Reclaiming Women’s Health: Breaking the Silence, Rewriting the Story
For as long as I can remember, women’s health has been shrouded in silence. What we should’ve learned early in life—how our cycles work, what our hormones do, and how to advocate for our bodies—was either skimmed over or ignored entirely.
Instead of understanding our bodies, we were taught to:
Fear our periods instead of embracing them
Shrink ourselves instead of nourishing ourselves
Endure pain instead of questioning it
Raise your hand if you’ve ever hidden a tampon while walking to the bathroom. 🙋♀️
Why were we taught to feel ashamed of such a natural, powerful process?
The truth is, we grew up disconnected from the very thing that makes us powerful—our bodies.
Your Body Is Not a Mystery to Be Solved
Here’s what I need you to know, my love:
Your body isn’t an inconvenience to be managed or a puzzle to be solved. It’s a roadmap, rich with wisdom. And it’s time we learn to read it—and fully listen to it.
The Silent Curriculum of Womanhood
The reasons we were never properly taught about women’s health run deep, woven into cultural, medical, and societal systems designed to keep us uninformed.
1. Shame & Silence
For generations, women’s bodies have been treated as taboo. The discomfort of past generations became the missing education of our own. I’ll never forget being 10 years old, saying sorry to whatever higher power I believed in after simply exploring my own body. Curiosity should’ve been celebrated, not shamed.
2. Medical Gaslighting
Women’s symptoms have often been dismissed, leading us to second-guess our own pain and intuition. When I was a teenager battling gut issues and insomnia, doctors brushed it off as “just depression.” They never dug deeper, never asked why I felt unwell. Years later, I discovered it was IBS.
Imagine the years of discomfort I could’ve avoided if someone had just listened.
3. The Male Default in Medicine
Most medical research has prioritized male bodies, leaving critical gaps in our understanding of female physiology and wellness. Our unique hormonal cycles, pain responses, and metabolic needs? Often an afterthought.
4. A System That Profits from Our Ignorance
The less we know, the easier it is for diet culture, the beauty industry, and even parts of healthcare to dictate what we “should” do.
I see it every day with my coaching clients—brilliant women who were never taught basic nutrition or how to advocate for their health.
How We Reclaim What Was Lost
The good news?
We are the generation that gets to change this. For ourselves. For our daughters.
✅ We Talk Openly
No more whispers. No more shame. Let’s normalize conversations about periods, hormones, fertility, and menopause. Discuss your cycle phases like you’d talk about the weather—openly and without apology.
✅ We Learn & Unlearn
Seek the knowledge we were denied. Question everything. Explore functional medicine, Chinese medicine, energy healing, and conventional practices. Trust your gut (literally and figuratively) when something doesn’t feel right. Side note: it is very important to not let others make you feel crazy just because you are stepping out of the norm to find your answers. There will be people who make fun of your courage and determination to be well. Forget them!
✅ We Advocate Relentlessly
Ask the questions. Demand the answers. You are not “difficult” for wanting to understand your own body—you are empowered. We ask every single question that we have about our body and mind to our health care professionals until one of them gives us an adequate answer. We advocate for self-care days and say, “absolutely not,” when something doesn’t align with our current wellness goals or mental state.
✅ We Teach the Next Generation
When a young girl asks a question about her body, stop what you’re doing and give her your full attention. She deserves clarity, confidence, and truth—not the confusion we inherited.
The Path Forward: Your Body, Your Power
To every woman reading this: It’s not too late.
You’re not too old, too far gone, or too broken to reconnect with your body.
You are your own best advocate, and you deserve to live unapologetically well.
Let’s rewrite the story—together.
💬 I’d love to hear from you:
What’s something about your body you had to learn on your own?
Drop it in the comments—I’m listening.
