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- HHP30 | How to Harness your Intuition for Optimal Menstrual Cycles with Kimberley Banfield
Welcome to another episode of the Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! In this episode, I interview Kimberley Banfield, is the Founder of Soulcology™. As a Soulcologist™ & Soul Purpose Mentor, Speaker and Teacher, she guides & supports Entrepreneurial Women to find the clarity, confidence & courage to listen to their intuition, heal past experiences & find & fulfil their Soul's Purposes. She is most passionate about helping women to 'make their life a moment that matters™.'
In Today's Episode:
- Kimberley’s background and personal journey
- Kimberley’s experience in the corporate world and how her intuition conflicted with this chosen life path
- The mental, emotional and spiritual consequences Kim experienced from her years of choosing to ignore her intuition
- Kimberley’s decision to change her life path and choose the unknown and what helped her make this decision
- What it means to fully embrace your feminine side
- Society’s influence on our view of femininity
- How to start to discover your intuition
- How your body might be giving you hidden intuitive messages
- The relationship between the menstrual cycle and femininity
- The menstrual cycle and what can be learned through harnessing your intuition
- Period pain and the energy that may be associated with it
- Listening to your body and intuition during menstruation
- Advice for finding a balance between your feminine energy and masculine energy in everyday life
- What is self-muscle testing and how to use it on yourself?
- How Kimberley teaches women to do what feeds their soul and follow their own intuition
- Kimberly’s poem, “Women Rewilding”
Connect with Kimberley Banfield
Facebook Personal Page - Kimberley Banfield: https://www.facebook.com/kimberley.banfield.7
Facebook Group - The Intuitive Woman™: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theintuitivewoman
Facebook Page - Soulcology™: https://www.facebook.com/soulcology1111
Facebook Business Page - https://www.facebook.com/KimberleyBanfield4
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kimberley_banfield_/ and https://www.instagram.com/soulcology_/
55 min - HHP29 | Menstrual Charting, a Diagnostic Tool to Help Treat & Optimize your Fertility with Guests Nora Pope & Dr. Jessica Liu, ND
Welcome to another episode of the Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! In this episode, I interview co-founders of FertilityCE webinars, Nora Pope, and Dr. Jessica Liu, ND.
Nora Pope is an educator, public speaker, and former Naturopathic Doctor in Toronto. She is the creator of “Cycle Charting: The Key to Fertility” CE Seminars. In her CE lectures, she merges her expertise in Natural Family Planning Cycle Charting with perinatal care in calculating precise due dates, how to flag risks for miscarriages, how to prescribe progesterone to prevent pre-term births, and how to naturally space out the next pregnancy during breastfeeding.
Dr. Jessica Liu, ND, co-produced the 2021 accredited webinar “Chart Your Cycle, Progesterone HRT and FertilityOptimization” for healthcare professionals. Dr. Jessica Liu, ND has been a speaker for various events and organizations including The Canadian Fertility Show, The Children’s International Wellness Conference. With an extensive background in natural reproductive care, Dr. Jessica Liu, ND has helped many couples conceive healthy babies, whether naturally, or alongside assisted reproductive techniques such as IUI or IVF. Her program, “Creating Vibrant Fertility” has a particular focus on supporting women to move through their fertility trauma in order to awaken their optimal fertility potential.
In this episode we discuss the following topics:
- Introduction to Nora and Jessica - their personal and professional backgrounds
- What does holistic fertility care look like?
