What Dr. Claudia Shares:
- Why the title of her book is actually backwards
- Her “aha!” moment when she was studying hormones
- The difference between sex hormones and stress hormones
- How our spiritual and emotional choices reverberate through our physical bodies
What You’ll Hear:
- Understanding that your hormones don’t become imbalanced in a vacuum
- How Western and Eastern medicines support each other to better understand our hormones
- Viewing hormonal functions through the lens of duality
- Hormones govern extremes in the body
- Understanding why imbalances between sex and stress hormones occur
- Learning how to decrease stress hormones through lifestyle changes
- Striving for the sweet spot of balance between yin and yang
- Learning your own body to understand when it needs more rest versus stimulation
- Why women in their late 30’s and beyond require more rest
- Becoming hormonally rearranged in menopause
- Learning to balance external stressors to support your health
- Determining what your version of ‘having it all’ is, and subtracting what you don’t need
- The interweaving effects of emotion, thought, biology, action, and spirituality on our hormonal balance
- Embracing the medicine of subtraction and internal wisdom to find balance
- Why saying no takes so much courage
- Further resources for learning about hormone balancing and preparing for pregnancy
- Respecting the hormonal differences between male and female bodied people
