Healing Hormones

Endometriosis is so often misunderstood, and even worse, often misdiagnosed. Not many women know what the signs or symptoms are, and there aren’t many doctors who specialize in this kind of illness. That’s why it’s so important for us to share these within the world of women’s health—so women feel empowered to explore what is happening in their bodies! Chelsea Blackburn is a life and mindset coach for people with endometriosis. She can help you to learn how to love yourself, overcome mindset blocks, and create a life you love despite all of the pain. We talk about how we can change our mindset around our body and how we can learn to love ourselves through the challenges, and it is incredibly inspiring!

We Chat About:

• Chelsea’s endo story
• The side effects of endo medication
• Staying away from Facebook groups
• Chelsea’s endometriosis toolkit
• Managing your stress

Resources:

• chelseabri.com
• Instagram: @chelseaaabri
• Listen: The Endo Babe Podcast

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

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FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

Liesl Huenemann is a former client turned current friend, cat mom, and teacher. She and her husband went through three years of infertility treatments, including working with three different specialists. Following years of medicated cycles, additional diagnoses, and two miscarriages, they both decided to step away from treatment. Now, Liesl is empowering herself to take back her body, and together they are embarking on their next new journey: Adoption. When you hear her story, you’ll understand how much she’s been through, and I think it’s so important to normalize sharing these kinds of stories so that the path isn’t so difficult and isolating for the next generation.

We Chat About:

• Assuming getting pregnant would be so easy
• Talking about IVF
• Being diagnosed with PCOS
• Dealing with multiple miscarriages
• Talking about experiences with infertility publicly
• Finding a support group
• Deciding to take a break from pregnancy attempts
• Making the decision to adopt

Resources:

• For infertility resources, visit resolve.org

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

Stef + Jules are the hosts of The Babesment, a podcast that celebrates stories of incredible humans and the bodies they’ve lived in. Stef Streb is a body-positive photographer, Julie Ohlemacher is a body image and intuitive eating coach, and they both know their stuff when it comes to celebrating our bodies, honoring our bodies, and learning to appreciate and love the bodies we’re currently in. We talk all about hormones, how our bodies change (and that they’re meant to change), and why diet culture sucks—and what we can do about it! These gals will inspire and empower you to have further conversations around busting down diet culture and show yourself the love you deserve.

We Chat About:

• Being okay with body changes
• Getting off birth control
• Normalizing weight gain
• How stress damages our bodies
• Dismantling diet culture

Resources:

• thebabesment.com
• Instagram: @thebabesmentpod
• stefstrebphoto.com
• Instagram: @stefstreb
• julieohlemacher.com
• Instagram: @julie.ohlemacher
• FREE Diet Detox Masterclass
• Join the Diet Detox 180 and use code HEALINGHORMONES for 10% off
• Book a Goddess Session
• Join the 6-Week Heal Your Period Group Program

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

Sharra Vostral is an Associate Professor of History in the Purdue College of Liberal Arts who has spent 25 years researching the relationship between gender, medical history, and technology. She’s also the author of two books — “Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology” and “Toxic Shock: A Social History” — that explore the knowns and unknowns of these products, and we dive into all of it. We go through the early history of menstrual products starting in the early 1900s, talk about the stigma surrounding menstrual products and periods, and she answers questions about toxic shock syndrome.

We Chat About:

• The women have managed menstruation throughout history
• The beginning of tampons
• The movement of women’s freedom and how that shifts the industry
• When toxic shock came about
• Regulating the terms used by the tampon industry
• Whether or not you should be nervous about wearing tampons
• Challenging the menstrual stigma

Resources:

• Learn more: svostral.wixsite.com/vostral
• Read: “Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology”
• Read: “Toxic Shock: A Social History”

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

In this episode, I want to update everyone on how my pregnancy is going, and then I’m going to dedicate some time to answering your questions on birth control, pregnancy, and ovulation. I would love to do more Q+A’s in the future, so if you have any questions, reach out to me on Instagram @nourishedwithnina!

We Chat About:

• How my 2nd trimester is going
• Tension headaches and acupuncture
• Nutrition for pregnancy
• Natural remedies for pregnancy symptoms
• Getting your period back
• Hormones + mental health
• Feeling confident in alternative methods of birth control

Resources:

• Prenatal Nutrition + Real Food for Pregnancy | with Lily Nichols
• Ditch Birth Control + Learn the Fertility Awareness Method

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

Ashley Lyon is a DONA-certified postpartum doula, yoga teacher, and the founder of Bloom Mama. Becoming a mom completely transformed her life and kick started her own self-discovery journey. She realized that there is a lack of resources and community for new moms, so she used everything she had learned to create Bloom Mama, a platform for helping other mamas who value personal development just as much as they want to grow as a mom. We talk all about the different ways postpartum can impact new moms, postpartum depression, and making sure you’re prepared for the birth of your baby and everything that comes after.

