Natural Hormonal Health & the Power of Cyclical Living: What I’m Learning About Women’s Wellness

When I hosted our recent Ayurveda workshop on hormonal health for women with Liane Benedict, I expected to walk away with new tips—maybe a few herbs to try, some food shifts, or lifestyle tweaks to better support my hormones.

And while those things came up, and she did give us tips for all of those, what stuck with me the most wasn’t a protocol or product.

It was this: 

We don’t need another supplement.

We don’t need another diet.

We don’t need another medication.

We need to trust ourselves.

That reminder hit me (and few others in the group) straight in the gut, because it’s exactly what I’ve been learning (and unlearning) in my life lately. As a mother, a wife, a business owner, and a woman trying to live more aligned with nature, it’s becoming so clear to me that true women’s wellness isn’t about managing symptoms—it’s about reclaiming rhythm.

We’ve Been Taught to Override Our Cycles

A few nights after the workshop, I opened an email from Dr. Casey Means (one of my fav functional medicine doc’s) that was incredibly profound. I was sending it to several female friends, because it was SO good. I really appreciate her perspective on health and wellness. She wrote:

“Feminine creativity happens in cycles—like the seasons, the tides, and the phases of the moon. Women are lunar beings who exist on a 28-day moon cycle… The modern world rejects, even demonizes, these cycles. It demands constant productivity, endless yang energy, and punishing speed. It labels rest as weakness.”

It's like she was speaking what I was feeling for the longest time.

I’ve spent so much of my life trying to keep up. I’m proud to have rights as a woman and grateful for the women who fought for them—but somewhere along the way, that power got twisted into pressure. Pressure to be productive at all times. To be strong in ways that felt more masculine than feminine. To achieve, provide, produce, and keep going—even when my body, heart, or hormones were begging for stillness.

Ayurveda Helped Me Remember What I Already Knew

At the workshop, Liane reminded us that hormonal symptoms—from fatigue to mood swings to cycle irregularities—aren’t random. They’re signs of imbalance. But instead of treating them as problems to fix with more stuff, we can treat them as invitations to slow down and tune in.

In Ayurvedic wellness, everything comes back to rhythm and relationship—our relationship to food, rest, seasons, stress, and the natural world. That philosophy deeply resonated with where I’m at in life right now.

I don’t want to live on a schedule that ignores my energy levels or disconnects me from my body’s wisdom. I want to live in a way that feels seasonal. Intentional. Grounded. Rooted in the understanding that my body is not a machine—it’s nature in motion.

(Bonus: I also learned that Ayurveda is Yoga’s sister science, so I will definitely be incorporating more of this into my yoga classes and practices). 

Feminine Energy Is Not Laziness—It’s Legacy

That same email from Dr. Casey talked about the importance of rest, not just as recovery, but as creation. She wrote:

“Rest and emptiness are necessary for the miracle of creation… Are we producing what we were brought from the Spirit world into human form for?”

THAT LINE.

I’m not interested in just making content or staying busy. I want to create something that serves my family, my community, and the generations coming after me. I want to live—and work—in a way that honors feminine energy, not fights it.

For me, that means moving slower. Saying yes to things that feel aligned, and no to things that don’t. Building my business in a way that still lets me mother, homestead, and breathe. It means recognizing that the most powerful thing I can do sometimes is rest.

Women’s Wellness Starts With Reconnection

If you’re feeling tired or overwhelmed by hormonal symptoms… maybe your body isn’t broken. Maybe you’re just out of rhythm. Maybe you’re ready to return to a different way of living—one that values rest as much as growth, reflection as much as action.

This is the direction I’m heading in, slowly and intentionally. I don’t have it all figured out, but I do know this: natural hormone balance doesn’t come from more control—it comes from more connection.

And it’s liberating to know and trust that my body knows the way.