I was absolutely thrilled to watch Oprah’s show on hormone balancing last night.  Everything every speaker said supported what I have written in my soon to be released book The Awakened Body, A Woman’s Guide to Feeling Biologically Vibrant…Naturally.  For several years now I have felt that we are living in a unique moment in time, one in which we will change the world.  The old medical-pharmaceutical model is crumbling as women are acting upon their intuitive knowing and are taking it upon themselves to demand a better way of life, one of vibrance and vitality.

The interesting thing about me is that I had been a nurse for 30 years.  I had heard nothing about natural hormone balancing.  After years of unknown hormone imbalance, I finally got to the place where I thought my life was over – at age 52.  Not only did I suffer from continuous hot flashes and night sweats, I was totally exhausted.  Years of insomnia, hormonal changes, and the accompanying loss of intimacy had taken its toll. 

 Then one day by “coincidence” I found a flyer in a health food store that forever changed my life. Not only was I able to experience a complete physical rejuvenation, an unexpected byproduct was an awakened life.  Over 4 years ago I began my intense study of bioidentical hormones, and started teaching hundreds of classes on natural hormone balancing.  My book is a compilation of all the work I have conducted.  It is a how-to guide to restore your feeling of vibrance and vitality.  I candidly share my own struggles as well as my success story and the success stories of other women who have attended my classes.

 Oprah said something last night that put a puzzle piece together for me that I have been searching for my whole life.  In my youth I vividly remember my dad talking with such pain at how his father took his mother and had her locked up at the State Hospital.  I remember him saying how she was the kindest person you’d ever want to meet.  A man of few words, it was so plain to see how much he loved her.  I carry this vision of her being ripped from his arms.  Now that I am grown, I wish I had paid more attention to what he was saying.  I wish I had asked more questions while he was still alive.  I will need to investigate her age, but I believe she was in her 50′s when she died – at the State Hospital.  In this past year I asked a relative if he knew what had happened to my grandmother.  He said the story he had always heard is that she had had a “nervous breakdown,” and that my grandfather had whipped her, trying to “shake her out of it.”  When that didn’t work, he took her to the State Hospital because he didn’t know what to do with her.

 Last night Oprah shared with the audience that in days gone by when women exhibited hormone imbalance symptoms, they were often sent away to sanitoriums.  Oh my goodness, could that have been what happened to my grandmother?  What tragedy!  I can’t imagine being ripped away from my family and locked away…all for something that can be fixed so easily. Oh, we are so fortunate to live in this time, to have the right and the ability to search out for ourselves a solution that we know in our heart is right, to know that we are not crazy, to know that, YES, we can eliminate all these effects of hormone imbalance, and YES a whole new world of vigor and vitality await us!  We are so fortunate and so blessed. What a truly exciting time to be alive!

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