- The importance of body literacy
- The common fertility tests that are often missed or conducted inaccurately with conventional fertility care
- Menstrual cycle charts as a diagnostic tool
- The benefits of the information that comes from cycle charting
- How to read your cycle chart and what certain signs mean in terms of reproductive health
- Addressing the dependence on LH strips and the reliability of this tool
- SOFT (sensation, observation, finger test) to track fertility
- The pros and cons of period tracking apps
- What lower abdominal pain can mean
- The most important charting signs and signals and what they mean
- Top three pieces of advice for a woman who’s trying to conceive
- Fertility as an extension of healthy physiology
- Why women should start cycle charting sooner rather than later
- The costs of hormonal birth control in young women
- The truth about progesterone levels and testing
- What contributes to progesterone levels
- Low progesterone and epilepsy
- The diversity of women’s cycles
- Progesterone testing during TTC & early pregnancy
- Charting signs that may reveal infections during pregnancy
Connect with the speakers
Fertility Continuing Education for healthcare practitioners: www.fertilityce.com | Email: [email protected] | Instagram: @fertility.ce |Facebook: @fertilityce
Nora Pope: Instagram @nora.pope| Dr. Jessica Liu, ND: Instagram @thefertilitynd
*Article published by Nora Popw in NDNR publication: Cycle Charting: 21 Days No More *
Connect with host: Dr. Antoinette Falco, ND | Website: www.antoinettefalco.com | Instagram: @drantoinettefalco51 min - HHP28 | Essential Oils for Hormone Balancing, Pain Management and Pregnancy with Guest Kathleen Bednis
Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast!
In today's episode, I interview Clinical Aromatherapist, Kathleen Bednis! And we discuss the benefits of using essential oils for hormone balancing, cycle syncing, and pain management associated with hormonal conditions like endometriosis. Kathleen also shares how to safely use essential oils and how to go about creating your own blends. Kathleen's passion for research and health has lead her to a career educating and helping women and families integrate essential oils into their health practices!
In this episode:
- Introduction and what got Kathleen to doing the work that she does
- What is aromatherapy and how does it help with healing
- Essential oils have different properties and how they can be used
- What women need to know about incorporating essential oils
- What you should NOT do with essential oils
- Interactions with essential oils
- How essential oils can help with hormone balancing
- Top essential oils for period pain
- How to apply essential oils for menstrual concerns
- Best carrier oils or diluting oils
- Essential oils for endometriosis
- How long do you need to see changes with essential oils
- Cycling oils during your menstrual cycles
- What essential oils would you use to regulate your cycles
- Essential oils in pregnancy - what you need to know about the safest dilution
- Essential oils for pregnancy morning sickness
- Energetic properties of essential oils and how they can influence the 7 chakras
- What is a chakra imbalance at your third eye chakra
- What essential oils help balance chakras
- What does working with a clinical aromatherapist look like
Another episode highlighting how awesome essential oils are, Check out HHP11 Love your Next Period with Essential Oils with Guest Amanda Dumouchel
Connect with guest: Kathleen Bednis
Instagram:@RootSynergies Facebook: @RootSynergies | Email: [email protected]
Connect with host: Dr. Antoinette Falco, ND
Download your copy of Antoinette's Post-pill Guidebook. Website: www.antoinettefalco.com. Instagram: @drantoinettefalco
Please send all inquiries and suggestions, including topics you'd like to see covered on the podcast to [email protected], If you'd like to be a guest on the show and you think you'd be a good fit, please reach out!
29 min - HHP27 | Menstrual Cycles, Moon Phases & Getting Started with Fertility Awareness Method with Joy Davis
Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! Today we are talking about menstrual cycles and the moon phases with Joy Davis, a Fertility Awareness Educator training in the Justisse Method. Joy grew up in Alderville First Nation in Southern Ontario, Canada. Her Anishinaabe culture is a huge part of her identity. She teaches menstruators about using their menstrual cycles as a health tool and to achieve or avoid pregnancy. She strives to make fertility, cervical mucus, vagina's and uterus' fun and talked about openly. She believes in using your fertility to your advantage instead of fearing it!
In this episode:
- Introduction and Joy’s experience with hormonal birth control and her discovery of fertility awareness method (FAM)
- The benefits of the fertility awareness method and the ways it can connect you to your cycle and your body
- Joy’s business Full Moon Fertility, and the meaning behind the name
- Full moon ceremonies: what there are and what they signify
- The relationship between the moon and a women’s cycle
- Red moon cycles vs white mood cycles
- The difference in energy flow between these two-cycle types
- Acknowledging how our cycles and energy may vary month by month
- What are a woman's top fertile signs that she should be paying attention to?
