enabling women through life transitions, hormonal health, & societal expectations
bio.psycho.social
bio
Hormones play an integral role in our wellbeing. For women, each week of our month is dictated by the movement or absence of hormones. To ignore this is to do a disservice to the whole person.
psycho
We’re taught to internalise our distress, to call ourselves ‘too sensitive,’ ‘too emotional,’ or simply ‘not enough.’ But your inner world, your anxious thoughts, and your coping mechanisms are not personal failures; they are adaptive responses to the life you’ve lived. By untangling these psychological patterns with self-compassion rather than shame, we make space for healing and self-trust.
social
We have societal rules; some protect us all and some protect the men. Few protect the women. By breaking down these societal expectations that no longer serve us, or don’t consider the wider context of 21st-century living, we have the opportunity to ask ‘what do you want?’
My ‘Why’
Women deserve better. It’s a simple as that. Don’t get me wrong, we’re in a better place than our grandmothers, but we’ve still a long way to go.
Thanks to the work of Dr Katharina Dalton, we’ve known the significance of female hormones since the 1950s, but it didn’t suit the governmental motives to pursue it, because they wanted to push the new contraceptive pill instead.
Furthermore, PMDD was labelled a psychological condition rather than hormonal issue to push the newest release of antidepressant medication after Prozac’s patent had ended.
The treatments were never to serve women.
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Even now, female hormones are not given the investment they deserve in medical training and, consequently, women are told to shut up and put up with it. But we don’t have to.
When we work *with* our bodies, we’re not working against them.
When we know what to expect, we can plan.
When we’re not gaslit into thinking it’s nothing, we can listen to our intuition.
Ultimately, you know your body best. My job is to listen, inform, and empower you to your strongest self, and work with your agenda only.