feeding myself properly had one of the biggest impacts.
OK, so the third thing that I feel like really helped helps me
every single month because remember, like, it's not like,
oh, I did this one thing and nowit's healed and now it's better
forever. It's like, no, every single
month impacts my period. Every single month before
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impacts my period that is upcoming.
So it is just a constant devotion and practice to myself
and learning about myself and listening to my body.
And for me, movement is a huge, huge part of my health journey.
And I just know that my life is so much better when I'm
constantly moving either in the gym, Pilates on YouTube, Pilates
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on the soul and progress community.
I do like hit and tone over there.
For me, I find that when I'm in my ovulation, right when I'm in
that peak energy state of ovulation, I really need to move
my energy and allow my energy tohave somewhere to go.
And if my energy doesn't have somewhere to go in my ovulation,
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I notice I feel a lot more Moodyand stuck in my late Ludio.
If you don't know about the different cycles, I have other
episodes on that, but you have your menstrual cycle, which is
your period. And then after your period, you
go into your follicular where the follicles are rising, your
energy is rising, and then you hit your peak ovulation.
That is when you can get pregnant.
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That is when you kind of have like that sticky stuff in your
underwear and that is kind of like the discharge that comes
from ovulation. And then after that, you have
two weeks of your luteal. So your first week of your
luteal is usually really grounded.
A really good time. I love my first part of my
luteal. The second part is where you
know, if you have hormone imbalance, but even just
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whenever you might feel a littlebit more like tired or groggy.
I'm just saying like just because I've healed my hormones
doesn't mean I don't get tired. Like before my period.
I definitely get lower energy and that's OK.
I instead of pushing myself and disrespecting my body and now I
honor my body and I listen to mybody and it's just for me
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personally if I move my body a lot and my follicular and my
ovulation, I noticed that my period I have less cramps and my
late luteal right before my period I don't really have the
same moodiness. So for me, and I talked to my
facial girl actually about this and she was saying that the
ovulation is that liver chi, chibeing the energy that flows
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through your body and Chinese medicine and liver just rules
like anger and energy and passion.
And that Mars kind of type of energy, the planet Mars rules
like passion, anger, movement, action.
And that kind of like liver chi needs to move through your body.
And if it gets stuck, that can just create a lot of like
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frustration. And if it just doesn't know
where to go, it can be tough on your body.
So I think it's really importantto move it out of your body when
you're in an energetic stage andto take care of your body a lot
in ovulation and listen to your body in all the phases and
notice how impacts your late luteal and your menstrual by
honoring each cycle and each part of your cycle.
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The fourth thing is just a lot of things.
So the fourth thing that I feel like has really helped me.
So we got the test. Getting help getting educated #2
high protein #3 movement, movingthat chi around, taking care of
your body in the different phases of your cycle and #4 is
going to be just consistency, time, patience, slowing down,
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doing less, listening to your body.
I know it probably sounds like abroken record and you're like,
it doesn't always have to be like this, but it's like some
things take time and energy and,and don't think that there has
to be like a quick fix, like boom, like it's solved, it's
done. Like let's go.
Like no, It's a constant devotion to yourself and knowing
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that and being willing to show up and that is going to make
life better for you because you're not going to have
unrealistic expectations of yourself.
And then you're going to get letdown and get into the cycle
where you don't feel motivated to show up for yourself.
Just stop that. Cancel, cancel, remove the
expectations. Know that it takes time, it
takes patience, it takes consistency, it takes learning
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about your own body and really just through trial and error,
figuring it out and getting educated along the way and
getting help where you need it. And just please be consistent
when it with it. Because all these things that I
did, you know, it took me two years after getting off my birth
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control to I really feel the effects and feel super aligned
to my cycle. And that's just my personal
experience. Your experience could be
shorter, but yeah, just know that it's going to take time and
that's OK. And there's nothing wrong with
that. I love you guys so much.
I hope you enjoyed this episode.This was definitely like a
different type of episode, but it really was like a look into
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something personal in my world that has changed my life, has
changed my mental health, and I wanted to share it with you guys
because it has impacted me so much.