- Misconceptions when looking at basal body temperature as a fertility indicator
- Addressing why FAM is worth the extra time commitment
- The learning curve of FAM
- The benefits and reward of charting your cycle
- The first steps to getting started with FAM
Connect with guest: Joy Davis
Instagram: @fullmoon.fertility | Website: www.fullmoonfertility.ca
Connect with host: Dr. Antoinette Falco, ND
Download your copy of Antoinette's Post-pill Guidebook. Website: www.antoinettefalco.com. Instagram: @drantoinettefalco
Please send all inquiries and suggestions, including topics you'd like to see covered on the podcast to [email protected], If you'd like to be a guest on the show and you think you'd be a good fit, please reach out!
41 min - HHP26 |Unexplained Infertility, Discovering FAM & NaPro Technologies with Guest Jannette Carlos
Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! Today we are talking about Jannette's infertility journey and how she came to discover the Fertility Awareness Method and how to use it to become empowered about her fertility and reproductive health. She also shares her best coping strategies and how used NaPro technologies to receive answers about her diagnosis of unexplained infertility.
Jannette is a Registered Nurse with a critical care background. She felt that her medical education did not prepare her for a diagnosis of unexplained infertility from the conventional medicine point of view. At the time she felt relatively healthy and knew there had to be a root cause for my inability to get pregnant. Her quest for answers led her to the wonderful world of body literacy and fertility awareness in a way that was never described in her nursing textbooks. The deeper she dove, the more she realized that this information was not just useful for women trying to avoid pregnancy or trying to achieve pregnancy, but as a way to connect with your body and have a diagnostic tool to use to advocate for yourself with your doctors!
In this episode:
- Introduction and Jannette’s story
- Jannette’s experience with infertility
- Discussing misinformation and the lack of proper sex education
- How Jannette discovered the FAM method and why this was beneficial in her health and fertility journey
- The benefits of FAM and how it can help women become more knowledgeable and empowered when it comes to their reproductive health
- Addressing how some medical professional lack FAM knowledge and training
- What is NaPro technology?
- The history of NaPro - how was it created?
- How NaPro changes the way we view women’s health care
- NaPro and finding the root cause of hormonal imbalances
- Who can benefit from using NaPro?
- How NaPro and can help answer why an individual is experiencing unexplained infertility or miscarriages
- NaPro technology and fertility
- What sets NaPro doctors and technology apart from traditional medical treatment?
- Jannette talks about her endometriosis diagnosis and how this impacted her view on IVF
- Top pieces of wisdom every women or couple should think about when considering using NaPro
- The benefits of using NaPro technology as a teenager
- The spiritual side of the fertility journey
- The idea of “life tanks”
- How Jannette’s childhood experiences impacted her mental, physical, and spiritual health as an adult
- Exploring the idea of spirit babies that exist before conception
- How surrendering is strength
- Relationships and the fertility journey
- Remembering what we have control over in the fertility journey
- Pieces of advice for women who are just beginning their fertility journey
Connect with guest: Jannette Carlos
Instagram: @balanced.fertility.with.jayjay | TikTok: Balanced.fertility | Youtube: Jannette Carlos
Connect with host: Dr. Antoinette Falco, ND
Download your copy of Antoinette's Post-pill Guidebook. Website: www.antoinettefalco.com. Instagram: @drantoinettefalco
Please send all inquiries and suggestions, including topics you'd like to see covered on the podcast to [email protected], If you'd like to be a guest on the show and you think you'd be a good fit, please reach out!
1 hr 6 min - HHP25 | PCOS Management Conventionally vs. Holistically with Guest Callie Crouch, FNP
Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast!
