Podcasts about simplicity sessions

In episode 192 of the Thyroid Answers Podcast, I discuss perimenopause with Jenn Pike. Topics covered in this episode include: What is perimenopause? Common symptoms of perimenopause. Perimenopause: normal transition or dysfunction. How excessive stress impacts hormone regulation. Understanding the Perimenopausal Paradox. And more ... Jenn Pike is a Medical Exercise Specialist and Functionally Integrative Diagnostic Nutritionist specializing in women's health and hormones. She is the best-selling Author of three books; The Simplicity Project, The Simplicity Kitchen and The Simplicity Body. Jenn is the fiercely driven Founder of The Hormone Project, The Perimenopause Project, Synced and The Audacious Woman. Powerful programs dedicated to empowering and teaching women what they should have known about their bodies all along; the incredible healing abilities, wisdom and power they hold and how to bring them to life. Jenn sits on the Advisory Board for STRONG Fitness Magazine and serves you up weekly doses of education, wisdom and inspiration on her podcast The Simplicity Sessions which is ranked in the TOP 1% of podcasts in the world. You can also learn from her through Simplicity TV on YouTube with more than 3 million downloads combined.  As an inspired wife and Mom of two, she understands that true well-being as a woman is a journey to be enjoyed not a struggle to be forced. She will inspire you to cut the bs and create more Simplicity and Ease in all you do.  www.jennpike.com

The perimenopause and menopause journey is not just about hormonal shifts, it's also a profound time of self-discovery and healing. Join me on this episode as I speak with Jenn Pike, Medical Exercise Specialist, Functionally Integrative Diagnostic Nutritionist, and author.We discuss how to embrace the changes in your body and mind through this phase of life and reclaim your personal power.Episode Highlights:Understanding perimenopause and menopauseMental and emotional challengesInformation overwhelm & how to find claritySimplicity as a mantra: How adopting a simpler approach can help you feel more balanced and connected with your body.Empowerment through setting boundaries and learning to prioritize your own needsListening to your body and honoring its rhythmsOur conversation is one about feeling good, honoring your body, and making space for rest and resilience.“This is one of the greatest shifts we will ever experience. It's not just about estrogen and progesterone. It's about everything…The way it impacts our lives, our relationships, our capacity for joy.” - Jenn PikeAbout JennJenn Pike is a Medical Exercise Specialist and Functionally Integrative Diagnostic Nutritionist specializing in women's health and hormones. She is the best-selling Author of three books: The Simplicity Project, The Simplicity Kitchen, and The Simplicity Body. And founder of The Hormone Project, The Perimenopause Project, Synced and The Audacious Woman.Jenn is on the Advisory Board for STRONG Fitness Magazine and serves you up weekly doses of education, wisdom and inspiration on her podcast, The Simplicity Sessions, which is ranked in the TOP 1% of podcasts in the world.Free Perimenopause Support Guide: https://jennpike.com/perimenopausesupportwww.jennpike.comhttps://www.instagram.com/jennpike/https://www.facebook.com/thesimplicityprojecthttps://www.youtube.com/@JennPikeImportant LinksGrab your FREE Rev Up Your Metabolism eGuide: Powerful Strategies for Women in Midlife, Menopause & Beyond to Fire Up Their Metabolism, Release Weight, and Reclaim Their HealthWebsite: sarahhaaswellness.comFacebook: Sarah Haas WellnessInstagram: @sarahhaaswellnessYoutube: Sarah Haas WellnessThanks for Listening:Thanks so much for listening to the Boss Body podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. 

In this week's episode of The Simplicity Sessions, I sit down with Eleanor Beaton - a powerhouse entrepreneur, podcast host, and mission-driven leader who is on a quest to double the number of women-owned businesses scaling past $1 million by 2030. Episode Highlights: The Accidental Entrepreneur Eleanor shares her fascinating journey from journalism to entrepreneurship, revealing how she transformed from a communications consultant to the founder of Saffy Media - a coaching company dedicated to advancing global gender equity through women-owned businesses. The Three Phases of Business Growth Dive deep into Eleanor's insights on business scaling: Producer Phase: Where success hinges on your individual high performance Replicator Phase: The critical stage of building systems and scaling beyond personal labor Multiply Phase: Learning to lead through empowerment and strategic vision Key Takeaways: Why choosing the right industry matters more than you might think How to transition from doing everything yourself to building a sustainable business The importance of creating systems that can replicate your success Why personal development is the unexpected "secret sauce" of entrepreneurship Powerful Quotes "One of the biggest things I've confronted is selfishness. Leadership requires understanding the goals and desires of the people you work with." - Eleanor Beaton "Instead of asking 'How can I do this?', ask 'Who can do this? What resources do they need to be successful?'" - Eleanor Beaton Who Should Listen: Women entrepreneurs in the $200K-$2M revenue range Business owners looking to scale sustainably Professionals seeking inspiration for business growth Anyone interested in women's entrepreneurship and leadership About Eleanor Eleanor Beaton is the founder of Saffy Media and host of the Woman Owned podcast. With over 1.6 million podcast downloads and a mission to advance global gender equity, she's a leading voice for women entrepreneurs.   Get ready to be inspired, challenged, and motivated to take your business to the next level! Let's dive in! Thank you for joining us today. If you could rate, review & subscribe, it would mean the world to me! While you're at it, take a screenshot and tag me @jennpike to share on Instagram – I'll re-share that baby out to the community & once a month I'll be doing a draw from those re-shares and send the winner something special! Click here to listen: Apple Podcasts – CLICK HERESpotify – CLICK HERE Connect with Guest - Website: https://safimedia.co/ Instagram: @eleanorbeaton Podcast: https://safimedia.co/podcast/ This episode is sponsored by: withinUs | Use the code JENNPIKE20 at withinus.ca for a limited time to save 20% off your order St. Francis Herb Farm | Go to stfrancisherbfarm.com and save 15% off every order with code JENNPIKE15 Skin Essence Organics | Go to skinessence.ca and save 15% off your first order with code JENNPIKE15 /// Save 10% off every order with code JENNPIKE10 Eversio Wellness | Go to eversiowellness.com/discount/jennpike15 and save 15% off every order with code JENNPIKE15 /// not available for “subscribe & save” option Free Resources: Free Perimenopause Support Guide | jennpike.com/perimenopausesupport Free Blood Work Guide | jennpike.com/bloodworkguide The Simplicity Sessions Podcast | jennpike.com/podcast Programs: The Perimenopause Project | jennpike.com/theperimenopauseproject The Hormone Project Academy | jennpike.com/thehormoneproject Synced Virtual Fitness Studio | jennpike.com/synced The Simplicity Women's Wellness Clinic | jennpike.com/wellnessclinic The Audacious Woman Mentorship | jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman Connect with Jenn: Instagram | @jennpike Facebook | @thesimplicityproject YouTube | Simplicity TV Website | The Simplicity Project Inc. Have a question? Send it over to hello@jennpike.com and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

In this episode of The Simplicity Sessions, I sit down with Dr. Nicole Cain, a leading expert in trauma-informed clinical psychology and holistic medicine, to discuss her groundbreaking book "Panic Proof" and her personal journey from anxiety to embodied healing. What struck me most about our conversation was Nicole's radical honesty about her own path – from being the "expert" who had all the tools (supplements, acupuncture, pharmaceuticals, you name it!) to finding herself in what she calls "the dark circle of hell" with debilitating anxiety and insomnia. Her vulnerability in sharing how she had to burn everything to the ground and get genuinely curious about what her body was trying to tell her is both inspiring and deeply relatable. We dive deep into: The profound shift from asking "what's wrong with me?" to "what is my body telling me?" How childhood adaptations (like being the family peacekeeper) can become anxiety triggers in adulthood Why having all the "right" tools sometimes isn't enough The power of pattern interrupts and completely surrenders in healing How to reclaim authorship of your own story when others have been writing it for you This conversation is especially powerful for anyone feeling disconnected from themselves, struggling with anxiety, or navigating major life transitions. Nicole's approach beautifully bridges the gap between clinical expertise and embodied wisdom, showing us that our symptoms aren't problems to be solved – they're messages to be understood. Whether you're a healthcare practitioner, someone on their own healing journey, or simply curious about the mind-body connection, this episode offers a fresh perspective on anxiety and what it means to truly come home to ourselves. Join us for this soul-nourishing conversation about reclaiming our innate wisdom and learning to trust our bodies again. Let's dive in! Thank you for joining us today. If you could rate, review & subscribe, it would mean the world to me! While you're at it, take a screenshot and tag me @jennpike to share on Instagram – I'll re-share that baby out to the community & once a month I'll be doing a draw from those re-shares and send the winner something special! Click here to listen: Apple Podcasts – CLICK HERESpotify – CLICK HERE Connect with Guest - Website - https://drnicolecain.com/ Instagram: @drnicolecain Facebook: Dr. Nicole Cain Just as exercise or medication regimens aren't one-size-fits-all, personal protocols for managing and preventing anxiety during menopause should be unique. In an interview, Dr. Cain can reveal how to:   - Understand the complex relationship between estrogen, anxiety, and (peri)menopause. - Supplement your diet to mitigate menopause symptoms. - Practice breathwork to manage hot flashes! - Decode what your menopause symptoms are trying to tell you. - Shift your perspective on menopause symptoms from problems to guideposts for healing.   This episode is sponsored by: St. Francis Herb Farm | Go to stfrancisherbfarm.com and save 15% off every order with code JENNPIKE15 Skin Essence Organics | Go to skinessence.ca and save 15% off your first order with code JENNPIKE15 /// Save 10% off every order with code JENNPIKE10 Eversio Wellness | Go to eversiowellness.com/discount/jennpike15 and save 15% off every order with code JENNPIKE15 /// not available for “subscribe & save” option Free Resources: Free Perimenopause Support Guide | jennpike.com/perimenopausesupport Free Blood Work Guide | jennpike.com/bloodworkguide The Simplicity Sessions Podcast | jennpike.com/podcast Programs: The Perimenopause Project | jennpike.com/theperimenopauseproject The Hormone Project Academy | jennpike.com/thehormoneproject Synced Virtual Fitness Studio | jennpike.com/synced The Simplicity Women's Wellness Clinic | jennpike.com/wellnessclinic The Audacious Woman Mentorship | jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman Connect with Jenn: Instagram | @jennpike Facebook | @thesimplicityproject YouTube | Simplicity TV Website | The Simplicity Project Inc. Have a question? Send it over to hello@jennpike.com and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

