How to Chart Your Menstrual Cycle and Embrace it as Your Fifth Vital Sign

  • Coaching Podcast, Hormones
  • September 16, 2019
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Welcome to the one-hundredth and seventh episode, all about learning to chart your menstrual cycle and embrace it as your fifth vital sign!

My name is Brianna Wilkerson from Made Well, a holistic coaching practice designed to empower others to be healthy and thrive in all areas of their lives, starting with their bodies.

I am a Holistic Health and Life Coach, Essential Oils Advocate, and a Crossfit-Level 1 Trainer with a heart to empower busy women to ditch dieting, lose weight, and reclaim their health and body back.I love seeing women care for their bodies through proper nutrition, consistent exercise, managing stress, sleeping well, digesting foods well, reducing their toxic load, caring for their mindset and habits. I also love empowering working women to use non-toxic solutions like essential oils for their health and those they love!

It is my absolute delight and pleasure to bring you this podcast and share with you all my heart and soul around truly being healthy and thriving in all areas of your life!

Today’s episode is the third in my hormone series and is with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack!

Lisa is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner who teachers women to chart their menstrual cycles for natural birth control, conception and monitoring overall health.

In her new book “The Fifth Vital Sign” Lisa debunks the myth that regular ovulation is only important when you want children by recognizing the menstrual cycle as a vital sign. Drawing heavily from the current scientific literature, Lisa presents an evidence-based approach to fertility awareness and menstrual cycle optimization.

She hosts the Fertility Friday Podcast, a weekly radio show devoted to helping women connect to their fifth vital sign by uncovering the connection between menstrual cycle health fertility and overall health.

In this episode, you will learn about:

  • Lisa’s journey in having period pain, history with hormonal contraceptives, and wanting to find a more natural solution to birth control
  • How Lisa started using the Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) to track her menstrual cycle and learned she had a thyroid issue
  • More on how our menstrual cycle is more than just our period and why it’s important to look at the whole cycle
  • The four different phases of your menstrual cycle – 1) follicular (or preovulatory), 2) ovulation, 3) luteal (or postovulatory) and 4) your period
  • Using FAM as a means of 1) natural birth control, 2) conceive and get pregnant and 3) learn about your health and body
  • How FAM can also help you develop body literacy through tracking your cervical mucus, basal body temperature, and cervical position
  • Why the Pill may not be the best solution for birth control or to regulate your period
  • The importance of tracking menstrual cycle even if your premenopause
  • The work Lisa does with her clients through her Fertility Awareness programs
  • How to get started with tracking your menstrual cycle through Lisa’s books – Fifth Vital Sign and Fertility Awareness Mastering Charting Workbook – and podcast, the Fertility Friday Podcast

Be sure to check out the episode below and the resources/links!

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Quotes:

“I went to the doctor about the pain, I said three words and he started writing a prescription.”

“Tracking your cycle isn’t just about birth control.”

“The pill was the first drug given to healthy people to shut down a healthy process.”

“The pill is not a vitamin and it was never intended to improve your health.”

“We tend to believe the lie that if our cycles are irregular, we are simply unlucky.”

Sponsor Mentioned:

As a reminder, this podcast episode is sponsored by my 7 Day Healthy Body Challenge. This is a free challenge to help you develop healthy habits in your nutrition, exercise, stress management, sleep, digestion, toxic load, and mindset and habits. By developing healthy lifestyle habits in these areas, you will start to balance your hormones naturally, sustainably and joyfully. Grab access today >>HERE<<.

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By Brianna Wilkerson

Brianna Wilkerson is a Holistic Health and Life Coach, Essential Oils Advocate with doTERRA, podcast host, wife and momma, matcha tea lover, and at-home crossfitter. She helps women find peace with food, create healthy habits, and use natural essential oil-based products so they can feel better, have more energy, and take care of themselves and those they love. You’ll leave sessions with her feeling supported and empowered to make simple health changes that fit into your life, and use essential oils as natural solutions for your health, home, and family. You can find Brianna hanging out in the Made Well Women's Health Community and on her Instagram!

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