Is it My Hormones or Is It Something Else?
Are you experiencing uncomfortable changes in your body? Are you plagued with insomnia, fatigue, anxiety, depression, irregular bleeding, anger, hot flashes, irritability, heart palpitation, food cravings, and issues with sex, memory, and/or weight gain? Are you told that they are related to PMS, hormone imbalance, perimenopause, menopause, adrenal fatigue or adrenal burnout?
If your answer is ‘yes’ to any of these questions you need to know that the answer is usually something else!
There are two types of stress: negative and positive. The difference between the two depends upon whether you feel you are in control of the stress. Some stress helps you focus your
energies, sort out your priorities, make decisions, and perform better—this is positive stress. Negative stress occurs when you feel a lack of control over a particular situation.Negative stress is what invariably happens to women. Women are less prone to be in positions of power to control what happens in their lives. Women also tend to take care of everyone else's needs before taking care of their own. Whenever you feel like you have to do something at the expense of yourself, you become stressed and resentful, which inevitably manifests in physical and mental symptoms.
Stress is the effect that the demands of life have on our mind and our body. Many life events, both good and bad, can cause stress. Some examples of stressful triggers are getting married, childbearing, children moving away from home, getting divorced, and change of partner; a chronic illness or a partner with a chronic illness, shifts in financial status. Others include changing or losing a job, the death of a family member or friend, moving, selling or buying a house, accidents, sleep deprivation, and environmental stressors, having hyperparathyroidism or an overactive parathyroid gland to name but a few.
Compelling evidence indicates that both men and women experience substantial benefits from fulfilling relationships: living longer, healthier, wealthier, and happier lives as a result. Women especially need close relationships with a partner in order to thrive. Our ability to nurture such relationships can benefit us mentally, physically, and spiritually.
To the contrary, feeling stuck in a bad or unhealthy relationships will bring on stress and all its negative consequences
Personal habits and lifestyle that include consuming too much alcohol, too much caffeine, using over-the-counter medications, herbs, or supplements; using prescribed medications, mood altering or illegal drugs, can have side effects that will mimic symptoms that are attributed to PMS, perimenopause, menopause, or adrenal fatigue.
You can't eliminate stress from your life. The secret is to know how to control it. Most of all, you need to learn about what triggers your stress and how to avoid or overcome those triggers.
Your time and energy are precious commodities and are not to be wasted. You need to learn to value your time as much as you value others. There is a tendency for women to put themselves last on their priority list.
In order to take control of your life, you will need to set healthy boundaries, and do things, from now on, because you WANT to—not because you HAVE to.
In order to deal with your symptoms, I advise you to:
• Take an inventory, keep a written record, of what might be causing your reactions. This involves becoming more aware of your body, the content of your medications and supplements, your environment, your diet, habits and vices, what thoughts occupy your mind, and what emotions are dominant.
• Have a checkup with your health-care provider to rule out a medical condition.
• If you are having difficulty finding the root cause of your symptoms, work with an experienced intuitive such as you will find at my Wellness and Center for Women.
• Learn stress management and relaxation techniques, including yoga, meditation, massage, and biofeedback.
• Find someone you trust who will listen to you. Self-help groups, hotlines, chat rooms on the Internet, your minister, your health-care provider, family, and good friends can all play a therapeutic role.
• Get psychological support that allows you to explore your fears and concerns.
• Practice forgiveness.
• Learn to heal your inner child
• Develop a closer relationship with your higher power. This will allow you to be able to surrender, really forgive, and have faith that you will be taken care of regardless of the situation.
• Consider taking a prescribed medication while you are working with your issues.
• Learn how to set healthy boundaries.
• Listen to your body. In many instances, women “know” when something is not quite right. But women have been told so many times that what they are experiencing is “in their head.” Consequently, they stop listening to their own intuition.
• Have a healthy lifestyle.
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About Dr. CarolleCarolle Jean-Murat, MD is a medical intuitive, board-certified gynecologist Helping them finding the right solutions in any aspect of their lives!
She offers:
• Life Transition Decisions with Clarity – intuitive telephone and in person consultations, for those who are at a major fork in the road of their life journey.
• One-on-one private & group retreats
• Intuitive Telephone Consultations in French, English, and Spanish
• Monthly Multi-City Seminars in English
• Bi-monthly Multi-City Large Group Retreats & Small Group Retreats at the Dr. Carolle Wellness & Retreat Center
• On-Line In-Depth Interactive Assessments
• Educational CDs and Audio Books in French, English, and Spanish
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Carolle Jean-Murat, MD
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