Every woman’s SUPERPOWER
How many women and girls are told by the doctor that period pain is normal? How many simply live with it and don’t seek help or advice because we’ve been brought up to believe that pain is normal?
My belief has always been that when something is part of your natural hormone cycle, it shouldn’t be painful. Don’t accept anyone telling you otherwise.
Pain is our body’s way of telling us that something is out of balance. Modern medicine teaches us to treat the symptoms yet having followed many natural medicine practitioners, my belief is that ‘symptoms’ are the ‘healing.’ To treat the symptom is to deny the imbalance, the issue, the deeper reason, the cause and ultimately the message our body is trying to send.
German New Medicine
I’ve recently been studying German New Medicine, 5 Elements Acupuncture and Ayurvedic Medicine. All of these treat the body as an holistic organism, a whole with all systems interconnected. They identify the imbalance or the cause which can be a combination of emotional and physical. There may be a genetic or ancestral disposition, environmental factors or traumatic life events which have contributed to or created the imbalance.
Through The Body Temple Method, my understanding of the causes of period pain has deepened. This therapy combines hands-on therapy, selfcare and herbal remedies. I have learnt that pelvic misalignment, injury, scar tissue and deep-seated emotional trauma can all lead to period pain.
Contraceptive Pill
I find it so sad that in this day and age, young girls are put straight onto the contraceptive pill to manage their period pain, until they want to have a baby. They’re told it will ease their period pain, and they can have more control’. The truth of the matter is that the pill simply shuts down our natural hormone cycle. The period is no longer a natural period. It’s a breakthrough bleed.
Nearly all of the body’s functions rely on good hormonal balance so imagine the damage which can be done when our hormones are switched off.
My Experiance
At the age of 25, this is exactly what happened to me. Bleeding between periods, spotting, heavy and painful periods led to me being put on the pill to ‘control’ my symptoms. I was told that I should try to have a baby by the age of 30 if the medical profession was to help me. Little did I know that I was applying a band-aid to the problem, and I was delaying the healing.
Twenty seven years later, I wish I’d known then what I know now. Having said that, the journey (however painful, stressful and turbulent) has given me the knowledge and the wisdom to help so many others like me.
Ayurvedic immersion
In November 2024, I experienced an Ayurvedic immersion. I’ll share more about this in another blog, but it taught me some important lessons. Well before we reach for the supplement, the therapy, the device or the practitioner, we should start thinking of our life as the medicine. This truly game-changing idea is shared by Dr Cassie Huckaby https://gritnaturalmedicine.com/ who is a huge advocate of using your life as medicine.
Before we start to address symptoms, we should look at all of these factors:
- Sleep
- Nutrition
- Light exposure
- Breathing
- Beliefs/Mindset
In 2021, I qualified in Mizan Therapy which I now call Temple Therapy as part of my Body Temple Method programme. Although it is yet another therapy and system of healing, the fundamentals are about lifestyle, nutrition and mindset. Once we begin to work on these, small miracles begin to happen.
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Have a lovely day,
Sughra