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These days women are often in a permanent state of stress – juggling their family, career, finances as well as a chaotic lifestyle. There are biochemical consequences to this constant rush – resulting in imbalanced hormones, HPA axis dysfunction, sluggish thyroid glands and so on. One of the hormones driving this is adrenalin, which communicates to every cell in the body that your life is in danger. As I described in my TEDx talk, science suggests humans have been on the planet for between 100,000 and 150,000 years. For the entirety of that history "life or death situation" iswhat adrenalin has meant to the body. Whilst we can all feel a bit stressed at times, constant/ongoing/worsening symptoms should not be ignored. Most stress can be better managed and psychologists are trained to teach you effective coping strategies and skills. Park the fertility aspect of what I’ve just said and consider the additional biological impacts of this: we make too little of a hormone that helps us not feel anxious, not have a depressed mood and allows us to efficiently mobilise fluid. If a woman retains fluid, she usually feels “puffy and swollen” and this discomfort can impact the food choices she makes for the rest of the day, the way she speaks to the people she loves the most in the world and intimacy can fly out the window. That’s just the first half of the cycle!
your female patients suffering from Rushing Woman’s Syndrome? Are your female patients suffering from Rushing Woman’s Syndrome?
The answer is to ask ourselves “ How can I change my reality and/or lower my expectations”. This means setting more realistic goals/demands for ourselves and learning to accept that things are not always going to be how we want them to be or how we think they should be. It means that we learn to feel comfortable in making ourselves a priority and recognising the importance of taking care of ourselves just as well as we do others. One of the hormones driving this is adrenalin, which communicates to every cell in the body that your life is in danger. As I described in my TEDx talk science suggests humans have been on the planet for between 100,00 and 150,000 years and for the entirety of that history, that’s what adrenalin has meant to the body. The nervous system doesn’t know that the adrenalin amping you up is not from a physical threat to your life but rather your body’s response to the caffeine you drink and/or your perception of pressure. But I want to do it all. I want to experience this. Yeah. I don’t want to miss out. I have a lot to contribute. So where is this stress coming from? The latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics indicates that two-thirds of women with dependent children are in the workplace – whether this be for career aspirations or for financial necessity (or both). Research from the Australian Psychological Society also indicates that regardless of the hours in paid employment, women continue to see themselves as the primary care giver for their children and primarily responsible for household duties. So it would seem that despite the fact that the majority of women with dependent children are working we are continuing to hold on to traditional roles. Our Struggle with Inner Expectation The perceived need to rush, whether a woman displays it on the outside or keeps it under wraps, is changing the face of women’s health as we know it in a detrimental way; from PMS to IBS, from losing our tempers to feeling like we can’t cope.This episode will teach you to control your thoughts, lower your stress, and eliminate your anxiety. Dr. Libby will change the way that you look at hormones forever.
The Science and Impact of Rushing - Dr Libby
Rushing Woman’s Syndromedescribes what is scientifically known as Sympathetic Nervous System Dominance and the biochemical changes this drives in the body (see extended explanations of the science below). I wanted women to understand the significant way stress can impact the chemistry of their body, the many body systems it can affect, and offer them practical solutions to this. Great question. Because along those lines, Mindy, the other thing other than adrenaline that can lead us into anxiety is very low. progesterone, as I’m sure you and your listeners are very aware of. progesterone is a powerful anti anxiety agent. And we only produce it in large amounts after we ovulate. And so when someone has polycystic ovarian syndrome, or when they’re moving into perimenopause, and they stop ovulating every month, and then of course, post menopause, Lee, there’s no more ovulation, we’re obviously still going to make a small amount of progesterone from a couple of the adrenal glands mostly. But that progesterone is incredibly protective against feeling overwhelmed and and too many anxious feelings. And again, that something I think that it’s just not talked about enough. Yet, and also for women, when you when they use the birth control pill, like what a lot of women don’t understand that that stops the reason it’s so good at preventing pregnancies, it stops you ovulating. So it stops you having that lovely big surge of progesterone. So there’s, that’s another whole can of worms. But anyway, soAnd it’s when Yes, and because she’s coming from a place of she may not see it on the surface, but we’re doing too much out of obligation. And when we do it out, when we do things out of a sense of duty, it’s very depleting. When we do think from a sense of love, or our true authentic contribution, as in it’s arisen from your heart. That’s a reason from your soul that you really want to do this. It’s very energizing. That when we do when we do another duty, it’s very depleting. And when we do things out of duty again, sorry to sound like a broken record, but we are so often doing it out of duty. I don’t mean just once or twice, but when we live our lives like this, it’s because we want people to see us in a particular way. I can’t I can’t see it any other way. thank you. And I want you to know that I hear your mission, and I’m amplifying it. I’m there with you trying to get this information out to women. So we’re more powerful. The more women we gather and shout this from the rooftops, the more powerful we are. So thank
Strategies for Healing Rushing Woman’s Syndrome – With Dr Strategies for Healing Rushing Woman’s Syndrome – With Dr
For too many women, estrogen is dominant (to progesterone) leading into the menstrual period and this is the typical hormonal imbalance that is the basis of PMS – heavy clotty painful periods, swollen tender breasts, and mood swings that can oscillate from intense irritability to immense sadness, sometimes in the same hour and often for reasons that cannot be identified! This can feel like chaos for a woman… and everyone around her.I’ve noticed a shift in women’s health and behaviour over the past 16 years. Never before in my work have I witnessed so many females in a rush to do everything. Tobe all things to all people. Never before have I seen as many reproductive system and sex hormone challenges as I see now.
Rushing Woman Syndrome Affects Our Health How Rushing Woman Syndrome Affects Our Health
The term ‘Rushing Woman’s Syndrome’ was coined by Dr Libby Weaver. It evolved out of her observation of women’s health being drastically affected by the constant rush that many women now live in. “Never before have I seen the extent of reproductive system problems that I now see. Women are tired and wired. Sex-hormone based health problems such as polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), endometriosis, infertility, debilitating menopauses and exhaustion have never been greater, and the role of stress in this is undeniable when you look at both the body’s chemistry and the scientific research.” (Weaver, 2011).I like to say this biochemical and emotional scenario is common but not normal. It doesn’t have to be this way. What if the symptoms your body gives you, what if the parts of your body that frustrate or sadden you, are simply messengers asking you to eat, drink, move, think, believe or perceive in a new way? It is time to see them as the gifts that they are. These symptoms can be wake up calls for women to make changes in their lives they may not otherwise make, enhancing their health, energy, vitality and greatness in the process. The pituitary is the master switch of the endocrine system which sends signals to other endocrine system glands (adrenals, ovaries, thyroid) instructing them to make hormones. For example the adrenal glands will make stress hormones, the ovaries make sex hormones and thyroid gland makes hormones that control temperature and metabolism. None of them work in isolation, they all influence each other. When we are stressed, adrenalin is released by the adrenal glands (to escape the perceived threat), blood sugar rises, to give us more energy and blood pressure and pulse rate increase to provide more energy to the muscles. But as a result reproductive functions are down regulated as the body prioritizes its need for survival rather than its need to reproduce. From painful periods to fluid retention, from anxiety to yelling at the people we love the most in the word and berating ourselves afterwards, it has been a long time since women’s health has faced such an intense hormonal challenge. This interference of stress hormones with sex hormones is one of the major biochemical factors I describe in Rushing Woman’s Syndrome. For the first half of the menstrual cycle, estrogen is the dominant hormone, laying down the lining of the uterus. Estrogen wants a menstruating female to get pregnant every month of her life, whether that is on her agenda or not!
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