What’s Your Hormone Story?
Why your symptoms are only part of the journey.
What’s Your Hormone Story?
This is the first question I ask at the beginning of every Hormone Clarity Call. I’m not just interested in a woman’s current symptoms of hormone imbalance or fertility struggles. I want to hear about her whole journey—in her own words.
Often, we get stuck in today’s pain or distress and forget to step back and see the larger story. But when I listen to a woman for the first time, I want to hear her story in full.
Yes, it helps me connect the dots and identify patterns that may indicate what is going on hormonally. But even more, it helps her recognize the parts of the journey that matter most to her—and that is deeply significant.
Your symptoms aren’t just problems to be fixed. What you’ve lived through is part of your story. Stories are sacred. We carry them in our bodies. They shape us. They become part of who we are.
One of the challenges with today’s constant noise of the internet is that it drowns out space to reflect on our own stories. If we’re caught looking at the lives of others or piecemealing health recommendations, we may not be leaving space for our own journey.
That’s why I love working one-on-one with women: to carve out that space. Sometimes we need someone else to help us go deeper—to ask the why, to hold space for the both/and: finding peace in the unknown, while also caring for the physical body here and now.
Healing, whether emotional or physical, takes time. It means honoring your body in the present while making deposits for long-term health and restoration.
Sisters, I see you in your stories.
This past week alone, I’ve witnessed friends undergo fertility-related surgeries—one unexpected but life-saving for the baby in her womb, another finally addressing over a decade of pain and bleeding she thought would never end. I’ve spoken to a woman grieving a recent miscarriage, and to others aching for a child they do not yet have.
I see women giving all they have to motherhood—caring for the little lives around them with minimal time or energy left to know what their own bodies need.
Giving yourself over to the life-bearing capacity of womanhood is both deeply beautiful and deeply painful. Month after month, our bodies open to new life. Year after year, they endure profound demands to create, grow, and nourish life. This vulnerability surprises us, expands us, and pains us in unexpected ways—and it is worthy of reverence beyond medical diagnosis or care.
When women’s health is reduced to quick fixes and outcome-driven solutions—birth control for hormonal imbalances, IVF to induce pregnancy—the story gets cut short. True healing begins when we restore the whole woman and honor the sacredness of womanhood.
You, too, have a story when it comes to your hormones and your fertility. And this story goes far deeper than your physical symptoms.
No matter the pain you may be carrying right now, this is not the end of your story. Healing takes time. Going to the root doesn’t guarantee a quick fix. Answers may come slowly. But your story remains sacred.
And in your female body there is a unique capacity to love, to generate, and to cultivate life around you—even in places of pain.
Sometimes we need a companion on the journey—someone to ask the questions we may not ask ourselves, to advocate for us with doctors when we feel too small to speak, to remind us that we are enough. Even if you’re not perfect with your supplements, diet, or routines—your womanhood is a gift. Right here. Today. Your body is not failing you.
Your body reflects the beauty of our Creator—worthy of awe and wonder, exactly as it is today.
“While I contemplate the summits of these mountains, which by now have become familiar to me, my spirit frequently turns to Mary. God has raised her above all angelic and earthly creatures, and has made her our sustenance in the road to heaven.” - Saint John Paul the Great