Five Stages in Wholistic Hormone Healing
Written By: Dr. Chelsea Dakers BSc ND
One of the many blessings of having a clinical focus is the opportunity to witness patterns.
If you have pelvic, hormonal, menstrual or fertility related health concerns — I can tell you that your healing will unfold in layers.
You’re going to need a care container to hold the whole of you; a system designed to be present with the unfolding layers of your complexity while illuminating the path towards your goals.
This is what I mean when I say “wholistic hormone healing”. These words are not a trend, they carry deep meaning.
Anchor Your Physiology
Most people who seek my care have symptoms that are affecting their activities of daily living. I’m sure you can relate. Humans seem to have this fascination with suffering (I’m not an expert, but I’m sure a doaist monk can tell you all about this). We’ll wait untill our periods are debilitating, our insomnia is relentless and our energy is flatlined before we initiate care.
If this resonates, you likely need relief. Enough that you can start the path of recovery and rebuild your life. That takes strength and time, and thus, right now you need an anchor. Your body is not making a mistake and it sounds like it is time to listen closely.
There are various ways we can do this. I love constitutional hydrotherapy for this reason. It is a beautiful place to start when there are so very many things not going well. It’s soothing and supportive to the nervous system and organs of detoxification and helps to clarify what is really going on.
Targeted nutraceuticals and customized herbal-homepathic formulas can also be helpful here to address weakened systems.
This is also a time to choose a root cause approach. Trial and error, symptom management…. these strategies are overplayed and lack lustre; most times they may work for brief periods, but sustained results require getting to the root.
Work With Your Totality
It’s very unlikely that your symptoms are purely from a physical dysharmony. Honestly, I’ve never met anyone where that has been the case… For example— all they neeed was an iron supplement and they were cured… I’m sure these people are out there, but I don’t meet them.
And perhaps that’s because my own healing journey has been incredibly nuanced. I’ve had to seek the care of so many talented healers and guides to come back to my wholeness, and that has likely shaped the way I structure care and orient to hormone healing. People drawn to my care offerings have an inner knowing that affirms this.
There is a beautiful tool that was gifted to me by a beloved mentor Dr. Robert VanHorlick ND: The Healing Triangle. I talk about it all the time because it is simple and elegant.
In short— You are the totality of your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual experience.
When I say “wholistic”, there is always a connection to this Truth. The miraculous results that I get to witness? It’s because your whole self was allowed to be present. That we co-created a care container where you could put all your cards on the table. It’s my unwavering belief that if you want to experience the health and life of your dreams, you’ll need to address all levels of your being.
No single modality or technique is favoured here. The results emerge from the synergy embedded in the whole system.
Orient with Empowerment
Full transparency: care systems that centre co-dependence do not create lasting change. They may feel good momentarily, but they do not cultivate the empowerment needed for sustained results.
Education is a beautiful tool for healing transformation. And as many wisdom traditions teach: love grows when it is shared. When you learn how to take good care of yourself, your life will change.
Many of us did not grow up in families and cultures where health was the priority. You may have learned about productivity, performance, punctuality and politeness but you may never have been taught about how to create the conditions for hormones to heal naturally. All good, I got you.
Focus on Health Creation
There will come a time in your healing journey where you have to let go of meticulous symptom management and tending to your diagnostic labels. This leap is scary if you haven’t had the pre-learning. But for those on a wholistic hormone healing journey, this transition will feel natural.
You’ll feel this inner sense guiding you towards shifting with the seasons. You’ll gain inspiration from what plants and foods are thriving locally and they’ll be woven into your routines. Not through obligation, but through genuine desire.
The barriers in your life that are stopping you from meeting your goals? You’ll naturally remove those and shift your direction so there is more ease in your day-to-day rhythms.
There will be this growing list of things you don’t need to do anymore… Those medications, that surgery you were on the waitlist for… your whole reality has changed and you stay focussed on health.
Lifestyle Integration
In the final stages of wholistic hormone healing your lifestyle fully sustains you. You’re no longer worried about “what other people are doing”. You’re just “doing you” and it feels so damn good. Your life is in harmony with the Earth. You know that what is good for her is good for you. And you leverage this Truth to make decisions for you, your family and community.
You’ve uncovered this shining confidence of how to apply what you have learned to your unique experience. On the daily, your intuition is affirmed and you navigate effortlessly towards health by customization.
The way you move inspires others and you share what you’ve learned with those that you love. Day by day, as you integrate health creation into your lifestyle you repair the cultural knowledge gaps so we can all be present in our hormone dream world.
You’ve teamed up with your Sisters. Your soul tribe who carry the same love for life in their Heart and you bathe in the deliscious waters of connection and wholeness.
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The disclaimer… The amazing thing about humans is that we all have incomparably unique health profiles and needs. The health-related information contained in this article is intended to be general in nature and should not be used prescriptively or a as a substitute for a visit with a naturopathic doctor. This info is intended to offer general information to individuals. If you have questions about how these strategies could be used in adjunct to your current heath regime, book and appointment with us or consult a licensed naturopathic doctor for individualized care.