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Hormones, PMS, PCOS, Endometriosis & How To Heal For Good · Beyond Limits With Olivia Marie

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Live Well Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Liv, a naturopathic doctor, mentor, energy healer, Akasha Breeder, intuitive, energetic business mentor, and honestly, so much more.
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  SPEAKER_00: I help you heal on a physical and emotional level so that you can feel delicious in your health, body, relationships, career, and bank account.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: This show is for those of you who are looking to go beyond the basic wellness stuff, cut out the BS, and really create a life you love.
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  SPEAKER_00: We talk about health, trauma healing, energetics, feminine energy, wealth, and magnetism so that you can live a life that feels delicious.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: In these episodes, we will have an honest conversation without the fluffy bullshit.
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  SPEAKER_00: You walk away with all of the insights, tools, and tips to truly live your best life, mind, body, and soul.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: If you are looking to live well, you are in the right place.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: For ways to work with me, visit keepeupwithlive.com and follow me on Instagram at keep up with live for more.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: And with that, let's get into the show.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Live Well podcast.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: Today we are diving into everything: hormones, PMS, PCOS, endo, how to heal for good, and normally the things that are keeping you from healing beyond just trying to slap Vitex on it or some sort of like trendy Instagram supplement.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you guys know I always give it to you blunt.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: I give you the truth, uh, because I actually want to help you.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I remember what it was like when I had hormonal imbalances, PCOS, and all of that, all of that stuff.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: And I was on supplements for years.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: I spent hundreds, probably thousands of dollars on supplements and all that, but it only took me so far.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: So I want you to understand in this episode the tie between your physical hormones and everything else going on in your life and how that actually affects it outside of maybe the diet that you're eating that's really clean.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're already gluten-free, you know, dairy-free, you make good choices, everything like that, and you're still kind of wondering why your hormones are fucked, essentially.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I want to dive into first a little background on cortisol.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: Now, cortisol, I'm sure like we've all heard of it before.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of like a trendy word, like, don't spike my cortisol.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: I actually say this to my fiance because he likes to play really angry music in the car.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like, no, this is not for my nervous system.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: My nervous system is all about like calm, serene, and he's all like it's it's funny.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, getting back on topic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cortisol is your fight or flight response going into action.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cortisol is that thing that's like, oh, I see a tiger, let me run away and keeps you from getting eaten by the tiger.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: Now, however, cortisol protects us because we need a little bit of cortisol response to keep us from being eaten by that tiger.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: However, unfortunately, in our day-to-day life right now, our cortisol levels are either really, really high from high stress, or they've been high for so long that they've now tanked and you have zero cortisol response, which is not good either.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: So having high cortisol or super low where it's nothing, and some signs of that, if it's super low and it's nothing, is like you're gonna have zero energy no matter what.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: You're like adrenal fatigue, burnout, and that's because you're you've been stressed for so long that your body just actually can't produce that amount of cortisol to keep up with the stress and trauma in your body.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: So cortisol, again, we need it, but we need it to only actually be high if we're running from a tiger or there's something detrimentally wrong going on in our lives.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: However, with work, so maybe school, family drama, kids, dogs, relationships, friendships, and then all the trauma you haven't released from when you were little and in high school and all of that stuff, it's getting built up in your system.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: And so the cortisol just builds, builds, and builds until it tanks.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: Now, the reason that this is important is that when cortisol is high, it blocks progesterone because to release cortisol, it has to take away from something called progesterone.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: And then you also get issues with pregnanolone, which is another hormone that you need, which leads to cycle issues, weight gain, and low libido.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_00: So when you're highly stressed and have all that trauma in your body, you're blocking progesterone production, which is what you need.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's one of the hormones you need to have healthy hormones, healthy cycle, healthy womb, healthy fertility, healthy all of those things.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: Pegesterone is also needed to boost metabolism.
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  SPEAKER_00: It also lowers inflammation.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: It also is, you know, like I said, tied to your womb and fertility and all that.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: So if your cortisol is super high and you are now blocking progesterone, you are blocking something that lowers inflammation.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: So then we get inflammatory conditions like PCOS, endo, just general PMS cramps, not to mention like gut health issues, bloating, you know, et cetera, and all that.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: We also have a lowered metabolism, which means we're going to have weight gain.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: And then you're frustrated as to why you're not losing weight, even though you're eating healthy and it's probably, you know, a hormonal issue, but the hormonal issue, yes, is from cortisol, but it's also from your emotions and your trauma that's causing your cortisol and causing those physical hormones to be high.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and like I said, we also have libido and we have just general hormone, healthy hormone health when it comes to libido and your womb space and everything like that, which we all kind of know like when you're really stressed, you have no libido.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: But this is like the connection for you of like when you're really stressed, you block progesterone and you don't want to have sex, and then you're not in your feminine and it takes you out of your masculine and you're not connected to that energy.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_00: We all know feminine energy is like your je ne sais quoi, it is your magic life force energy that makes you magnetic.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: So then cortisol and your trauma and your stress from your life is also blocking your magnetism, your ability to manifest and how comfortable you are in your body, right?
