Hello, beautiful beings! Happy Full Moon in Sagittarius (yesterday) 🌕

This month, I share a simple habit that can bust pain, ease periods and help to keep UTIs away. Maybe you are already on board and doing this??

And I also share on a topic that I feel particularly strongly about: the current reframing of perimenopause - a natural transition - as a pathology or problem to be solved (medicated). As a scapegoat for whatever is out of balance or calling out for healing. Maybe it's not perimenopause, but self-abandonment?... or putting ourselves last?... or decades of pushing through? ...meals eaten on the run (or skipped entirely)?

What if perimenopause is not a "problem" to be suppressed or medicated away??

What if it is a portal into a more essential, more exquisitely-aligned version of ourselves? An invitation to re-examine how we do life, and to witness and heal parts of ourselves. An initiation into our wisdom and power.

In Chinese Medicine, perimenopause is considered the “Second Spring”. A second puberty, a second metamorphosis. When we reflect on what a wild ride that first puberty was, we can begin to see the grace, space and compassion that we can offer ourselves in this transition.

Patients have shared with me that they have felt gaslit by the mainstream system, where their various concerns were instantly dismissed as "just perimenopause", and HRT was offered as the only solution. But it is no coincidence that symptoms like fatigue, low moods, irritability, low libido, poor sleep and weight gain can show up at this time of our life. These symptoms can also be a reflection of decades of caring for others at the cost of ourselves: of people-pleasing, over-giving and under-receiving..

In Chinese Medicine, we see “symptoms” as wise messages from the body. As an insight into what desires to be balanced or healed. In this episode, I share some of these common messages, and simple ways that we can support ourselves to move most easefully through this powerful portal!

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Did you know that keeping your feet warm can ease UTIs, period pain and pain in the hips & back?

The meridians / channels that wrap our pelvic bowl begin in the feet, and so keeping these pathways warm & supple can go a long way to supporting smooth menstrual flow, optimal bladder function AND easing pain in the region (back, hip, sacroiliac, etc.)

Some modern research, exploring the effects on the pelvic region when cooling / warming the feet, has once again highlighted what ancient sciences knew and advised for millennia. Warmth is flow, and warmth is Life.

Try this for yourself and let me know what you notice. Plus it’s cosy! ☺️

PS. this applies at any time of year, not just Winter! 🥶

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