We Chat About:

• How Ashley got into postpartum work
• Where people struggle the most with comparison during pregnancy
• Calling out the false stories you tell yourself
• How to prepare for postpartum
• Taking time for real self-care

Resources:

• bloommamadoula.com
• Bloom Mama Membership
• Use code NINA to get $5 off your Bloom Mama Monthly Membership
• Free Postpartum 101 Class
• App: app.mindfulmamasclub.com
• App: expectful.com
• Read: "The Fourth Trimester"
• Read: "The First Forty Days"
• Perfect Postpartum Planning Worksheets

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

I have some very exciting news to share with you today, which was already given away in the title: I’m pregnant! It’s been hard to hold this information in, but I wanted to wait until I was 12 weeks in to start sharing the news publicly. I love that I’ll be able to share this journey with you, let you know everything that I’ve been working on, and everything I will be doing throughout the pregnancy, into postpartum, and into motherhood. I’m learning so much about hormones through this experience -- it’s like a whole new world! I can’t wait to be able to better support my fertility and pregnancy clients, and eventually move more into the world of postpartum. Today I’m going to talk about some of the ups and downs of the experience and recap what’s been going on in my life that I can finally be more open about!

We Chat About:

• My period pain story
• Tweaking your diet based on your needs
• The top 3 things that boosted my fertility
• My endometriosis surgery
• Doing womb meditations
• The baby daddy experience

Resources:

• My Healing Protocol For Reducing Period Pain + Optimizing Fertility
• Prenatal Nutrition + Real Food for Pregnancy | with Lily Nichols

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

We’re switching things up today! You’re going to hear an interview I did on Fempower Health with Georgie Kovacs. This time I’m the guest as Georgie asks questions around all things hormones!

We talk about my background and how I got into the work I do, how to know when your hormones are out of balance, what it’s like working with a coach, my reiki practice, and more. I loved being on the other side of the mic with Georgie, and I know you’ll learn some things about me and my journey that you don’t usually get.

We Chat About:

• How hormonal imbalance affects our health
• How you feel during each of your cycles
• How to take notice of a hormone imbalance
• What it’s like working with a coach
• When to take tests
• Reiki and other tools for healing
• My greatest hope for women’s health

Resources:

• fempower-health.com
• Instagram: @georgie.kovacs
• Your Biological Clock is NOT a Ticking Time Bomb | with Georgie Kovacs

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

Liz Garster is the former co-host of the former Find Your Shine podcast, which we hosted together before it became solely about women's hormones. She’s multi-passionate and has an addiction to certifications—she’s a certified financial coach, certified health coach and intuitive eating coach, and nearly certified to teach yoga. All of this revolves around a desire to help people. We’ve both gone through a lot of transitions in our lives, from big moves to career and life shifts and more. We’re going to talk about how big transitions often bring about stress and can have a big effect on how our mind and body work together, how doing less is one of the best things you can do for your body, and why you need to start putting yourself first.

We Chat About:

• Making transitions from the inside and out
• How stress and change affects the body
• Doing nothing for our health
• Putting yourself first

Resources:

• lizgarster.com
• Instagram: @lizgarster
• Read: The Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training

Many women don’t know that fertility awareness is an option for them. When they see their doctors about their options, they are often told that there’s no reason to get off birth control unless they’re trying to get pregnant. But as we’ve discussed on this show before, there are any number of reasons why women may be looking into other options. The fertility awareness method can give you real clarity on when you’re in your fertile window and when you’re ovulating, whether you’re avoiding pregnancy or trying to achieve it, with a success rate comparable to birth control. This can be a great option for people who are interested in avoiding pregnancy but don’t want to be on the pill, so let’s dig into how it works.

We Chat About:

• Listening to the signs your body is giving you
• The menstrual cycle pattern
• The varying types of cervical mucus
• Tracking basal body temperature

Resources:

• Read: “Taking Charge of Your Fertility”

Connect With Me:

• FREE WORKBOOK - How to Intuitively Connect to Your Menstrual Cycle
• Learn more about the Heal Your Period online program
• Book a Reiki Session
• Book a Tarot Reading
• Private Hormone Coaching
• Let’s be friends on Instagram: @nourishedwithnina

Healing Hormones is a production of Crate Media

Mentioned in this episode:

FAM Training

Learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally and ditch birth control without fear. This training is for women who have been thinking about getting off birth control and have questions about fertility awareness method (FAM).

Join my FREE FAM Training