Hormonal imbalance seems to weaken the emotional profile of a woman

A message from Catherine

We would be doing the women a disservice if we didn’t disclose the inner soul and inner spirituality of what we believe is the progesterone journey from a holistic point of view, covering not only the physical benefits and usage of progesterone, but the spiritual and the emotional side of progesterone. I believe that they are all interactive and there is no clear defined line between what is hormonal, what is emotional and what is spiritual. They all interplay, and they all have a place of importance and need to be acknowledged and recognised.

I believe that to give a woman back her essence hormone - progesterone - you give her back an opportunity to reconnect with herself.

Many women have become so hormonally imbalanced that they have no clue as to what their true essence feels like. Often stress, a very busy lifestyle, or family can and do distract her. However, the one thing in common with every woman who has approached this website, or I have spoken to personally, is that once a woman gets her hands on this vital hormone, she begins an incredible journey. Often she doesn’t even understand what’s going on herself but it’s so powerfully obvious to those people, often loved ones, witnessing the transformation.

We know that as soon as a woman who is in need of progesterone supplementation introduces this hormone into her body, there’s an incredible physiological reaction. It’s as if this hormone resonates immediately, and she can tell progesterone is central to her renewed health, not necessarily because of what she’s read but how it intrinsically feels in her body. It’s as if she’s coming home to herself.

Even for those women who may experience incredible discomfort for the first 10 days to 2 weeks, when estrogen receptors actually wake up and estrogen dominance symptoms are exacerbated, she is determined to keep applying progesterone cream because she wants the end result. There is an intuitive ‘knowing’ that something good has been introduced into her body and she wants it to stay.

Unfortunately, some women abandon progesterone at the point of discomfort, not knowing how to get through the debilitating stages of estrogen dominance, which can occur at any stage. It is our hope this ebook helps you work through the setbacks so that you can stay with progesterone long enough to enjoy the true essence and benefits from both a physical and metaphysical viewpoint.

It is likewise acknowledged that some women commence synthetic HRT and, feeling dreadful in the initial period, give it up because they know intuitively, judging by the way their body reacts, it feels ‘bad’ for her. Often women don’t even get to the point of opening that packet of HRT, or it sits in their handbag, the script unfilled. Clearly, there is something that just doesn’t feel right for these women. I’d recommend women honour their intuition, listen to their innate intelligence, use their discernment.

Women in their 40s and 50s with families, careers, a wealth of experience and knowledge, and tremendous gifts to offer the world appear to lose all semblance of their true self because of incorrect or untreated hormonal imbalance.

Within months of progesterone use and balancing various aspects of their life (which we talk about in our ebook), and benefiting from our encouragement that a woman acknowledge herself and honour her body, these very same women start to ‘plump up’ spiritually. They find their voice, begin to once again express an opinion, exude a renewed confidence, and reclaim their self respect.

Husbands contact the website distraught and desperate, looking for solutions to their wife’s behaviour; her inability to cope, recall, focus, communicate, socialise.

These fuzzy-headed, tentative women, once they get 18 months into progesterone therapy, often end up being in a position to stand up for themselves and, if need be, their husbands. They become assertive and reclaim their independent, and finally learn how to say “no” as appropriate.

Women write to this website obviously in a very vulnerable state. They are out of tune with their bodies and their needs. They have become distraught, exposed, fragile. They are exhausted physically, emotionally and spiritually. One can sense tears of frustration and isolation behind their cry for help, for it is indeed a relief and validation for them to have finally found an outlet - Natural-Progesterone-Advisory-Network.com

Hormonal imbalance seems to weaken the emotional profile of a woman. In other words, it has a way of bringing to the surface grief, sadness, depression, conflict, anger, resentment, guilt, and shame, and a ton of tears. Basically, it’s an emotional roller-coasters.

Hormone imbalance appears to be a catalyst for visiting painful and hurtful conflicts and memories, thus isolating and alienating us into further dispair and depression, or triggering anxiety and panic attacks. There is this overwhelming helplessness and distortion of reality that is compounded by hormone imbalance, but seems to be easily addressed once progesterone is introducted. Mind you, progesterone doesn’t mysteriously make the problems disappear. It just seems to give most women the ability to tackle her problems with a different perception and a more methodical approach.

