BEYOND BIRTH CONTROL - tracking your menstrual cycle, reproductive empowerment + ways to take control of your fertility and health with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
What's The Juice
Olivia Amitrano
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Ep 55. This week's guest is Lisa Hendrickson-Jack. Lisa is the creator of the Fertility Friday blog & podcast and the best-selling author of The Fifth Vital Sign. She is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and a Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner. This conversation is a reminder that our bodies are powerful and remarkable, and they are expert communicators. We just have to learn to be better listeners. So honored to share my conversation with Lisa as she walks us through the basics of tracking fertility and so many tips for supporting menstrual health.
Whether you're trying to get pregnant or avoid it, this method might just change your life. No hormones, no pills, no side effects—just you TRULY getting to know how your body works.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, my lovely What's the Juice family. When you guys are hearing this episode, I will actually be on the tail end of my solo trip to London. And I hope that I am a changed person for the better when I get back. And I know that I'll have so much to share with you guys about my solo trip experience. That's something that I've been talking about a lot on Instagram. So I know that you guys are also interested in wanting to do |
| 0:24.8 | your own trips. So perhaps I will record a solo episode on my solo trip experience and tips |
| 0:30.4 | when I get back. But more importantly, this week's episode is a major one. It's been a long time |
| 0:37.1 | coming and I think that now is the perfect |
| 0:38.9 | time to share this conversation. We're at a time where women have more awareness, fear, complex |
| 0:47.1 | emotions, rightfully so about their reproductive health and reproductive rights than ever. |
| 0:52.9 | And I think it's so important to share |
| 0:55.0 | as much education as possible in the holistic space about fertility and cycle awareness so that we |
| 1:00.8 | can feel even more empowered and perhaps a little bit less fear around pregnancy prevention, |
| 1:06.6 | body literacy, cycle literacy, and just understand, again, our fertile cycles window and feel |
| 1:12.8 | more equipped to take our reproductive health and pregnancy prevention into our hands. |
| 1:18.6 | So with that being said, Lisa Hendrickson Jack is a holistic reproductive health practitioner |
| 1:24.0 | and a fertility awareness educator. And she is the author of the best-selling book, |
| 1:28.8 | The Fifth Vital Sign, which is an incredible book. I highly suggest that you read it. And we're going to |
| 1:33.7 | be talking today a little bit about what that means. Why is your period your fifth vital sign? |
| 1:38.8 | What is your cycle actually telling you? And why is there so much power behind educating yourself on your cycle, |
| 1:45.9 | the way it works, when your hormones dip, when you're ovulating, and when you're fertile? |
| 1:49.9 | There was recently a poem that I'm sure you guys have seen on Instagram that was released by |
| 1:54.3 | Chloe Grace Laws. And it's called It's Not That Bad. And it's essentially all about |
| 2:00.3 | the weight that comes on women's shoulders |
| 2:04.8 | when the onus of preventing pregnancy is on us. And when our major options are to either deal with |
| 2:12.1 | painful periods or get on birth control and often deal with the side effects of birth control |
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