Hormonally Speaking

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While many people focus solely on sex hormones like estrogen and progesterone, it is also important to emphasize that it’s essential

Today, I am welcoming Dr. Isabella Wentz, a renowned integrative pharmacist and bestselling author, to discuss the importance of supporting our adrenals and thyroid in maintaining a healthy hormonal system.

She herself was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in 2009, and her passion for finding the root causes of chronic health conditions has led her to

In her latest book, “Adrenal Transformation Protocol,” Dr. Wentz shares a four-week program to reset the body’s stress response using targeted safety signals. The program has already helped over 3500 individuals, with an impressive success rate of over 80% in improving brain fog, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, sleep issues, and libido.

What We Talk About:

✨Dr. Wentz’s journey with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.

✨Why adrenal glands are critical to our survival.

✨The importance of cortisol in our day-to-day health.

✨Why knowing your foundational foods is important.

✨Lifestyle and dietary approaches to dealing with Hashimoto’s.

✨And a lot more!

By focusing on the adrenals and thyroid, we can support our hormonal system and achieve optimal health. So be sure to check out Dr. Wentz’s

Dr. Izabella Wentz is a compassionate, innovative, solution-focused integrative pharmacist dedicated to finding the root causes of chronic health conditions. Her passion stems from her own diagnosis with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in 2009, following a decade of debilitating symptoms.

As an accomplished author, Dr. Wentz has written several best-selling books, including the New York Times best-seller “Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: Lifestyle Interventions for Finding and Treating the Root Cause,” the protocol-based #1 New York Times best-seller “Hashimoto’s Protocol: A 90-Day Plan for Reversing Thyroid Symptoms and Getting Your Life Back,” and the Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Hashimoto’s Food Pharmacology: Nutrition Protocols and Healing Recipes to Take Charge of Your Thyroid Health.”

Her latest book, “The Adrenal Transformation Protocol,” is set to be released on April 18th, 2023. The book focuses on resetting the body’s stress response through targeted safety signals and features a 4-week program that has already helped over 3,500 individuals. The program has an impressive success rate, with over 80% of participants improving their brain fog, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, sleep issues, and libido.

Learn more about Dr. Wentz at her website and make sure to check out her book “The Adrenal Transformation Protocol” once it releases on April 18th, 2023. You can pre-order now using this link!

Have you ever heard of Qigong? To put it simply, Qigong is a broad term that encompasses various styles and lineages of breath, visualization, and movement practices.

One of the key benefits of practicing Qigong is its ability to improve physical health and well-being. Research has shown that Qigong can help

Today, I am bringing on my dear friend Vicki Dello Joio to talk more about Qigong and her work in energy and trauma and how it affects the body. I met Vicki many years ago when I took her class as part of my Holistic Health Education masters program.

Her class was a turning point for me, as it solidified my interest in energy work and its connection to overall health and wellness. I knew

In the episode, we cover:

✨The basics of Qigong and how Vicki got into this practice.

✨The power of connecting to your body and mind.

✨How the feminine can rise within her power.

✨The importance of self-defense for women.

✨And much more on energy work and movement!

Vicki’s work in energy and trauma is incredibly important and often overlooked when it comes to hormones and health, I am so excited to have her here

Vicki Dello Joio is a life-changing workshop leader, Qi (energy) master teacher and inspirational speaker. Since 1975, her brand of brilliance has empowered wellness-motivated and spiritually-inclined seekers to infuse body-mind-spirit practices into their very cells so they can tap into their birthright of joy — use it as a fuel not a goal — for a lifetime.

In addition, Vicki has drawn from decades of theater performance, directing experience along with her life-long study of martial arts to fire up visionary speakers to amplify their charisma and deliver their message with passion, presence, and power.

Her methods for both crafting stories AND her focus on the energy behind how they are told have touched and transformed hundreds of speakers to

Popular host of monthly program Qi Talks and a Hall of Fame-recognized teacher of the Chinese Art of Qigong by the Association of Women Martial Arts

Learn more about Vicki at her website.

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While talk therapy is incredibly valuable, sometimes it's not enough to just talk through our emotions and experiences.

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Did you know that stress ultimately comes from the brain?

And we’re not referring to talk therapy here. There are specific brain exercises we can do to help process old trauma and rewire the nervous system. And they are so cool!

I talk all about it with Alyssa Chang, a neuroscience health coach who specializes in helping people connect with their bodies’ unique needs.

