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11/08/2025

Your encapsulated placenta is one of the best things you can consume during your healing journey. It helps to balance your hormones and provides you and your breastfed baby essential nutrients.

09/21/2023

Do you have plans for Halloween yet? Check this cool weekend long event in Hudson Valley, NY.

05/25/2023

The more you know…

02/19/2023

Do you suffer from painful periods? Have you explored the cause and treatment of your pain?

Dysmenorrhea, or pain with menstrual cramps, can be primary or secondary. Secondary dysmenorrhea means that another condition is involved.

02/17/2023

Has your doctor talked to you about each step of the process? If you’ve given birth before how coherent we’re you to give consent for additional procedures?

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01/25/2023

This picture of Juwan Lopez and his daughter Khloe, 2, at a mural memorializing Sha-Asia Semple, his partner and his daughters mother, in Brooklyn, Jan. 12, 2023. Until now, the specific medical errors that caused Semple’s death have not been publicly reported in detail. Nor has it been reported that in the more than two years before her death, six other pregnant patients in labor at Woodhull “suffered adverse outcomes related to the administration of anesthesia,” according to the hospital inspection report. Please read more about this very sad story at https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-epidural-delivered-doctor-history-201357031.html

01/25/2023

Menstrual Cycling

Phase I: Menstrual Phase (Winter)

Length - Can last anywhere from 1-7 days. Also called the bleed.

Effects on the body - Estrogen levels rise slightly and progesterone levels dip. These changes can leave you feeling low on energy, but also reflective in nature.

Productivity - The best things to focus on during this time are analytical tasks. Solo projects, proofreading, reviewing data, assessments and goal setting.

This is a great time to look inward and listen to your instincts while setting those goals. Because this is the lowest natural energy levels it is best to avoid tight deadlines and only focus on 1-3 important tasks.

Activity - Self love, muscular activation and managing inflammation is the focus.

Performing exercises such as yoga, stretching, light weight training, walking and resting are great to focus on. Beginning and ending your day with meditations around self love can really help during this time.

Nutrition - Focus on foods that add nutrients and restore. Blood replenishing iron and zinc rich foods, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and immune boosting foods.

- Seed cycling with flax and pumpkin seeds during this time is key.
- High fat foods
- Teas with ginger or red raspberry leaf
- Veggies like beets, kale, mushrooms, spinach
- Fruits like grapes, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and watermelon

Purpose - During this time while you rest and meditate ask yourself what it is you are ready to shift inwardly?

Start or continue your journal and reflect.🌕

01/21/2023

What is Moon Cycling? Let’s explore each phase and how to pin point your cycle. Stay tuned for more information as we “dive deep” like R.S. into each one.

01/21/2023

White Moon Cycling begins today (1/21/2023) with the new moon.

This cycle is when the moon is dark you go inward and bleed, when the moon is full, you are at your highest and shine brightest.

- New Moon begins the menstrual bleed
- Full Moon begins ovulation

*You are connected to the fertility of the earth and are ready to birth children and new projects.

01/20/2023

Although women have doctors who specialize in their reproductive health many of these doctors still have not been able to pinpoint all the different causes and effects of the magical menstrual cycle.

This article like many other articles down plays the power of a women’s intuition and the fact that we are our own bodies expert…yes read that again…you are the expert on your body.

Once we understand and embrace that the menstrual cycle can become a more welcoming time.

As someone who suffers from and struggles with painful bleed days I know that the technique of menstrual cycling and becoming more attuned to my mind, body and spirit each month is key to overcoming and capitalizing during each phase.

What is menstrual cycling?
- Menstrual Cycling are the four phases of your cycle that can help bring awareness to your bodies natural hormone cycle. This knowledge can help to inform your eating, exercise, meditations, actions and other decisions depending on which phase or “season” you’re in at the moment.
- The four phases include the menstrual phase, follicular phase, ovulatory phase, and luteal phase.

Over the next few weeks I will dive into each phase and review best practices for how to harness your power at each stage. Come back for more…

Here's the period low-down...

12/22/2022

Yes, yes many of us know this so why is it not considered a medical condition or disability?

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