And I know you guys have been requesting this.
So yeah, that's my experience with healing my PMDD and I'm
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I'm not going to tell you what to do for your experience.
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take away from that what you desire.
But what I do know is that I wasn't as mentally unstable as I
thought. Like, I really didn't need to be
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In fact, I realized that the root cause of so much of my
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mental health angst was caused by my hormone imbalance.
So that's my experience and we're going to talk about it
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And I wanted to let you know before we get into this episode
where we're going to be talking about how I balance my hormones.
And it really significantly improved my relationship to
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myself and my mental health and my body and just the PMDD that I
experienced from this hormone dysregulation.
We're going to get into that today and what I personally did
for myself and just the takeaways that I've learned from
this literally like over 10 yearexperience from like getting on
hormonal birth control at a veryyoung age of like 1617, getting
(01:49):
off of it, feeling like my libido was completely shot.
And you know, I just didn't havelike a sex drive because that is
a side effect of the pill that they don't tell you about and
how I got off of it. And then so, so much, there's so
much in the story, but there is also just so much that I've
learned along the way through education and I cannot wait to
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But let's strip down and dive into this episode about just my
hormone imbalance journey and how I genuinely feel like a
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different person now because I Ilearned about my hormones and
just really worked on my hormonehealth.
I really struggled with PMDD andif you don't know what that is,
it's premenstrual depression disorder.
And it's basically like I never really experienced depression
growing up. But when I started experiencing
hormone imbalance was when I would experience these extremely
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low lows that I didn't even fully understand what it was or,
or was it depression? Was it not like I didn't know
how to classify. I just knew that every single
month, like around 3 days beforemy period in that late lewdial
part of your cycle, I would literally feel like my life was
completely falling apart. And I would want to break up
with my partner and I would wantto quit my job.
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And I would just like start doubting myself so deeply.
And I would get these intrusive late lewdial thoughts.
And it really impacted my mentalhealth more than my physical
health. I felt like my hormone imbalance
really impacted my mental healththe most.
And now I literally like have myperiod right now and I'm
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menstruating and I'm like, Oh myGod.
Like I didn't have a breakdown before.
I do feel like I have a handle on my hormones and there's so
much healthier. My period is synced to the new
moon and my ovulation is synced to the full moon.
And it just feels so incredibly good to feel in tune with my
body. And I want to teach you guys
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what I personally did. And it's going to be different
for you than it is for me because all of our bodies are
different. But this is a highly requested
episode. So yeah, let's strip down and
dive in. I'm Kayla Rose.
This is skinny dipping. Go sign up for the Soul and
Progress community and let's getinto it.
So I just want to say like before we get into it, that it's
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never just one thing. It's never just one fix.
It's one thing will change your life.
Oh my gosh. And like we can't put so much
pressure around one thing fixingwhat we're experiencing.
Because the truth is it's a holistic approach and the best
way to gain autonomy and responsibility for your physical
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well-being, your body's actual health.
Or in this case, like our hormone health, or in this case
our hormone health, it's so important to approach it in this
holistic way where it's like it's a lifestyle shift.
It's not just, oh, I'm going to do this one thing and it's a
cure all. Because I think that leaves us
in any sense, whether it's, you know, a beauty product that we
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want to buy that we think is going to like make us look a
certain way, or, you know, a health product that we think is
going to heal this for us, heal our acne or heal our gut.
It's never just one thing. And I know that's a brutal truth
to hear because we want it to beone thing.
We want it to be simple. But the truth is like, it's
never just one thing. It's a holistic approach that
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creates true healing. And I want us to keep this in
mind as I'm telling my story because it's a combination of so
many different things. And also, I want to say I'm not
an expert on hormone health. I am simply here telling you my
experience. And like I said before, our
bodies are different. Our experiences are going to be
different. But if you can learn something
from my story, that's all that matters.