Neuroscience health coaching involves delving deep into the inner workings of our nervous system, including how it governs our thoughts, behaviors,

What we discuss:

✨What vision therapy is and experience Alyssa walking Christine through an exercise

✨Why massage therapy won’t get to the root of musculoskeletal pain, and how to get rid of the issue permanently

✨How pain impacts us from a cellular level

✨What vestibular training is, and how it can help with things like balance

Whether you’re interested in learning more about neuroscience health coaching or simply want to take a step towards greater self-awareness and

Alyssa Chang is a neuroscience health coach for those seeking a scientific, compassionate,and whole human approach to health and healing, so you can learn how to live a life designed with listening and attuning to your body’s unique needs.

Neuroscience health coaching involves deeply understanding the inner-workings of the nervous system and its role in how it governs the way we think, behave, feel in our body and move through the world.

A brain based approach allows us to deeply understand the way trauma has shifted our ability to embody intuition, access safety and trust ourselves while also providing us a path forward to heal and thrive.

Learn more about Alyssa and neuroscience health coaching at her website.

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There are many aspects of healing; physical, emotional,  spiritual.  When addressing reproductive health, multiple kinds  of healing modalities can come into play, especially for the  reproductive issues that are misunderstood.

Today I'm talking with Samantha Denae, a certified holistic and feminine health practitioner, endometriosis advocate, educator, and survivor, to  discuss the benefits of Yoni steaming and energy healing for  reproductive health.

Yoni steaming, also known as  vaginal steaming, and energy reiki healing are just a few of the healing  tools we will be covering in this episode.

✨Samantha’s journey with endometriosis

✨How Yoni steaming changed Samantha’s life

✨Ways to honor your body during your period

✨The importance of teaching youth about their periods

✨The connection between trauma and physical ailments

✨And a lot more!

Yoni steaming and energy healing are powerful tools for reproductive health, and Samantha Denae is a passionate advocate for using holistic  practices to heal and love yourself.

Samantha Denäe, CHHP, is a certified holistic & feminine health practitioner, Endometriosis advocate, educator, and survivor.

Her  personal journey and experience with Endometriosis has led her to the  destination and purpose of a womb healer. As the owner of Samantha  Denâe, LLC, Samantha provides spiritual healing services such as yoni  steaming, reiki, spiritual massage cleanses and more to work towards the  goal of unlearning to learn and love self and your womb. She also  creates holistic products like ENtouch Womb Detox Capsules, a special  herbal blend suited for reproductive healing of stagnant blood flow and  tissue in the uterine cavity to create a healthier period for self,  other herbal capsules for healing, yoni steam blends, and more.

In  Samantha’s spare time, she educates high school students on period and  reproductive health and how to advocate for themselves with doctors and  family. Additionally, as a womb motivational speaker, Samantha provides  her audience with a real life look at trauma and how it plays a role in  your health and physical ailments, how to begin healing by correlating  the physical and spiritual to learn how trauma plays the biggest role in  your life.

Simply, she is your motivational guide to healing yourself and womb!

Check her out at her website and follow her on Instagram!

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Having endometriosis can be a lifelong journey of ups and  downs, hard conversations with doctors, and constant advocating for  yourself.

However hard this journey is, it has the  ability to lead you to a strength you never knew you had and a passion  for helping others.

Today’s special guest is Tiffany  Narron, a writer, poet, and postpartum and bereavement doula living in  North Carolina. Tiffany’s journey in hormonal health has been full of  ups and downs, and she has experienced firsthand the challenges of  navigating the medical system. But her experiences have led her to a  different place in her own life and work, where she now supports women  and cycling beings through grief and trauma.

Tiffany  brings a unique perspective to her work in compassionate communication  and bereavement support, blending poetry, breathwork, Narrative  Medicine, somatic centering, and creative healing arts modalities.

✨Tiffany’s journey with hormonal health.

✨Accepting the diagnosis of endometriosis.

✨Hormonal support for miscarriage and endometriosis.

✨How to hold space for loss and trauma and learning to let go of what you can’t take on.

✨And so much more!

Join  us as we dive into Tiffany’s journey and the work she is doing to  support women and cycling beings in the world today. Her story is sure  to inspire and empower you on your own journey towards hormonal health  and overall well-being.

For the last week, the big news in the nutrition world has been the study about erythritol and its impact on heart health. I break down the facts of the study, what has been missed in the media, and if it's safe to continue consuming some of your favorite protein bars, powders, and low-to-no-sugar desserts. 

This week on Hormonally Speaking, we have Abby Epstein, the acclaimed  American film director and producer best known for her work on the  documentaries "The Business of Being Born" "Until the Violence Stops,”  and “Weed The People.”  

