Our menstrual cycles are not a design flaw with Nicole Jardim

The Simplicity Sessions

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you’ve joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

This is a conversation with Nicole Jardim. Nicole is what I would call, a period wizard, in terms of helping women repair their periods and get to that stage of having really healthy menstrual cycles.

She is a certified women's health coach, a writer, speaker, and mentor. She is the creator of Fixed Your Period. a series of programs that empower women and menstruators to reclaim their health in a really positive way. She is the co-author of Happy Balance, a recipe book with 80+ hormone-balancing recipes. And if that is not enough to fill her time, she hosts her own podcast called the Period Party.

She uses a method that combines evidence-based info and simplicity and SAS, this is why we love her. Her work has impacted the lives of tens of thousands of women all around the world, helping with period problems, PMS, irregular cycles, PCOM, painful, heavy periods, missing periods and so much more.

What I really love about Nicole's work is, that rather than just treating problems or the symptoms, she works with women to help to address the root cause of what's really going on physically, mentally, and emotionally. She believes that these are the fundamentals to heal hormonal balances that are happening in our body and this is something we are in complete agreement on.

You can find links to Nicole Jardim’s multi-platform publishings, as well as social / websites below in the ‘Connect with us’ section of the show notes. You will also find below-linked info about our partners and recommended products to try.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it on over to [e-mail] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.

Here are the main topics of today’s episode:

• Introducing our guest, Nicole Jardim
• Jenn’s seasonal recommendations
• Hemorrhagic menorrhagia
• If I could help myself, maybe I can help others
• Connecting the dots
• Our menstrual cycles are not a design flaw
• Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
• Pain is pain and should be treated as such
• Diet is the bedrock for healthy cycles
• Pandemic Periods
• Understanding what your maximum tension is
• Nicole’s tangible advice and resources

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful.

To connect with Nicole Jardim and find direct links to her programs, go to her website https://nicolejardim.com.

To listen to the Period Party podcast, https://nicolejardim.com/podcast/

To find details on Fixed Your Period, follow the link here https://nicolejardim.com/about/ and The Happy Balance Recipes here.

To follow Nicole on social media - Instagram @nicolemjardim and Facebook @nicolemjardim

You can connect to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

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Online work with Jenn:

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I’ve shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

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Quotes

• “You can have a conversation with your practitioner about what is going on because bleeding doesn't happen for no reason. Hemorrhagic menorrhagia does not happen for no reason”
• “When to my mom’s gynecologist and she said, Oh, I think I'll just put you on the pill. And this should take care of all of it, you know, in one fell swoop. And it actually does do that right away, you start to feel better, your periods lighten up and they're not as heavy, they're less painful and regular. And that's what happened to me. And then I started having all these side effects from being on the pill, which does happen.”
• “ Finally I went to school to learn this stuff because I thought - if I could help myself, maybe I can help other people too.”
• “The other thing that is often overlooked is progesterone, estrogen, testosterone. These hormones that are produced because of ovulation are so critical to our overall health.”
• “This just becomes a ubiquitous part of a woman's health journey. Is she just stumbles from one suppressive form to the next masking it as she goes”
• “And I fundamentally believe that our bodies were not created in such a way that we would be miserable for one or two weeks, every single cycle, because our menstrual cycles, in my opinion, are not this design flaw.”
• “I want everyone to know that what you experience shouldn't feel negative and it really shouldn't disrupt your life.”
• “I find it fascinating that pain in any other part of your body is taken seriously, generally speaking by medical doctors and practitioners. However, period pain, when you have pain in your uterus, that's not taken seriously at all. That's just like, Oh, that's totally normal. So how have we normalized pain as it relates to our menstrual cycle and our uterus.”
• “Diet is the bedrock. It's the foundation for healthy or unhealthy periods and it's not just our periods. Right. It's really how we feel all month long and particularly how we feel in those one to two weeks before our periods...I think that that's the first and mostly the easiest place that people can start with, just by bringing in more food that is nutrient-dense and is going to support ovarian function.”
• “Pandemic Periods - I think about the collective stress that we're all experiencing that is basically never happened before”
• “How do you Nicole, create more simplicity and ease? ...it's really living in tandem with my cycle, in my opinion, it's the best tool that we have to create more of this simplicity and ease in our lives because we all work really hard to do the things that we do.”

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Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv, and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.