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: So think about it will like basically fuck up all your hormones because cortisol will keep firing until you solve it.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: So until you lower your cortisol response, until you actually decrease the stress in your life and until you release trauma.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_00: Now, there are many supplements that can help, but unfortunately, there is no supplement that can completely release your trauma for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I tried for decades.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_00: I would say, like, I didn't even know I was in a cortisol response for a very long time.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: And then when I started to do this work, it was like, oh, your nervous system is so jacked.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I try taking all the glycine, all the adaptogens, and all those things can help.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: They can take the edge off, and they made me a functioning human that got through med school, you know, passed her boards and like was able to start a business.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: But it wasn't until I actually like fixed the emotional shit in my body and released it that then all of those things work so much better and actually work as they're supposed to, because they're not fighting against so, so much, right?
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: And so just think about constant trauma, constant stress, constant cortisol.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: Or then the constant cortisol for so long, and after years, if you're here for a few years, then it goes to absolutely nothing, and then you got nothing left in the tank.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: And when your cortisol goes so low that it actually can't pump out, you're not also not going to make proper hormones because your body is so depleted at that point from pumping out cortisol for so long that it doesn't give a fuck about balancing your hormones or carrying a child or doing any of that stuff.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: That's not its priority.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: Its priority is just like having enough energy to keep your heart beating and keep your lungs like breathing, right?
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: So, and keep in mind, add in everyday stress on top of this.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: And it it makes sense as to why your hormones are a mess or why there's endo or why there's PCOS.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_00: Now, there I do have podcast episodes on like more of the physical components in terms of like blood sugar and how your gut health is destroying your hormones because of the ester bolome and the beta-glucuron it is.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: So, like go and listen to those as well because those are gonna be super informative in terms of like fixing all the physical stuff, fix the physical and then also do the emotional so that you get it from all angles.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: I am so excited that Glow Level One is now open.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, this is so powerful because I have combined well-nourished and goddess activation into one program.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: Not only are all the hours of juicy video content in there, along with the tappings, the reprogramming tracks, the recordings, everything you need, but also all the hours of live healing calls, which means that you have over 12 hours of live trauma healing calls with me, where we release all the emotional stuff that is holding you back.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: Plus, there's time for QA, and you get a one-on-one session with me where we build you your own personalized treatment plan based on what's going on for you.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: There's also a Telegram group where you can ask me anything in between sessions that is related to health, wealth, self-love, relationships, body, everything.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: This kind of access to me is going to be a game changer.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_00: I have never done a group program that has been this powerful and potent before.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: We cover everything from gut health, perfectionism, people pleasing, PMS, fertility, hormones, anxiety, acne, eczema, you name it, it's covered.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: And we go to do the deep emotional work that's causing your physical symptoms, but also the deep emotional work that is causing a lack of self-love.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: And a lack of self-love not only shows up in your health, but also shows up in your lack of boundaries, your people pleasing, your magnetism, and your ability to feel and receive love.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_00: So if you feel like you tried everything and nothing works, this is a sign that you need to do the deep emotional work.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: Plus, I have added a section and a call all on wealth and money so that you can let go of old money beliefs and patterns and code in a new financial blueprint.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yummy! Okay, so this truly covers it all.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so excited to see you inside.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: The link is down below and DM me any questions you have about it on Instagram.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: And with that, let's get back into the episode.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: So, moving on.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: All that stress raises estrogen.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: We do not want high levels of estrogen, okay?
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: High levels of estrogen gives us acne, gives us waking, makes us feel like garbage, it makes us moody as hell, makes us PMS, it makes PCOS also like it's just we don't want too much estrogen, right?