In this deeply moving episode of Simplicity Sessions, I sit down with Alana Joy, a remarkable reconnection guide and psychotherapist whose journey from disconnection to purpose will leave you breathless. From her earliest memories of feeling "out of body" to navigating a challenging medical journey that was repeatedly dismissed, Alana shares how a rare genetic condition and the loss of her father became catalysts for her spiritual awakening. As a former registered nurse with over 20 years in healthcare, she brings a unique blend of scientific knowledge and spiritual wisdom to her work. What makes this conversation special: Alana's vulnerable sharing of her childhood experiences of disconnection How being told to distrust her body's signals led to a powerful reconnection journey The fascinating intersection of science and spirituality in healing Her transformation from government employee to purpose-driven entrepreneur The power of reconnecting with our bodies, hearts, and souls If you've ever felt disconnected from your body, dismissed by healthcare providers, or like you don't quite belong, this episode will resonate deeply. Alana's mission to guide others through their dark night and into the light is more than just talk – it's drawn from her lived experience of transformation. Don't miss this powerful conversation about rediscovering joy, embracing your sensitivity, and finding your soul's purpose. This episode perfectly illustrates why I believe so strongly in the healing power of sisterhood and community. Join us for a conversation that weaves together physical healing, emotional awakening, and spiritual transformation in ways we haven't explored before on the show. ✨ Let's dive in! Thank you for joining us today. If you could rate, review & subscribe, it would mean the world to me! While you're at it, take a screenshot and tag me @jennpike to share on Instagram – I'll re-share that baby out to the community & once a month I'll be doing a draw from those re-shares and send the winner something special! Click here to listen: Apple Podcasts – CLICK HERESpotify – CLICK HERE   Connect With Guest: Website: http://www.alanajoynewton.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alana_joy_newton/   The Masks We Wear: https://www.alanajoynewton.com/masks-we-wear   Beneath the Surface: https://www.alanajoynewton.com/beneath-the-surface   This episode is sponsored by: St. Francis Herb Farm | Go to stfrancisherbfarm.com and save 15% off every order with code JENNPIKE15 Skin Essence Organics | Go to skinessence.ca and save 15% off your first order with code JENNPIKE15 /// Save 10% off every order with code JENNPIKE10 Eversio Wellness | Go to eversiowellness.com/discount/jennpike15 and save 15% off every order with code JENNPIKE15 /// not available for “subscribe & save” option Free Resources: Free Perimenopause Support Guide | jennpike.com/perimenopausesupport Free Blood Work Guide | jennpike.com/bloodworkguide The Simplicity Sessions Podcast | jennpike.com/podcast Programs: The Perimenopause Project | jennpike.com/theperimenopauseproject The Hormone Project Academy | jennpike.com/thehormoneproject Synced Virtual Fitness Studio | jennpike.com/synced The Simplicity Women's Wellness Clinic | jennpike.com/wellnessclinic The Audacious Woman Mentorship | jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman Connect with Jenn: Instagram | @jennpike Facebook | @thesimplicityproject YouTube | Simplicity TV Website | The Simplicity Project Inc. Have a question? Send it over to hello@jennpike.com and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Your doctor tells you that menstrual issues are "normal", but somewhere deep down, you know they're not. You're told that cramps, bloating, pain and mood swings should just be managed with medication, but you know better.. You just don't know what to do about it. But today's guest does.  Jenn Pike is a medical exericse specialist and Functional Medicine Diagnostic Nutritionist, specializing in women's health and hormones, and this is a conversation every woman needs to hear.   TOPICS DISCUSSED: Eliminating painful periods How women have been forced to disconnect from their own bodies Essentials for tracking cycles as more than a monthly event Utilizing nature, food exercise and the moon to optimize your hormones Hormonal birth control: problems and solutions The connection between your gut health and hormonal health Tangible steps you can take to heal both of these so you don't have to wing it   More from Dr. Stephen Cabral: Instagram: @jennpike Facebook: @thesimplicityproject YouTube: @JennPike Website: jennpike.com Podcasts: Simplicity Sessions and The Audacious Woman Podcast   Need help with your gut? Visit my website gutsolution.ca to join a program: Get help now   Contact us: reversablepod.com/tips    Leave us a Review: https://www.reversablepod.com/review   SOCIAL MEDIA: Instagram  Facebook  YouTube        

In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Jolene Brighten, hormone expert, nutrition scientist, and thought leader in women's medicine. She is board certified in naturopathic endocrinology and trained in clinical sexology. Dr. Brighten is the author of Is This Normal, a non-judgemental guide to creating hormone balance, eliminating unwanted symptoms, and building the sexual desire you crave. A fierce patient advocate and completely dedicated to uncovering the root cause of hormonal imbalances, Dr. Brighten empowers women worldwide to take control of their health and their hormones through her website and social medical channels. Dr. Brighten is an international speaker, clinical educator, and medical advisor within the tech community. Dr. Jolene Brighten and I have had many conversations before on the Simplicity Sessions about health, but today, we are discussing the behind the scenes of running her business and her origin story.   Connect with Dr. Jolene Brighten - Website: drbrighten.com Instagram: @drjolenebrighten Facebook: Dr. Jolene Brighten   Connect with us - PODCAST: jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman INSTAGRAM: @theaudaciouswoman FREE AUDACIOUS BUSINESS SCRUB: jennpike.com/audaciousaudit JOIN THE MENTORSHIP: jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman  

Jenn Pike is a Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Certified Yoga & Pilates Instructor, Medical Exercise Specialist, bestselling author and host of the podcast The Simplicity Sessions. Jenn specializes in women's health and hormones. Her approach is to crate more simplicity and easy in all we do including out approach to health.  Primary subjects we covered in this episode are cycle synching and its benefits as well as birth control and its effects on female body. Jenn's Links: Website: https://jennpike.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/jennpike/ Chapters: 3:00 - Jenn's story & women's health 7:00 - Missing education in women's health area 11:30 - Women's cycle  17:14 - Cycle synching  25:00 - The affects of stress on reproductive system  29:08 - Increase in infertility & birth control  35:00 - The impact of birth control  38:30 - The issues in Western medicine  40:00 - My story with the pill 44:09 - How to approach women's health 47:20 - Be aware of risks  48:40 - Other types of birth control 50:50 - A little more on ovulation & cycle phases 53:38 - Jenn's contact info

In this episode of the Women's Vibrancy Code, Maraya is joined by Jenn Pike, a medical exercise specialist, and Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, to discuss menstrual cycle optimization, cycle syncing, and hormonal balance for women's health.  Jenn covers practical tips for women who are menstruating regularly, on contraception, beyond menopause, or undergoing estrogen-dependent cancer treatment with irregular cycles. She also discusses the 28-day cycle and what women can do during their menstrual cycle and ovulatory time. The conversation also circles around the impact of birth control pills on women's health, synthetic hormones, and the importance of informed decision-making. Jenn shares insights on nutrition and fasting during the follicular phase and emphasizes working with healthcare professionals.  Also in this episode:  How to follow your lunar cycle The impact of synthetic hormones on women Educating teens and women in their fertility years How to know if you are ready for menopause How to align your lifestyle and movement with your energy Abdominal massage is emotionally charged and powerful Testing your hormones at the right time of the month Why coffee steals the energy of tomorrow   About Jenn Pike I'm a Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Certified Yoga & Pilates Instructor, and a Medical Exercise Specialist. I'm also a bestselling author and host of the podcast The Simplicity Sessions. I specialize in women's health + hormones. As an inspired mom of two, I understand that true well-being is a journey to be enjoyed, NOT a struggle to be forced. I aim to inspire you to cut the B.S. and help you to create more simplicity and ease in all you do. Connect With Jenn Pike Website: https://jennpike.com/contact/   Subscribe To The Women's Vibrancy Code Podcast: Apple Podcast | YouTube | Spotify Connect With The Show: Facebook Page | Linkedin | Website | Tiktok | Facebook Group Make A Connection Call With Maraya Brown: Click here to book   About Maraya Brown: Maraya is a Yale and Functional Medicine Trained CNM, MSN with her undergraduate degree in marketing. She helps women feel turned on by their life, their lover and themselves.  Her work online brings her 21 years of experience supporting women together in one place to co-create deep transformation, energy and passion. Maraya is the founder of this Podcast and does a great deal of work with women to expand their energy, hormones, libido, confidence and much much more.   DISCLAIMER: The podcasts available on this website have been produced for informational, educational and entertainment purposes only. Listeners should take care to avoid program content which may not be suited to them. The contents of this podcast do not constitute medical or professional advice, No person listening to and/or viewing any podcast from this website should act or refrain from acting on the basis of the content of a podcast without first seeking appropriate professional advice and/or counseling, nor shall the information be used as a substitute for professional advice and/or counseling. The Women's Vibrancy Code Podcast expressly disclaims any and all liability relating to any actions taken or not taken based on any or all contents of this site.    

In this episode of The Simplicity Sessions, my dear friend & colleague Heather Chauvin and I did a podcast swap! Here you will get to listen to a fantastic episode from Heather all about how to stick to your habits with her 10 minute habit strategy. You can find my episode over on Heather's podcast – Emotionally Uncomfortable. Heather Chauvin is a leadership coach who helps ambitious, overwhelmed women conquer their fears and become leaders at work and home. Drawing from her professional experience as a social worker and her life experience raising three boys, Heather created a signature approach to help her clients create and enjoy sustainability, profitability and ease in business and life. She is the host of the Mom Is In Control Podcast where she reveals her most vulnerable truths about womanhood, marriage, parenting, living through stage 4 cancer and running a successful business without burning out. She released her first book, Dying To Be A Good Mother in 2021. When Heather isn't busy driving her boys to hockey practice, you can find her curled up on the couch next to her husband, planning their next family adventure. Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. Connect with Heather - Book: Dying to Be a Good Mother https://heatherchauvin.com/book Website: heatherchauvin.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherchauvin_/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heatherchauvincoaching Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. Genuine Health has been a long time favourite of mine for their Vegan Fermented Proteins+, Greens Superfood powders, probiotics and a multitude of other products and supplements. Use code GHJennPike20 to save 20%

Episode Highlights: being your authentic self, de-conditioning from comfortable patterns, game changing shifts Summary: We are stoked to bring you this episode Kaylor did with Jenn Pike on her Simplicity Sessions Podcast! Kaylor & Jenn are no strangers to each other and have had some very meaningful and engaging discussions on their podcasts together and this one is no different. In this episode of the Simplicity Sessions, Jenn and Kaylor discuss: Recognizing the cost of putting people's opinions & judgements about our lives before our own and living your most honest and authentic life Information overload and putting knowledge into action through “game changing shifts” De-conditioning ourselves from comfortable patterns and choosing the narrow path A big thanks to Jenn for having Kaylor on her Simplicity Sessions Podcast. We are pumped to be able to share this with our amazing Mental Wealth family! We can't wait to hear your thoughts on it! If you enjoyed the episode, please be sure to take a screenshot and share it out on Instagram and tag @thekaylorbetts. Also, please make sure to give us a review and a five star rating if you're loving what we are doing! _____________________________ RESOURCES & LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: The Simplicity Sessions Podcast | Simplicity Sessions Instagram | jennpike Facebook | thesimplicityproject Website | jennpike.com _____________________________ IMPORTANT UPDATES: Apply to work 1:1 with Kaylor | https://buildmentalwealth.co/ Follow Kaylor on Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/thekaylorbetts/ _____________________________

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast is created by Rupa Health, the best way to order, track & get results from 30+ lab companies in one place. In today's episode, Dr. Carrie Jones is joined by Jenn Pike, A Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Certified Yoga and Pilates Instructor, and Medical Exercise Specialist. They discuss top insights and hacks for shedding the limiting beliefs that lead to burnout and hold you back from achieving your potential. The first step to success is learning to take care of yourself. Key Takeaways from this episode: 1. You can't be constantly burned out and still create the life and business you want. Start by recognizing the signs of burnout and recognize that you're here because you are not in alignment with who you are at your core. Before you can start making changes, you will need to peel away all your hard-wired and self-limiting beliefs one layer at a time. 2. The notion that our worth is defined by our accomplishments is a self-limiting belief. We are hard-wired from a young age that our value and worth stem from our achievements; the best grades, the most wins, and trying the hardest and doing things others won't because they are hard. We then evolve into adults who are working harder and trying to produce more. Soon you have a reputation to live up to, even though we're starting to crumble inside, but we can't let anyone see that. 3. The smallest things we do can drive the biggest changes. Start by identifying the one thing you do daily that fulfills you and makes you happy. Look within and try to figure out why you have designed your life the way it is, where you have no time to achieve what you want and no rest and recharge time. Are things the way they are because you have an issue with saying “no”? 4. Jenn Pike's three tips for audaciousness. We are hard-wired with self-limiting beliefs; identify these beliefs and anchor yourself to the woman you are at your core. Next, cultivate a daily routine that lets you tap into moments of joy and self-nurturing. Lastly, take time to look at your schedule and regularly scrub out things you can say no to. Jenn Pike is a Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Certified Yoga and Pilates Instructor, and a Medical Exercise Specialist. Jenn is a multitasking achiever who believes that being audacious can cut out the hard-wired self-limiting beliefs we all carry and lead us to simplicity and ease in all that we do. She is the founder of the Simplicity Project, and you can catch her on her YouTube channel, Simplicity TV, or on her weekly podcast of, The Simplicity Sessions. Jenn is also the author of three books, including The Simplicity Project.