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So today we're going to talk about like what my story is,
what worked, what are my takeaways are and I'm just
really letting you into my personal world because this was
a big struggle for me. Like, you know, last year I went
to a hormone specialist because I was like, Oh my gosh, my, my,
my therapist, she looked at me and she's like Kayla, like, I
think it's your hormone. She's like every single month
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around this time you have this breakdown, manic episode,
depressive episode, what it whatever it was in that certain
months, just this really intensemental health period that I was
experiencing. And, and it always came right
before my period. And it was like, OK, let's look
at what's happening. We, we need to get you help.
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And I'm so grateful for her saying that because that really
opened my eyes because I didn't see what it was.
I didn't fully understand that because I'm just young, you
know, I'm growing up in my early20s.
Like I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.
This is the first time I'm navigating this whole
circumstance in this lifetime ormaybe in any lifetime, but all I
knew is that I had a shot libidolike This is why I actually got
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off birth control because I was like, my libido is gone.
I my sex drive is gone, like this is affecting me, my
relationship and I just it was just not fun.
And I feel like that's really healed now and I feel my sexual
energy returning to my body and I'm so incredibly grateful.
So a little background on me. Hi, wait, why am I being so
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weird? Like I don't know you guys,
silly, silly. So I got on hormonal birth
control at the pill when I was 1716 and a half, 17, somewhere
around there because I was, you know, going to have sex.
So that's why I got on it at that young age and I felt like
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it worked for me until it didn't.
I was really irresponsible with it.
I would take it through the month and I wouldn't let myself
get my period for like 3 months at a time because I was like, I
need to be busy and like this hustle mindset that I had like
seven years ago that now I've like gone on this healing
journey and spiritual journey and have healed that hustle
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mindset within me. I'm like, no, I know now that my
body as a woman needs periods every single month of rest and
rejuvenation and just realigningmyself each and every month.
And that's when my body actuallyfeels its best.
But I didn't know that. Yeah.
Yeah. You know, when I was young.
So I would just take the pill. It's actually so bad, guys.
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I would take the pill and then eventually I lost my period
after like 7 years, yeah. 17181920212223, yes.
So seven years, seven years of birth control and being
irresponsible with it and not actually anyway, I learned that
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birth control is a fake period. Like it's not actually your your
real period when you are on thatpill hormonal birth control.
I don't really know about other birth controls that that much.
So I'm just going to talk about my personal experience, but I
basically lost my period. I lost my libido and I was like,
OK, this isn't working for me anymore.
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And I learned that, you know, our period is our fifth vital
sign. It's, it's our ability to tell
if our body is healthy or not, but you can't tell anything
about your health if you're on this like fake period because
you're kind of forcing your bodyto have this period.
And I was definitely forcing it because I was like not taking
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the pill and then taking it exactly when I wanted to.
And the truth is like my body wasn't supposed to operate in
that way. And it really did ruin me.
I experienced such bad PMDD where I got incredible intrusive
thoughts before my period and that's when my mental health was
the lowest and I felt like everything was falling apart.
So my mental health, the libido,and just like through education,
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I learned like, OK, this is not really what I want.
And I'm not judging anybody for being on birth control.
Like your experience is your experience.
Please do whatever you need to do for your health, for your
body. This is your own journey.
I'm not judging anyone. I'm not thinking anybody should
do XYZI. Just want to tell you about my
personal experience. So I got off and then my period
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returned like three months later.
But it literally took two to three years to heal the after
effects of the birth control. So the PMDD, the getting
insanely depressed and before myperiod, what else?
Just like I didn't really experience like acne, that
wasn't really my journey, but itwas mainly like the mental
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health effects and the libido and the sex drive.
And it really took two to three years.
And I'm going to get into the things that I personally did.
I went to a specialist last yearand we actually fell into place
so perfectly. Like the universe actually
really wanted me to get this done because I actually got this
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free sponsorship opportunity to do blood tests and they were
going to help me with my birth control and they paid for all my
blood tests. We did it and then the
partnership fell through and I never got to complete the
program, but I had all the bloodtest results, so I took that to
a hormone specialist, Molly May,who I love her so much.
I've had her on the podcast before.
