Book Genre: Education, Feminism, Health, Nonfiction, Personal Development, Psychology, Science, Self Help, Womens Much criticism arrived to pseudoscience in some aspects and this I do have to agree with and would urge others to take caution with. However, that for me was not my purpose for reading, so I was less intent on taking everything said as fact. In the book, many of the things said are still genuine helpful treatments that doctors themselves do use (i.g Vitus Agni’s-Castus supplementation being a popular homeopathic remedy and upping fat intake etc) so I’d say the majority follows good word. Join Menstrual Health Expert, acupuncturist, certified Life Coach, and author of Period Power, Maisie Hill, each week to get insights and strategies that will improve your cycle and take you from hormone hell to harmony. I began to ask each time: “What’s the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?” Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, “disappeared” or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever. Next time, ask: What’s the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end.” Immediate DNF after the introduction and reading the disclaimer, “Not everyone who is a woman has a menstrual cycle or womb, and not everyone who has a menstrual cycle and a womb is a woman”. I’m sorry, but my trust in the reliability of your science ends there. The menstrual cycle and womb are literally THE primary biological markers of womanhood. If you’re going to deny that basic fact just so you don’t offend some people, you don’t have the credibility it takes to write a book on the menstrual cycle. I am a woman, not a “menstruator”, not a “person with a period”, and I will save my time for a book that appreciates the God-given uniqueness of my female biology/physiology.

And to be honest with you, that’s exactly how I feel about the main pieces of research around HRT which were done over 20 years ago now but which newspaper headlines are still largely based on. What a load of nonsense. So the whole HRT is dangerous, I’m saying that’s false. Hormones like estrogen and progesterone don’t just tell your uterus what to do. They affect your mood and behavior in all kinds of ways, regulating your energy, sleep, libido, and appetite. In fact, hormones don’t just affect menstruators – they rule all humans! To harness your “period power,” you just have to become familiar with the science behind your menstrual cycle, as well as the strengths and challenges that accompany each stage. By learning to go with the flow – quite literally – you’ll be able to access a power you never knew you possessed.

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Medical book to be read by women and even men to avoid unwanted problems and have a healthy balanced lifestyle. Along the way I also became a highly-qualified practitioner and spent over a decade helping clients with period problems, fertility challenges, and pregnancy and menopausal symptoms. I want you to go from hormone hell to harmony Welcome to the Period Power podcast. I’m your host Maisie Hill menstrual health expert, acupuncturist, certified life coach and author of Period Power. I’m on a mission to help you get your cycle working for you so that you can use it to get what you want out of life. Are you ready? Let’s go. When was the last time you felt guilty? Whether it’s not being productive enough, an untidy house, what you ate, or how you reacted to your kids, it’s no surprise that we end up using guilt as another tool to beat ourselves up. So, let’s take a moment to orientate ourselves with where we are in the cycle now. We’re post ovulation and in the second half of the cycle, the luteal phase. Hormone levels are low initially. Then estrogen starts to rise again.

Autumn is such a powerful season, and the energy shift that comes with it can inspire a shift in identity. The season marks both an end and a beginning, and the no-nonsense vibe that autumn brings provides us with an opportunity to look inward, see the raw truth available to us, and tap into and use its energy to make changes in our lives. Short review --> "There are a lot of issues with this book, but regardless every single menstruator should read it: it sets a baseline for knowledge that's gatekept, particularly around hormones and irregular period cycles." Sleep is another big factor in hormonal health. Just one night of bad sleep can mess with your blood sugar and raise levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which in turn suppresses the production of estrogen and progesterone. To prevent this, aim for 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night. To learn more about perimenopause, we’re playing a game of true or false! I’m giving you seven beliefs around menopause, before sharing some information about them and telling you whether they’re true or false. Get ready to play along! When you have this knowledge of the cycle you can make sense of what your cycle is like. Yes, you can also make adjustments where possible to your schedule. But even without taking that kind of action this information will change your experience of your cycle because, let’s say you’re close to ovulating and you can’t concentrate on your work.Defining Your Relationship with Your Cycle: How to change the way you think about your cycle, and why treating it like a friend will encourage a more harmonious relationship. Maisie Hill approaches the subject with love, care, and tenderness. And sometimes that's what we need. I will openly admit I cried my eyes out in the first chapter. I was in a bad place with my periods before I started this book and I needed to feel like I wasn't alone, like other people knew what it was like, and this book gave me that. Then author states by describing the process of how a fertilized egg in the womb takes form of a girl or a boy child.That a baby is naturally a girl but due to infusion of different levels of hormones it takes finally one of the genders,followed by description of various parts of female and male reproductive system with diagrams.These were things most of us have studied in school curriculum . Now, because I want to keep this as straightforward for you as possible I’m going to be making some sweeping generalizations. And because I’m going to be oversimplifying this, I have to tell you something upfront. What I describe may or may not reflect your experience of your cycle. The timing of events in your cycle and how you feel may be slightly different, or very different, to what I’m about to describe. They may be different to your BFF’s or sister’s experience of their cycle, or for that matter mine. That doesn’t mean that yours is wrong. All it means is that you have a unique experience of your cycle and your hormones, and that’s true of every person with a cycle. Okay? That’s why I wrote my book, Period Power, and it’s also why I created a free guide to help you understand and work with your cycle.

Do you wish you had more confidence? Less stress? Some guidance for going after your goals? If so, this podcast is for you. Join Master Certified Life Coach and author of Period Power, Maisie Hill, as she shares insights and strategies that you can start applying today. So, to those of you who’ve been asking for this for a while, thank you for your patience. I’m in the ovulation phase of my cycle. And I actually suspect that I ovulated yesterday as, along with some other key indicators, I feel a shift in my energy today. As in a shift in the amount of energy that I have, and the nature of my energy.I just can't express how much I couldn't relate to literally any of her descriptions, except Autumn. And that made it really difficult for me to take the rest of the book as seriously as she takes herself. There's a lot of floof, as other reviewers have said, and while it's clear that to some extent she knows what she's talking about, she's also drunk the new age kool-aid -- and she's not great at drawing boundaries around what's kool-aid and what's legit. So it all sort of melds together into her anecdotes and season-speak, alongside legitimately helpful information about hormones and body cycles (and why hormonal birth control is really terrifying). maximise your natural superpowers each month while making adjustments for the darker days, and use Maisie's favourite tips to improve them I’ve had my own battles with my cycle - from debilitating period pain that meant I couldn’t walk let alone work, to extreme mood swings and intrusive thoughts - and I spent years trying out every treatment strategy possible in a bid to sort my cycle out. I see a lot of people dismissing this book for being "woo", and yes, some of it gets a bit hokey. But do we want to read a scientific textbook, or do we want to be seen. The reason there is so little science in the book, is because science doesn't really give a crap about women and their menstrual "problems".