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Listen "#63: The bigger picture around women’s troubles"
Episode Synopsis
Head down, staying quiet, feeling embarrassed because it’s that time of the month when you have to sneak into the bathroom and check whether you’ve leaked and change your pad?
This is real life - still - for so many girls and women. With the average age that girls starting their periods now being only 12, but can be as young as 8, we’re still lacking so much around education and support of women’s menstrual health.
Today’s guest is here to talk to us about how this lack of understanding means she thought her periods were completely normal, only to realise after years of suffering, that she actually had PCOS - Polycystic ovary syndrome. Emily Cook wants to help normalise talking about your periods and problems that so many females encounter with their menstrual cycle and reproductive system throughout the different seasons of their life.
In our conversation today we share:
The lack of understanding that girls and women have because of the way women’s health is talked about in education and beyond.
How we can create shifts in this to normalise conversation and support all women to get the help they need.
Why there is so much stigma and shame attached to "women’s troubles”.
How Emily put up with her heavy and irregular bleeding thinking this was just how periods were meant to be.
The challenges faced when seeking medical support and having the right knowledge about what you’re feeling to help take the right course of action.
Understanding your body and mind and listening to what it is you need.
The power of focusing on the foundations of good, strong health.
Taking one step at a time to build the right healthy habits for you.
Recognising your progress and knowing you don’t have to ‘do it all’ to be healthy.
About Emily:
Emily is your friendly neighbourhood marketeer with a serious passion for female entrepreneurship. She has spent the last 3 years spearheading multiple marketing projects with a shared value of women empowerment. From launching a global digital magazine to running a content club for founders called Girl Brand. She lives and breathes community and collaboration, and believes in the power of storytelling.
Connect with Emily:
Website
Instagram
LinkedIn
To join Emily's Girl Brand Content Club on January 8th for FREE, signup here using promo code: LIVEHEALTHYNOW
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
Visit our website
Follow on Instagram
Follow on LinkedIn
Watch the episodes on YouTube
Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
This is real life - still - for so many girls and women. With the average age that girls starting their periods now being only 12, but can be as young as 8, we’re still lacking so much around education and support of women’s menstrual health.
Today’s guest is here to talk to us about how this lack of understanding means she thought her periods were completely normal, only to realise after years of suffering, that she actually had PCOS - Polycystic ovary syndrome. Emily Cook wants to help normalise talking about your periods and problems that so many females encounter with their menstrual cycle and reproductive system throughout the different seasons of their life.
In our conversation today we share:
The lack of understanding that girls and women have because of the way women’s health is talked about in education and beyond.
How we can create shifts in this to normalise conversation and support all women to get the help they need.
Why there is so much stigma and shame attached to "women’s troubles”.
How Emily put up with her heavy and irregular bleeding thinking this was just how periods were meant to be.
The challenges faced when seeking medical support and having the right knowledge about what you’re feeling to help take the right course of action.
Understanding your body and mind and listening to what it is you need.
The power of focusing on the foundations of good, strong health.
Taking one step at a time to build the right healthy habits for you.
Recognising your progress and knowing you don’t have to ‘do it all’ to be healthy.
About Emily:
Emily is your friendly neighbourhood marketeer with a serious passion for female entrepreneurship. She has spent the last 3 years spearheading multiple marketing projects with a shared value of women empowerment. From launching a global digital magazine to running a content club for founders called Girl Brand. She lives and breathes community and collaboration, and believes in the power of storytelling.
Connect with Emily:
Website
To join Emily's Girl Brand Content Club on January 8th for FREE, signup here using promo code: LIVEHEALTHYNOW
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
Visit our website
Follow on Instagram
Follow on LinkedIn
Watch the episodes on YouTube
Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
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