The Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Podcast

As we had into this new year, it's time to reflect in order to move forward. What is it that you want for yourself? Why are you recovering? What does it look like to recover? All questions that we unpack today in the hopes that you'll get that little spark of wisdom you need to follow through for 2022. Join The HA Society http://thehasociety.com/join Get a 1:1 Recovery Coach http://thehasociety.co...

The top 5 natural signs – outside of medical testing – that indicate you’re making progress in your hypothalamic amenorrhea recovery and that your period is coming back! Read the full blog post on this! https://www.thehasociety.com/articles/5-amenorrhea-recovery-signs-real-case-studies Resources mentioned: Fertility Awareness of HA Blog https://www.thehasociety.com/articles/using-the-fertility-awa...

Olivia Wagner is an Integrative and Functional Nutrition Certified Practitioner with a passion for helping women with period problems. On today's episode we get to know her a little better, her period story and the approach she uses to help women with HA recovery. We cover: Getting your period back with diet and lifestyle approaches Is "Healthy Eating" Related to your Missing Periods or Infertilit...

Coaches Ashley and Dani get together to talk about recovery from the lens that we see working with so many women. We cover a mishmash of hypothalamic amenorrhea and period problem topics ranging from how to keep making progress in recovery through to eating more food not ALWAYS being enough. Join The HA Society http://thehasociety.com/join Get a 1:1 Recovery Coach http://thehasociety.com/coaching...

Stress during hypothalamic amenorrhea recovery is something that everyone talks about a lot...but still has a hard time wrapping their head around. Let's dive into 5 commonly under estimated stressors that could actually be impacting your recovery. - Your job - Thinking about and being productive - Looking for the answers in others - Self comparison - People pleasing - NEAT Join The HA Society htt...

Heidi is one of my most amazing clients in every way. I'd say we've pretty much become besties over the past months working together. Her story is one that I think is important for a lot of women out there to hear – not everyones recovery is straight forward. We talk about: her story as a trainer and active person in recovery the ups and downs of her recovery processed and what worked, what didn't...

Today we're talking life after recovery...how to deal with period pain once you've got it back WITHOUT using pain killers. Lar and Cath are the twin sister founders (along with Lar's husband) of Semaine – the natural alternative to managing serious period pain. Both have their history with dieting and both have endometriosis. Their struggle with this is what led them to creating their own solution...

So you got your first period – congrats! But now what? What can you do every day to ensure that you're keeping it coming AND optimized? Today's episode doesn't just take you through the fundamentals needed to maintain and optimize, but they're also helpful for overall recovery. So regardless of where you're at with your period this episode is for you. Resources mentioned: Listen/Watch my story: ht...

Let's talk about Thanksgiving...and the holiday season in general! I asked the gals on Instagram how they’re feeling about Thanksgiving coming up while trying to recover – or keep a recovered – period. A number of women were looking forward to the season because having many other people around them also eating liberally can be helpful. A number of other women however – about 50% – had some concern...

Answering this question from a listener: INTERESTING TOPIC FOR THE PODCAST? — Spending money on my health is a "fear" for me that has become very apparent to me during this recovery journey. My husband has been in grad school for the last five years, and I work at a non-profit, so it's not like we're rolling in money, but the fear seems to be around not feeling like I'm worth the money. I did over...

Olivia Park is a health and performance coach, a successful CrossFit Athlete (winner of the Fittest in Taiwan 2018) with her own history of HA and her own story of recovery. Olivia and I dive into the reality of HA recovery for athletes and talk about what it takes to recover and get back to training. She's all about mindset, nutrition and structured, SMART training where she isn't running herself...

I'm so excited to have Kate Noel as a new, good friend of the show! I first connected with her on her podcast (and prior to that, saw her around the YouTube community) and immediately knew that she was one of my people. Kate has an incredible story of going through recovery as a professional model and influencer and in this candid conversation, she shares her story and we chat back and forth about...

Join The HA Society Http://thehasociety.com/join “Well I’m not that stressed” ,“I can’t relax” and “only the weak are affected by stress” are all statements that I know you’ve thought of at some point. I know that because I’ve thought about them myself, too. Let's dive in to a straight to the point, heart to heart conversation AND fun announcement on todays episode. Learn About 1:1 HA Recovery Coa...

