15. Are Painful Periods Making You Dread Your Cycle? (with Colleen Jorgensen)

Period pain is not only debilitating for some women, but it is a monthly event that many suffer in silence. Men have not been taught how to hold space for women who experience this monthly take down and women have not been coached on how to care for themselves so that they can have tools to thrive during these painful days. Birth control and the removal of the uterus are not the only options. There are other ways, for us women, to come into relationship with our pain to either heal it or to be with the pain without it feeling like it is destroying us. Menstrual pain is a way in which our body is trying to communicate with us, so that we can tune into our cycle even deeper. In this episode, we have Colleen Jorgensen join us to explain how we can be in a relationship with pain and to make it our friend and not our enemy. She will also share some common presentations that happen in the body with period pain and how she has coached her clients with tools such as simple movements to find pain relief. Colleen Jorgensen is an Osteopath, a graduate of Pain Care U’s Professional Pain Care program and a therapeutic Pilates, yoga and Somatics teacher. She combines manual therapy, current neuroscience research and the polyvagal theory with creative, embodied movement, mindfulness, awareness, and a distinctive, compassionate approach to pain care and movement. In 2020 with her desire to empower people with knowledge, awareness and practical tools she created the  D.A.R.E to Heal  – Discover Yourself to Recover Your Health an 8 - week online pain care program. RESOURCES: Check out Colleen’s Website to learn more about her programs at www.colleenjorgensen.org Find her on instagram at @_stillnessinmotion or on Facebook at @stillnessinmotionwithcolleen Click here to check out her amazing YouTube library of videos YouTube Video on Psoas Taffy Exercise - click here Grab her FREE Bundle of Pain Care Tools - click here Check out her D.A.R.E to Heal program - click here Self-Compassion Bundle (Great for women dealing with pelvic issues) - Click here Have questions about your cycle, your hormones or how to live aligned with your womb wisdom? Email your questions to [email protected] and your question may  just be answered with one of our brilliant guest speakers.