FFP 421 | Overcoming Period Pain | Period Pain Replay Series | Lisa | Fertility Friday
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🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode I discuss period pain. I go into the most common causes for period pain, and specific steps you can take to reduce and/or eliminate your pain starting today!
Today's episode is sponsored by the Fertility Awareness Mastery Online Self-Study Course. The most in-depth and comprehensive online fertility awareness self-study program available. Click here to join now!
Topics discussed in today's episode:
- What is primary dysmenorrhea
- What is period pain a sign of
- How period pain is very common but not normal
- The flow pattern of a normal period
- Why you should get checked out by your doctor if your bleeding is too light or too heavy
- How extreme pain with your period can be a sign of endometriosis or other issues
- Why the pill may manage period pain but does not fix the underlying cause of the pain
- Other modalities to look at when you have severe period pain
- Strategies for reducing period pain
- How processed dairy products can affect women
- The importance of reducing xenoestrogenic chemicals from your household products or makeup
- The benefits of acupuncture or abdominal therapies for period pain
- How vaginal steaming can improve your bleeding issues
- Supplements that can improve period pain
- The importance of identifying the sources of inflammation causing your period pain
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Resources mentioned:
- Conceiving with Fertility Awareness Program
- 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 220 | Managing Intense Period Pain | Maria & Lisa
- [On-Air Client Session] FFP 186 | Managing Painful Periods | Charting Cervical Mucus | Lisa & Liz
- FFP 180 | Managing Painful Periods | Dysmenorrhea | Endometriosis | Dr. Lara Briden, ND
- [On Air Client Session] FFP 151 | Overcoming Period Pain | The Link Between Digestion & The Menstrual Cycle | Lisa & Stacey
- FFP 138 | Post-Pill Amenorrhea | Why It Took 4 Years For Her Period To Come Back | Andrea Petrus
- FFP 019 | Fix Your Period | Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea and The Pill | Nicole Jardim
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by my fertility awareness mastery online self-study program. |
| 0:05.9 | Learn fertility awareness from the comfort of your own home at your own pace for a fraction of the cost. |
| 0:11.1 | Head over to fertility friday.com slash mastery for details. |
| 0:15.0 | That's fertility friday.com slash mastery. |
| 0:17.9 | This is the fertility Friday podcast, episode number 421. Welcome to the Fertility Friday |
| 0:29.8 | podcast, your source for information about the fertility awareness method and all things fertility. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm your host, Lisa Hendrickson Jack. I'm the author of the Fifth Vital |
| 0:38.7 | Sign and the Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Journal. I'm a certified fertility awareness |
| 0:43.6 | educator and holistic reproductive health practitioner with nearly 20 years of experience |
| 0:48.6 | teaching women to connect to their fifth vital sign through menstrual cycle charting, balancing |
| 0:52.7 | hormonal health, and optimizing |
| 0:54.5 | the menstrual cycle without hormones. I'm outspoken about hormonal birth control and its impact |
| 0:59.9 | on fertility and overall health because you have the right to know how your body works and how |
| 1:05.2 | artificial hormones disrupt that natural process. I teach women's health professionals how to utilize the menstrual cycle as a |
| 1:12.0 | vital sign in their practices, and I host live coaching programs to help you achieve optimal |
| 1:16.6 | fertility and health, because it's important to have healthy menstrual cycles regardless of |
| 1:22.0 | whether or not you want to have babies. I'm also a wife and mother of two beautiful boys. I know, |
| 1:29.7 | I'm a busy girl, but I managed to fit it all in. |
| 1:36.4 | This podcast is designed to empower you to take full control of your cycles, your fertility, and your overall health. |
| 1:38.2 | And I'm so excited that you're here with me today. I was thinking that it would be a great follow-up to last week's episode with Stasha, |
| 1:50.4 | where she shared her personal experience with endometriosis and severe period pain |
| 1:56.0 | and some of the strategies that she successfully used to overcome her pain over the years. I thought it would be a |
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