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Maisie Hill has written a bloody brilliant book (pun intended). Everything you need to know about periods and how they affect you and your life is here. It's revolutionary' - Miranda Sawyer Your menstrual cycle and the length and experience of each season are highly sensitive to changes in your life. Work stress, poor diet, relationship issues, and illness are just some of the things that can throw your hormones off balance. As a result, your cycles may be too long, too short, or very irregular. Join me on this episode as I demystify the menstrual cycle for you, clarifying what it is and explaining it in a way that makes sense, whatever your cycle looks like for you. I’m sharing how learning to understand your cycle can help you understand your behaviour, and how you can use your cycle to get what you want out of life. I just can't express how much I couldn't relate to literally any of her descriptions, except Autumn. And that made it really difficult for me to take the rest of the book as seriously as she takes herself. There's a lot of floof, as other reviewers have said, and while it's clear that to some extent she knows what she's talking about, she's also drunk the new age kool-aid -- and she's not great at drawing boundaries around what's kool-aid and what's legit. So it all sort of melds together into her anecdotes and season-speak, alongside legitimately helpful information about hormones and body cycles (and why hormonal birth control is really terrifying).
Period Power is a profound but practical blueprint for aligning daily life with the menstrual cycle, to give women a no-nonsense explanation of what the hell happens to their hormones every month and how they can use each phase to its full advantage. Period Power reveals a new way of being for people who menstruate. Based in fact and articulated with both love and humour, Maisie Hill's strategy - to work with our cycles rather than against them - is life-changing. * Lisa Williams, The Hotbed Collective * Now, the reason for this is that hormone levels fluctuate while in perimenopause. And sometimes they’ll be the same as someone who is premenopausal, as in not going through perimenopause. So blood tests just aren’t a reliable way of determining if you’re in the club or not. Now, there are times when they might be appropriate and useful such as if you’re experiencing symptoms kind of earlier than you might expect these symptoms to start appearing. Then your GP might recommend them. I have a degree in the history of art and architecture in Africa and Asia. This is the lie. I actually started this degree but I didn’t finish it because I ended up moving to New York instead.
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Maisie Hill approaches the subject with love, care, and tenderness. And sometimes that's what we need. I will openly admit I cried my eyes out in the first chapter. I was in a bad place with my periods before I started this book and I needed to feel like I wasn't alone, like other people knew what it was like, and this book gave me that. This fantastic guide to menstruation is the perfect way to learn more about the human body and how periods impact far more than we realize. Striking the perfect balance between research and accessibility, this book will have you saying, 'Wow, I had no idea!' at least once per chapter. * BookRiot * So it wants you to move. It wants you out walking around, strutting your stuff, looking for someone to hook up with. Perhaps you’re also more talkative because usually we talk to humans before we mate with them. Although, I mean, it’s been a while since I went out on the town, but I’d say that isn’t always the case. Right, number six, true or false. Women are at highest risk of suicide around the time of menopause. This one is very sadly true. Between the ages of 50 and 54 is when we are at greatest risk of suicide. We often think about the menopause transition as in perimenopause and then going into our postmenopausal years as being a time when we experience physical symptoms like hot flushes, headaches, breast tenderness, and changes to our cycle, and changes to our periods. But it’s important to consider mental health too.
