I can’t tell you how many women I’ve spoken to who have felt frustrated by the lack of support they’ve received from their physicians. Have you ever felt this way? Have you found yourself in your doctor’s office hoping to find some answers to what’s happening in your cycle only to be told that you… Read More »
The Top 4 Benefits of Using Fertility Awareness for Birth Control
If you’re not familiar with how the Fertility Awareness Method works, it involves tracking your 3 primary fertile signs: cervical mucus, basal body temperature, and cervical position, and learning how to identify which days in your cycle you are actually fertile. Contrary to everything you were taught in your junior high school sex ed class,… Read More »
FFP 019 | Fix Your Period | Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea and The Pill | Nicole Jardim
Today’s podcast guest is Nicole Jardim! Nicole is a Certified Women’s Health Coach with a specialty in hormonal and reproductive health. She trained at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and apprenticed at a women’s holistic health center in New York City. Nicole trained with both with Dr. Sara Gottfried the author of The Hormone Cure… Read More »
Surprisingly, Women Aren’t Actually Men
It’s pretty obvious that women are different to men. But even though we understand that women’s bodies are very different when compared to men, the male body is the “standard” that our healthcare system is based on. For example, it is standard practice for new drugs entering the market to be tested exclusively on men… Read More »
Guest Post: Birth control freedom for life – My journey
This is a guest post that I wrote for Hannah Ransom’s blog: Holistic Hormonal Health. I interviewed Hannah on The Fertility Friday Podcast, and we talked all about Fertility Awareness and how it can be used in conjunction with barrier methods such as condoms, and we talk in depth about the withdrawal method for birth… Read More »