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: So when that stress raises estrogen, it further also decreases progesterone, which leads to all this PMS.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: So not only do you have cortisol directly blocking progesterone, but that elevation and estrogen further fucks with your progesterone, and then you get PMS, and then you get cranky, you get bloaty, maybe you get headaches, you have all of those symptoms around PMS.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: And if you didn't know, PMS is not normal.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: You should get like actually, I was so proud.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: I had one of my one-on-one clients yesterday tell me, she's like, My cycle is just amazing.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like it just feels amazing every month.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Yeah, like that, that's the whole point.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_00: You're not supposed to be moody or bloated or in pain or you know, depressed or anxious or like all of these things, right?
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: So those are all signs that your hormones are out of balance and they need they need some tender loving care.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_00: They probably need a little bit of emotional release, um, and they need some support.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to move on to not feeling loved means you do not feel safe, which is gonna mess up your cycle.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_00: So the primary need for women is love and connection when we feel like there are conditions around us being loved, when we feel like maybe we're not getting the love that we want or that we need, and that can be proud, like stemming from childhood, stemming from I didn't get what I needed from mom and dad growing up.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I've had, you know, you know, hypothetically PC PMS since I was like 13 or since I got my cycle, right?
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: Because your body is still holding on that like yearning for love.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: Think about how much you still want to please your parents or you want them to be proud of you.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's a lifelong thing if you feel like you've never gotten that.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_00: So all of this is tied to not being in your feminine.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_00: When you are not in your feminine, this is really going to be tied to your hormones, right?
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: So not being in your feminine raises your cortisol.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of the times it's unfortunate because it's the trauma, the beliefs, and the things that have happened to us in our lives that keep us disconnected from our feminine, that keeps us disconnected from our womb space and our bodies, whether that's body shaming or eating disorders or all of these things, it just keeps us not feeling good in our body, which I fully understand.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like I'm there.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I hear what I'm saying.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: You're like, Liv, you're telling me to feel good in my body when like my symptoms are all feeling like this.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: I get it.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: I was there.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: Hundreds of my clients have been there.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_00: But what I'm telling you is that you need to fix that first in order for that to heal.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: Your feminine energy, like we know, is your life force energy.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's tied to your health, it brings in your abundance, and you need that balance of masculine and feminine.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: But so many people are way too stuck in their masculine.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: I have episodes on this, so definitely go back and listen to that.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: But your hormones are tied to your lower energy centers.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_00: So your sacral, your root, and your solar plexus.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: Think about it like top of your pubic bone to your bra line, all of those energy centers affect your hormones and have, you know, influence in your feminine energy as well as your heart as well.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: But those are like the physical areas where if those are having issues, it's going to be also hard for your heart to connect as well.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: So many hormonal issues are tied here.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: Now, what keeps us kind of not in our feminine is maybe a negative relationship with your mom, kind of like mother wounds or your perception of women while growing up.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: This was actually a conversation I had with one-on-one client yesterday, where we've been working on her feminine energy, her relationship with food, and her relationship with her body.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: And it all comes from the fact that her mom's perception of her body has been horrible.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: And she still makes comments to this day about like her own body, about how ugly she is, how fat she is, and all these things.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: And so when you're growing up, if your perception of the feminine, you know, has all these either criteria of what it means to be enough or to be pretty or to be worthy, or you were either shamed for not being a certain way, or learned that, like, oh, it's better to be thinner or being, you know, larger is bad, then you're going to not be connected to your feminine energy.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: But when you're not connected to it, it's going to mess up your hormones, right?
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_00: So think self-criticism, think all of those negative beliefs you have about yourself and your body, all that worthiness learned or told to you, whether it was bullying or family or any kind of shaming or anything like that, is going to be tied to your hormones.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: So just know that like any kind of PMS or hormonal symptoms is caused by like a rejection of your feminine energy.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's a rejection of the feminine process.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: So you might feel like uneasy about it.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: You might feel like your body is not XYZ.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: All of these feelings that you have are disconnecting you from your feminine energy and are also making it difficult for your hormones to heal, no matter how many supplements you take.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna take a look at my notes, make sure what else I wanted to say.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: So when it comes back to feminine energy, it's also important that if you feel like you are not being seen or heard and you want to be seen and heard and loved, but at the same time you have guilt and shame about being seen or loved because you're not fully confident in who you are in your self-worth.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: That's going to really gonna affect the dichotomy, right?
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: Because you want love so bad, you want that love and connection, but like you're shameful about who you are or maybe what you look like, and that's disconnecting you.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: So then you're stuck in this vicious cycle of like, I really want it, but I'm not worthy of having it, but I really want it.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: And then nothing feels enough, where you're constantly looking for this external validation in order to feel enough when it needs to come from you.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: You're not owning your power and you're giving up power outside to something to make you feel worthy.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's like the validation you get.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: And this was the same one-on-one client I was talking to yesterday, that she gets like, Oh, you know, when I lose weight, all my friends like always comment, think I look, oh, you look so good.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: You're doing this.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: So you're getting validation from self-sabotaging or doing self-deprecating behaviors because the love that you're craving from your mother, which you didn't get, you would then get if you were to like lose weight or like quote unquote be skinnier, right?