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She's so amazing. I really credit her for helping
me in this. She actually switched over to
photography now, so I don't evenknow if she's doing hormone
therapy anymore, but she was amazing and she was very
holistic and intuitive with it. So with the blood test, her
looking at my results as well asher asking me questions on this
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like 300 page questionnaire, just like about my health and my
experience with my period and mymood and my food and my, you
know, lifestyle and movement andstress levels.
She asked me about all these different things that have such
a big impact on your hormone health.
Note that all those things are very important.
Your stress levels. You can write this down if you
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want your stress levels. Like I will not get my period
only not like OK, I have a 28 day cycle.
Like it's very accurate. But I won't get my period if I'm
like super super stressed or if I've been traveling a lot and
there's a lot of stress on my body from flying in airplanes.
And just like the change in the altitude so quickly, I'll like
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have my period get super delayedso I can tell that my body is
being affected. So stress and then like, yeah,
the what you eat, your diet, what how you move your body,
your lifestyle, your mood, your relationships, all these things
impact your hormones. Like I said, it's not just one
thing. It's finding a holistic balance
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So we did the blood test, we didthe questionnaire, and then she
found out for me personally thatshe said there was 5 things that
typically caused this type of response that I was experiencing
like the PMDD, the loss of libido.
She said there was 5 things and by looking at my blood test, at
my questionnaire, she could see that it was mainly my blood
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sugar. And I was like whoa, like I
didn't realize that my blood sugar would have such an impact.
But what I do know is that I'm the type of person that I'm like
I'm not hungry. I'm not hungry.
And then I'm like Oh my God I'm literally starving.
Like I'm literally so hungry andit hits me like that.
And if I don't eat, I get so hungry.
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So because I feel like in my undiagnosed ADHD, sometimes I
get really into work Oregon justinto my day and I like forget to
feed myself. And then I'm like, Oh my gosh,
I'm so hangry right now. And I've had to learn how to
take care of myself and how not taking care of my body is
actually a form of self sabotagebecause I can't get anything
done when I'm not showing up andtaking care of my vessel that
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allows me to create and be and interact with the world.
So we realized that it was my blood sugar and I realized that
I was eating a lot of like tofu and soy and salads because I
would go to like health food stores during the day.
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And I feel like that's just a thing here on Maui in Hawaii.
I feel like health food stores are just part of the culture.
And I, yeah, would go to these places and get like, a salad
with like, tofu. And that was really impacting me
because I wasn't having enough protein in my diet, true
protein. And yes, of course tofu is
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protein, but that was affecting me.
The soy was affecting me in other ways.
And I was never, like, vegetarian or vegan or anything.
It was just like a personal choice because I like, enjoyed
eating that way. But the truth is it wasn't
helping my body. It was actually hurting me and I
realized that I needed to start eating high protein meals.
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So I eat a lot of like avocado toast with eggs, eggs in the
morning. I love like salmon bowls.
I love chicken and veggies. I love steak tacos.
I think the more protein the better for me and my body.
I just genuinely think that she taught me this.
Like the hormone socialist MollyMae taught me that if I just
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increased my protein levels, it would stabilize my blood sugar.
So I started doing that and I feel like after a year of
teaching myself how to feed myself, teaching myself how to
cook for myself, and just showing up for myself in that
way where I'm really nurturing my body and paying attention in
a healthy, loving way to what's going in it.
I'm never like restrictive. I'm never like, you can't have
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this, you can't have that. I'm very like healthy with my
approach to food and I really eat what feels good to me.
And I'm going to tell you some of my recipes that I really
love. And I'm going to also drop one
of my favorite recipes on the community so that you guys can
see that. But I just feel like I didn't
know really how to cook for myself or how to feed myself or
how to really be healthier what my body needed until now.
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And I think it's just a part of growing up, exploring yourself,
exploring your own journey and seeing for you.