Epstein has won several awards for her documentaries, including the  Audience Awards at Vancouver’s Amnesty International Film Festival and  Nashville Film Festival, as well as premiering at Sundance, Tribeca, and  SXSW festivals.  

We discuss her and her business partner Ricki Lake's latest movie, “The  Business of Birth Control”, which aims to shed light on the effects of  hormonal contraceptives and the need for newer and better options. The documentary was inspired by the book "Sweetening the Pill" by Holly  Grigg-Spall.  

We Cover So Much Including:  

✨How the film was not made to promote a specific ideology, despite what  some people think  

✨That it was difficult to find experts in the field who would speak out  against the status quo (but they still found some amazing ones!)  

✨The fact that modern medicine has often failed women, leading to poor  menstrual health, low body literacy, and high rates of endometriosis,  PCOS, fibroids, anxiety, and depression  

✨Why there is a need to evolve and develop solutions regarding women's  health and bodies, especially in terms of contraception and long-term  effects of medications 

✨And so much more good stuff!  

Our conversation was powerful, and one you don’t want to miss,  especially if you are currently on birth control, or have children that  are.  

You’ll also want to see the movie ASAP - especially since March 8 is  International Women’s Day - which you can stream here. Use code “HORMONALLYSPEAKING” at check out to get half off.  

ABBY EPSTEIN made her film directing debut at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival with the documentary, V-Day: Until the Violence Stops,  featuring Jane Fonda, Salma Hayek, and Rosie Perez. The film won the  Audience Award at Vancouver’s Amnesty International Film Festival and  premiered on Lifetime Television, receiving both an Emmy and a Gracie  Allen Award.  In 2007, she teamed up with Ricki Lake for their widely acclaimed  documentary, The Business of Being Born, which premiered at the Tribeca  Film Festival and was released by New Line Cinema/Netflix and broadcast  on Showtime. The film’s success led to their follow-up series, More  Business of Being Born, featuring Cindy Crawford, Alanis Morissette,  Gisele Bündchen and Christy Turlington plus a book, Your Best Birth, published  by Hachette.  Next, the duo teamed up for Weed the People, which premiered at the 2018  SXSW Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the Nashville Film  Festival. Weed the People was acquired by Netflix for distribution.  

Under their company, BOBB Films, Ms. Epstein and Ms. Lake produced the  documentaries Breastmilk and The Mama Sherpas and are currently in  production on The Business of Birth Control. Prior to her film work, Ms.  Epstein directed Broadway theater, helming national tours and  international productions of RENT and The Vagina Monologues.   

Learn more about "The Business Of Birth Control" here: Facebook, Instagram: Abby Epstein  / Ricki Lake Twitter, Website 

Welcome to our series of quickies that tell you exactly what you never learned when it comes to your hormones. Today, we are chatting cervical mucus, what it's all about, and how to tell the difference from it normal vs. an infection. 

Interested in signing up for Hormones 101: Intro To The Menstrual Cycle? Head over here. 

Many women and cycling people have been impacted by how society views our bodies, and what we believe we should eat in order to have a particular body type. This has impacted both our mental and physical health, leading to disordered eating, as well as hormonal issues for many of us.

This is why I think today's conversation is so important to have and there is no one better to talk about it than Sarah Speers with Empowered Eating. Sarah is an emotional eating coach, energy worker and trained psychotherapist. Her mission is to empower souls to do the inner work to uncover and improve the root, mental, emotional and energetic factors affecting health and happiness.

✨Sarah's journey with an eating disorder

✨The spectrum of disordered eating and how this relates to hormones

✨What an emotional eating coach does

✨How to learn to love yourself again while healing

✨Utilizing energy medicine to move through the process

If you are struggling with an eating disorder or you think you may have disordered eating, please be sure to reach out to a trained professional to get help. There is a way to make peace with your body. 

Sarah Speers is an Emotional Eating Coach,
 Energy Worker, & Trained Psychotherapist. Her mission is to empower souls to do the inner work to uncover and improve the root Mental, emotional and energetic factors effecting health and happiness.

Over the course of 10 years, she has worked with thousands of people to help them strengthen their mental, emotional, physical and spiritual bodies. She offers a unique approach to coaching and energy work, fusing traditional and alternative modalities to help process emotional wounds, reprogram the subconscious, rebalance the body's energy systems and creating lasting change with regards to how one thinks, feels and behaves. Find out more at her website, and follow her on IG.