Hi everyone and welcome to this week's episode. My guest today is Maisie Hill, who is a highly qualified and sought after menstrual health expert with over 15 years of experience as a practitioner,

coach, and birth dula. Maisie knows the power of working with the menstrual cycle

and believes that our hormones are there to serve us and help us get what we want out of life.

She is author of her best-selling book, Period Power,

her next book, Perimenopause Power, and finally her book that debuts very soon powerful.

Maisie, welcome to the podcast. I'm so happy to have you and I was just saying before we started that I wanted to have you on for ages I'm particularly interested in how I got to know you and the subject that you talk about well you did talk about most which is periods I know that I first got your book a while ago and it has been incredibly

helpful on my own journey of learning to manage painful periods. So thank you so much for coming on.

I guess I wanted to start by asking you about your journey into this being your career.

I know that you've written about your own experience with your periods and that they were incredibly

painful and I guess that sort of set you on the trajectory of what you now do.

So can you tell me a little bit about how you got into

into this being your work? Yeah I mean it's astonishing to kind of

reflect on that and think wow this has been it's like actually most of my life this has now been.

And you're completely correct, it really started off with my horrific debilitating period. And I I mean when my period started they were painful from the beginning

I just I remember saying to my mom like this is really

new about a lot of things to do with the body

still she was very limited in what she could say to me

and it was just kind of like her socialization coming through like you really see the

generational impact of this message that we're told of well that's just part and parcel of being a woman

you know because now you're a woman.

Honestly, I think that's the most damaging thing we can hear.

Yeah.

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