When does your body feel the most energized and when do you
feel the most groggy? When does your body feel the
most open? And when does it feel the most
contracted? And just paying attention,
learning to the to the ways thatyour body responds to certain
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lifestyle choices. So I realized that it was my
blood sugar and since eating high protein, I think that was
the biggest thing that I changedthat really did just heal my
hormones and allow me to be moreregulated, more grounded before
my period and allowed, you know,even just like my inflammation
to go down my gut to feel better.
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I, I just genuinely think that that was the key for me, the
main key that just unlocked it. So I would go from eating like,
you know, tofu salads, pasta tofu bowls.
And now I, you know, on the go Iget this lemongrass chicken
sandwich with pickled veggies that's like so yummy.
I make steak tacos at home with my boyfriend.
He makes them. He's they're so good.
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I make hot honey salmon bowls. We make chicken, BBQ chicken in
the air fryer. And then we do like Japanese
sweet potatoes and regular sweetpotatoes and broccoli and like
veggies and rice. I feel like my body responds
really well to rice. And those are kind of my
favorite meals. So I want to share those with
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you guys because I feel like when I was on this journey, I
didn't know what meals to make that I would enjoy because I
like a lot of flavor. I like spice.
Like I really just know that forme, the best way to feed myself
is to truly enjoy and love the food that I'm eating.
And I'm such a foodie. So I just wanted to share some
of my go to things so that you guys can, you know, figure it
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out for yourselves. And I just sometimes wish
somebody told me like this is what you should make like in the
morning. I love having like sourdough
with avocado toast and then likemaking an egg or I like, like
scrambled eggs with, you know, maybe some sauteed veggies and
an avocado and a piece of sourdough toast.
And then I love doing like an iced matcha or yerba matte for
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my caffeine. Those are my go TOS.
And then during the day, like die like to get bowls or
sandwiches or chicken plates or steak plates because we have a
lot of like plate lunches here in Hawaii.
OK, now that we're done with thestory, let's kind of summarize
all this up because you guys know that I like to be specific
for you guys. And I appreciate you listening
to my story and holding space for it.
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And, you know, just know that whatever your thing is, I'm not
judging you. And I ask that you don't judge
me in this. And yeah, I just remember this
is not medical advice. This is just my personal
experience. So the first thing that I did
was I got help from a professional and I went for
somebody who is a hormone coach,who is an intuitive, who is
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holistic. And for me, that really worked.
I did the blood tests and it just allowed me to learn about
my body. I also got educated.
I, you know, listened to podcasts about PMDD, about
hormones. I, you know, talked to other
friends who read certain books and asked them questions like my
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friend loves the 5th Vital Sign and I asked her questions about
the book. And just opening up the
conversation with other people who have healed it and who have
experienced something similar isso amazing because they may be
farther along in their journey of education and knowledge than
you. So it's like talking to other
people about it really does matter.
The second thing I did is more high protein meals to create a
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more balanced blood sugar in my body.
And also for me just eating frequently and making sure that
I'm not like not eating and thenletting my blood sugar drop and
getting hangry. Because I noticed that in the
month if I had a lot of that up and down in my blood sugar then
my PMDD and my intrusive thoughts and my mental health
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would be way worse before my period.
This is just my personal experience and I noticed when I
kept it regulated and I make made sure to eat frequently
throughout the day. Like I eat like five times
throughout the day. I love to have like a cheese and
cracker and honey snack. I love having like a protein
bar, a smoothie, like I love having like meals in between
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meals. I just feel like my body
personally needs that. I am a strong believer that we
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OK, so the third thing that I feel like really helped helps me
every single month because remember, like, it's not like,
oh, I did this one thing and nowit's healed and now it's better
forever. It's like, no, every single
month impacts my period. Every single month before
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impacts my period that is upcoming.
So it is just a constant devotion and practice to myself
and learning about myself and listening to my body.
And for me, movement is a huge, huge part of my health journey.
And I just know that my life is so much better when I'm
constantly moving either in the gym, Pilates on YouTube, Pilates
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on the soul and progress community.
I do like hit and tone over there.
For me, I find that when I'm in my ovulation, right when I'm in
that peak energy state of ovulation, I really need to move
my energy and allow my energy tohave somewhere to go.
