For those of you just joining us, I am in the midst of demystifying the Fertility Awareness Method. This method which can be used for pregnancy achievement, birth control or better understanding of the body is an amazing tool to best understand a woman’s health. In my practice lately I am encouraging several of my …
Lately, I am doing really well with periods. I’m a period specialist, but sometimes there are spurts of time when all the sudden something shifts and I have a break through in several patient cases all at once. It is fabulous. In the last few months I’ve worked with a patient to bring back a …
Charting 101: Fertility Awareness Method Explained Read More »
First of all, thank you for letting me come into your world for six weeks and talk about periods. I certainly enjoyed it and I hope you learned something. Today I want to talk about my theories about the emotional, psychological, and philosophical side of the cycle. What do the behavior changes throughout the month …
Female Intuition During the Cycle: G-Y-N Post #6 Read More »
I’m a yoga teacher first and foremost. My yoga background is much newer than my acupuncture training or my doula work or my new fascination with charting the cycle. So I’ve got to give you all the things I’ve learned about temperature and the cycle so you can parse through them as I have to …
Even men know that a mainstay of painful periods is the notorious cramps. What most women experiencing painful periods don’t know is that it is unhealthy and very much abnormal. Women should not experience cramping with their periods. Allow me to say that again. There shouldn’t be cramping with the period at all! Pre-bleeding cramping …
Apparently everyone does want to talk about periods. I am getting great feedback and lots of questions about what is healthy and what needs some work. I hope that you are feeling empowered either by knowing that you have a healthy cycle or that you too can improve your health. Frequency This is easy. The body …
This is the point in the intake when most people get squeamish and acupuncturists start looking like vampires. Tell me about the blood. Truth be told you can’t tell us enough about the menstrual blood. The Questions Color: Bright red, fresh red, brick red, purple red, brownish, blackish, pinkish, purplish, red fading to brown. We want to …
PMS or Premenstrual Syndrome is just that, a syndrome. A compilation of ailments joined together because of similar circumstances. We all know the list: Headaches/Migraines Weight Gain/Fluid Retention/Bloating Emotional Disturbances/Irritability/Weepiness/Anger Low Back Ache Cramping Fatigue Insomnia Nightsweats What does it all mean and should we be having it at all? What is normal? Elimination: The body …
I don’t even know how to start this post. I just know I need to write it. 50% of the people in this world will bleed monthly for a significant portion of their life. It happens. The good men of the world will support numerous women during their menstrual cycle, whether it is as a …