Starting a new health journey can feel like it is one more thing to take on in life. Women especially are expected to do it all, so how are we supposed to fit in healing ourselves? This is why I really enjoyed with Jenn Pike, simplicity guru and Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist specializing in women's health and hormones. What We Cover: ✨Jenn's story of how she learned she was burnt out and doing too much ✨What the steps are to get out of the burnout state ✨What happens when we don't listen to our bodies ✨How Jenn helps women with the Hormone Project ✨And much much more! Jenn talks about everything from balancing life as a mom and businesswoman to what birth control is doing to women's bodies, the impact of fibroids on your health, perimenopause, and everything in between! This is a great episode if you have ever been in that burnout state, and let's face it, who hasn't? Jenn Pike is a Medical Exercise Specialist and Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist specializing in women's health and hormones. She is the best-selling author of three books; The Simplicity Project, The Simplicity Kitchen and The Simplicity Body. She is the fiercely driven Founder of The Hormone Project, Synced and The Audacious Woman. Potentially powerful programs dedicated to empowering and teaching women what they should have known about their bodies all along; the incredible healing abilities, wisdom and power they hold and how to bring them to life. Jenn sits on the Advisory Board for STRONG Fitness Magazine and serves you up weekly doses of education, wisdom and inspiration on The Simplicity Sessions Podcast which has been in Apple's Top 200 in Health since its debut in September 2018 and her channel Simplicity TV on Youtube. As an inspired wife and Mom of two, she understands that true well-being as a woman is a journey to be enjoyed not a struggle to be forced. She will inspire you to cut the bs and create more Simplicity and Ease in all you do. Check out Jenn at her website and podcast, The Simplicity Sessions. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/christine-garvin/support

Feeding Families is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcastsThis episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition: https://csnn.caAbout the episodeIn this episode Jenn and Jess tackle female hormones and teen girls. Many parents roll their eyes when the topic of teenage hormones comes up. There's general confusion about how to help girls move through puberty and a general resignation to the idea that periods can be painful and moods are bound to be volatile. But Jenn is changing all that. She helps girls and women take control of their health and hormones by understanding the power of their bodies and their cycles. Since she uses food as an integral tool for helping people manage their hormones, we talked about how we can motivate girls to embrace their bodies and support their health as they move through the teen years. Jenn drops some golden advice for any mother trying to help their teen girls make healthy choices.Guest BioJenn is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Certified Yoga & Pilates Instructor and a Medical Exercise Specialist. She's also a Bestselling author and host of the podcast The Simplicity Sessions and founder of The Audacious Woman business mentorship program for female entrepreneurs who desire to flow in the feminine energetics of alignment, alchemy and abundance without burning herself out. Jenn specializes in women's health + hormones. As an inspired Mom of two, she understands that true wellbeing is a journey to be enjoyed, NOT a struggle to be forced. She aims to inspire, cut the B.S, and help women create more Simplicity and Ease in all they do.Linkshttps://jennpike.com/https://jennpike.com/syncedhttps://jennpike.com/podcast/https://jennpike.com/thehormoneprojecthttps://jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman About the Podcast, Host and Network:About our Podcast Network:The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies that make a difference to your family's health, the planet and to our children's future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice in the following six areas: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids nutrition, healthy home, beauty, and parenting. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life!About the Feeding Families Podcast:No matter where you are, if you're a parent I'm pretty sure you and I want the same thing - to build strong mental and physical health in our kids and set them up for a bright future. In our episodes, we break down the nuts & bolts of kids' nutrition and bring you inspiring food stories and practical strategies so you can overcome real-life food challenges shared by parents everywhere. We want you leaving our episodes with more clarity, new ideas, inspiration, and unwavering confidence in the food decisions you make every day. About your Host (Jess Sherman MEd, FDN-P, RHN):Jess is a Family Health Educator and mother of three focused on nutrition for brain health and resilience in kids. She uses her training as a certified teacher, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, and Holistic Nutritionist to improve the lives of children with learning differences, anxiety, ADHD, and mood disorders by helping their parents uproot hidden stress and nourish them deeply. Her book, Raising Resilience, and her online resources - Calm & Clear Kids and the Resilience Roadmap - have reached families all over the world.Links for Jesswww.JessSherman.comwww.RaisingResilienceCommunity.cominstagram.com/askJessshermanTo learn how Jess helps families minimize symptoms of anxiety and moodiness and set their kids up for strong health, development and resilience visit: https://www.jesssherman.com/coachingPartnershipsAudio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal. This episode was edited by Emily Groleau.

In this episode, Stephanie is talking with Jenn Pike who is a Functional Diagnostic & Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Certified Yoga and Pilates Instructor and a Medical Exercise Specialist. Jenn is also the author of The Simplicity Project and the host of the podcast, The Simplicity Sessions.  Jenn shares how she started her business in the fitness industry then pivoted into the nutrition space, eventually landing on the niche of women's health & hormones. She shares her thoughts on what it means to have a “successful” nutrition business and how it takes time and consistency to grow a big brand and business. Jenn also goes into depth about how practitioners can use DUTCH hormone testing in their practice to help their clients get even better results with their health goals. In today's episode, you'll learn: How Jenn started her own nutrition business after years in the fitness industry How to determine your own version of success How to offer DUTCH hormone testing in your practice Jenn's tips for how to stay motivated and consistent with your nutrition business

Today I have my very good friend and soul sister, Jenn Pike back on the podcast. You may know Jenn as the face of The Simplicity Sessions podcast. She is a Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, creator of the Hormone Project, Synced and the Audacious Woman as well as the author of multiple bestselling books and The Simplicity Sessions Podcast. Whew … she's a woman on fire and also, a woman who endeavors to walk through life with a genuine and authentic humanness about her. Jenn and I have walked alongside each other for the past seventeen years. Our families are connected, our kids are connected, and our passions are aligned. Earlier this year, Jenn and I sat on her couch and with the energy of the full moon, we birthed something into creation: Women: Ready to Rise.  Women: Ready to Rise is an intimate 12 month container for the woman craving the energy and connection that emerges from being part of a collective RISE.  We are creating the space for women who are really ready to have a different level of conversation, who want to be in communication with other bold and authentic women, and have the desire to be truly seen in ways they may never have before. We are calling in women who want to support not only themselves but also other women to a new level and a deeper more integrated way of showing up in the world right now.  In this episode, we talk about what it means to RISE and how this is a conscious and unconscious energy that is flowing through women across the globe.  Jenn and I riff about why behind Women: Ready To Rise, the details of the program, and who it is truly for. If you are even remotely curious about what it means to rise, I welcome you to this conversation and this episode.   Women: Ready to Rise is currently open for registration. Details HERE.  We begin on September 25, 2022. The first TEN women who register will receive a 30 min 1:1 Alchemy Session with Jenn and I.   In this episode: How women are awakening to holding a new space in the world. Details on the Women: Ready to Rise program.  The energy and vibration that women are putting out into the world.  Women are going to change the world. When women link arms, change happens.  We are meant to be connected to others, but opening up takes time. We need to gift ourselves the space and time for transformation to take place.   Unwinding and rewiring the things that no longer serve you, so you can fully embody the woman you are meant to be.   Quotes from Jenn Pike: “Remember who you are in your core, and live your life in a way that is much more aligned with that.” “Enough is enough. We need to bring women together in a safe place.” “We are the ones that are going to change the world. It is going to be the women. This is OUR time” “If there have been any gifts over the past few years, it is the formation of new communities that I do not think have otherwise happened.” “How can you allow yourself to be in discomfort long enough to see the change?” “We have so many superpowers that live within us, and to tap into that is transformational.”   Women: Ready To Rise – We begin Sept 25th. Details HERE.  Take Dr. Laura's Free Quiz! — What's your Divine Feminine Sovereign Style? This quiz will help to reveal your soul-guided sovereign style so that you can harness your feminine spark with more confidence and courage than ever before. The quiz is quick but the results are epic — potent, robust, and exactly what you'll need to harness your unique feminine style in a way you've never done before. Get ready to speak your truth, walk in your fire, and own your gifts like never before. 10-Week Signature Program for Women: ROOTS + The Sisterhood ROOTS will help you tap into your feminine superpowers and remember who you are, why you are here, and why it matters. This dynamic program walks through intuition, connecting with your inner knowing, healthy boundary-setting, personal core values, finding your voice, speaking your truth, expansion, self-compassion, identity, your future self, and the frequency of your rise. You were never meant to do this alone. Are you ready to do the best work of your life? Sovereignty, Self-Compassion, and Standing In Your Personal Power. It's time to walk your path. Get on the WAITLIST here for October 2022 registration. Continue On Your Journey: Soul Inspired Gurl / Instagram / Book A Coaching Discovery Call With Me Jenn Pike: Instagram | Website | The Hormone Project Jenn's bio:  Jenn is a Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Certified Yoga & Pilates Instructor and a Medical Exercise Specialist. She is also a Bestselling author and host of the podcast The Simplicity Sessions. She specializes in women's health + hormones. As an inspired Mom of two, she understands that true wellbeing is a journey to be enjoyed, NOT a struggle to be forced. She aims to inspire you to cut the B.S, and help you to create more Simplicity and Ease in all you do.

Welcome to The Audacity Sessions, our Thursday episodes of The Simplicity Sessions. The Audacity Sessions are geared towards the woman in business, who is desiring to start something new and break free from the narrative that is holding her back. In this episode, I give you a gentle introduction as to what this new section of the podcast, The Audacity Sessions, is all about. I hope this awakens the  bold, tenacious, audacious energy in your body that gets you asking the “what if” questions about your life, business, and wellbeing.   Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media @theaudaciouswoman on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Learn more here: jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman

My guest today is Jenn Pike, a Functional Medicine Diagnostic Nutritionist, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, and Medical Exercise, Specialist. She specializes in women's health and hormones and is the Bestselling Author of The Simplicity Project as well as her two cookbooks: The Simplicity Kitchen and The Simplicity Body. She is the founder of the global and revolutionary women's health programs The Hormone Project and Synced, and the host of The Simplicity Sessions podcast. These programs are dedicated to teaching women what they should have known about their bodies all along; the incredible abilities, wisdom, and power their bodies hold and how to bring them to life. Her ultimate aim is to inspire you to create more Simplicity and Ease in all you do. In today's episode, we talk about the woman beyond the practice and what it takes to embrace our personal evolution as an entrepreneur. Connect with my guest: Website:  https://jennpike.com/ Social Media Handles: jennpike Let's keep in touch :) Get inspired on Instagram: @dr.shyamalakiru  Join the conversation on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theeqlab  Are you a high-powered woman who wants to leverage Emotional Intelligence to amplify her success? Check out our global coaching company at www.theeqcode.com 

Hello friends!Today's episode is a juicy one! Today we talk about the fifth vital sign -- your hormones, your period and all that goes along with it! It was an incredible honor to interview the one and only, Jenn Pike. She is a Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Certified Yoga & Pilates Instructor, and a Medical Exercise Specialist.  Jenn is also a Bestselling author and host of the podcast The Simplicity Sessions. Jenn specializes in women's health + hormones. As an inspired Mom of two, she understands that true well-being is a journey to be enjoyed, NOT a struggle to be forced. Jenn aims to inspire you to cut the B.S, and help you to create more Simplicity and Ease in all you do.If you are new to cycle syncing, living/working/exercising/and nourishing your body in sync with your hormones and menstrual cycle, today's episode is for you! To show you that you are not alone, nor are you "crazy" for having mood swings or cravings or feeling sheer exhaustion during that time of the month. Jenn sheds light on how we can listen to our bodies' natural wisdom, work in sync with the lunar cycle (which, pssst, mimics your hormonal/menstrual cycle), and live a life where we aren't always hustling to get it done, but get the things done in our natural flow, feeling energized and nourished! Take a listen, it's a powerful episode packed with moments that will make you feel seen, wherever you're at.Loved this episode?  I know, me too, friend! Me too! If this episode resonated with you, we'd love to hear from you, say hi on Instagram @shantellebisson, @withoutlosingyourcool, @jennpike and for the love of all things cool, if you have a burning question you'd like answered, go to shantellebisson.com/podcast  and leave us a message for your question to be featured on our upcoming episodes!Share your takeaways on social media and tag us & subscribe+rate+leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and send us a screenshot of your review to be entered to win some cool prizes!Also, ps. Save the Date - May 26th, my newest book Loving Yourself Without Losing Your Cool officially comes out!Until next time friends! Do the hard things, and show up like you mean it! Without Losing Your Cool!

