Hey coaches, i have one of those low hormone late autumn days. My thoughts circle around and I struggle to steer the wheel into other directions. I keep thinking about everything and anything I do today how it is not “enough”. Here is one example model: C: At work | T: I am not getting …
Thank you for your response 😊 I’ve given it a lot of thought. Any more general feedback/prompts would be really helpful, I’m just feeling my way through this really! You suggested “I train my brain to notice all the ways I’m not ready” and I agree this fits better. I’m also aware I have a …
Thank you for the great questions to follow up! Here is what came up… I think I would like to know why it’s the first to show up when something goes ‘wrong’. Like as if I was stuck in a gear. And how can I reframe it, calm it, express in a healthier way… If …
Hi wonderful coaches! This has a couple of models + a brain dump of my general processing! I’d love any feedback and guidance 🙂 I intermitted last xmas for PMDD + endo-ish reasons, with the goal of getting myself to “the best possible place” in terms of physical and mental health, to be able to …
There is a lot going on in my life at the moment and in my mental and physical health. I have a 3 year old and currently live with him and his dad. Recently we decided to separate but have carried on living together and going on as normal with routine etc but just not …
I have a friend and its name is anger. It has been with me since as long as I can remember. My anger consumes me, particularly during my Autumn, and when it does I am incredibly unkind to myself and to others. When it’s gone, I am left with all the damage it has done. …
I am back to pick this up – and broaden it out to ask for more coaching on Relationship difficulties all month round! To answer your questions from part 1: If you were weathering your autumn in the way that you want to (even if you have hard days, and even if you get cranky …
I vividly remember hearing this idea of life being 50/50 for the first time on a call with Maisie and it just resonated so deeply. I’ve since been able to use this handy tool to bring myself to a more neutral place whenever I find myself getting fixated on problem-solving my way through life. But …
I suffer from extreme PMS (or undiagnosed PMDD) and often experience low mood / confidence / sensitivity and heightened social anxiety in the Autumn phase of my cycle. I’ve been like this for so many years that I’ve learnt how to manage it with diet, exercise, leaning into feelings and organising my social life with …
Hi! I watched the nutrition for hormone health video earlier and somewhere the phrase “magical thinking” came up, and it really resonated with me, as something I’ve often used against myself in various ways. I would love some feedback on the model below, suggestions for developing helpful thoughts (really struggling with finding accessible ones), as …
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I am struggling BIG TIME with anger & my behaviour has become dangerous. I am quite certain I have PMDD. Today I attacked my partner in a public place. I ran at him & scratched his face & he pinned me down on the ground. This is connected with me repeatedly communicating to him what …
Hi! Firstly thank you for the winter workshop yesterday- it gave me a ton to process that quickly became a ton of new clarity + direction 😊 My headline is: one of my goals for this season/year is greater self-assurance, and I want to make sure it’s a clean goal. I want to develop self-assurance …
I am going to be in my winter around Christmas, and I am going to be visiting my partners family with my partner. I am concerned because they often have a different schedule than I am used to. It is common for them to eat dinner at what I consider to be a late time, …
I’m not sure where to start. I was able to coach myself very well during the autumn of my cycle which is when I usually have intrusive thoughts that beat me down. But then I had my period and I felt like my world was crumbling. I feel like I want to leave my husband, …
I am a dance and yoga teacher, 46 years old and perimenopausal. Last week was late autumn/ winter for me and I had a very rough time mentally and emotionally. The night before my period started, I was teaching my lovely group of advanced dance students (high school and young adult.) During a partner exercise …
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I’ve just been listening back to the Emotions and Rest Call and it really resonated with me and I would like help to expand on it a little more. In my pre-menstrum days in particuar I am often being woken up in the nightime with various anxieties racing around in my head. This could be …
I am in my autumn. I haven’t been sleeping well, due to feeling slightly overwhelmed with to-do lists, and some potential big life changes. I am finding myself feeling angry at my partner today. It is an issue that keeps coming up. He finds it difficult to start tasks and how to organise certain tasks. …
Hi There, I’m new to TFC so just trying this out to understand how it works a little more. I have been experiencing painful periods and increasingly intense PMT over the last couple of months and my husband has been calling me out on it saying he won’t give me sympathy unless i do something …
