Empowering Your Journey To Wellness: Navigating Hormones, Health, and Happiness with Hannah Heidel

Welcome back to another episode of the Period Chats podcast!

Our guest today is Hannah Heidel. Hannah is a nutritionist and owner of Nourished Girl, which is an awesome company that has been a long-time partner of Funk It Wellness.

Today’s episode contains such a meaningful and impactful conversation. Hannah and I dive in to some of the ways that the wellness journey isn’t always easy or linear, and also how hormone and period health can effect many people’s experience of adolescence and early adulthood in pretty profound ways.

We also talk about how the little changes we make in life can add up over time to create big health improvements, and about the many, many connections between synthetic hormones and certain mental health side effects.

Hannah first reached out to Funk It when she was getting off of birth control pills, so we start our chat with her back-story. Hannah dealt with PCOS and cystic acne from an early age, and was prescribed birth control. While it helped her feel more social and normal, she eventually learned about its possible interplay with things like anxiety and some types of weigh gain. 

Hannah and I talk about our experiences of feeling different, out-of-body, or not quite ourselves when we were on the pill, and how one might determine if they absolutely need birth control, or if there might be other options.

She is now managing her health, hormones, and blood sugar in more holistic ways (including seed cycling!), and is not only experiencing a lot of improvements personally, but is sharing her knowledge and wisdom with her online community.

We talk about what it’s like to first discover that things like testosterone and progesterone levels can effect our life experiences so profoundly, and how we’ve learned over the years to embrace the ways that our bodies operate, and work with them to feel our best.

We also chat about how it feels to be less of a partier as well as being more self-aware than average, and how our natural leadership qualities and callings in the wellness space also create some loneliness at times.

Hannah shares some incredible soul wisdom about how happiness is an inside job, and how cultivating joy through movement, nutrition, doing things you love and building something valuable can help your physical and mental health. 

Finally, we talk about enjoying and sharing the small things, creating community online, and inspiring others to find self-love! 

So fam, be easy on yourself, take the pressure off, and take it one day at a time. We’re all on this wellness path together!

Follow Hannah on Insta: @NourishedGirl