Charting recommendations and guidelines for journal keeping
A time for reflection
Within our website we provide a collection of downloadable charts to choose from, along with charting guidelines. Pick the one that suits you. Or using our guidelines, create your own. You are free to make up what works for you. And at the end of each month, we encourage you to not only tick off what symptoms still exist and how many negatives or unusual symptoms you have reported for the month, but to list all the things that have improved. The score sheet is ideal for putting together a quick summary that indicates the effectiveness of progesterone for that month.
Most women, when asked to refer back over their lists of twelve months ago, are quite shocked to see how many symptoms were on their original list. So, for this reason, we ask you to continue your journey. Be patient and persistent. What you put in you’ll get back in improved health. In other words, discover what works for you, get good at it, allow it to become a habit and way of life that, in time, sustains good health.
The main thing to remember here is that these are your charts, more or less a diary of your journey and validation of who you are. For very busy women, fasten the Quick Tick Chart to your refrigerator and you can be sure if you forget to fill it in your husband and kids certainly won’t. Our website often hears women report that their charts have been completed by their kids and husband for the month!! Clearly, in some case, the family are more tuned in than women realise. And these charts have served as a positive support infrastructure because the family starts to see patterns emerge from a different level of comprehension. Certainly women report they get more hugs.
Your monthly journal and list of all the positives are so important because so many women have been conditioned to expect a negative cyclic experience. Two examples would be migraine sufferers and women with endometriosis who suffer pain that incapacitates each month, sometimes for days. These women tend to be focused and fear-driven by ingrained negative belief systems based on past experiences. Charting can help break such cycles and re-program their belief system, thus inducing the healing process. When documented proof of improved health is evident in their charts, it can dramatically alter their perception.
This is especially important since we tend to focus on what’s not right with our body forgetting to acknowledge and give thanks for that which has improved our quality of life. For to get well and be healthy you need to focus on the best possible outcome, not the worst. Good health is, after all, a synergy of mind, body and soul. Our positive attitude, commitment, and love of ourselves fuels the body’s power to heal.
Taking control
It’s gratifying to watch a woman take control of her situation, adopting a more positive approach to hormone imbalance.
In so doing, she discovers that cyclic hormone headaches are not normal. That she no longer has to feel anxious and apprehensive, and plan her month around the two days she is going to be bed-ridden, throwing up, incapacitated with pain or bleeding heavily. That all the things she’d been told, taught or come to accept as normal are, in fact, abnormal.
She sees, feels and experiences a sense of wellbeing she has not known for a very long time. There is this renewed level of joy and enthusiasm in her life. More involvement and an ability to commit to activities she may have avoided at that particular time of the month.
Ultimately, she rediscovers her freedom.
Break the cycle of pain and incapacitation with progesterone therapy and you see women who have failed in previous attempts to help themselves begin delving into their ‘too hard basket’, gravitating towards lifestyles changes that positively effect their health and their family.
Charting helps women become aware of things and situations that have, in the past, upset them and triggered an immediate need for ‘comfort’ food, a hit of caffeine and/or nicotine, drug dependencies such as analgesics.
We suggest women use their charts to reformulate their own life to make it work for them.
It’s our belief that if you give a woman back her missing hormones, some genuine understanding, empowering knowledge, and a formula for self-help, she will go on and do the rest.
Once there’s a ’shift’ - a conscious state that is arrived at through charting - women suddenly realise that they have considerable control over their health (by establish, proven strategies). They then choose to move away from lifestyle habits and triggers that can contribute to their health problems, no longer seeing the giving up of these things as a state of deprivation.
We just want to remind you that you ARE already magnificent. Keep this in mind as you review your charts and progress. Be patient and gentle with yourself. And remain committed. For we do not doubt your ability, no matter how difficult you may believe it to be, to accomplish the kind of results that you feel good about.
