Tell Me the Part You Left Out

Tell Me the Part You Left Out

A lot of the women I see already have a reason for why they feel the way they do, and usually they're right about it. What hasn't happened yet is anyone putting the whole set of it side by side. This one is about the three places it gets lost. In your chart, in whatever you'd already decided wasn't worth mentioning, and in an instruction that only ever came half finished.

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Tiredness Takes More Than Your Energy

Tiredness Takes More Than Your Energy

A lot of the women I see have already been told the answer is something to add, another prescription, a supplement, one more test. Almost none of them have gone back through what's already there. This is what I actually listen for when a woman tells me she's tired, and why sometimes the fix is already sitting on her own list.

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Making Sense of Your Own Lab Results

Making Sense of Your Own Lab Results

Most of us were never taught what to do with our own lab results, or told that we're even allowed to have them. So this one is about changing that. I get into what a clean result can still miss, how to make sense of your own numbers, and what to bring up with your provider when something feels off but the panel came back fine.

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You're Further Along Than You Feel

You're Further Along Than You Feel

When you've been through something big, you keep waiting to feel like your old self again. When better shows up but "yourself" doesn't, it's easy to read that as failing. It isn't. The body comes back in layers, and this is how to notice it's already happening.

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Movement Was Never Supposed to Be a Punishment
Women's Health, Movement, Functional Medicine Shannon Hernandez Women's Health, Movement, Functional Medicine Shannon Hernandez

Movement Was Never Supposed to Be a Punishment

Most of us have called ourselves lazy at some point. Not because we don't care, but because we keep trying to push through something that doesn't feel right. This post explores why intense movement can work against women whose bodies are already under stress, and what it looks like to choose movement that heals instead.

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