Today we are talking PCOS with Family Nurse Practitioner, Callie Crouch. She is the creator of The PCOS Lifestyle Program and has a private practice in Texas doing primarily telemedicine. Callie struggled with PCOS for years before learning how to control her symptoms, she then felt a need to help other women find their way towards PCOS management. Callie wanted the opportunity to look at each individual woman’s habits and help make small tweaks to move towards a healthier lifestyle so their acne improves, belly fat shrinks, and irregular periods become regular. Working as a health coach gives me the opportunity to work with more women all over the globe! She is passionate about working with women as their health coach to move them towards a healthier life so they can feel sexy, beautiful, and in control of their PCOS symptoms.
In this episode:
- Introduction and what led Callie to work with women who have PCOS
- Callie’s professional background and personal experience with PCOS
- What is PCOS?
- The symptoms of PCOS
- How PCOS is diagnosed and why PCOS may be difficult to identify in some women
- Hormonal birth control and PCOS
- What is the first-line treatment for PCOS?
- Are there different types of PCOS and how they are related?
- The effects of insulin resistance with PCOS
- PCOS and the thyroid - what’s the role of the thyroid and what is the relationship between the thyroid and PCOS?
- PCOS and the adrenals - what are the adrenals responsible for and what does their dysfunction lead to?
- Which tests should women have done if they think they may have PCOS?
- Recognizing that normal lab results do not necessarily mean that everything is regular
- Top 3 pieces of nutritional advice that every woman with PCOS should consider
- Recognizing that making small lifestyle changes is the first step to achieving your health goals
- The vegan diet and PCOS
- The importance of magnesium
- What type and level of exercise should women with PCOS partake in?
- The benefits of exercise for women with PCOS
- The connection between PCOS and fertility
- What can women with PCOS do to help support fertility?
- The role of progesterone with fertility in women with PCOS
- Tools and devices to monitor ovulation and fertility
- All about Callie’s PCOS Lifestyle Program
Connect with guest: Callie Crouch
Website: www.calliecrouch.com | Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/pcoscontrol | Email: [email protected]
Connect with host: Dr. Antoinette Falco, ND
Download your copy of Antoinette's Post-pill Guidebook. Website: www.antoinettefalco.com. Instagram: @drantoinettefalco
Please send all inquiries and suggestions, including topics you'd like to see covered on the podcast to [email protected], If you'd like to be a guest on the show and you think you'd be a good fit, please reach out!
47 min - HHP24 | Managing Endometriosis with Food and Functional Medicine with Guest Cindy Dabrowska, RD
Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast!
Today we are talking endometriosis with Registered Dietitian, Cindy Dabrowska. She is the founder of "The Supportive Endo RD" and her passion comes from supporting endo warriors - who much like me, have said “enough is enough” to debilitating, life-altering symptoms of endometriosis. Cindy has supported countless women in her nutrition counseling practice through a functional medicine root-cause approach to endometriosis. As a registered dietitian and endowarrior, she prides herself on being an ally to, and a resource for, the endometriosis community.
In this episode:
- Introduction and what lead Cindy into working in women’s health and specializing in women with endometriosis
- How Cindy can relate to her clients and why this is helpful
- What is endometriosis?
- Where endometriosis can occur in the body and the various health complications associated with endometriosis
- What causes endometriosis and what are some risk factors?
- The link between endometriosis and the autoimmune system
- Top 3 pieces of nutritional advice that women with endometriosis should consider
- Should women with endometriosis restrict certain foods?
- Using supplements to manage endometriosis
- Choosing supplements based on the individual
- How endometriosis can affect fertility
- What we know about the ability for women with endometriosis to conceive
- What can be done to support conception for someone with endometriosis
- How diet and lifestyle can support fertility and complement conventional fertility treatments
- Which types of proteins should women with endometriosis include in their diet?
Connect with guest: Cindy Dabrowska
Instagram: @endo.fertility.dietitian
Website:www.thesupportiveendord.com
Connect with host: Dr. Antoinette Falco, ND
Download your copy of Antoinette's Post-pill Guidebook. Website: www.antoinettefalco.com. Instagram: @drantoinettefalco
Please send all inquiries and suggestions, including topics you'd like to see covered on the podcast to [email protected], If you'd like to be a guest on the show and you think you'd be a good fit, please reach out!
