Rewrite Your Story, Rewire Your Hormones: The New Era of Healing Starts Here! With Dr Sonya Jensen
Tess TalksShow Notes
In this powerful episode, we sit down with Dr. Sonya Jensen to explore the deep connection between our hormones, generational trauma, and emotional resilience. After navigating her own journey with PCOS, an eating disorder, and a passion for healing, Dr. Sonya shares how understanding the root causes of stress such as emotional, chemical, and ancestral can help us transform our health from the inside out. This conversation dives into the future of healing, hormonal blueprints, and how rewriting your internal narrative puts you back in the driver’s seat of your wellbeing.
In this episode: The link between generational trauma, hormonal imbalances, and healing. How to regulate your emotions and undo chronic stress. The different types of stresses such as emotional, chemical, physical and how your body processes them. How the stories we tell ourselves impact our physiology. How to work with your vagus nerve to support your nervous system. Tips for finding acceptance, resilience, and self-trust. The significance of periods as clues to your hormonal health. The impact of suppressing your natural rhythms (like with the pill). How to shift ancestral patterns and embrace generational wisdom. Understanding the hormonal hierarchy of healing. The future of healing: self-discovery, emotional regulation, and hormonal recalibration. Why postnatal depression is so common and how we can better support women. Moon cycling and how to hack your hormones naturally.
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