Today's guest expert Jenn Pike is a functional nutritionist and medical exercise specialist. She specializes in women's health and hormones. She is also a best selling author of The Simplicity Project, and podcast host of The Simplicity Sessions. Jenn is the founder of the global and revolutionary women's health program: The Hormone Project, Synced and The Simplicity Body Movement Series. These programs are dedicated to teaching women what they should have known about their bodies all along; the incredible healing abilities, wisdom and power their bodies hold and how to bring them to life. As an inspired mom of 2, she understands that true well-being is a journey to be enjoyed not a struggle to be forced. She will definitely inspire you to create more simplicity and easy in all you do. In this Episode:Jenn shares her story and how she got to where she is todayIf you are feeling really fatigued or tired you are not aloneWhat most women in Jenn's programs are saying right nowThe effects of carrying the load of the past two years on mothers and womenThe great awakening We are not primed to be "on" all the time, what happens to the body when we areWhy Jenn is apprehensive to say to women "you can do hard things"Our girls are listening, what message do we want to be sharing with themHow to honour the season that you are in and give yourself permission to feel your feelingsWhy you have to do the work when you need to heal and why a supplement can be the cure-all solutionIt's either a heck yes or hell no, are you listening?How to tap into your intuitionPractice flexing that muscle by asking yourself more questionsYour nourishment is not just what you are eating it is everything that you are consuming Why you should invest in yourself and your health or healing journeyAre you taking responsibility for your life?Can you find the reward in taking a pause, rest or slowing down to give yourself space to tune in?How energy can affect our physical bodies and healthJenn shares a story on her experience with her Chinese medicine practitioner showing how energy and emotions can affect our bodiesHow to shed or drop the extra baggage you are holding onto as womanCan you create some quiet space in your life right now?How to take your power backConnect with Jenn: www.jennpike.com or @jennpikeConnect with me: http://www.pamrocca.com or work with me: https://pamrocca.com/work-with-me/Follow over on Instagram: @divinehealthpodcast and @pam_roccaShow Sponsor:Eversio Wellness -  Use coupon code: Pam15 to receive 15% off your orderProtect and feed your Mind + Body + Soul with sustainably packaged, whole fruiting body mushroom extracts, all organic, non-GMO, vegan, and gluten-free. Eversio means change. Eversio's mission is to help change and provide divine health through fungi. Functional mushrooms offer long-term stress support and long-term immune support. Check them out, I love the FOCUS daily mind support: Lion's mane capsules.

Dr. Laura welcomes her dear friend and colleague, Jenn Pike, to the show this week. Jenn is a Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, Holistic Lifestyle Expert, Master Hormone Educator, Best Selling Author, and host of the incredible podcast, The Simplicity Sessions. We first get to know Jenn's journey into wellness and what led her to see the brilliance, vulnerability, and strength in each and every woman she meets. Jenn leads a revolutionary program, The Hormone Project that draws women in from all over the world. From this place of leadership and mentorship, as well as her own personal journey, Jenn teaches the importance of finding what grounds you and building it into a consistent practice. Jenn and Dr. Laura get honest about holding space for other women, why community matters, and how permission to show up exactly as you are in the moment is foundational to living your life and path.   There is laughter and tears in this raw and real episode.   What You'll Hear In This Episode: Jenn helps women create more simplicity and ease in all that they do. She lives and teaches that well-being is a journey to be enjoyed and not a struggle to be endured. Jenn specializes in women's health and hormones and is also the best-selling author of The Simplicity Project and two cookbooks, The Simplicity Kitchen and The Simplicity Body. How to get out of the mindset that everything must be hard and difficult. As a woman and as a mother means coming to terms with the truth that sometimes you are sacrificing, either for yourself or others - and how to find peace in this. Knowing the one thing that grounds you so that you can come back home to yourself along the way. The courage to show up as you are and not feel guilt about what you can't or don't want to do. Finding and living in alignment with your values and what's true to you. What does it look like to step into your divine feminine? Why there is a tendency for women to be living in their more masculine energy. How the awareness and shift towards a balance are where the sweet spot is. Real talk from both of them about being a mom in this moment — at this time.   Quotes: “Women and mothers, they are actually the everyday athletes of life.” — Jenn “We have to clear and make space before we can bring in something new.” — Jenn “We were never meant to do it alone. That's the illusion.” — Dr. Laura   Take Dr. Laura's Free Quiz! — What's your Divine Feminine Sovereign Style? This quiz will help to reveal your soul-guided sovereign style so that you can harness your feminine spark with more confidence and courage than ever before. The quiz is quick but the results are epic — potent, robust, and exactly what you'll need to harness your unique feminine style in a way you've never done before. Get ready to speak your truth, walk in your fire, and own your gifts like never before.   10-Week Signature Program for Women: ROOTS + The Sisterhood ROOTS will help you tap into your feminine superpowers and remember who you are, why you are here, and why it matters. This dynamic program walks through intuition, connecting with your inner knowing, healthy boundary-setting, personal core values, finding your voice, speaking your truth, expansion, self-compassion, identity, your future self, and the frequency of your rise. You were never meant to do this alone. Are you ready to do the best work of your life?   Doors open to registration on March 23rd 2022. For more info and to join the waitlist for access to early booking bonuses and more: Soulinspiredgurl.mykajabi.com/roots-invitation-page Register for Dr. Laura's free Masterclass: Embodying Your Wise Woman Warrior - Sovereignty, Self-Compassion + Standing In Your Personal Power. Maybe the point of all the "falling away" and "burning til dawn" is to feel truly free -- soul free. The kind where you are sovereign in your being, fully embodying your deep feminine wisdom and having the courage and capacity to step into what's truly meant for you, right here, right now. It's time to walk your path. No more excuses. No more hiding who you are. No more separating yourself from the vision of the life that is calling to you.  3 Pillars 3 Concepts 1 Incredible Conversation Tuesday, March 22nd - live @430 pm PST / 730 pm EST. Replay sent. More info + registration: HERE   Continue On Your Journey: Soul Inspired Gurl Dr. Laura: IG | YouTube Jenn Pike: IG | Website | The Simplicity Sessions   Giveaway from Jenn: The Simplicity in 7 Detox — Jennpike.com/freedetox   Jenn Pike is the founder of the global and revolutionary women's health programs The Hormone Project, Synced, and her Simplicity Body Movement series. These programs are dedicated to teaching women what they should have known about their bodies all along: the incredible healing abilities, wisdom, and power their bodies hold and how to bring them to life.   You can catch her weekly tips and tools on her podcast: The Simplicity Session and her YouTube show Simplicity TV. She sits on the Advisory Board for STRONG Fitness Magazine and contributes to CHCH Morning Live, CTV, Global, CP24, and Breakfast Television.  

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.  Welcome back to another episode of The Simplicity Sessions. There are many things to do with Christmas approaching, such as cooking and decorating a Christmas tree. The holiday season can be a stressful time as there is so much going on in our lives. We run around to buy presents, bake so much food, host and attend dinner and holiday parties. It can be a stressful time of year, where we beat ourselves up to try to keep up with everything. We want our kids to have it all. We want our families to have it all. We want it all.   But today, I will be giving you some advice on how to prepare for Christmas, whether it's through nutrition, exercise, or other means. Also included are some ideas and activities you may do ahead of time, in the moment, or even afterward.  Continue listening for additional information on things you can proactively do to ensure that you have a happy Christmas.  If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.   Here are the main topics of today's episode:  Be hydrated   Eat helpfully  We get to choose  Look at your calendar  Don't beat yourself up  Get rest as much as you can  Add resistance training to your program January does not have to be excess anything Step out of that place of being so hard on yourself      Connect with us -  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful.  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.  Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.  Online work with Jenn -   Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.  Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!   Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/   To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.   Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners -   Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order.  St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order.  GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. FOR THE REST OF DECEMBER enter the code JENNPIKE15 for 15% off your order.  Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that.  Quotes -   “The only way we can really be prepared for how we're going to continue to support our health is to actually know what's coming.”  “Why wouldn't you wake up and do your regular morning routine?”  “.... you're dehydrated and the more dehydrated you are, the less energy you'll have, the more cravings that you'll have, the more lethargic you'll feel, and the brain fog will be more present. So hydrate.”  “That self-hatred that you're imposing on yourself is doing so much more damage than a cookie or a piece of cake or an extra glass of red wine.”  “The fastest way to get you out of a cycle of guilt and shame and remorse for what it is you've eaten or what you've done or haven't done is flip it on its head, create a pattern interruption, and do something that is good for you.”   

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Joining us for this episode are Matt and Sandra from Orion, a company where they offer red light therapy to their clients to help them look, feel, and live better through the natural healing power of red and near-infrared light. It is the next generation of home-based red light therapy and is also trusted by professional athletes and health practitioners.  What is red light therapy? Red-light therapy (RLT) is a therapeutic technique that uses red low-level wavelengths of light to treat skin issues, such as wrinkles, scars, and persistent wounds, among other conditions.  Sandra, Orion's Marketing Associate also answered, was on the podcast to discuss the details of RLT from a technical clinical sense and how it can help improve your life. Tune in for more information about red light therapy and should you consider doing it? And the Orion company. Visit Orion red light therapy here: Website: https://www.orionrlt.ca/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orionrlt/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orionrlt/ If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Benefits Mitochondrial health Red and near-infrared Our relationship to light What is red light therapy? How often should you use it? Is there anyone this is not for? How close or far should we be? Why is it so important for us to consider using it? What is the difference between the Orion pro and the Orion series? Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn -  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners  Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. FOR THE REST OF DECEMBER enter the code JENNPIKE15 for 15% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. Quotes -  “.... kind of red and near-infrared light works, it penetrates deep into ourselves and that's how it reaches the mitochondria. And as you mentioned, the mitochondria is extremely critical in our well-being because it powers everything we do. And so when we do get light, it essentially supercharges ourselves so that our mitochondria function at a higher capacity.” “You can be you doing you and still be getting this therapeutic benefit.” “ This does really help a person. You just feel more energized, feel lighter. Like less drowsy in the morning, too.” “Once you exceed that 20 minutes, you're not really getting any more added benefits from the light because your lights are only able to absorb so much light.” “Red light specifically targets more of the surface layer of our skin. On the other hand, we have near-infrared light that ranges anywhere between seven 50 to 1200 nanometers, a much longer wavelength, meaning it will penetrate much deeper into our tissues, our bones, and muscles.”  

