HAPPILY HORMONAL | hormone balance for moms, PMS, painful periods, natural birth control, low energy, pro-metabolic

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  Stop Ignoring Your Hair Loss & Start Asking What Your Body Is Trying to Say, With Kaley Sparling | E294 14.09.2026 35min

  Is your hair loss making you feel like you're losing a piece of yourself, and you're too embarrassed to say that out loud? I get it, and so does my guest this week. Kaley Sparling, founder of Hair Love, joined me, and we went way past shampoo bottles and gummy vitamins. We talked about why hair loss is one of the most brushed-off, shame-filled things women (and men) deal with, even though it wrecks confidence, identity, and honestly, your whole week. Kaley's story starts with a bleach job gon...
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  Stop Trying to Fix Your Hormones & Start Doing This Instead | E293 07.09.2026 22min

  Why does it feel like the harder you try to fix your hormones, the more stuck you get? You've probably lived this cycle more than once. A new season starts, you feel motivated, and you throw yourself into it. New supplements, a stricter food plan, a new provider, maybe you finally book that lab test you've been putting off. And for a minute it feels productive, like you're finally taking your health seriously. But a few weeks in, nothing's really changed, or worse, you feel even more exhauste...
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  Why Living in Your Masculine Energy Is Wrecking Your Hormone Balance l E292 31.08.2026 32min

  Cortisol and progesterone are competing for the same building materials in your body every day, and you can probably tell by how you feel who is winning. I've been sitting with that thought for a while, and this week I finally recorded about it. I see this pattern constantly with the women I work with. She's the one who remembers eye appointments, refills the supplements, keeps the toilet paper stocked, and somehow still shows up looking like she has it handled. She's also the one walki...
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  My Easy Fall Morning Routine To Make More Progesterone & Regulate My Nervous System | E291 24.08.2026 19min

  Fall is coming, and with it, that itch to overhaul your whole routine. Please don't. That urge to overhaul everything hits me too every single fall. New routine, new rules, a five-step morning ritual that looks great written down and lasts about two days before real life shows up and knocks it sideways. I'm skipping all that this year. Instead, I'm sharing the exact non-negotiables that have stuck for me, the ones actually making a difference in my nervous system and my progesterone, without ...
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  The Psychology Of Your Home: How Lighting, Color, And Clutter Affect Your Nervous System, With Dr. Rachel Melvald | BONUS E290 21.08.2026 20min

  Your house might be quietly stressing you out, and it has nothing to do with the mess on the counter. That's what my guest, Dr. Rachel Melvald, and I dig into on this week's episode, and honestly, it kind of wrecked me in the best way. Rachel is the founder of Psychitecture, where she blends neuroscience, psychology, and design to help people understand why their homes make them feel calm, chaotic, or somewhere in between. We're not talking Pinterest boards here. We're talking about the actua...
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  Hormone Q&A - Estrogen Dominance, Low Progesterone & How Your Mindset Affects Everything with Dr Heather Rhodes E289 17.08.2026 20min

  No ONE food is going to fix your progesterone, and estrogen dominance is not nearly as simple as the word makes it sound. These two things get more misinformation thrown at them than almost anything else in the hormone space. That's exactly why I brought my friend Dr. Heather Rhodes on the podcast this week: she and I both get the same questions over and over in our practices, and we're both so tired of watching women chase quick fixes that were never going to work in the first place. So we s...
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  Nervous System Regulation for Moms: Signs, Symptoms, and What Actually Helps with Burnout, PMS, and Overwhelm, With Laurie Hammer | E288 10.08.2026 29min

  Have you ever opened your supplement cabinet and thought, what have I done? Half a bottle of this, half a bottle of that, and you genuinely cannot remember why you bought most of it. If that's you, keep reading, because this episode is going to feel like a permission slip. I sat down with Lori Hammer, who works with moms on nervous system regulation, and we went back to some foundations we haven't touched in a while. The real, unglamorous, actually-works version. The kind that don't involve a...
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  How To Increase Your Progesterone Naturally For Less PMS & Better Periods | E287 03.08.2026 22min

  I’m sure there are days when you sit there, holding your belly or wiping away tears before your period, wondering, “Why do I feel like this every month?” I’m sure because I’ve been there too, dealing with the mood swings, the spotting, and short cycles, along with advice that honestly just made me feel more overwhelmed. So friend, if you’re experiencing at least one of these symptoms, this episode might be a breath of fresh air. I’m unraveling the progesterone mystery for you: what it is, w...
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  7 Small Shifts To Feel Safer TODAY And Have Happier Hormones This Month | E286 27.07.2026 24min

  Quick question before we dive in: when's the last time you actually checked in with your body and asked, "Do I feel safe right now?" Not "am I busy" or "am I productive" or "did I check everything off my list." Just safe. Because here's what I know for sure after years of doing this work with women: you cannot have real hormone balance without your body feeling safe first. Not once you fix your gut or once life calms down. First. So today I'm handing you seven (make that eight) small, doable ...
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  PMS Root Cause Clues on a Functional Gut Test With Dr. Heather Rhodes | E285 20.07.2026 41min

  Dr. Heather and I just did something we've never done on this podcast before. Can two hormone practitioners actually guess a client's gut test results just from her symptoms alone? That's the game we played on this week's episode, and honestly, neither of us knew if we'd end up looking brilliant or completely humbled. We took a real client case, someone newer to us who we barely knew yet, and we called our shots on her labs before opening a single result: just her age, her symptoms, and a pee...
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  You CAN Change Your Mood & Motherhood with Your Words - With Tessa Romero | E284 13.07.2026 47min

