"I kept waiting to feel like myself again. I didn't realise how long I'd been waiting."
For a long time, I just thought I was tired. Stressed. Doing too much. I told myself everyone felt this way.
I had a hysterectomy, and what followed cracked something open in me. My labs were normal. My doctors weren't concerned. But I wasn't fine. I was waking up at 3am, heart racing. Gaining weight no matter what I ate or how hard I trained. My skin was changing. I was snapping at my kids over nothing and then sitting in the bathroom feeling terrible about it. I tried HRT. It wasn't my answer. Nothing was.
The not-knowing was the worst part. So I went looking for answers, not just for me, but because I never wanted another woman to feel this lost in her own body. I got advanced certified in hormone health. I started understanding what was actually happening: it was never just one thing. It's stress hormones, metabolic hormones, and reproductive hormones all shifting at once, and most solutions only address one of them. That's why nothing was working.
Then someone I trusted sent me a text. Just try this. So I did. Not as a coach looking for something to recommend. As a woman who had done everything right and still felt completely off.
It was the first thing that actually moved the needle. And it's the first thing I reach for now, every time a woman comes to me feeling the way I used to feel.
Meg