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. This episode is a continuation from our topic on your adrenals and your thyroid. I will be diving deeper into detail on these topics to help you identify issues through testing, reducing issues through dieting, and identifying symptoms.  The time to focus on the health of your adrenals and thyroid is now. Thyroid health issues are some of the leading causes of infertility and repeated miscarriages so it is important to be able to diagnose and treat any issues immediately. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Thyroid Selenium Timing of testing We need to be educated Doing tests to detect issues The type of test you will need Botanicals, herbs, and adaptogens Symptoms that are connected to our thyroid The impact of your adrenal health on your thyroid Thyroid issue is one of the leading causes of infertility and repeated miscarriage Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn -  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. Quotes -  “Remember, we do not live in tiny little compartments and containers and bubbles inside of our body. There is no social distancing that is happening inside of here. It is a collective and it works together. And when one area is suffering, the rest of your body will try and pick up that energy to support you until it counts.” “It's important to be working with someone who can test appropriately and detect the issues before they get worse.” “You can't live without a thyroid, without being on medication. The thyroid is an extremely important gland and it plays many different roles in our system in terms of regulation and feeling good and functioning well.” “So this is again, why you want to work with someone. You don't just listen to me on a podcast and not run out and buy all of these things.” “I'm not talking about a salad, true care of yourself, and where that care starts is you need to have a conversation with yourself. You need to go in and go deeper. What do you need to release? What do you need to shed?”  

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this episode, we will be joined by Cheri Bantilan, a registered dietician at Nutri Sense. Nutrition is her passion and she loves sharing that passion with her community in every way. She shared what Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) is and what factors affect your glucose levels that can, in turn, affect your overall health. CGM is a small device that lasts up to 14 days and it is painless to use.  Cheri discussed the vision behind Nutri Sense and how she wants to help her clients interpret CGM results to get a better understanding of how glucose works in their body.  Tune in for more information about the CGM and what are its benefits to people that are and will be using it. Check out the Nutri Sense website here: https://www.nutrisense.io/ If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Fasting Daily movement Your food intake What does a CGM do? How often should a CGM be used? What is different about Nutri sense? What is a continuous glucose monitor? Factors that play a role in glucose management What are the basic guidelines for stable blood sugar? The impact of sleep, exercise, nutrition, and stress in our glucose Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Connect with Cheri Bantilan -  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheri-bantilan-ms-rd-cd-14816367 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cheri.bantilan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cheribantilan/?hl=en Online work with Jenn -  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. Quotes -  “I like the analogy that a CGM is like a movie. You see a full picture of what's happening in your day versus a lab draw or a fingerprint is really just a snapshot, it's just a picture of that moment in time.” “..... fasting in general is a type of stress on the body and stress isn't necessarily a bad thing. It can be if it's out of control.” “What people don't realize is that, sometimes when we say yes, exercise, they expect that I need to exercise for one hour during this huge CrossFit workout in order to get a benefit. And that's not true, any type of movement is helpful, even if you have a high carb meal or a bigger portion size.” “Depending on what you hear when you hear the word carb, because if you hear carbon, you think like bread, pasta, rice, those types of things, maybe you need to tell yourself fiber, so that you go towards things with color.” “.... even if you take a couple bites of your chicken before you eat, you know, your key or your rice or whatever it is that that makes a difference. So prioritize protein for sure.”  

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In today's episode, I am going to chat about the possibility that your gut could be the root of some of those hormonal issues that are giving you problems with your health. We may always blame our hormones if we feel that something is wrong, but it is not actually the problem most of the time. Learn more about what we can do to know if there is something wrong with our body and how to treat it. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Run tests Eliminating Estrobolome Prebiotic foods Are you having daily bowel movements? Start to think about the food that you're eating Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. Quotes - “If your elimination pathways are sluggish, if they're moving too quickly, if you aren't pooping and clearing toxins on a regular basis, you aren't eliminating these from your body.” “...if you have too much beta glucuronidase, it is going to make it very hard for you to properly clear your estrogen and those toxins out of your system. And so that is something that we test for. “ “So for women who are suffering from a lot of these infections, you want to be testing and seeing what is going on in the gut.” “The only way that we understand what is really going on is we run the functional test to assess what's happening.”  

