You will receive three videos per week, with most of the videos sitting around the 15-minute mark, though some are longer, and some are shorter. The two branches related to Rushing Women’s Syndromeare the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) – also known as the amped up “fight or flight” response; and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), the calming “rest, digest, repair and reproduce” arm of the nervous system.

Progesterone acts as an anti-anxiety agent, an anti-depressant and a diuretic, allowing us to excrete excess fluid. We face angry wives who have such explosive tempers because motherhood isn't as much fun as the wives thought it would be. Most stress can be better managed and psychologists are trained to teach you effective coping strategies and skills. The most valuable thing was learning about the interaction of stress and hormones - I started this course being very burnt out, and throughout the course I have learnt that I’ve probably been estrogen dominant with low progesterone my whole life, now I’m able to address that and have a clear path ahead.It’s been over a decade since Dr Libby Weaver’s game-changing book Rushing Woman’s Syndrome first came out – and women have been rushing even faster in the years since. A thyroid that’s not working as well as it once did can also be a driver for a lack of ovulation,” Libby says. This perceived need to rush and the relentless pursuit to be all things to all people is causing detrimental changes to our bodies and driving a long-term crisis in women’s health. And just as importantly, the course offers you practical strategies to literally retire from the rush, while still leading a full and meaningful life you love. Too many women now suffer with premenstrual syndrome (PMS), PCOS, endometriosis and experience debilitating menopauses, which can have both physical and emotional health consequences.

During the body’s response to stress (whether in the alarm, resistance or exhaustion phase) the impact on the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian feedback loop can be sufficient to cause an interference in hormonal balance leading to disrupted menstrual cycles, temporary cessation of ovulation, enhanced PMS symptoms and various other reproductive system conditions. Park the fertility aspect of what I’ve just said and consider the additional biological impacts of this: we make too little of a hormone that helps us not feel anxious, not have a depressed mood and allows us to efficiently mobilise fluid.These steroids form an interchangeable pool of hormones, which are converted one to the other as the body needs them.

The long-term activation of the stress-response system — and the subsequent overexposure to cortisol and other stress hormones — can disrupt almost all your body’s processes. The two branches related to this concept are the sympathetic nervous system (SNS), also known as the amped up “fight or flight” response, and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), the calming “rest, digest, repair and reproduce” arm of the nervous system. Not that long ago in human history women were given the opportunity to do what had traditionally been their father’s jobs, while maintaining what were traditionally their mother’s responsibilities and what has unfolded for too many women is a frantic double shift, of working day and night, with very little if any rest.

A really common scenario I see is iron deficiency, because that is the most common nutrient deficiency in New Zealand, particularly amongst women of menstruation age, pregnant women and young children.