I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of the balanced life.

Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations on health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between.

We'll cover it all and provide inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you create

your own uniquely balanced life and become the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out.

Hi, friends, welcome back to the podcast.

As I record this intro for you, I am currently sipping my iced macha latte, which is delicious.

It's a new little habit I've been getting into in the afternoon.

And I am in my podcast studio, aka my closet, as you know, if you've been listening for a while.

And just on the other side of this door, two of my kids are taking a bath right now.

So you may hear screaming, you may hear splashing, fighting.

I don't know.

This is what it's like to work from home, right?

So we're just going to roll with it.

But I am so excited to share today's podcast episode with you.

This conversation was so life-giving to me and it is so full of aha moments and practical

tips that I think you're really going to enjoy it as well. I had the pleasure of speaking with

Barry on Barry. She's a menstrual health

educator, a certified integrative health practitioner, and the creator of Optimize Your Flow. What I love

about Barry is she helps women have simple and uncomplicated periods. That sounds amazing, right? I think we

would all sign up for that.

She does this through talking about cycle sinking and really helping women to understand their cycle in a new way. In this conversation, we talk about the different phases of our cycle,

as well as how that can impact how we feel, and specifically how that affects our workouts or our fitness routine.

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