Women cycle-Women rhythm

Over the past years, about 85% of the people I’ve worked with have been women — many of them in their late 30s, 40s, and 50s, navigating perimenopause, menopause, or the years around them.

As I’m reaching 40 myself, my curiosity around the hormonal system has been growing. I’ve always been deeply interested in the relationship between trauma and physiology — but in recent years, I’ve started to trace how hormones, cycles, and all of our body’s systems are in constant dialogue with one another. It’s a beautiful, layered, and often underexplored dynamic.

During my pregnancies and postpartum periods, I began this inquiry in a more personal way. My body was shifting. Clients I worked with were also describing symptoms that, with time, I could see were not just psychological or physical in nature — but hormonal, layered with their histories, and deeply misunderstood.

Many of these women, like so many before us, have fallen through the cracks of the medical system. Their symptoms are real — but they’re often dismissed, pathologized, or treated in isolation. It’s honestly heartbreaking. And it’s one of the reasons I feel such a strong urge to share this book I recently discovered: The Hormone Repair Manual by Lara Briden.

A former client mentioned it, and I started listening the same day. I haven’t stopped since.

The more I read, the more I feel: anyone working with women in this life phase needs to know this material.

Because here’s the truth: so many symptoms that appear as mental health challenges, physical complaints, or general “dysregulation,” might be directly connected to hormonal shifts. And we’re often not taught how to understand this — not by our parents, not by doctors, not even by ourselves.

I imagine that centuries ago, in smaller communities and tribal living, women shared this knowledge. It lived between us. I remember taking a hormone and cycle tracking course in my early 20s — learning how to recognize the shifts, the rhythms, the changes across the month. It changed how I related to myself. It gave me a map. And now, nearly 20 years later, I’m watching so many women around me enter a new chapter without even that basic information.

This isn’t just about facts — it’s about reclaiming our rhythm.

This new phase — perimenopause, menopause — doesn’t have to be seen as decline or “getting old.” Lara Briden calls it a second puberty. And that reframe touched something deep in me. Puberty is full of change, yes — but we also understand it requires patience, presence, support, and respect. Why should this phase be any different?

I’m excited to keep learning. And I wanted to share this with you — colleagues, friends, fellow women — as an invitation to join this curiosity. To stay open. To ask questions. To reconnect with your body’s wisdom and rhythm.

Because sometimes, the answers we’re offered aren’t enough.

And sometimes, the real path forward is the one we trace ourselves.