Midlife can feel like an endless juggling act. Between raising kids, advancing your career, supporting aging parents, taking care of your health and (let’s not forget) spending time with your partner, there’s barely any room left for you. Add in fluctuating hormones and suddenly, life feels even harder to manage. Your energy is tanking, your…
Female Hormones 101 as you age will help you understand how hormones change throughout your life, affect many systems in your body, and how to feel your best. The main female reproductive hormones are estrogen and progesterone. These hormones are responsible for sexual development and preparing the uterine wall to nurture fertilized eggs during pregnancy….
As the female body ages and you go through menopause, your sex hormones fluctuate and ultimately decline. Using foods for balancing female hormones, your body’s chemical messengers is the most natural way to feel and look your best. Without improvements to your diet, how you look and feel will certainly be impacted with hormonal changes….
Triggers make you feel uncomfortable and elicit a negative feeling from something that happened in the past. Something deeper. Learning how to cope with triggers when they occur is critical to keeping your body in a calm state. Don’t shut them down right away with the sugar, the alcohol, or overworking. There are healthy solutions….
When was the last time you thought about your mindset? The type of mindset we embrace matters greatly in midlife as we tackle peri-menopause and menopause. I know what you are thinking, just one more thing to do. But truly if we are seeking change or improvement and ultimately want to leave some beliefs and…
Although the journey through midlife and changing hormones is a personal one for most women, developing resilience will undoubtedly help you bounce back from inevitable setbacks. What you have endured in the past and may face in the future will be better handled if you build resilience. Building this skill will help you be better…
As a middle-aged woman, I know a thing or two about weight gain in menopause. I have personally tried many diets and different forms of exercise to lose weight and get healthier at different points in my life. I recognize now that the practices I had put in place in the past worked at that…
Whatever we practice daily is either bringing us closer to who we want to be or further from that person. This happens by continually choosing behaviors that if practiced enough become habits. Three ways to make positive habit changes in menopause will give you a great place to start! Women dealing with menopause and hormonal…