EP60: Dr. Claudia Welch on the Medicine of Subtraction and Balancing Your Hormones

What Dr. Claudia Shares:

• Why the title of her book is actually backwards
• Her "aha!" moment when she was studying hormones
• The difference between sex hormones and stress hormones
• How our spiritual and emotional choices reverberate through our physical bodies

What You'll Hear:

• Understanding that your hormones don't become imbalanced in a vacuum
• How Western and Eastern medicines support each other to better understand our hormones
• Viewing hormonal functions through the lens of duality
• Hormones govern extremes in the body
• Understanding why imbalances between sex and stress hormones occur
• Learning how to decrease stress hormones through lifestyle changes
• Striving for the sweet spot of balance between yin and yang
• Learning your own body to understand when it needs more rest versus stimulation
• Why women in their late 30's and beyond require more rest
• Becoming hormonally rearranged in menopause
• Learning to balance external stressors to support your health
• Determining what your version of 'having it all' is, and subtracting what you don't need
• The interweaving effects of emotion, thought, biology, action, and spirituality on our hormonal balance
• Embracing the medicine of subtraction and internal wisdom to find balance
• Why saying no takes so much courage
• Further resources for learning about hormone balancing and preparing for pregnancy
• Respecting the hormonal differences between male and female bodied people