Inspiration für Dich und Deinen Wunschalltag
Have you ever tried to change a habit and failed miserably? Think… Exercising more, giving up coffee or eating less sugar? If you are anything like me or my clients you probably have. Many people struggle to change habits… and it is not surprising because habits are something we do automatically. There is little if not no thinking involved in performing a habit. Our habits are based on past decisions and do not require conscious choice in the now. Just think about your
The word menopause is one of those words that can be confusing. The way it is used on the street can mean so many things. Some women refer to it as a dreaded period in their lives where they were suffering due to hormonal shifts. Others use it to express that they stopped bleeding, and yet others mean the phase after they stopped bleeding. This is confusing as each one refers to a slightly different phase. What is it that we are actually talking? The proper use of language brings clari
You probably have heard that eating according to the seasons is a good idea. Dahh of course you have. But what effect does that really have? Why would you even want to consider doing that? Is it really that bad to just keep eating whatever you wanna eat especially if it’s healthy stuff like salad. A guy or gal’ must have some fun in life after all and ice cream (or popcorn, or crackers, or chocolate in moderation) tastes good at any time of year, in any weather doesn’t it?
A postcard on my office counter said: “Treasure map to a better menopause”. It was meant to give women hope and an action map to get into a graceful relationship with their bodies during a major shift in their lives. I thought it was a viable message. One day a male client walks in, sets his eyes on the postcard and proclaims convincingly: “There is no such thing as better and menopause. These two words shouldn’t even be in the same sentence”. “Mmm”, I said “tell me
Have you ever wondered why your experience of menopause is so intense while your girlfriend just seems to be cruising through it or vice versa? Why is one of you struggling with hot flashes, intense mood swings, anxiety, and heart palpitations while the other isn’t? Why is one of you gaining massive weight and the other seems to get skinnier the more she eats? I get it, it can be frustrating! The good news is: Ayurveda gives us an answer to this baffling phenomenon. T
There is nothing inherently pathological or bad about menopause. Menopause is a natural transition in a woman’s life … yes, the emphasis is on NATURAL. It’s just a transition time that, because it brings with it many changes in body and mind, is often confusing, baffling and concerning to women. Ideally, you would want that transition to be easeful, wouldn’t you? Yes, things are changing but the ride should be smooth. According to well-known authors, like Christian Northrup and R
When I first took a deep plunge into the topic of menopause, I thought to myself: Wouldn’t it be nice to share a positive quote around menopause with my women clients. Well, the issue was, such a positive quote was hard to come by. 95% of the messages I found were either negative or sarcastic. “Next mood swing in 6 minutes, be afraid, be very afraid” or “My hormones called. They wanted to set an appointment with you to rip your head off ”. The most popular seemed to be a caricature of
According to webMD.com, the majority of American women in their menopausal years are experiencing hot flashes some years before, during and some years after menstruation ends. While hot flashes are common during a woman’s menopausal years, they surely aren’t normal. Consider this statistic: In America 80% of women experience hot flashes. Compare that to 23% in Thailand, 17% in Japan and 0% in the traditional Mayan culture. In fact, the Japanese language has no word fo
Hot flashes have become known as the hallmark of perimenopause and menopause. I don’t know about you, but if I wasn’t in the tropics and experienced sudden, intense heat in my body, I wouldn’t be too happy. Some women report sweating so much their clothes are soaked. How annoying, and potentially debilitating and embarrassing depending on the circumstance you find yourself in. Here is how Western Medicine explains hot flashes: Although we think of hot flashes as heat surges