44 min - HHP23 | Clean Skincare & Makeup for each phase of your Menstrual Cycle with Guest Seanna Cohen
Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! In today's episode, we are talking all things clean beauty with holistic skincare therapist, Seanna Cohen. She is a certified Skin Care Therapist and founder of the Clean Beauty School, an online destination to learn about skincare, shop the effective clean beauty products and get personalized advice through 1:1 consultations. As a trusted expert, she helps women create holistic skincare plans so they can feel confident both in their skin and with their beauty choices.
In this episode:
- Introduction and why Seanna got into the clean skincare industry
- Navigating miss-information of the beauty industry from a research perspective
- Skin during the phases of your menstrual cycle - follicular phase, ovulation phase, luteal phase, menstrual phase
- When is the optimal time to test out new skincare products?
- When is the best time to get a facial during your menstrual cycle?
- Progesterone’s effect on the skin
- Cycle synching skin-care method
- Intuitive skin-care treatment - learning what your skin needs
- How often should you cleanse your skin?
- Skin-care tracker available here:
- Top 3 skincare tips for women
- Benefits of facial massage and tension release
- Estrogen dominance and skin
- Mental health and skin issues
- Addressing the root cause of your skin concerns and how it originates from an underlying hormone condition
- The regulations around clean and organic skincare
- Environmental working group, skin deep campaign, think dirty app
- How to approach research with caution
- What you need to know about retinol for your skin
- How to navigate fear-mongering within the skincare industry
- What chemicals are absorbed into the skin
- Discussing the cost of clean beauty and is spending more money mean it’s a superior product?
- Difference between different oils for your skin
- Learning how to read an ingredient list
- What concentration of active ingredients should you look for
- The skincare regime that every woman needs to do
- Choosing the right cleanser
- What skincare item can you skip?
- Where to start with your transition to clean beauty
- What a virtual skincare consultation looks like
- Working with Seanna at Clean Beauty School
Connect with guest: Seanna Cohen
To learn more or to schedule a Personalized Skin-Care Consultation with Seanna HERE!
******You can download all Seanna's Free Skincare Guides, resources, and tracking materials HERE!
Website: www.cleanbeautyschool.com
Instagram: @cleanbeautyschool
Connect with host: Dr. Antoinette Falco, ND
Download your copy of Antoinette's Post-pill Guidebook. Website: www.antoinettefalco.com. Instagram: @drantoinettefalco
Please send all inquiries and suggestions, including topics you'd like to see covered on the podcast to [email protected], If you'd like to be a guest on the show and you think you'd be a good fit, please reach out!
51 min - HHP22 | Postpartum & using Fertility Awareness Method for Birth Control with Client Guest Kimberly Parker
Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! In today’s episode, we are talking everything postpartum from how to navigate your health and the return of your fertility to how you can use the fertility awareness method as your birth control during this phase!
My guest is Kimberly Parker, a mother of 5, ages 8 to 1-year-old. She grew up in central Minnesota in agriculture and her and her husband's harvesting business took lead the to recently settling in Holyoke, Colorado. As the daughter of a dairy farmer, Kimberly has a strong love for agriculture and nutrition. She believes families need to know they have lots of options for their health. She believes through the power of whole food nutrition one can change what society claims as normal. Her experiences led her to want to help families, women, and men with Juice Plus, which is simply a high powdered vine-ripened produce in a capsule!