  Ever notice how the second you say "why is this happening to me," your whole body tenses up like something bad is about to go down? Today I have Tessa Romero as my guest and we talked about some emotional/mental root causes of hormone imbalances AND feeling misaligned in your motherhood. We talked about the victim mentality. Not in a "just think positive" way. In a "your nervous system is reading this as danger and your hormones are paying the price" way. Tessa has four kids under 8 and has c...
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  What Recurring Trauma & Burnout Did to My Hormones in 2025 - And How I'm Fixing it Now | E283 06.07.2026 30min

  Have you ever hit a season so hard that you genuinely forgot what feeling okay even feels like? That's been my last two years, and today I'm finally sitting down to tell you the real version. Not the polished, wrapped-up-with-a-bow version. The actual one. The version where my nervous system was on fire for a full year straight, where sleep became a stranger, and where even a four-year-old doing normal kid things felt dangerous. My son has had some incredibly scary, recurring heal...
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  Why you still have PMS after trying everything - Root Cause of PMS/PMDD Deep Dive | E282 29.06.2026 34min

  What if the anxiety, rage, crying, and exhaustion before your period are not just “hormones being hormones,” but are actually showing you where your body needs support long before your period starts? You’ve tried the supplements. You cleaned up your food. Maybe you’ve tried medication, tracked your cycle, worked on your mindset, and done so many of the “right” things. And still, one to two weeks every month, it feels like someone flipped a switch. One part of the month, you feel like yourself...
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  Things You’re Doing To Decrease Progesterone And Make PMS Worse Without Knowing It | E281 22.06.2026 24min

  What if your progesterone problem has nothing to do with your hormones, and everything to do with your alarm clock? Stay with me. Your body steals progesterone to make cortisol every time you're stressed, physically or emotionally, and it does this without asking your permission, often before you've even gotten out of bed. In this episode, I'm going rapid-fire through a list of everyday habits that are quietly draining your progesterone production. This isn't a beginner list, and I admit I’m ...
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  PCOS Doesn't Have To Negatively Affect Your Fertility - With Dr. Angela Potter | E280 15.06.2026 33min

  You can have zero cysts on your ovaries and still be diagnosed with PCOS. Wild, right? But that's exactly how loose this diagnosis really is. I sat down for this episode with Dr. Angela Potter, a PCOS and fertility specialist who works with women every day who hear the exact same thing I hear all the time: "Your labs are fine, here's Clomid, good luck." If you've been told you have PCOS, you've wondered if you might, or you've just been collecting random symptoms for years with nobody connect...
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  The Emotional Pattern Behind Your Worst PMS - And Why No Supplement Will Fix It | E279 08.06.2026 26min

  This one will step on all of our toes (including mine!) Women who do everything "right" - the supplements, the sleep hygiene, the breakfast protocols - are still struggling. And the reason isn't what most practitioners will tell you. It has nothing to do with the magnesium you forgot to take or the genetics you were handed. The root cause goes deeper than that, to something a little more uncomfortable to look at: how you're actually showing up in your life, day to day. If stress is comi...
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  Your Healthy Summer Routine Is Ruining Your Progesterone And Making Periods Worse | E278 01.06.2026 23min

  Are you going to feel good all summer, or hit August wondering why you became a different person from the neck up? Summer always feels like the healthiest (and happiest) season - lighter food, a few drinks at the barbecue, more movement, sunshine, a slower pace. So why do so many women feel worse in July and August than any other time of year? Turns out, summer is one of the sneakiest seasons for progesterone. It’s because everything you do looks completely right and healthy, but the ha...
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  The Hidden Immune Trigger Making Your PMS Worse Every Single Month | E277 25.05.2026 24min

  Have you done all the right things and still spent two weeks a month feeling like a completely different, much less pleasant person? I get it. Most PMS and PMDD conversations stop at estrogen and progesterone. But if you're still dealing with mood swings, brain fog, or symptoms that show up around ovulation, too, there's a piece nobody's named for you yet. It's histamine. And before you say, "I don't have allergies" - that's not what we're talking about here. In this episode, I'm walkin...
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  Why You Feel Nothing For Your Husband The Week Before Your Period - And What's Actually Happening | E276 18.05.2026 21min

  Have you ever looked at your husband doing absolutely nothing wrong and felt nothing but irritation? You know it's not really about him. But knowing that doesn't help when you're already in it, snapping at him for breathing too loudly, or crying and unable to explain why, then drowning in guilt afterward. Because you love him. Your hormones are throwing a very convincing party in your nervous system, and nobody sent you the invite. Here's what this episode breaks down for you: Why your brain ...
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  E275: Your Labs Are Normal, But You're Gaining Weight, Losing Hair, And Feeling Exhausted - Let's Talk Thyroid, With Dr. Amie Hornaman 11.05.2026 39min

  Have you ever left a doctor’s appointment feeling like something's off, even when told, “everything looks fine”? That's exactly where my guest, Dr. Amie Hornaman, started. At 22, despite eating clean and working out twice daily, she gained 40 pounds in three months. After seeing six doctors, including two endocrinologists, she was still told she was normal. But no one had properly tested her THYROID. So, we went deep into the stuff most doctors overlook: Why your thyroid impacts progest...