A Health Coaching Session: On Healing Your Hormones After Birth Control and Rebalancing Through Nutrition, Sleep, Stress Support, and Detox

In today's episode, you're getting another behind-the-scenes look into a real 1:1 health coaching session with one of my clients, Anna. When clients join my health program, this is where we start – Anna and I use this session to evaluate her starting point holistically in terms of nutrition, supplements, medications, and lifestyle. She shares her health goals: reducing hormonal imbalances after coming off the birth control pill and improving her sleep and stress levels. Anna shares what she's been experiencing and asks me questions, and we talk through possible root causes and holistic strategies and resources to support her body naturally. If you're curious what health coaching really looks like (or navigating similar goals yourself) this episode will give you all the resources you need to get started.   Resources from this episode: • Get started with functional lab testing & health coaching → • Let's connect on instagram →   We chat about: 02:29 — Setting Anna's health goals for our coaching session 04:36 — Hormone imbalance after hormonal birth control  08:52 — What happens when you stop taking the pill? 10:20 — One of the most impactful things you can do to bring your hormones back into balance (resource: functional lab testing) 12:28 — Creating Anna's holistic health plan: starting with nutrition 18:48 — Ways to exercise for hormone balance (cardio vs weight training) 22:13 — Trouble sleeping and waking up in the middle of the night 25:26 — Breaking down Anna's bedtime routine 30:23 — How carbs and fiber affect blood sugar balance  33:18 — Evaluating Anna's stress levels and ways to reduce it 41:12 — Measuring stress levels (resource: functional lab testing) 42:56 — Reducing toxins and decreasing their impact on hormones 46:09 — My #1 recommendation for cleaning up your skincare and makeup (resource: ewg.org) 49:23 — The detox process: how long does it take? 50:23 — My favorite clean beauty brands (resources: Ilia, Le Prunier, OSEA) 54:45 — Next steps: functional lab testing and holistic health plan (resource: The THR Health Program)   I'm so grateful to have you here, friend. If you love the show, be sure to follow and leave me a review. New episodes drop every Friday!