Three of My Fave Books for Understanding and Optimizing Your cycle
Understanding your cycles is one of the first and most powerful steps you can take in feeling truly confident in your body. If you want to harness that power, you need to understand your hormonal shifts so you can learn to honor them with nutrition and self care practices that support your systems.
If you are interested in diving deeper into this concept, here are three books I trust, love, and recommend to my clients on their journey to a better period and hormone healing for sustained energy, stable mood, and manageable PMS.
The Better Period Food Solution: Eat Your Way to a Lifetime of Healthier Cycles
by Tracy Lockwood Beckerman
The Better Period Food Solution teaches you how nutrition and certain foods can not only help alleviate painful period symptoms, but also heal your body through every stage of your cycle.
Whether you suffer from painful periods or low energy, or a more chronic problem like endometriosis, The Better Period Food Solution will guide you through the nutrition choices that are best for your body. The book also includes sample meal plans and recipes that allow you to enjoy a lifetime of healthier cycles.
Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods
by Lara Briden ND
Period Repair Manual is your guide to better periods using natural treatments such as diet, nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, and natural hormones. It contains advice and tips for women of every age and situation. If you have a period (or want a period), then this book is for you.
Topics covered:
- How to come off hormonal birth control
- What your period should be like
- What can go wrong
- How to talk to your doctor
-Treatment protocols for all common period problems, including PCOS and endometriosis
Moody Bitches
by Julie Holland
As women, we learn from an early age that our moods are a problem, an annoyance to be stuffed away. But our bodies are wiser than we imagine. Moods are a finely tuned feedback system that allows us to be more empathic, intuitive, and aware of our own capabilities. If we deny our emotionality, we deny the breadth of our talents.
In Moody Bitches, Dr. Holland shares insider information about the drugs we’re being offered and the direct link between food and mood, and she offers practical advice on sex, exercise, and sleep strategies, as well as some surprisingly effective natural therapies.
Book descriptions adapted from www.amazon.com but, if you wish to purchase, I encourage you to do so from a local book store. If it’s woman-owned that’s even better!