Hello, Im struggling with feeling the authenticity behind my charting because I have just started taking Sertraline a week or ten days before my period to try to treat pmdd. I have just started and im in the part of my cycle when I would usually be feeling all the horrid pmdd symptoms and Im …
Hi there, since Lockdown I have been experiencing suicidal thoughts. My dad was hospitalised at the beginning of this year & recieved an alzeimers diagnosis & moved into a care home. This all felt like a big shock for me & being 27 I don’t know anyone with this shared experience & have felt extremely …
Hello I’m feeling like there is so much that I need direction and help with I don’t know where to begin. I suppose I’ve spent all my life struggling with what now I see as effects of Pms or PmDD. Im generally a highly sensitive person anyway and my mood definitely get affected Id probably …
Hi 🙂 I have very recently joined the community and I have just down the first session of Harness your Hormones. However, I thought I would use the opportunity to ask straight away something that has been on my mind for quite some time. I have been struggling for some years now with really low-mood …
Hi, I’d love some help please. So I finally got around to re-listening to the “Understanding Your Cycle” module. I listened to it a while back and knew I needed to listen it again and take lots more notes, as so much hit home with me. So, below is basically a summary of the notes …
Hello, I’m looking for some sort of guidance/model on how to navigate the next few months on the run up to turning 40 please. I don’t have children, nor do I have a hugely successful career. I think being surrounded by people who have kids has made me feel a little isolated over time & …
I have so much to ask which I think is one of the reasons why I haven’t used this feature yet but I want to just begin. So I’m in the process of many things with my period and cycles, and one of them is dealing with the way I feel and struggle in the …
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Dear Maisie, I have been absorbing information from yourself and other functional medicine gyn’s who suggest using magnesium and DIM to help with Oestrogen dominance symptoms. I was wondering if you could advise me on if it is safe to take both alongside each other and if so at what strength. I take no other …
I signed up in March after reading Pwriod Power and figuring out that I have PMDD. I was given the options of medication, going on the pill or fitting a coil by the GP, none of which were appealing for me. However, since signing up, I have achieved very little. Life is super busy ans …
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I have just returned from a trip abroad with my partner of 3 years and my daughter who is nearly 5. It is a trip I had been having some anxiety about and had wondered for a while about whether I would acutally take. In the approach to it I was feeling excited. I’d had …
The last few cycles I have experienced really intense Pre menstural symptoms, an increase in migraine, emotional distress, intrusive thoughts and not being able to get out of bed. I’m seeking support from a medical professional, (yay! to the GP who finally listened.) But in the meantime I am supporting myself as much as I …
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I am trying to love myself during my autumn. Thinking about it I find that what I struggle the most with is that my kids don’t deserve to risk being yelled at 14 out of 24 days of their lives. And that feels like a thought that I can’t accept as anything but a truth …
After joining the flow collective a few months ago, I have been enjoying feeling part of a community of people who want to do the work in order to feel better. I was diagnosed with PMDD during lock down & have suffered with mental health problems for as long as I can remember, on reflection …
I joined TFC recently, finished reading Period Power and am now reading Perimenopause Power. I have known for a while I was perimenopausal and have since reading these come to realise I may have had ADHD and possibly Autism all my life, and PMDD since I was 11 – I am now 51. I have …
My eldest daughter is 7 and currently in the process of receiving an autism diagnosis. She is clearly struggling at the moment – full of anger, panicked about fitting in at school and feeling she is different whilst having worrying low self esteem as she has perfectionist tendencies. She masks throughout the day and because …
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Hello, I have just joined the collective, and am beyond happy to be here. I was on birth control for 10 years and when coming off it in Jan 2021 was diagnosed with PCOS. Since I have had about 3 periods in a year and a half and suffer from extremely long periods of PMS …
Hi, I am new in the TFC and so excited and like feeling hope and joy about being here :)! I have a question about talking to your gynecologist about what is potentially PMDD. I have soon an appointment with a new doctor and I am nervous because until now no gynecologist has ever taken …
Help! My autumns are so emotionally intense when I’m in a relationship that I scare my partners away. I’ve been with this new partner nearly one year and everything was flowing the first 6 months but I was making sure to stay by myself for the entire week before my period. The last 6 months …