From brilliant questions comes freeing answers. Uncover the truths the Jenn Pike holds about the female body from her years of asking “but why”? Lesley Logan and Jenn Pike discuss all things female - from cycles, mood shifts, hormone balance, to overcoming stigmas.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co .And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:How Jenn's curiosity led her to her careerMedical ranges & full panel testing Cycles vs. PeriodsSeed CyclingThe affect hormones have on your mental health Jenn's B.E.I.T action items for transformation How to break the stigma with the female cycleEpisode References/Links:The Hormone ProjectSyncedThe Simplicity Project PodcastIG @JennpikeGuest Bio:Jenn Pike is a functional diagnostic nutritionist and medical exercise specialist with over 20 years of experience. She helps females recognize the impact that hormones have on every aspect of their body and then helps empower them to become educated in how to utilize their hormones to their benefit. Founder of The Hormone Project, Synched, and The Simplicity Project, Jenn helps females decode what their body is telling them. OPC Flashcards:OPC Flashcards are on AmazonOPC Flashcards are on our siteIf you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.ResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookTik TokLinkedIn Episode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  Hello, welcome back to the Be It Till You See It podcast today I have Jenn Pike for you.  Oh, this this interview is juicy, juicy, juicy. I mean it is such good stuff you are going to want to relisten to it, you want to take notes. Ladies, this one is for you and if you've got men in your life umm, I definitely umm agree with her what she's at the end. We want to have more men aware and educated at this because it destigmatizes, umm periods and cycles and hormones in women and basically I'm giving away what the interview is about. But Jenn Pike is a functional nutritionist and medical exercise specialist. She is a wealth of knowledge. She has been doing this for over 20 years and umm basically y'all, there I know that sometimes you are like "I'm gonna take on this day. I'm so excited. I love where my goals are going. I love for this ... I love what I'm wanting." You love it, I know you do and then you feel like you can't do it. And you think it's in your head or you think you need to take another course or you think you need to learn more about this, you got to read this book and the truth is it might actually be and probably is, whats going on with your hormones. What's going on in your cycle. What's going on in your body. And so she comes in and she is going to educate you and your empower you and we I her tips for how you can Be It Till You See It at the end. (Lesley: gasps) I mean, I'm not kidding. They're like they're word worthy, really. If we were doing that, which we are not, we're not, we're not. Anyways, I can't wait for you to listen to this entire conversation. Check out how you can follow Jenn and all the programs she I mean, all the programs she's got going on that will literally help you, Be It Till You See It. But also become aware and educated on what your body needs, what's optimal for you. And that's why I wanted to have her on. And so check out this interview, here it comes right after this message.Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast, where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.All right, welcome back to Be It Till You See It. I am so freakin' stoked about today's interview. Y'all. Okay, let me just, I'm just gonna be really, really uhhh. I'm gonna tell you what I did. I heard Jenn Pike on my friend, umm Coach Jenny's podcast, her strong, umm find her strong, and I literally finished the interview and was DM-ing her like, "I want you on my podcast," I it was a total like, not even, "Hi, you're so awesome." I was like, "Hi, you're amazing. And here's what I want to do. I love all the things you said so much. And I want to get that out to all of the people who listen, my Pilates clients, to my coaching clients" and so luckily, she didn't go, "Wow, Lesley, you're weird." She said, she said, she said, "Oh, that'd be great. I can do these things. I'm just really busy right now." And I was like, "That's fine." So we're finally having this conversation. Jenn Pike, thank you for being here. Will you take a minute to tell everyone, who you are, where you're from, and what you're up to?Jenn Pike 3:36  Well, thank you first of all for reaching out and having me on here. So my name is Jenn Pike. I'm a functional diagnostic nutritionist and medical exercise specialist and the founder of The Hormone Project. So I really help women understand what they you know, in my opinion, should have known about their bodies from as young as you know, being a young girl before going into puberty. And I meet women exactly where they are now on this journey of their health in their body and help them to understand, the signs and the symptoms, and the stories that their bodies are telling them. How to decode, what it is that's going on. And really empower them to know how to take care of their health. How to take care of their body. How to be an advocate for themselves and to do it in a way where you know it's feeding back into their own vitality and vibrancy and to be so connected to the body that they have.Lesley Logan 4:24  I mean. When I heard you say that what we teaching them what they should have already known. It is so crazy what we are not told about our (Jenn: I know) bodies. And also umm, what what because we trust our doctors and you know and what they say and so we're like, "Okay, yeah, we'll do this," and then you find out later on like, actually you're not that that that that wasn't the right the best thing for you, at least, maybe it was but there wasn't other information given to you about how that's gonna affect your, affect your body. (Jenn: Yeah) So can you can you share like a little bit like, what what made you want to do this? Like, did I don't know that you grow up going, "Well, one day, I'm going to like teach women about their bodies." Like, what was it that got you really interested in this?Jenn Pike 5:07  So mine kind of was like that a little bit. When I look back, like I've always been very much involved in fitness and athletics. My dad took me into my first gym experience with him when I was six, not to work out, but but seeing him move and do that. And my mom would go out, you know, to Jazzercise class with the ladies in the neighborhood. And so I just always grew up with that being like a very normal thing. My older sister is 12 years older, and she was always doing like, you know workout videos, like Cher's workout video, or whoever it was, (Lesley laughs) all of that. And so, I just was very curious. And I always loved moving my body, and, you know, I was active. And then when I got into high school, you know, I was, I was always just very aware, very curious as to what was happening in my own body. Conversations I was having a friends, things were being taught in gym class, I was also modeling at that time for a lengthy period of time. And you know, in that industry, everything was about do whatever you've got to do to just be thin. It was a period of time where like, you know, Kate Moss was the body that everyone was going, and that's not my body and my frame. And I, there was some struggle there. And I just kept thinking to myself, like it, "It shouldn't be this way, you know, what is it that's going on?" Umm I started to realize how little information there was for those of us that had our periods. And we're going through that, and birth control, and all of those things. And so I just kept asking more questions, I was always the person going, "But why?" And I would just dig deeper and ask and start to do my own research. And then I went, I lived abroad, modeling, working for a while, came back went to school. And that's where I started off in human anatomy, biomechanics and physiology. And that again, to it was just like, the human body is so insanely brilliant. And oftentimes, it's us that's getting in the way of feeling our best. And it's because we haven't been properly educated so we're not empowered to know, right from wrong for us, or, you know what to ask the doctor or when the doctor says, you know, "You're totally fine." And you're sitting there and are like, "I'm not fine, like I something, I'm telling you, this isn't me something is out of balance or out of whack." And you, you know, get recommended to take something or whatever it might be. So many women that I work with, anyways, they're still leaving those offices, they may have been told what to do, but they don't know why. (Lesley: Right) And they, they don't know how they can shift their lifestyle or, or any of that. So, you know, it started there for me, I was working in a very strong athletic background, I was working with all athletes, majority of men, when I started, then I was working Personal Training, a lot of women and a lot of moms, I didn't have kids at the time then. But I still could see that we were missing something. That no matter what type of exercise and you know, meal plan that I was creating for them, something was missing. (Lesley: Yeah) I couldn't quite pinpoint their mood instability, their sleep issues, their inflammation, and I was like, "I need to dig deeper," and went back to school. At that time, you know, 20 years ago, became a holistic nutritionist that opened it up more. Fast forward a few years later, became a mother for the first time. And then I was like, "Oh, whoa, (Lesley: whoa) this is different." (Lesley: Yeah. Yeah.) This is different. And then, you know, I've just continued to stay a student and then went back and became a, you know, a functional medicine, diagnostic nutritionist, and I run a lot of different testing. And it's been an evolution over decades.Lesley Logan 8:31  I love it because so you're a total questioner and learner, like, you can tell like, (Jenn: Yeah) you're like, "I am curious about this. I'm gonna go," and and I think a lot of people are afraid to ask the questions. (Jenn: Yeah) Like, because people are afraid of being wrong. And it's like, well, actually, you don't even know if you'll be wrong, you might be asking the question that other people are having, and no one's talking about. And um ...Jenn Pike 8:51  Almost always, and I would say, "No, you bring that up." And it's such a good one is that I'm constantly encouraging women in our programs, like, "Please be the brave one to ask the question, because I am telling you, if you are thinking it, so many others are," and it's when we start to to voice it that other women are like, "Wait a second. I'm not the only one." (Lesley: Yeah) Like, "I feel that too tell me more."Lesley Logan 8:53  I so I suffered from stomach issues for over 10 years and going to doctors after doctors and I had a doctor literally make me feel like I was the crazy one. And I'm like, "But I have pictures." Like, "This is what I look like in the morning and this is what I look like in the evening." And they sent me to an infectious disease doctor in the hospital and they're like, "Do you know why you're here?" And I'm like, "No," I think that he doesn't know what to do with me. So he sent me here, but now I'm a little bit panicked. Like, "This is the ebola clinic." ... (Lesley laughs) This is the ... (Jenn: You're in a hazmat suit, What is going on!) Yeah, what is going on with my stomach? I'm just have a lot of bloating and I refuse to take medication for that because that's not, I don't want to cover the symptom. Like I didn't (Jenn: Right) have this my whole life. Right? So but I, it was weird for me to talk about it in the beginning because kind of embarrassing, like no one (Jenn: Yeah) wants to hear talk about all that. But when I started to what I found out is so many women were having those same problems. And I was like, I became this like, advocate of figuring out what it was and finding someone who could solve my problems. And that person saved my life. And then I found a holistic Doctor who, who I work with, whenever there's like a flare up. But I do think it's like, a lot of people are afraid to ask the question, because they think that they should just know it, or this is what everyone does, or we just have, this is how life is. And you said, you went to the school 20 years ago, I feel like that was and maybe I'm wrong. But it feels like that was a pretty early time to get involved in holistic nutrition.Jenn Pike 10:47  Yeah, it was I mean, back then. So and I, I'm 41. So I was 20 when I decided, like, I started early, I finished high school early, I did my traveling, I started, you know, college before I was even, you know, legal to have a drink, which I know you're in the US. But here in Canada, typically you're like 18-19 when you go. And so it when I did that everybody around me who was looking at nutrition health, they were going to be a dietician, or they were going to do like kinesiology or that. And I was like, "Hmm, it's not that." And I had had an experience with hearing somebody talk about a naturopathic doctor and I was like, "What's that?" And so went and you know how to first consult and I was like, "Oh, this, this is fascinating." You are spending an hour or more with me asking me all about like, my, my health history, my cycle, you're looking into my eyes, you're looking at my tongue, you're like feeling my pulse, you're looking at, you're testing my hair, you're, it was so much deeper than what I had ever experienced. And nothing was being rushed and like shuffle out. (Lesley: Right) And so that I came away and was like this, "This is this is my thing. This is what I want to empower women with. This is the missing link." We don't know enough. (Lesley: Yeah) How could we possibly make the best choices for ourselves when we don't even understand what it is that we're choosing? And then the doctor environment. There's a wonderful doctor, there's wonderful everything, and then there's not wonderful every ...Lesley Logan 12:09  Right. I agree, I think if anyone's listening, so is actually a doctor. Like, there's a lot of wonderfulness in you and there's a lot of great reasons to have one.Jenn Pike 12:17  Absolutely. Absolutely. That being said, I think a lot of the struggle for women, specifically, because women are dismissed more than men (Lesley: Yeah) across the board, is that when you go in with an issue, and they don't know how to help and support you, oftentimes, you're either told you're fine. Or why don't we put you on the pill? Or how about an antidepressant or you are referred out of their office to someone else who also doesn't really understand why you're there, because what's going on with you is actually quite simple things that we could be shifting if you had the right support and mechanisms to know what that is. And when it comes to women and hormones or their thyroid or their gut health. So much of it, it peels back to what is going on, on that internal level of support, nutrition, lifestyle, sleep, stress, all of that, and they just don't have the time and the appointments to help somebody go through that.Lesley Logan 13:09  Yeah, I feel like their hands get a little tied with all the different things and I (Jenn: Yeah) and they're, you know, they're expected to know so much about so many things, but you can't go deep on any of that. So it's a little tricky (Jenn: Exactly) about your, like, (Jenn: They're general practitioners.) Yeah. And so, um, you know, I want to chat about because I think it's easy for people to go, "Well, my doctor said, my levels are fine." (Jenn: Yeah) And if you're listening to this, and you're ever like, "I don't feel fine." Like you're not crazy, like you don't feel fine and it's okay. And I say to speak and that's one of the reasons why I was listening to Jenn on another interview, like I have to talk to her because I want to bring her to you all because my doctor said everything in my blood was fine. They said we were in a panel and you're fine. And the guy that I worked with, who was amazing. He was the person who was making the food for NASA astronauts (Jenn: Oh wow!) because you know, they're gonna be in space for however long, they have to take all (Jenn: Yeah) of their food with them and they can't (Jenn: Right) eat the same things because everyone needs different things to run at their optimum level. (Jenn: capacity, yeah) Right so um, so he left that and then he's been working with athletes and I got them through a friend and and he goes, "first of all this is", he gave me a packet like 276 pages, like 276 tests is what it was was like 30 pages and he's like, "This is a full panel." And he said, in this full panel he's like, "You are in range and air quotes," (if you can't see what I'm doing) he's like, "But you're one point in" and here's what what they do when they when they're they didn't know what the range was so they had to guess and so it's like the Olympics they took a bunch of people and they took off the top two and a half percent and the bottom two and a half percent and (Jenn: Yup) they got this is range, that's normal, but like you yourself might need to be higher to run at a in something to run at the best level. And so I was telling Jenn, um before the recording. Y'all I was at red lights, crying. I don't know why. And I was like, "I think I'm depressed. I have everything I want, I have an amazing husband, I live in the coolest place. Like I get to travel to teach." I like everything on my vision board, check, check, check. And I was so sad and I didn't know why. And he's like, you have your B12 is one point in a range, your vitamin D is one point in a range, you've no testosterone like, this is happening... these metals and he's like, "Yeah, you're depressed," like you're you (Jenn: Yeah) can't not be. And so one of the things I wanted to ask you about is like, what are some of those levels that if people are maybe lacking confidence, or lacking will, or just having those energy moments, like, what is it that they should be looking at? Or can they ask their doctors about? Like, how can we arm them? Because I feel like you can't, it's hard to have confidence or go after something if like, your hormones and your body are literally saying "no."Jenn Pike 15:46  Yeah. So I mean, you bring up a really great point in that those ranges, the lab ranges and your individual ranges are not necessarily going to be the same. And the lab ranges of like, what is fine versus what's optimal. We're trying to help keep you in a place of optimal not just okay, no one wants to feel just okay. And so you need it. I wish there was like the most simplified way to answer this. (Lesleya laughs) But the reality is, is you need to know what to ask for when you're going in. So you don't want basic blood work, you really want to full panel, you want to ask for your hormones to be tested, you want to ask for your thyroid to be tested, you want to ask for like, "What do you have that you can test me on? I would like to have that tested." And then the other side of it is the testing is great but who is going to walk you through the results? Who's going to actually turn the page around, or share on the screen with you and say, okay, "Lesley, these are your results. This is what's going on, this is what this actually means, this is what this could lead to." And so, the hard answer for people to hear is you probably aren't going to get all of those answers in that appointment and in that doctor's appointment, you're going to have to invest outside of that (Lesley: Yeah) you're going to have to pay for that care. That's the hardest thing for people to understand and I get that. But that is where it starts is you knowing what to ask for. And then working with somebody who like this is what they do. They can look at those numbers. And in a moment in the blink of an eye say, "Look, this is what's going on here. These levels, this is why you're feeling that way." And as soon as you work with somebody who can help you understand that, you feel better right out of the gates because you're like, "It is not in my head. I am not making this up. I am not like crazy. This isn't me being dramatic." But and we know we know when something is internally off. It's everyone else around us. That tells us, "No, no, you're fine."Lesley Logan 17:38  Yeah. Yeah. And so, um, because there's no easy answer to that. What is something? Who would they be googling to find in their area? Like, depending on where they live? Like, is there like a name for that? Is it somebody like you? Is that ...Jenn Pike 17:54  Well, yeah, so they could be looking for an FDN, which is a functional diagnostic nutritionist, a functional medical doctor, it depends where you are. Some of them might refer to themselves as an integrative practitioner or a holistic doctor. Here's what I always say to people. The first thing I'd recommend that you do is reach out to your circle and your community and say, "I'm struggling with perimenopause. I'm struggling with PMS," to "have any of you gone to a naturopath or functional practitioner?" Like someone who's going to spend the time and do the testing and take you through it. Can you please like throw some names up here? Because as women, like we refer people to things all the time, (Lesley: Yeah) buy this shirt, drink this thing, you know, do your hair with this. So we need to start to do that about our health as well. (Lesley: Yeah) So that is the first thing that I would recommend, is reach out to the community. If you're like, "I don't have those kind of people Jenn, like my friends don't give two hoots about their health. Like I don't have anybody who's in the same, you know, vicinity as me," then that's when I would Google and those keywords integrative, holistic, functional, those types of things.Lesley Logan 19:00  Yeah, thank you for