Significant Factors Belie Individual Hormone Imbalances
These are the main culprits that lead to chronic stress, anxiety, and resulting weight gain.
When people come to me stressed out, and so upset about their body’s changes, I have to get inquisitive. My job is to find what is the deepest rooted place where they are confronting an obstacle the ties in all these other things? Where did this all begin? How does this relate to the person’s story and why does it have them inquiring and coming to me in the first place? In other words, how is this really affecting them? Is it difficult to feel good about themselves, confident, uncomfortable in their body?
From here we find the ‘Hormone Imbalance Power Players’ and what will be a step by step process to uncover and support the imbalances, precursors, and co-morbidities that contribute to your sub-clinical symptoms and issues.
Where on the wheel do you feel you need support?
For example, last year I noticed swelling starting to happen some mornings in my fingers and hands. This had never happened before. At the time I was dealing with my main symptom, sleep and anxiety. So it would be of no surprise that a secondary symptom showed up at an acutely stressful period in my life while I was busy ‘dealing’ with the first one. I was burnt out. I was losing my hair, dealing with intense bloating and weight gain, feeling super anxious all the time... I figured with my sleep and digestive issues that I was dealing with it in its progressive stage as swelling in my hands. There were a couple things going on with stress where healthful eating became a real obstacle over a couple months. Plus ongoing sleep deficiency undermined all of this and my body’s ability to cope with the stress response to begin with. I was between a rock and a hard place.
Like life, these factors are interwoven and intertwined, lost forever as either the chicken or the egg.
Solutions were found. From the acupuncture, the swelling went away immediately after one session to my delight. Also, I came away knowing/attributing/correlating that I need to start cooking and nourishing myself properly, healthy meals with the right amount of sugars/carbs, as well as some vegetables and herbs which are heavy hitting boosters to digestion and the body in Chinese Nutritional Therapy. This seemed to make a difference to my bloating and weight gain. I stopped eating late (after 8pm). More sessions would have developed and healed the longer standing sleep issue tied with stress and anxiety.
When it comes to hormone imbalance, take into account all the other factors that play a significant role in the symptoms you’re experiencing today.
Living through the COVID-19 pandemic, we are operating in a smaller mental/emotional world, with a lot of social and domestic disturbances from the access we have from our phone and computers, not even mentioning other environmental toxins and this country’s food system, gluten, etc. as we see in this pie chart.
Excesses and deficiencies of these sorts for someone experiencing Hormone Imbalance can be addressed with short term acute issues with better prognosis over time so we can live a life of vitality, longevity, ease, contentment, and purpose.
A packaged treatment plan “for hormones that are wack” with me, comes with acupuncture, metabolic typing, and constitutional factor (cf). (I’ll define these later in another post.)