Hormonal: How Hormones Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, and Make Us Wiser

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This book is underpinned by my own journey of becoming more knowledgeable about myself and accepting the emotional changes I feel over the course of my cycle, rather than seeing the changes as a pathology, forever scrutinising and labelling.

During this gruelling process, I learned more from the doctors and nurses about what actually happens during the menstrual cycle, how my ovaries and hormones work, than I think I ever had before in my life. I did feel, though, that the writing was bogged down by too many reports and studies, and a lot of it seemed to be hypothesizing vs. developed by two housewives Katharine Cook Briggs and daughter Isabel Briggs Myers during World War 2 based on the theories of Carl Jung, their aim being to create a useful test that would help place women entering the workforce in jobs that best matched their personalities. Broken fingers, headaches, tonsillitis, bruises, scratches and bite- marks from fighting with my siblings. There are women out there who seem able to embrace their premenstrual selves without much shame because there are lots of different ways of being a woman.I would have thought women interested in hormones would like more scxience and less history lesson of popular views on women as hormonal. We often don't feel we can speak because when we do, we can be re-traumatised through damning language. They also unite us with our mammalian cousins and even the colossal lizards that once roamed the earth.

GABA does the opposite and tells the cells not to 'fire' It is effectively our natural tranquilliser. this was such an interesting book, and perfectly balanced between a personal and scientific narrative. The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. My initial reason for reading Hormonal: A Conversation About Women's Bodies, Mental Health and Why We Need to Be Heard was my tiresome periods, same rationale as for the other book about menstruation I've come across, Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You.Thank you so much for sharing your story and experiences and for giving insight into the world from a woman’s point of view. I particularly enjoyed the Ancient Greek's theories about how women's bodies work, although was also locked in a full-body cringe throughout that chapter. Not the sort where the male struts, with his feathers wide as a palm tree, or with his really blue feet or around a stunning nest with shiny objects. I heard women describing childhoods spent in and out of care, sexual abuse within family settings, emotional neglect and violence.

I’d taken to wearing my hair all scraped back and my abundant forehead was absorbing the north Norfolk sun with vigour. We’ve gotten better at talking about mental health, but we still shy away from discussing PERIODS, MISCARRIAGE, ENDOMETRIOSIS and MENOPAUSE.Fiona Shaw who plays Carolyn says] "It's fantastic to have an antiheroine like Villanelle, doing all the things you might think, but never dare to do. Their walking gait, voice, skin condition, and dance moves are more alluring, and they wear more revealing clothes. Very likely I'd feel better in general if I ate more and healthier food - would that it were so simple for me to do so!