that because I think that that is where it's, like, easy to get confused, like, "What am I looking for?" (Jenn: Yes) So you know, as women, we do have a cycle and I grew up like my, like, I grew up my mom's cycle was very intense. And I grew up with, "Oh my God, I never want that intense." Like, you could just tell like, it's coming. (Lesley laughs) (Jenn: Yeah, yeah. Hi) And, and so, um, you know, I'm just wondering, like, um when it comes to our hormones, and obviously, like, you know, I grew up and I don't know if it's like that in Canada, but like, for us, it's like, almost like, "Oh, my periods here." Oh, like it's like this horrible thing. And so then when I had these health problems, I didn't have a period I was like, "Well, this is convenient," which is like, (Jenn: Right) the worst thing in the world because that's actually mean something is wrong, but I was just like, "Well, I don't have to worry about it." (Lesley laughs)Jenn Pike 19:47  Yeah. There's a bonus. (Lesley: Yeah) Yeah. So think that is just ubiquitous around the world for women. We you know, I work with women globally in many different countries, many different cultural backgrounds, many different philosophies ways they've grown up. Very rarely do I converse with a woman who's like, when I was growing up, it was such a joyous time in the house and it was I was really taught it. For most women it's like, it was shameful. It was gross. It was hidden. It was horrible. I, you know, dreaded every time that it was coming. And I lost days out of every month of my life because of it. That's most women story.Lesley Logan 20:23  Yeah. And that's, that's the thing that like, first of all, no one told me that in the video in the fifth grade. (Lesley laughs) (Jenn: Right. Right) That was not said ...Jenn Pike 20:30  This is where the problem all started. This is where it all started.Lesley Logan 20:33  Yeah. In fifth grade, when they separated us and we watched this video, and it was like, then the boys were giggling and making fun and the girl and it's like, "What is what is happening to me?" (Jenn: Yup) So you know, is there, like, can we chat a little bit like, I feel like at certain times of the month, you know, like, you can like take on the world. And there are certain times of the month that you feel like you can't. Is there like a prime like is there some way we should expect to feel as far as like confidence or energy or being able to take things on?Jenn Pike 21:03  Yeah. So we go through four different phases in our cycle. So our cycle and our period are not the same thing. Your cycle is from day one of your bleed all the way through until you have your next bleed, that's a full cycle. Most women it's going to range anywhere from 23 to 35 days. And in that cycle, you have four different phases. So you have the phase that you bleed in, which is your actual period, when you come out of your period, you actually have what's referred to as the first phase, which is the follicular phase. And this is where your body, your hormones, and estrogen and testosterone are starting to climb, your uterine lining is starting to thicken again, this is typically where we actually feel more connected to our body. We do well with the estrogen surge, we feel clear, more focused, energized, happier, we're like gung ho we want to create new projects are super, you know, on point leading into ovulation, ovulation comes it tends to be much more of ah, you know, I want to put myself out there confidence can peak a little higher sex drive, typically. And the way I'm painting this picture, this isn't going to be for every woman, I'm just going to kind of give one example. And then I'll apex it on the other side. Once ovulation happens, you've now had this dip in estrogen and testosterone and your luteinizing hormones increase, as long as you've ovulated, your progesterone also increases. And that actually is a much more calming hormone, it helps us to integrate, it brings us into a place that is much more reflective in that luteal phase, which are the couple of weeks coming into your period. It's a time to really look at like what is working and what is not. It's time to finish projects, it's a time when you can feel really connected to your body. And then this is one of the times where you're also know if things are out of balance. If that like 7 to 10 day period of time before you bleed, again, your moods all over the place, your emotional, your sleep is off, your gut is off, you're spotting, your breasts are tender, like you're just like, "Oh my God, here we go again, my skin's breaking out," all the things are happening. That's a really strong indication that something is out of balance in your system. And it could be that you didn't ovulate that you have lower progesterone, you have too much estrogen. It could be that all the hormones are sitting flat. It could be that testosterone and DHA is too high. So this is why testing and testing at the appropriate time of the month is such a valuable tool for women. Because it when you see it and someone's explaining it to you, you're like, "Oh my gosh, I feel like you just described me to a T."Lesley Logan 23:35  Yeah, no, I'm like, I'm like sitting here and I'm like taking it all in. And I like that whole part where it's like that 7 to 10 days before. You just said like, "This is what you're going to feel like," but this is also you could feel a look where things are out of whack. And I think we're taught, or at least I felt like I felt like that's just the normal thing. Like things are out of whack. And (Jenn: Yeah) what it sounds like is it and I did experience this. I did seed cycling for a long time (Jenn: Yeah) because I felt like my swings were too big. And I was like, "Y'all my boobs are a little bigger because of COVID and age, but they were very small back then." And I was like, "They are too small to be this tender. Like this is not fun for me." (Jenn: Yeah. Yeah) And so I heard about seed cycling and I did it consistently for three years. Not only did I literally make myself like clockwork, with my cycle, I stopped breaking out, I don't have tenderness and I've weaned off of that and it hasn't been an issue. But I did notice that difference in that time before. It was almost like my period was a surprise each time because I was like, "Oh, I didn't even know it's coming) ... so good. (Jenn: Yeah) That's so fascinating. Okay, (Jenn: Yeah) so thank you for walking us through that. I think that that it it's helpful to know like, just when you have the information, like you said, you just can expect things a little different and you can know more about what how you should be feeling as opposed to like, "Why do I feel like this versus yesterday I felt better."Jenn Pike 24:57  Yeah. And it's also it's like it's how we shouldn't and how you could, because all of these things are going to be in flux in a woman's body all the time. Not just based on, you know, like, the rhythm doesn't set itself. Your hormones are chemicals and their chemical messengers that are gathering information and fuel from your life all the time. So the stress that you're feeling, the environment that you're living in, the amount of sleep that you get, the calendar that you live through, the job that you love, or that you don't enjoy the nutrients that are coming into your body, the inflammation, you're managing, like, all of those things that age that you are at, and then our genetics, and there's so much that's involved in it. But again, we're not we're not taught that's when it happens to us, we isolate ourselves quietly on an island of pain and struggle, and think that that we're broken, and something is really wrong with us when in fact, we are not designed as women to be the same all the time. And so there's nothing wrong with you, you just need to understand when something might be kind of flowing outside of what feels normal and healthy for you. And that's when you can get some help.Lesley Logan 26:10  Oh, this is amazing, amazing information. I'm really excited about it. Because I think that, you know, we, it's so easy for us to be to think that something outward is um a problem. But we don't, we don't actually take it on, like I said that we could take care of, we don't see how it affects our body, or like this job is stressing me out. But we don't go, it's also affecting my sleep, which is affecting my digestion or it's affecting my cycle. And so we don't see how these things that bother us are actually being internalized. And so it sounds like our cycle is going to really be the thing that tells us the most, what is in in what is working for us and what is not working for us. Um, so I want to go back to you a little bit though. What are you excited about right now? And and how are you because I saw all the different projects that you do and the people that you help? How do you decide what you're doing next? Is that your curiosity that's taking you there? Or do I do have this like master plan out there? What's going on?Jenn Pike 27:10  Oh, I'd love to tell you that I'm that you know, organized that I have this master plan. I'm very much, I'm a I'm a feeler and I'm very intuitive in terms of like, this is just what is feeling like the calling right now. It's been, I mean, the Hormone Project is my baby. That is the thing I focus the most energy on. Our team has been expanding a lot because we have so many more women that are coming to us for help. And we're quite specialized in the approach that we take and how we do this. You know, so I'm still so excited about teaching this, I never get bored of it at all, I get more excited, the more women that start to understand this. I also teach an online studio, Synced, which is I base movements for the women I work with all around their cycle. So if they have a period still, then all their movement in terms of how heavy there lifting, modality that they're using, all the methodology is, is teaching them how to do it based on their own rhythms and cycles and how they feel. And for women that I work with who are menopausal or postmenopausal is teaching them how they can choose to if they want to tap into the lunar cycle, the moon, and just how like we're so interwoven into all of this as women and I give the example when people get confused about it to say, "Okay, think about the difference of your energy and your environment on a sunny beautiful day (Lesley: Yeah) versus like dark, cold, rainy, gloomy day", you literally are the same person who went to bed at night, but the only thing that changed was your environment. And it changes the way that you show up and how you feel. And it's like if you hang out with people who are like sunshine, and you just like, Oh my gosh, like I feel so good when I'm with them," or you hang out with people that are like a dark cloud. (Lesley: Yeah.) And you know, suck the energy from you. So we are responding and ebbing and flowing like that all the time. And, you know, honestly, for me, at the end of the day, I just want to teach women more. I really want to empower them with the education so that they don't feel lost.Lesley Logan 29:13  This, it's so cool. I can see like, I can first like and see it in your eyes and you light up about it. But also like it's a it's similar like when I I teach Pilates. And (Jenn: Yeah) I just love more people doing Pilates is the greatest full body exercise, you can make it as intense or as light as you need it to be and you can do it anywhere. You don't need to even invest in equipment, right? So it's my thing and so the more people who do it, it's like, I can't get bored because it's like I can see the benefits in a different human body and like what it did for them and and one of our members recently, because the way I teach it is always like you know, ask yourself what else is possible for right now, if you can't take your legs over your head today? (Jenn: Yeah) For whatever reason, like what else can you do? And like how that actually asking yourself that is like training your mind to do that when you're outside of the mat, right? And she said, "So thanks for always teaching us to stand up for ourselves and take priority in our time. And, and do this because I had to do a difficult thing today. And I did it because of this class." And I was like, (Jenn: Oh, it's awesome) it's amazing, right? So I totally agree. Like, it's hard to, it's, it's like, it's like, you know, the more that if your company, your business expands and the more lives are affecting, it's almost like, you're like, "How can we do more? How can we get to more people?" How? Because it's, it will, it will change a woman's life when they actually can feel like they're not crazy. When they have knowledge and information, and then what kind of changes they make in their day? How that affects if they've got kids, like how that affects the kids in their life, you know, if my mom wasn't told, like, "Hey, that's just how your cycle is," like, what what would have been different in the household (Jenn: Right) you know?Jenn Pike 30:49  Yeah, exactly. And this is it, it's you know, the all of these moments and everything you're talking about. These are like, they're the catalysts. They're like the pebble that creates the ripple. And it just continues to move forward. And so it's like you said, you know, you could look at something like Pilates and movement and be like, "Oh, it's just exercise?" No, no, that is like, it's a tool. And it's what you choose to do with the tool, and the ripple that you can create from that. (Lesley: Yeah) It's just the stimulus. So I love it. I'm here for all of it.Lesley Logan 31:19  Okay, Jenn. So how can people follow you what's the best place for them to go to get more information if they want to educate themselves more.Jenn Pike 31:27  So there's a couple of different ways that they can access some awesome free info, they can listen to the podcast, "The Simplicity Sessions," we've got, you know, 100, and almost 70 episodes that are on there. Also ...Lesley Logan 31:37  Congratulations, that is a lot. That's amazing. (Jenn: Thanks! ...) (Lesley and Jenn laughs)Jenn Pike 31:42  And I have a YouTube channel as well, they can just check out Jenn Pike, and then Instagram, lots of info every single day, my name is spelt with two Ns. So @jennpike, and then my website triple www.jennpike.com. And if they're interested in there, you know, they want to work with our team or run functional testing. We offer complimentary discovery calls, just to hop on with one of our team advisors, like, What is going on? Are we even the best fit for you? If not, who could we refer you out to? And you know, I find a lot of women, they literally are just looking for someone to hold the space and listen to them.Lesley Logan 32:17  Yeah. 100% like, it's so true. And, um it's it, I can't wait, I hope that in like, less than 10 years, I get to turn around and go, "Wow, it's like totally normal to talk about these things." (Jenn: Ah, me too) There's, there's information out there, I just hope because it's I just I so believe in the potential of people. And I believe that every single person is on this planet to affect people's lives around them. And if you don't feel good, and you also think it's all in your head, because no one everyone says you're fine. It holds you back from like, fully find your potential. So I'm just so grateful that you came and shared so much like so many nuggets of information. But I always ask this question, because I find that that inspiration is amazing. But transformation is what I want for people. And so if they, what are your steps to like just one or two. If you want to go for three, that's fine, but like steps to Be It Till You See It. Like, what would be some action steps they can take right now?Jenn Pike 33:17  The first thing that I'd recommend for women to focus on is please try and keep your blood sugar stable. Don't go these massive periods of time without eating. If you're getting nauseous, dizzy, lightheaded, you feel everything that's not pin down, you need to check in with your blood sugar. Stable blood sugar is going to help to lead to support it adrenals, thyroid, body composition in great sleep. The other thing that I would say to you is listen to your body's language. She's communicating with you all the time. If you're bloated and gassy. If you're not pooping. If you are having those symptoms, listen to what she's trying to tell you ask for help. Your you know your bowel movements every day, their data, your period every month, that is data. So your body holds a lot of wisdom, tune into what she has to say and start to lead from there.Lesley Logan 34:03  Oh my gosh, I think you're gonna win on the most unique action steps anyone (Lesley and Jenn laughs) has given. But I really love these so much. I mean, I can't say it enough and when Brad and I recap, which it'll be very interesting to hear all of Brad's insight (Lesley laughs) on today's episode. But it's like, as someone who has done that there is when you have that information, it's like you feel a little more unstoppable and you definitely feel seen and understood and you and you can go from there. So thank you for, frankie for that. Thank you for being here. Everyone please (Jenn: Yeah, you're welcome) please do us a huge favor, screenshot this podcast, share it to your Instagram tag @jennpike, tag myself. She's two Ns, we have the link in the show notes below. Tag the @be_it_pod so that other people in your life can hear about this. Maybe you live somewhere where you don't feel comfortable telling your friends all about your cycle. But if you share this podcast, we can talk about ... to them for you.Jenn Pike 34:55  I want to hear about your cycle.Lesley Logan 34:57  Yes, and she definitely does. (Lesley laughs)Jenn Pike 34:59  I just want to say something quick on that before you go when you're talking about, you know, doing the recap with your husband. So I have two kids, a girl and a boy, my son knows just as much about the female body and cycles as my daughter. And that's on purpose because part of the stigmatism and the shame and embarrassment ends when we stop excluding men and boys from the conversation as well. You know, it's like, (Lesley: Yeah) there's going to come a time in a boy's life where he's gonna, you know, you're either going to be around a woman or your girlfriend or whatever it is, and you need to be able to understand what she's going through. And as I always say, to my son, like, "Bud, you wouldn't even be here if it weren't for our bodies doing this. So you should be darn grateful."Lesley Logan 35:36  ... so one of one of one of our listeners, she has three boys and four, she is very big on education that she's like, "I don't care who you are married to? (Jenn: Yup) What their gender is, but you're going to be around women, and this is something you should know. (Jenn: Exactly!) And it's really important." And it's, you know, I'm my husband I really opened and the other day, I need to do this, this test and I was like, "Can you sign me up for this test?" Right? And he's like, "I had to answer some really personal questions I'm like, I'm sure you knew the answers to them. It's not like I hide it from you." (Jenn and Lesley laughs) (Jenn: Yeah) So um, but it's true. It's not like that's on him. It's on how he was raised. I wasn't raised with it as an open thing. And so, (Jenn: Yeah) you know, we'll change every we'll change the stigmatism by opening up and so maybe have your significant other listen to this episode, too. (Jenn: Yeah) Well, thank you again. I can't wait to chat with you more. And for all that you do. It's just really incredible and amazing. And until next time everyone, Be It Till You See It.Jenn Pike 36:32  Thank you.Lesley Logan 36:35  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review. And, follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcasts. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the @be_it_pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others BE IT TILL YOU SEE IT. 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Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this week's episode, my intention in moving you into this is to have you walk away with a much deeper understanding of the relationship between your two adrenal glands and your one thyroid gland so that you will have more knowledge in what to do if something happens and that you will feel more empowered about the decisions you are going to make. If you have any questions about your two adrenal glands and your thyroid, listen now and have your questions answered. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Adrenals Thyroids Red flags Issues with weight Hormones they are responsible for How you can circumvent the system How they interact with supporting your mood What do you do if your doctors dismiss you? What do you do once you actually have results?  How they interact with everything else in your system Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners -   Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. Quotes - “A lot of you wrote in saying your reason for coming here today is because you want to get off medication and I'm really lovingly going to ask you to just not lead with that as your main goal, because if you are somebody that is on thyroid medication that actually might be saving your life right now, that actually may be the thing that is holding it together for your body and for your system.” “The more we allow ourselves to share and to actually participate in the conversation, we're going to break down a lot of the barriers and a lot of the loneliness that women have.” “There is actually no diagnosis that is called adrenal fatigue or adrenal burnout.” “This is why for some people you need to be on that thyroid medication because all of the above and so much more, you can't live without your thyroid.” “You can have thyroid issues and adrenal issues and still have energy. “  