Nora Jane Pope, FCP is a retired Naturopathic Doctor and Creighton Model FertilityCare Practitioner with a private practice in Toronto from 2002-19. She is the creator of “Cycle Charting: The Key to Fertility” CE Seminars.   Along with Dr Jessica Liu, ND, she is co-creating the 2021 Healthcare Professional Continuing Education webinar “Cycle Charting, Progesterone HRT and Fertility Enhancement”. N...

Once hypothalamic amenorrhea recovery is 'over'...what does life look like? I answer a few of these questions from my personal perspective and experience. It's a little bit of fun today and I hope it gives you some extra encouragement and motivation for recovery! Join The HA Society https://www.thehasociety.com/join Resource Store https://thehasociety.com/store Get a 1:1 Recovery Coach http://theh...

Questions to answer - choose one DAILY, feel free to re-do the same questions of course. Answer them a few times. 1. Why do I care more about how I look/weigh than my health? 2. Why am I upset about eating larger portions/more food?  3. What does larger portions/more food mean to me?  Stories Rewrite. These are stories that I think you have in your head. If you could rewrite the story in your head...

Tasha Tomlin is a badass breathe work coach and integrative nutritionist with a special focus on HA'er thanks to her own journey with solving her missing period mystery. In this chat, we dive into a topic not yet explored on podcast, using breath work to help you through hypothalamic amenorrhea. She explains how it works, the tactics, the wonders and I ask her the questions you're wondering about...

Can you be too focused on recovery? What should you do when it looks like recovery is taking over and you need to step back from consuming all of this information?! Let's discuss... Join The HA Society http://thehasociety.com/join Get a 1:1 Recovery Coach http://thehasociety.com/coaching Learn more about The HA Podcast HTTP://hapodcast.com https://www.instagram.com/thehasociety/ Learn more about t...

This is a great conversation that we had inside of The HA Society a few months ago, talking about the challenges of going through recovery while everyone else around you is either getting their period back or getting pregnant and you are NOT. Enjoy this candid chat, and if you're interested in becoming a part of The HA Society team, today is the last day for you to enroll! Join The HA Society http...

A requested topic by a listener... how are you staying too comfortable to be able to fully commit to recovery? Join The HA Society http://thehasociety.com/join Get a 1:1 Recovery Coach http://thehasociety.com/coaching Learn more about The HA Podcast HTTP://hapodcast.com https://www.instagram.com/thehasociety/ Learn more about the host Dani Sheriff! Instagram:  HTTP://instagram.com/danisheriff YouT...

Dr Heather Rhodes is BACK! We didn't get anywhere near scratching the surface in our first conversation so she's joining me again today 🙂 She's a PCOS focused Dr who is helping me to explain and even bridge the gap between PCOS and HA so that you can get clear on your own diagnosis AND your treatment plan. The good news is that regardless of which path you're on right now, you're probably doing i...

A fun little bonus from me... a reminder to you that this is SUPPOSED to be hard. Join The HA Society http://thehasociety.com/join Get a 1:1 Recovery Coach http://thehasociety.com/coaching Learn more about The HA Podcast HTTP://hapodcast.com https://www.instagram.com/thehasociety/ Learn more about the host Dani Sheriff! Instagram:  HTTP://instagram.com/danisheriff YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com...

Hilary Ritacco was one of the FIRST ever HA Society members. A CrossFitter who was like "where in HECK is my period?!" when she went off the pill and it didn't show up. She does an incredible job of sharing her story, the ups and downs and really bringing you into the reality, highs and lows of HA recovery – of course, with a nice big happy ending! I hope so many of your find this one really inspi...

Marie Young is a nutrition mindset coach that has her own wonderful recovery story. She was a super high achiever who was able to completely change her mindset and focus to get her period back. She shares her FLY system for helping women reconnect to their bodies and find freedom in their life, not just a period. FOOD LIFESTYLE YOU Ready to get inspired to recover without obsession? Learn more fro...

Welcome to part 3 of my interviews with Nicky Chapman! In our first episode, we spoke to Nicky while she is still in the middle of hypothalamic amenorrhea recovery, and talk through that experience. In episode 27 we talk about the exciting news of actually getting pregnant IMMEDIATELY (she never even got a period haha). And today we talk about life since then (still pregnant) but building her own...