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By now you probably know how important your gut health is to your overall health. If not, you need to! Eighty percent of your immune system is in your microbiome, your body’s bacteria, which help your body with just about every process, including digesting your food, thinking clearly, and even maintaining a healthy weight. Your […]
The patriarchal society and programming that I describe in Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom has a lot to do with how you think about your body and care for yourself.
This belief system has left women with the idea that a woman's body is not "good enough." And nothing could be farther from the truth. These processes are embodied with wisdom—clues that tell us that something in our lives is out of balance.
Around age 40, women's bodies begin perimenopause, the transition leading to menopause (the point in time when you stop menstruating permanently). The hallmark of this transition is a change in the levels of the hormones estrogen, progesterone, and the androgens. Yet this is not solely a physical event—it is also the biggest opportunity for personal growth and empowerment since adolescence.
The conventional medical mindset is that menopause is an estrogen deficiency disease resulting from ovarian failure. Women have been led to believe that at the slightest symptoms, they should run out and get estrogen replacement. While estrogen levels will decrease during menopause, the truth is, estrogen levels do not fall appreciably until after a woman's last period.
Heart disease is the leading killer of women over the age of 50 and heart attacks are twice as deadly for women as they are for men. Statistics (which need not apply to you) show that one in two women will eventually die of some kind of heart disease—either coronary artery disease causing a heart attack or a stroke (a stroke is just a "heart attack" of the brain)! In contrast, one woman in twenty-five will die of breast cancer.
One of the central outmoded ideas governing our health care system is the notion that the processes of a woman's body are designed to cause suffering and pain, and that women require a great deal of medical care and testing to stay healthy.
Vitamin D is necessary for the health of every cell in the body. In fact, a recent study showed that women with the best vitamin D levels were the ones who survived breast cancer longer. And the women with breast cancer with the lowest levels died 70% sooner. So it was very statistically significant.
A couple of months ago, I received a book called Surviving Chaos: Healing with Divine Love—A Spiritual Energy Healing Process. This book, written by engineer and scientist Robert G. Fritchie, is one of the most practical, simple, and exciting manuals for healing I’ve ever found.
Too many women see the hormone therapy decision as an either/or, yes/no decision. It is important for you to know that you don't necessarily have to choose between traditional HT and alternatives. Think of your perimenopausal support as a smorgasbord. You get to choose what appeals to you at the moment and leave what doesn't.
Our souls broadcast wisdom to us every night in the form of dreams. When we learn how to pay attention to our dreams, we develop a very streamlined way to access our inner wisdom. And the more you practice, the more skilled you become. Dream recall is well worth the effort.
