PMDD Redeemed | Emotional Regulation, Cycle Syncing, Monthly Cycle Hormones, Christian Women, Hormone Imbalance

For the month of March, nutrition is what we’re talking about! If you’ve ever wondered where to start with food and what you’re putting into your body when it comes to helping manage your PMDD symptoms, I’m sharing it all here on this episode!

What I’m talking about are the core foundations for helping regulate blood sugar and reduce inflammation. These are a great (and essential!) place to start.

This is really getting to the hear...

Feeling drained, overwhelmed, or out of rhythm during your cycle? You’re not failing God—and you’re not alone. In this episode, I sit down with Rosangela Atte, a Christian life coach who blends biblical wisdom with neuroscience, to explore how PMDD affects your nervous system, your emotions, and your faith.

We talk about:

• Why PMDD weariness and struggle isn’t a spiritual failure

• How your nervous system signals overwhelm

• B...

Have you ever questioned whether your PMDD symptoms are spiritual attacks, or something darker, rather than something happening in your body?

Have you thought: if I just believed harder, prayed more and was a better Christian, I wouldn't be dealing with all of this?

If these thoughts and more have come up, you're not alone. Women with PMDD who are also Christians deal with these doubts and questions every cycle, making it harde...

Anger is one of those big PMDD symptoms that we don't love talking about. It feels uncontrollable, like you're being taken over by something. And then when it's all said and done, the shame and guilt are just as all-consuming.

In this guest interview episode with Elizabeth Andreyevskiy, an anger coach for Christian moms, we dive deep into what is going on below the surface when it comes to anger, rage, extreme irritability. 

This e...

"Working on my anger/ rage/ extreme irritability". Maybe not the most popular new year's resolution, but not any less important.

This is such a loaded topic, and as the title of this episode explains, a story I never thought I would share or wanted to share. It's that place of pain in my heart that feels too vulnerable, too exposed, and yet, here it is. 

In this episode, I'm sharing my own story with anger relating to premenstrual ...

For years, my theological foundation was pretty sandy, crumbly and wasn't holding when the PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder) storm was hitting.

The despair, the doubts, the fears and anxieties would pile up and I would just keep spiraling down.

Then I started working on the foundation that I was building my values, beliefs and  convictions on, the theology that would sustain me even through the monthly hormonal sensitivity sto...

If you've ever wanted to have a place to listen to truth after truth to build you up and remember God's truth and love in you life, this is the episode!

I remember so well when I was pregnant when I listened to a podcast episode with Biblical pregnancy + labor affirmations, and it was so helpful.

So this episode is just that. 50 different scriptures and truth affirmations that you can declare over your life when you are in Christ. 

How do you view your struggle with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)? 

Do you see it through the lens of Scripture — or as something happening to you without purpose or hope?

Are you interpreting your symptoms through God’s truth — or through fear, frustration, and discouragement?

Do you believe God can bring clarity, healing, and renewal here — or have you quietly stopped expecting anything to change?

Some hard questions to g...

If stress makes your PMDD feel ten times louder, this episode will make everything click. We’re talking about the HPA axis — not in a science-heavy way, but in a real-life, “this is why I feel the way I do” way.

In this conversation, I’m naming the things so many of us walk through: • feeling overstimulated just trying to get through the day • snapping or shutting down because your body is already at capacity • exhaustion that feel...

Big name, simple meaning: neuroinflammation means inflammation of the brain.

It might sound like another daunting characteristic of PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder)...

But truly, when we understand what’s at the root of the problem, that’s where healing begins.

If you can relate to any of these symptoms in the week or two before your period—

• brain fog

• irritability

• sensory overwhelm

• exhaustion

• or that “buzzing,” ...

Hey friends, welcome back to PMDD Redeemed!

This week, we're chatting about how PMDD isn't "just hormones", but it results from the very fabric and blueprint of who you are: your DNA and genes. 

I loved learning more about this root cause of PMDD, because it just seemed to "seal the deal" even more, of knowing it's not just about trying harder, being less this or more that.

The layers attached to PMDD are so important to understand...

We're continuing on with our PMDD Root Causes series, and today we're chatting about serotonin dysregulation. 

This episode has so much overlap to last week's episode, where we talked about how the GABA-A receptors misfire during the luteal phase. 

The main issue again here is sensitivity: the receptors not responding well to a normal hormone, or in this case, neurotransmitter.

I talk about the physiology behind it, but take a deep...

So you feel like a different person every month.. like your thoughts, emotions, rational thinking - everything - gets hijacked. 

But what's causing it? Why it is happening?

In this first episode of the series "PMDD Root Causes", we're chatting about what it actually means to have a hormone sensitivity in your brain, and how that causes PMDD symptoms to worsen. 

We also chat about what we can start doing about it, how we can help yo...

Okay, I'm back! It's been awhile, hasn't it?! But I'm so thankful for the time and space to recalibrate and focus on what God is wanting me to share with you!

As you can see, some changes have occurred! I speak more into this in the episode, so have a listen! 

I'm so excited about this shift! And so excited to really, fully jump into the topic and struggle of PMDD from a Biblical, faith-based, natural and evidence-based perspective...

Hey friend! I have a very short and sweet announcement to share about the show. Yes, I am taking a bit of a break from the podcast to work on my own self, to do more in-person reflexology, take care of my daughter and return back to my home care nursing job super super part-time. 

Trying not to see this as weakness or me running away, but more as a time to strengthen my relationship with my body, with God, with my family, and to ...

We've all been in the situation. We're doing the very things we know do not help us feel better. In fact, they bring on the anxiety again. They make us have that impending doom feeling. We get all the very familiar symptoms back. 

And we ask ourselves, why? Why am I keeping on doing these habits?! It just doesn't make any sense!

In this episode, I talk about the very reason why it does make sense, of why we keep returning to th...

Feeling stuck in the spiraling thoughts and debilitating anxiety of PMS or PMDD? Do you feel like you just need a little reset?

In this episode, I share a quick 5-minute practice/ strategy that I've been using when it feels like I just need a minute to ground myself again and discern truth from lies. And it can be done in 5 minutes, 10 minutes or 2 minutes... really whatever you have time for. 

So give it a try next time you're fee...

Happy Monday, friend! Does it feel hard to not base your identity, worth and value on what you're contributing to the world? Do you ever say to God "if you only gave me this, or did that, then my life would be like this"? Does your identity get tossed around every menstrual cycle when you're in the premenstrual phase and wondering how you're going to get through this one?

In this episode, I'm sharing three places where our identi...

Gluta-what?! Glutathione! It's a powerful detoxifying antioxidant! That's all I'm saying! 

In this episode, I break down what the heck glutathione is, why we need it, what is impeding our livers in producing it and where to find it (hint: think nutrition!). If you're looking for natural, nutrition-based strategies for helping your liver with detoxing toxins and free radicals, have a listen to this episode!

Lauren

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