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: So just know that like there's so many little of these things.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: And if you think that you're not, you know, holding on to your fear of being seen or your unworthiness or your being too much or your people pleasing or your boundaries, like this is all getting held in those energy centers and affecting your hormones.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's also affecting your gut.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: There's a separate podcast episode on that, but it's also really affecting your hormones and your feminine energy, but your happiness too.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like, let's just be honest for a second that like when you're feeling this way about yourself, like the emotional things about your body and your self-image and your worthiness, you're not happy.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: You're not happy when you look in the mirror, you don't feel magnetic, you don't feel radiant.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: And so then you feel like you're not attracting good things into your life, and then you're focused on that.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: What you focus on expands, right?
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: So this is why I kind of combined it glow level one with like well-nourished and goddess activation together, because I just noticed so many women with their hormones needed help on their self-worth and their boundaries and their feminine energy that like they needed both programs.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: So we've kind of put them into one.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: So you get all of those healing calls from well-nourished and goddess in one, which means all the people pleasing, all the boundaries, all the self-love, all the self-worth, all of this.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like we release it all so that you are healed on a mental, physical, and emotional level.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: So that's why we combined it all because everyone people were doing both anyways.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, let's just make it one program um and heal, heal everything.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna leave that down description, but I wanted to jump onto endometriosis and kind of give you an idea if you suffer with endo, what could be kind of stepping in your way when it comes to healing?
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: So endo basically indicates that you're allowing old limiting beliefs to prevent you from creating what you want in your life, which means that there's many old beliefs and operating systems in your brain that need to be rewired, leaving you frustrated, depleted, feeling like not loved, not supported, not grounded, along with the aspect of like rejecting your feminine energy.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: So this is like everything I tell you about feminine energy, apply that to endo, but then also add on this layer of like the old and beliefs preventing you from creating the life that you really, really want.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: And normally that comes from the insecurity, the unworthiness and the fear of being seen of actually being able to create that life that you want, right?
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: Because you might feel like I can't do it, it's not possible for me.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know, live can do it, but I can't, or whatever story is operating in your mind that maybe you have or parents have had, or people around you are programming you to believe what's possible.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: I remember like the worst advice I think ever is like be realistic, you know.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: Let's just throw that out there.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: So there's also an element of that when it comes to endometriosis of denying yourself the love and appreciation that you're also craving so much.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: But it's your fear and your trauma that's preventing you from actually going out and claiming it and getting it.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: So you really need to create new beliefs, but it's really hard to create new beliefs and actually anchor them in when you have those old systems operating and when that trauma is still in your body.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: You can affirm it till the cows come home, and that's not going to do anything if uh those trauma cycles haven't been completed because your brain is super powerful, your ego is super powerful, it wants to keep you safe.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: And unfortunately, it's actually easier to keep you safe and keep you miserable with hormonal issues than to actually heal them because that's what it knows.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: So this is really important to understand when it comes to hormones, PCOS, PMS, feminine energy.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: If you guys have any questions when it comes to this, just send me a DM.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: I have lots more podcast episodes on this that you guys can further dive into when it comes to all of these things.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: I have PCOS specific ones, I have ones on feminine energy.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, if you're ready to like heal your hormones and heal all this for good, then definitely hop into glow one.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna release all the trauma that's doing this.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna work on your self-love and self-worthiness.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's like honestly, there is no other program out there like this.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like it is that's how magical it is.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: There is no other natural breath out there, you know, who knows all the physical stuff, who knows all that stuff to like prescribe you, but it's also doing like the trauma healing, the emotional work and holding you in such a safe, sacred space for eight weeks to actually transform your life.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: And like that's why what I do is so powerful and so different, is because it's it's not the easy or the easy work or as easy as like popping, you know, or a pill, but it's the work that's actually going to heal you and make it so that you don't have to manage your symptoms.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: And if anyone's ever told you you can't like heal from your PCOS or your endo or heal your hormones or balance them or whatever it is, um, I'm here to tell you that's that's wrong.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: That was wrong for me, and it's wrong for the hundreds of women of health.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: So, with that being said, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode and I will see you in the next one.