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Sophia noticed she was having increasingly heavy periods for the past several months. She was starting to dread her period – bleeding through tampons and pads, always worrying if she would leak through to her clothes at work, having debilitating cramps, and she was SO TIRED! In general her energy had been low for…
I jolted awake at 2am with two simultaneous thoughts. One was that my belly hurt SO badly that I didn’t want to move even one inch. And the second thought was that I *really* needed to pee. I lay there for several minutes trying to figure out how I was going to get to…
“Is it hot in here or is it just me?” Covers off, covers on, covers off, covers on… repeat. “I’m having these weird episodes of feeling warm and prickly, could this be a hot flash???” Sitting in a work meeting and suddenly feeling your face flush and fanning yourself while your clothes get damp with…
Sleep, rest, and hormones are interconnected in ways that many may not really understand. If you struggle to fall asleep, find yourself wide awake in the middle of the night, or if tossing and turning keeps you from getting the quality of sleep you need, you may find some valuable information below including practices and…
Hormonal health can be thought of as a pyramid, with the foundations of health at the bottom (such as sleep, fitness, nutrition, and balanced stress response), and blood sugar and insulin stability being the next tier up in the pyramid of key factors that stabilize all of the other hormones. When blood sugar is…
Here we are, deep in “that time of year”, where it is not uncommon to find we are dealing with some kind of emotional ups and downs, where ‘family stuff’, ‘work stuff’, and ‘personal stuff’ can sometimes get triggered. Coincidentally, it’s the time of year when social gatherings (or lack thereof…) may present us…
Are you truly grateful for the good things in your life? Expressing gratitude is a way of giving thanks. Research from the Center for Greater Good suggests that gratitude may be associated with many benefits including better physical and psychological health, and an increase in happiness and life satisfaction. It can also strengthen relationships of…
We are incredibly excited to share The VITAL Method with you after several months of creation in the background here at The Women’s Vitality Center. As our team has grown and we are working towards having a bigger impact, we wanted to define our signature approach in order to empower and support more women in…
Self-sabotage is destructive behavior directed at yourself. It undermines your self-confidence and impacts your relationship with other people. Self-sabotage is usually driven by negative self-talk. For example, you may worry that if you fail then people will think less of you, or you may worry that if you succeed then others will be jealous of you.…
There’s really no need to tough it out and try to force desired changes by sheer willpower. In fact, that is almost certainly a recipe for failure. You can actually enjoy more ease in your life by focusing on creating habits. Check out the “5 Steps to Create New Habits That Last” below to start turning the…
