Transform your health with Inner Rhythms Women's Wellness
Understand the Impact of your Lifestyle Habits
Menopause is a natural, biological transition that takes years to complete from the beginning of perimenopause to postmenopause, a stage that will last for the rest of your life. This transition that starts in puberty, brings the ability to biologically reproduce to a close. All the way it completely transforms a woman's body in ways that she might not realize or recognize are associated with declining estrogen and other hormone change. Every system is impacted. The cumulative stressors of your life experience known as allostatic load can begin to make their presence known. LIfestyle factors such as circadian rhythms, sleep, the type of food you eat, meal timing, stress management, gut health, liver health, too much or too little exercise, injury, illness, prior to and during the menopause transition all impact how you feel and your quality of life now and as you age. Small changes taken over time that build on one another can make a big difference in how you feel in the long run. A thorough review of your current lifestyle habits will provide the clues and the pathway forward to a healthier, more energized and vibrant you!
Movement as Medicine: therapeutic Exercise and PErsonal Training for Women's Health
While there is not one right way to exercise, how you move and how active you are matters as much as what you do. Exercise and daily activity profoundly impact your health and wellbeing. Beneficial effects include improved: strength, mobility, cardiovascular and brain health., functional endurance while reducing stress and anxiety. Your activity level can impact hot flashes, joint pain, weight and belly fat, urge and bladder control, pelvic pain, and pelvic organ prolapse. There are a variety of ways to assess how you move, your strength, coordination, balance, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, even your ability to manage bladder urges and control incontinence. Learn what you can do as well as how to do it to feel more fit, mobile, steady and strong!
The Power of Gentle A,K.A "Stress Management"
Stress impacts every aspect of our health and can contribute to poor sleep, weight gain and accumulating belly fat, poor digestion, increased urinary urge and bladder leakage, constipation, pelvic pain and hot flashes. Learning how to take control of stress is a skill that will benefit you for the rest of your life. It can even help extend the length and quality of your life. Simple breathing techniques, restorative yoga postures and guided imagery can be transform "Arg!" to "Ahhh".
Whole Foods Cooking
Eating and preparing healthier food can be perplexing and daunting. The gap between knowing what to do and how to go about it can feel wide and deep. Preparation and planning are key to having health-sustaining food on hand to eat when hunger strikes. If you aren't sure how to put "what" into practice. I can help with the "how to" such as ideas for meal plans, organizing a shopping list, what staples to have on hand in the fridge and pantry, reading food labels and ingredient lists to make better choices in the grocery store.