We all too often tend to fob off our outbursts as hormonal, that it’s our hormones talking and that we’re not normally like that. Perhaps. Perhaps not. Maybe when your guard (hormones) is down you are, for once, speaking the truth!

First address hormonal imbalance. Get your progesterone levels back up where they should be such that you ground yourself. Get your nutrition and exhaustion in hand so you’re feeling stronger in yourself and physically better able to cope with stress, infections and all the traumas your body is exposed to on a daily basis. Then deal with the emotional issues that arise, or need closer examination. You may find that you now have to revisit events that you thought were resolved and in the past. It’s not uncommon to discover that conflicts grow worse, even uglier and more out of control and irrational because you hormones are all over the place.

If there are issues there ? grief, unresolved conflicts, burdens, sadness, relationship issues - then allow them to surface and use your hormonal imbalance as an excuse to have a damn good cry. Tears are for healing. Tears are the way of cleansing the soul. And then get on and deal with it.

Hormone imbalance creates emotional instability, but I also say emotional issues often create hormonal imbalances. There’s always a connection with the adrenals when stress is involved (adrenal exhaustion can cause hormonal imbalance, hormonal imbalance can create adrenal exhaustion). A shock such as a death in the family, kids leaving home on bad terms, a sudden divorce, a husband running off with a younger woman can send your hormones into a tail spin! This goes to show how stressful situations can cause our body to lose balance, rhythym and connectivity. It demonstrates how powerful the mind-body connection is and, when turned against ourselves, can throw the whole endocrine system upside down.

This is a time of shedding. It is a time of re-building your body, and a time a women can perhaps re-build her persona. These are women who may be suffering from the empty nest syndrome, or where the husbands are busy with their careers or have retired, abandoned or passed away and suddenly they ask themselves, “Who am I? What have I become?” They feel this emptiness, this ambivalence of who they are over and above their labels as a mother, a lover, a wife, cook, friend, work colleague, confidante, and all those other magnificant skills which are too often take for granted. But they cannot comprehend who they really are therefore they have great difficulty serving themselves after a lifetime serving others. It’s almost as if they are silently screaming out, “What about me? Give me some attention. Isn’t it my turn?” Alas, in some cases, no one’s listening or if they are they’re not interpreting the signs for help very well. If she cannot ask precisely for what she needs, her needs manifest as symptoms. These get the focus, not her. Surely this is an obvious cry for help. She knows she’s floundering, and she’s desperate for help, but she’s had little to no experience asking for it!

Truly, it is sad to stand witness to a woman who asks, “How do I love myself? How do I nurture myself?” Ready to fill so many wonderful roles in her lifetime, and give from the bottom on her heart with all she has to give, a woman, when it comes down to it, perhaps does not know how to look after herself, does not know how to ensure her needs are met. Little wonder, is it not, that women particularly in Western cultures are crying in silence, suffering such bleak emptiness. Their pronounced loneliness, confusion, sense of loss and anger and frustration are all tied to their inability to take the necessary time to listen to and honour their own inner child. Is it not time we women, for health’s sake at the very least, became more self-nurturing without feeling ‘guilty’.

When a woman becomes pregnant, her progesterone levels skyrocket, becoming the most predominant hormone to promote & sustain gestation. Have you ever noticed how a pregnant woman just automatically know how to protect herself, how to nurture herself, keep herself stress-free? All these things ensure the baby’s survival. The world could be falling around her while she remains a picture of calmness. Pregnant women (who’s body via the placenta is making huge amounts of progesterone) absolutely flourish, and they radiate an inner glow.

If a woman’s body is so starved of this vital hormone she will literally glow once the body settles down. It’s not ‘out there’ to state that just introducing progesterone alone can do absolute wonders for a woman’s spirit and sense of cohesion.

When women start this journey they enter an ‘awakening’ period (some are more aware than others). This period can offer an opportunity to nurture and develop your inner child if you haven’t done so before now.

