A couple weeks ago I asked you on Instagram if you wanted access to the workshops that I give in my SYNC program. Not everyone’s into memberships, and that’s cool! There was a lot of interest from the community (thank…
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Post-Birth Control Hair Loss: Why It Happens + What to Do
Hair loss is a common side effect that people experience both when taking hormonal birth control or when transitioning off of it. It can feel panic-inducing, especially when you don’t know what to do about it. This episode provides some…
Easing Fears Around Food
Food anxiety and weight stigma cause more harm to our health than food itself. This episode goes over commonly feared foods and practices in our society—why we fear them, why we should embrace them, and what to do about it…
Introducing The Lunar Body Podcast!
New year, new podcast! While I love talking about periods all the time over on Self-Care for Cycles (the show I co-host with Janine Mulone, yes we changed the name!), I know not everyone wants to hear about it every…
How to Be Productive On Your Period
The stereotypical period involves a ton of PMS symptoms, painful cramps, lots of sugar cravings, misery, rage, tears… everything but actual productivity. A healthy menstrual cycle really doesn’t have any of that. You don’t have to be relegated to the…
Mocha Cookies for Seed Cycling in the Follicular Phase
Seed cycling is a gentle, nutrition-based method for helping you balance your hormones. It involves alternating between one period of pumpkin seeds and flax seeds with another period of sesame and sunflower seeds. The idea is that the seeds contain…
How the Menstrual Cycle Impacts Hunger, Mood, and Sleep
As much as we try to be productive, energized, and perfectly peppy people on the regular, we menstruators cannot copy and paste that version of ourselves into our daily lives. Our hormones fluctuate over the course of a month or…
5 Reasons Your Period Is Irregular
Your menstrual cycle is a wealth of information about your health, and an irregular period can tell you quite a bit. Getting to know your personal rhythms is the best place to start when it comes to uncovering your body’s…
Better Than Trader Joe’s Blueberry Lavender Oat Milk
Turns out I’m an oat influencer. First my Oatly oat milk dupe recipe skyrocketed my website traffic, and people are loving my savory oatmeal with spinach and artichokes. Today I have something new for you: a dupe of Trader Joe’s…
How the Birth Control Pill Can Impact Your Period
The birth control pill has become a cure-all solution to menstruators’ problems. It’s prescribed for regulating irregular periods, managing PMS, treating pain and other symptoms from conditions like endometriosis and PCOS, and reasons outside of preventing pregnancy. But does it…