And if my energy doesn't have somewhere to go in my ovulation,
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I notice I feel a lot more Moodyand stuck in my late Ludio.
If you don't know about the different cycles, I have other
episodes on that, but you have your menstrual cycle, which is
your period. And then after your period, you
go into your follicular where the follicles are rising, your
energy is rising, and then you hit your peak ovulation.
That is when you can get pregnant.
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That is when you kind of have like that sticky stuff in your
underwear and that is kind of like the discharge that comes
from ovulation. And then after that, you have
two weeks of your luteal. So your first week of your
luteal is usually really grounded.
A really good time. I love my first part of my
luteal. The second part is where you
know, if you have hormone imbalance, but even just
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whenever you might feel a littlebit more like tired or groggy.
I'm just saying like just because I've healed my hormones
doesn't mean I don't get tired. Like before my period.
I definitely get lower energy and that's OK.
I instead of pushing myself and disrespecting my body and now I
honor my body and I listen to mybody and it's just for me
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personally if I move my body a lot and my follicular and my
ovulation, I noticed that my period I have less cramps and my
late luteal right before my period I don't really have the
same moodiness. So for me, and I talked to my
facial girl actually about this and she was saying that the
ovulation is that liver chi, chibeing the energy that flows
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through your body and Chinese medicine and liver just rules
like anger and energy and passion.
And that Mars kind of type of energy, the planet Mars rules
like passion, anger, movement, action.
And that kind of like liver chi needs to move through your body.
And if it gets stuck, that can just create a lot of like
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frustration. And if it just doesn't know
where to go, it can be tough on your body.
So I think it's really importantto move it out of your body when
you're in an energetic stage andto take care of your body a lot
in ovulation and listen to your body in all the phases and
notice how impacts your late luteal and your menstrual by
honoring each cycle and each part of your cycle.
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The fourth thing is just a lot of things.
So the fourth thing that I feel like has really helped me.
So we got the test. Getting help getting educated #2
high protein #3 movement, movingthat chi around, taking care of
your body in the different phases of your cycle and #4 is
going to be just consistency, time, patience, slowing down,
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doing less, listening to your body.
I know it probably sounds like abroken record and you're like,
it doesn't always have to be like this, but it's like some
things take time and energy and,and don't think that there has
to be like a quick fix, like boom, like it's solved, it's
done. Like let's go.
Like no, It's a constant devotion to yourself and knowing
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that and being willing to show up and that is going to make
life better for you because you're not going to have
unrealistic expectations of yourself.
And then you're going to get letdown and get into the cycle
where you don't feel motivated to show up for yourself.
Just stop that. Cancel, cancel, remove the
expectations. Know that it takes time, it
takes patience, it takes consistency, it takes learning
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about your own body and really just through trial and error,
figuring it out and getting educated along the way and
getting help where you need it. And just please be consistent
when it with it. Because all these things that I
did, you know, it took me two years after getting off my birth
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control to I really feel the effects and feel super aligned
to my cycle. And that's just my personal
experience. Your experience could be
shorter, but yeah, just know that it's going to take time and
that's OK. And there's nothing wrong with
that. I love you guys so much.
I hope you enjoyed this episode.This was definitely like a
different type of episode, but it really was like a look into
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something personal in my world that has changed my life, has
changed my mental health, and I wanted to share it with you guys
because it has impacted me so much.
And I know you guys have been requesting this.
So yeah, that's my experience with healing my PMDD and I'm
just so grateful for you guys. Make sure to comment how you
feel, share this episode with somebody that you love, share on
your Instagram if you feel called, and tag me at Sundays KK
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at Skinny Dipping Diaries. All the links for anything I
talked about in this episode will be in the description.
I think that's it. I love you guys.
You are inherently worthy. Go join the March Challenge, try
out the soul and progress community.
We're going to have some live calls coming up.
We're going to do what's it called next month.
We're going to do pen pals. It's going to be so cute and
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it's just a really special community.
So go introduce yourself to the girls, try out your first breath
work class and I'll see you guysdown there.
Bye.
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