In today's episode
- Introduction from Kimberly Parker and what lead her to Fertility Awareness Methods after being pregnant with her 5th baby
- Experience with previous Fertility Awareness methods, before finding the Justisse Method
- Pros and cons to self-teaching a fertility awareness-based method
- FAM is not just for babies but for women’s health
- Overcoming the challenges of postpartum charting and using FAM
- Understanding your fertility postpartum and during breastfeeding
- Creating time for FAM as a busy mom
- Difference between using an app to track cycles and learning a FAM
- Why fertility awareness apps are not effective at knowing when a woman ovulates
- How the Justisse Method affects your relationship with your partner
- Managing abstinence with FAM
- Postpartum nutrition and charting
- Stress and charting
- Advice for other postpartum moms about FAM
- Talking to your daughter about charting
Connect with guest: Kimberly Parker
Instagram: @Kimberhealthylife & Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.malechaparker
Interested in knowing more about Juice Plus: www.juiceplus.kparker.com
Connect with host: Dr. Antoinette Falco, ND
Download your copy of Antoinette's Post-pill Guidebook. Website: www.antoinettefalco.com. Instagram: @drantoinettefalco
Please send all inquiries and suggestions, including topics you'd like to see covered on the podcast to [email protected], If you'd like to be a guest on the show and you think you'd be a good fit, please reach out!
36 min - HHP21 | Get your Mojo back, Optimize Libido and Sexual Health with Guest Maraya Brown
Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! In today’s episode, we are talking about how to optimizing your libido for your stage of life. And what underlying factors may be leading to you not feeling like you have the same mojo you had in the past.
My guest is Maraya Brown, a Yale Trained CNM, MSN with her undergraduate in marketing. She has been attending births for 20 years, managed women’s health clinics in Hawaii and Oregon for 13 years, taught at the Chinese Medicine College on the Big Island of Hawaii, and is in the process of getting her certification through the Institute of Functional Medicine.
She has a deep appreciation and respect for food as medicine and now practices online as a women’s health coach with her 8-week program to “Help Women move from Exhausted to Energized, Balance their Hormones and feel Turned On by their Life, their Lover and Themselves.”
She is the co-creator and co-founder of Beyond The Red Tent and she and Missy have put this Hormones & Wellness Summit together for all of you as well as their online FB group, membership, and TentTalks on YouTube.who has a deep appreciation and respect for food as medicine and practices as an online women’s health coach where she helps Women move from exhausted to energized, balance their hormones and feel turned on by their life, their lover and Themselves.
In today's episode
- Maraya’s story and what lead her to Women’s Health
- Factors that influence a women’s varying libido
- How libido changes during the stages of life
- How does the HPA axis related to libido
- Adrenal, thyroid, and sexuality
- Lab tests to understand if there is an underlying cause for your low libido
- Other factors that can through off your hormones for optimal libido
- Understanding your belief system around your sexual health
- Food for libido and mojo
- Adaptogen elixirs
- Other supplements for libido
- Hemp seed oil that is CBD free
- Type of exercise and is it serving your libido in a healthy way
- Aromatherapy and libido
- How to know what herbs are right for you
- Ways to explore sexuality for yourself and your partner
- How to orgasm and the mechanics of healthy female orgasm
- Benefits of self-pleasuring
- How to communicate with your partner about sexual pleasures
- OMGyes.com resource that is research-based about what women like
- How to be sexually creative during your fertile window when trying to avoid pregnancy
- How to overcome feeling the guilt of not satisfying your sexual relationships
Connect with guest: Maraya Brown
To schedule an exploration call to see if Maraya’s program might be the right fit for you, please do so HERE!
***For a copy of Maraya's adaptogen Elixir Recipes for free --> email: [email protected]***
Website to be part of the Beyond The Red Tent Community!
Connect with host: Dr. Antoinette Falco, ND
Download your copy of Antoinette's Post-pill Guidebook. Website: www.antoinettefalco.com. Instagram: @drantoinettefalco
Please send all inquiries and suggestions, including topics you'd like to see covered on the podcast to [email protected], If you'd like to be a guest on the show and you think you'd be a good fit, please reach out!
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About The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast
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The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast is your place to learn about female empowerment through mastering your menstrual cycle health, the true heartbeat of your hormone status. No subject is TMI, from cervical…
mucous, to the emotional waves of your fertility journey, to the beauty of childbirth. Each week, your host Naturopathic Doctor, Fertility Awareness Educator and Hormone Enthusiast: Antoinette Falco, will explore the fundamentals of hormone health with science, soulful and heartfelt conversations, a dash of sass and feminine pizzazz! Antoinette shares insightful and informative interviews weekly!