EP60: Dr. Claudia Welch on the Medicine of Subtraction and Balancing Your Hormones

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