[FAMM Practitioner Series] FFP 443 | Overcoming PMDD | Uncovering The Link Between PMDD & OCD | Katy Ewen
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🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode Katy shares her experience charting through severe PMDD during the FAMM program. Katy's experience speaks to the connection between the menstrual cycle and mental health, and how hormonal imbalances magnified her OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) symptoms prior to her period. If you've ever struggled with PMS or PMDD symptoms this episode is a must listen.
Katy, also known as Reflex East, is a Reflexologist based in East London, England. She has been supporting people with their fertility and reproductive challenges with the calming power of reflexology in her private practice for 3 years. At the start of 2022 Katy joined Lisa as part of the FAMM programme. Having had her own mental health struggles, exacerbated by PMDD, Katy has personally found the FAMM protocols invaluable. Katy firmly believes that anyone who has a period or struggles to know how to relax should have the tools she can offer easily available to them and is excited to offer fertility awareness to support her clients on a deeper level.
Join us on Wednesday, November 30th (12:30PM ET) for a live masterclass on incorporating the menstrual cycle as a vital sign in your professional practice! Click here to register today and you'll also gain access to the replay!
Today's episode is sponsored by the Fertility Awareness Mastery Mentorship program, class of 2023! Early-bird registration is officially open for next year's class of 2023. Will you be joining us? Click here to register now!
Today's episode is also sponsored by the Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Workbook! Follow this link to get your copy today.
Topics discussed in today's episode:
- How Katy's cycle impacts her mental health
- The therapy that has been life-changing for Katy and her mental health
- What is OCD and the various types
- What is PMDD
- How Katy's change in diet has benefited her menstrual cycle
- When PMS crosses over to PMDD
- How the changes in Katy's own cycle have impacted the work with her clients
- How charting and the FAMM program have impacted Katy's menstrual cycle and mental health
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Resources mentioned:
- The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility (Book) | Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
- Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Workbook
- Fertility Awareness Mastery Online Self-Study Program
Related podcasts & blog posts:
- [On-Air Client Session] FFP 401 | Managing Severe PMDD | Alden & Lisa
- [FAMM Practitioner Series] FFP 393 | PMS & Low Progesterone | Preconception Planning | Nora DeBora
- FFP 383 | Boosting Low Progesterone | Short Luteal Phase | PMS | Lisa | Fertility Friday
- FFP 308 | How Does Stress Impact The Menstrual Cycle? | Lisa | Fertility Friday
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This episode is sponsored by FAMM! Are you a women's health practitioner looking for a solid way to incorporate comprehensive fertility awareness chart analysis into your practice? If yes, FAMM is the program you've been waiting for. Click here to apply now!
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| 0:00.0 | Breaking news, ladies, registration is now open for the Fertility Awareness Mastery Mentorship Program, Class of 2023, and we start the first week of January. |
| 0:10.9 | If you are a women's health professional with an existing practice and you've struggled to incorporate fertility awareness cycle charting into your client work, this is the program you've been waiting for. |
| 0:21.5 | There's nothing like it offered anywhere. Transform your practice in nine months. We start the first week of |
| 0:27.1 | January 2023. Apply now at fertility friday.com slash fam live. That's fertility friday.com |
| 0:35.1 | slash f a m m l-I-vee. This is the fertility Fridayiday.com slash f a.m-m-l-I-V-E. |
| 0:38.6 | This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 4443. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to the Fertility Friday podcast, your source for information about the fertility |
| 0:54.4 | awareness method and all things fertility. I'm your host, Lisa Hendrickson-Jack. I'm the author |
| 0:59.5 | of the fifth vital sign and the fertility awareness mastery charting workbook. I'm a certified |
| 1:04.1 | fertility awareness educator and holistic reproductive health practitioner with over 20 years of |
| 1:08.7 | experience teaching women to connect to their fifth vital |
| 1:11.5 | sign through menstrual cycle charting, balancing hormone health, and optimizing the menstrual cycle |
| 1:15.8 | without hormones. I have been consistently outspoken about hormonal birth control over the past |
| 1:21.9 | two decades and its impact on fertility and overall health because you have the right to know |
| 1:26.5 | how your body works |
| 1:27.5 | and how artificial hormones disrupt that natural process. I teach women's health professionals |
| 1:32.1 | how to utilize the menstrual cycle as a vital sign in their practices, and I host live |
| 1:36.6 | coaching programs to help you achieve optimal fertility and health because it's important to have |
| 1:41.0 | healthy menstrual cycles regardless of whether or not you want to have babies. |
| 1:50.0 | I'm also a wife and mother of two beautiful boys and a brand new baby girl. This podcast is designed to empower you to take full control of your cycles, your fertility, and your overall health. |
| 1:54.6 | And I'm so excited that you're here with me today. |
| 2:07.5 | Today I'm sharing another brand new episode in my fertility awareness, mastery, mentorship, |
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