Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

In this simplicity bite, I am going to speak to a question that I received while writing a big article for a strong fitness magazine that is all around the importance of the education that we really should have access to as women, about our cycles, cycle syncing and that level of connection.

The question was ‘Why is it important for women to recognize and honor that they are cyclical and not linear beings? What's the benefit there for the average woman?’ This is the kind of information you can anticipate coming out in the fall. Not only in this article, but in some additional resources that we are creating for you. 

My main mission is to help women, to help young girls, to help all of us connect to this deep knowing and understanding of our bodies, because we have been given, in my opinion, the most incredible gift of life being a female.

And there's so much that we can tap into, but we don't, we don't know that because we're not educated about it. Socially, in so many areas of the world, it's not acceptable to even talk about these things, let alone understand more about what's going on. 

You have to dig, you have to search. And it shouldn't be that way. The very fact that we are born women into this world means that we should have full accessibility to understanding or getting the manual for or, at the very least, a blueprint to the body that we have been blessed with.

Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite in order of priority:

• Speaking to your questions
• How every day is different
• Optimizing your hormonal health
• Observation is key to a healthy reproductive system
• Tracking your cycle
• Where is our manual, our blueprint?
• Symptoms are our messengers

So please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject 

Links and resources mentioned in this episode will be shared in the Online Work with Jenn section of these show notes.

Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do! 

To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to [email protected] and myself or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you. 

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Online work with Jenn: 

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! 

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ 

Learn more about Jenn’s work: 

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Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike

The Hormone Project 

The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more!

http://www.jennpike.com/

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Quotes: 

• “My main mission is to help women, to help young girls, to help all of us connect to this deep knowing and understanding of our bodies, because we have been given, in my opinion, the most incredible gift of life being a female.”

• “The truth is that you are never in the same hormonal state twice a month. You were never in the same cycle phase twice. Every day is different. Your body is physically, physiologically, mentally and emotionally in a constant state of ebb and flow.” 
• “When you show up each day to your body, to your life, to your calendar, to your workouts, your nutrition, and you engage in the same activities of hustle and grind, energy, you are living counter-intuitively to your own body's hormonal fluctuations. And it's completely counterproductive. This is a huge energy waste for women and often leaves them exhausted and burnt out.”
• “When you learn how to plan your workouts, your nutrition, your other activities of life around yourself, You'll be optimizing your hormonal health finally, to begin to understand when it is the best time of month for you to push or pull back, to put yourself out there or to take more rest.”
• “The truth is that observation is the main event and the telltale sign of a healthy reproductive system. Your period is the culmination of the other three phases that lead into and result in shedding your uterine lining.” 
• “It is extremely beneficial for women to know this information as they transition into perimenopause. Instead of feeling like you are surprised and you just woke up one morning and everything shifted, you would be able to go back now and actually track that data that you have been collecting and start to understand and see when changes happened. Ask yourself the question, what was going on?”
• “The reason it's so important for us to track is not just to have another app in our life. It is so that we actually have our own. Interpersonal or internal recognition of what is going on in our body.”

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.