There’s no doubt progesterone can help you rediscovered yourself and your place in the world. Invariably, women reassesses their values, their beliefs, and their position in life. They also learn how to redefine their boundaries and to abandon things that no longer serve. This may even be marriage or relationships; we have observed women actually come to a point of realising that their marriage is no longer appropriate, or may require ‘time out’. Women arrive at this decision with confidence.

Women become more selfing (not selfish), they learn how to to respect their needs rather than put themselves last. To realise that they need to recover and get well. That they need to spiritually nurture their souls, to heal their tired, stressed-out bodies. They need to take some responsibility for their own health. They are advised to acknowledge their need to devise strategies that will target improved health, eating and nutrition, and make appropriate lifestyle adjustment that will serve them, and carry them through to old age. Take up a new hobby and/or interest. Basically adopt a whole new way of thinking and approaching your remaining years.

Often we see women on the hormonal balancing journey going back to school, undertaking new careers, embracing huge challenges, or returning to society. We see these women starting to look for the greater meaning of life. In tribal times these same women would have been revered and respected for the wisdom, knowledge and guidance they represented. Within these tribal times, women anticipated this milestone as both an honour and measure of their worth within their community. Sadly, Western society does not venerate this epoch.

Instead, in our Western culture, women enter their menopausal years fearful that they will be looked upon as redundant, withered, and without value. And we bought the package! Just keep in mind that women (that’s you and me!) lose our own value only if we BUY into this unfounded social myth surrounding hormonal imbalance and menopause.

From observation I have seen that this may not be the case once a women finds help balancing her hormones and there is an infrastructure in place that supports her. Anything and everything seems possible! Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to women’s personal growth. Amazing, wonderful and phenomenal things are happening to many, many women worldwide as they discover, and learn to use this wonderful multi-factorial hormone called natural progesterone. As each woman get reacquainted with herself, there’s an internal shift of power and renewed energy which vibrates within her soul and is reflected in her energy field.

Don’t underestimate the power of progesterone on levels other than just the physiological. There is a truly magnificent side of progesterone that I don’t think we fully understand. For every woman has her own special journey with progesterone. In time, you will probably take it for granted and it won’t be so significant. But guaranteed, over the years, as you go through the years of chroning and wisdom, you will find that perhaps progesterone has had some impact. Was, in a way, responsible for both your growth and your journey, or at least it supported you.

You may look back, reflect, and realise that progesterone marked a significant milestone in your life. Whatever you do, don’t miss this opportunity to acknowledge the importance of your hormonal persona, and how it plays out in your life. Don’t trivialize those momentous and fleeting moments to grow beyond where you are right now! Empower yourself with each milestone.

Often we hear that menopause covers the best years of a woman’s life. Of newfound freedom and awareness. I really believe that this can happen, but sadly, with so much exposure to hormonal disruption caused by exposure to xenoestrogens in our foods and the environment, and the constant presence of stress in our daily lives - chemically, internally, and through the demands the world puts on us, or the speed at which the world is going, and the fast foods that are part of our lifestyle now - that we won’t get past all these dreadful symptoms. Symptoms that keep us locked in our diseases, rather than realising the greatness that awaits us.

Without dealing with all the issues, a woman’s treatment in hormonal balancing and health will be compromised. The Natural-Progesterone-Advisory-Network.com website seeks to help women become very aware of their bodies through charting, and through education of progesterone usage and how to get the best results, combined with attitude adjustment, dietary, nutritional, and lifestyle modifications. Of equal importance is her spiritual and emotional journey.

Hormone disruption later in life is not to be treated as a disease but rather a transition, a rite of passage if you will. If menopause arrives prematurely, then it’s a signal either your lifestyle is not right or your eating habits are inadequate, perhaps your ovaries have been damaged through some unfortunate incident, or what you’re doing to your body here and now in impacting your health. Whatever the reason, there’s no escaping the metaphysical and psychological aspects that go hand in hand with the physical changes of hormone imbalance.

On a closing note, I’d like to extend my blessings, limited wisdom and love to all my readers on your personal journey towards empowerment and awakening.

In light & love …

Catherine P. Rollins