So these are just some of the benefits to the menopause transition. Yes, perimenopause can be hugely confronting and challenging, but there are positives to the process and it is a window of opportunity to look at your health, to look at your life and to make powerful decisions about what you want and need. And oh my God, the sleep issues that become more prevalent as we age, let’s not forget about the impact of them on mental health too. So there are a multitude of reasons why mental health can suffer but I don’t think it’s coincidental that our risk of suicide is highest when oestrogen drops off around the time of menopause. This podcast is something that I’ve let percolate in me for well over a year. And I’ve used my cycle to figure out and create, until it got to the point where I was like, “Okay, you’ve done enough thinking. Now you need to start doing.” If you are in the horrors with menstrual cycle issues, or you want to learn how to harness your hormones, then you are in the right place.Thank GOODNESS for Maisie Hill! Flipping open the lid on a vital conversation. It's about time we claimed the power of our periods! * Gemma Cairney, broadcaster & co-founder of Boom Shakalaka Productions * I see a lot of people dismissing this book for being "woo", and yes, some of it gets a bit hokey. But do we want to read a scientific textbook, or do we want to be seen. The reason there is so little science in the book, is because science doesn't really give a crap about women and their menstrual "problems". Highly recommend for anyone who is menstruating. Or used to. Or will. Or anyone who is hoping to get to know their partner/friend/family member who is menstruating, better. I have walked down the aisle three times. This is true. I have been married three times, to two people. Neither of which I’m currently in a relationship or married to. Let’s save that for maybe never.
But I am very thrilled to have a studio space to escape to and focus on my work because that’s what this phase of my cycle is all about. I really love to just get down to work, focus on what’s important to me, and finish things up before my cycle ends. So today I’ve got some podcast recordings to do and ones where I’m guesting on other people’s. Hormones like estrogen and progesterone don’t just tell your uterus what to do. They affect your mood and behavior in all kinds of ways, regulating your energy, sleep, libido, and appetite. In fact, hormones don’t just affect menstruators – they rule all humans! Medical book to be read by women and even men to avoid unwanted problems and have a healthy balanced lifestyle. Hello lovely people. I have just walked to my studio and in contrast to the other week when it was all snow and ice here and I was wearing three layers, leggings, jeans and then waterproof hiking trousers on top, it’s very different this week and today. It’s the most gorgeous day, very sunny here in Margate and there isn’t one single cloud in the sky and I’m only wearing jeans. So I’m feeling quite chipper even though it’s day 23 which is not usually when I feel chipper.Day one is the first day of your cycle, and it’s also the first day of your period. Now, I get a lot of messages from people asking me what counts as day one. So, in case you’re wondering that, here you go. It’s the first day that you experience significant blood loss. It doesn’t matter what time of day. Okay? And it’s the same for me when I talk about being autistic. I don’t like the term ‘diagnosis’. And I’ll get onto that in a future date. I know a lot of you would like to hear more about this. I’ve been receiving a lot of questions about my so called autism diagnosis. I initially rated this 3 stars but have now downgraded it to 2 after I ruminated on it some more over the weekend. This was mainly due to a level of unease that Period Power left me with, as well as a feeling that I didn't really take as much away from it as I'd hoped. Have you ever wondered what perimenopause is and how to know if you're experiencing it? If so, today's episode is for you. Living with Intention: How to bring more of what you want into your life by deciding to feel a certain way on purpose, and the importance of making decisions from a place of sufficiency, self-love, and compassion.
My only complaint would be for her to add more advice ( unless she has added it all). She’d often mention clients she helped to regulate their cycle, but not the specific steps within that and their direct effect. And once again the more pseudoscience suggestions be said with a grain of salt. This in turn would be my lowering of two stars.How often have you heard, or overheard, this statement? Even in ostensibly progressive societies, it’s all too common for men to dismiss women’s ideas, opinions, or anger simply on the basis of their ability to bleed every month. The idea behind this is that periods somehow make you volatile, dangerous, or outright crazy. Maybe your body feels a bit antsy. You’ll be able to recognize that this is your body trying to get you to take a walk and find a mate. If you are in the horrors with menstrual cycle issues or you want to learn how to harness your hormones then you are in the right place. Now, colloquially, some people will say that they are cycling when they are bleeding. But technically a cycle is not a period. Whenever I refer to a cycle, I mean the whole damn thing. The length of time from one period to the next. So, let’s take a moment to orientate ourselves with where we are in the cycle now. We’re post ovulation and in the second half of the cycle, the luteal phase. Hormone levels are low initially. Then estrogen starts to rise again.
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