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today's episode will be another Simplicity Bite session. We are going to talk about the evolution of the Hormone Project. I am going to answer how it began; what the Hormone Project is; and, why I came up with it. If you are still stuck in feeling how you feel right now, then maybe it is time for you to change something in your life that will make you feel a lot better and the Hormone Project can help you with that. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: You are not alone Figure out your role Only you can change you Taking radical responsibility Ask yourself if you're in or out Discovering the warrior within us The hormone project I created back in 2015 Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. Quotes - “Regardless of your story where you are right now at this time in the world, we have a disproportionate responsibility for everything going on than most men do.” “There is so much, we have to dismantle so much. We have to unlearn and just burn the bridges down in order for us to rebuild that to rewire, to repattern, and to revolutionize life and health. We want to step up and step into the hormone project revolution.” “Our role here is to help you and to help to wake up. But we're not going to do it for you and I think that's one of the most important things to understand. If you're thinking this revolution sounds like it's for me, the hormone project is for me. This is exactly what I need. We can't do it for you.” “We are here for women period.”  

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today we are celebrating the 200th episode of this podcast and I will be sharing a story. A story of success, a story of falling down and getting back up again. And maybe there is something here for you too.  Find out my journey before I had my 200th episode on The Simplicity Sessions podcast and what are the things I realized, what are the things that have changed, and how I survived the problems that I have encountered. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: My story New evolution Money is energy I burned myself out Changes started to appear Joy, gratitude, and success What's happening in the world? Falling down and getting back up I don't believe in wrong decisions 2021 has been one of the most transformational years Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners -   Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. Quotes - “And so I kept showing up doing that old way and those old approaches and patterns to help me uncover what I was feeling and where I was stuck without realizing that those old ways no longer serve me, that I am in a whole new sphere.” “Looking them straight in the eye and choosing to live from your heart and your purpose and your passion instead of fear.” “The blur that that year also gave me a lot of gifts.” “And so if it doesn't feel right, I can't move forward. If I'm already in something that's moving forward and all of a sudden I feel something different., I also can't continue to participate and move forward.” “It was hard and it's still hard, but I trust and I surrender to the reason we're here for now.” “What we perceive to be our current reality doesn't need to be our permanent reality.”  

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. This episode is another Simplicity Bite reminding you that you don't need to make life difficult by always prioritizing your work ahead of other things in your life. I have been going through a change in mindset over the past number of years where I know to make time for myself and my family. It's easy to throw your entire life into your work, but that is how you reach burnout faster.  Life is already complex enough, why make things difficult for you in your business and will spill over in your personal life.  If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: My week Where does being overwhelmed come from? What I realized while taking a walk every day Being too hard on yourself Behind the scenes We continue to evolve and grow There is no due date Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. Quotes - “We always get to choose whether or not we are going to show up that way to whether or not we are going to choose to do the hard thing. And what if it actually didn't have to be hard?” “It's when you begin to allow other people's lives, what other people are doing, how they are showing up their successes, the things they have going on and doing that is I think what perpetuates this feeling of, I need to do more and then yes, it's hard, but I can do hard things.” “The work doesn't come in what you have to do, the work comes in what you have to undo, what you have to unlearn.  “The remedy is to do less.” “I allow myself to contract what needs to be contracted so that there's more room for other things to expand into bloom and grow.”

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Two more episodes till our 200th episode and I have something planned and you will know about it soon. In today's episode, we are going to talk about trust and keeping promises to yourself because some of it can be the cause of why you are struggling to achieve something you desire.  Trusting ourselves is not the easiest thing to do. I will be asking you some questions so that you can have a heart check and know if you really trust yourself. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Integrity The process of life We can feel apathetic Conversation with my son It is always the small things Creating boundaries for myself Exploring something I have done Do you feel like you always need to ask permission? Do you trust your ability to make the decisions for yourself? What promises are you breaking to yourself on a regular basis?   Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. Quotes - “To do the unbecoming of who we thought that we were to break up with a lot of our stories that truly are not true.” “You're not asking them to make the decision for you.” “We have this hard time trusting ourselves because we lack the ability at our core to really keep our own word to ourselves.” “The other person that you're asking, they're not going to have the same level of conviction that this thing is for you and they're going to give you lots of reasons as to why this is not a good idea.” “It's so easy for us to look outside of ourselves for answers. And then immediately, if something doesn't go the way that we had hoped to desire, to also look outside of ourselves, to point the finger and to blame.” “If you're not honoring your word to yourself, it means that you are most likely honoring it to everyone and everything else. And that is a complete lack of integrity that is completely living out of alignment.”  

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. This episode is another Simplicity Bite reminding you that you don't need to make life difficult by always prioritizing your work ahead of other things in your life. I have been going through a change in mindset over the past number of years where I know to make time for myself and my family. It's easy to throw your entire life into your work, but that is how you reach burnout faster.  Life is already complex enough, why make things difficult for you in your business and will spill over in your personal life.  If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: My week Where does being overwhelmed come from? What I realized while taking a walk every day Being too hard on yourself Behind the scenes We continue to evolve and grow There is no due date Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners  Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. Quotes - “We always get to choose whether or not we are going to show up that way to whether or not we are going to choose to do the hard thing. And what if it actually didn't have to be hard?” “It's when you begin to allow other people's lives, what other people are doing, how they are showing up their successes, the things they have going on and doing that is I think what perpetuates this feeling of, I need to do more and then yes, it's hard, but I can do hard things.” “The work doesn't come in what you have to do, the work comes in what you have to undo, what you have to unlearn.  “The remedy is to do less.” “I allow myself to contract what needs to be contracted so that there's more room for other things to expand into bloom and grow.”

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In today's episode, we will be joined by Jeffrey Smith, founder and executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology and Protect Nature Now. Smith is an award-winning documentary film director and international bestseller.  Jeffrey Smith talked about GMOs and Roundup and shared some information that can help us in choosing the right foods that we intake.  Visit the Institute for Responsible Technology website here:  https://www.responsibletechnology.org/ Visit the Protect Nature Now website here: https://protectnaturenow.com/ If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: GMOs Diets Microbes What are genetically modified organisms? How do they make their way into our food? Why do we need to care? Different ways of detoxification How to get it out of our food individually? How can we become more informed consumers and purchasers of food? Four ways of how organic can appear on a package Bigger potential devastation of GMOs Connect with us  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Connect with Jeffrey Smith - Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-smith-81441312 Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffreymsmith Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/Genetic-Roulette-by-Jeffrey-M-Smith-189639201052857/?_rdc=1&_rdr Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners  Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. Quotes “GMOs themselves are quite dangerous and show a lot of toxic results. But Roundup is an antibiotic. It kills the beneficial bacteria.” “With other information coming together pointing to GMOs and Roundup as a major contributor to the rise of disease in the world.” “If you had to choose between them, organic is more important than GMO.” “If you aren't taking note of it, if you aren't measuring it, you're not able to see the improvement happen. And so understanding where your benchmark is, where you're starting now, is really important.” “We are given this incredible gift of a body and our life and we get one.”  

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In todays' episode I have with me a friend and guest, David Brooke, the owner and founder of Skin Essence, joining me in my weekly simplicity bites. I brought him in today's episode to talk about different strategies that you can be using to support your skin coming into different times of the year. For the last 10 years, my skin has been moisturized and healthy with the help of their products. I have been using a new product from Skin Essence and it is finally on the market and we will talk about it in today's podcast.  Visit here http://www.skinessence.ca and check out their products. Save 20% off your first order when you use the code JENNPIKE20 and 10% off any purchase after that with the code JENNPIKE10. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: How do you take care of your skin this time of year? Is there so much versatility in how you can use them? How often should you be exfoliating the skin? What are your recommendations for people who have Psoriasis? How long do the oils last in terms of their expiration? Is it okay to put the oils in your hair? Having good customer service Is there anything that people need to know about using the mist? What is best for your skin? Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Connect with David Brooke - Linked in: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/david-brooke-2791bb29 Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners -   Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. Quotes - “ And the more hydrated you can keep your skin, the better it is from an aging gracefully perspective as well.” “As we get older, skin cells don't rejuvenate as fast.” “The skin is a reflection of what's going on the inside.” “Once you get into a really good skincare routine and you have great ingredients, you intuitively can start to figure out what you need.” “It's not an overnight success.”  

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today's episode will be a Q&A about this mentorship that will start on December 2nd. We are going to have a deep dive talk that can help me understand you and help you know yourself better. I breakdown the Audacious Woman Program for you where I discuss whether you are right for this program; what this program will do for you and your life; the specific topics that we will cover; the amazing and qualified faculty that will work within the program; and how you can join the program.  If you are interested in the program, feel free to DM on Instagram @jennpike to discuss the details. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: How many women am I accepting into the Audacious Woman Program? Who is this for? How much is the program? Is there a payment plan? When does the mentorship begin? Is this a course with which I have to follow every week to keep up? What are my next steps after I finish the Audacious Woman Program? What if I can't attend parts of the program? Connect with us Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners  Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. Quotes “We can't make you become something that you are not.” “If you're honest enough with yourself and you ask yourself, what do I really want? You'll start to run.” “You are in your zone of genius when you're inside the area you're over-prioritizing, but that creates blinders for you.” “We make it hard because we don't allow ourselves to actually step into the level of support and community and learning and mentorship that is out there and that is available.” “We can't force ourselves into a way that is actually not us.”  

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today's episode is the continuation of the last episode where we talked about what simplicity and ease are for me. We'll talk about how being brave, bold, unapologetic, and powerful can change your outlook on life. We all struggle to be the audacious woman that we are, but I'm here to provide you with some tips that can assist you to have your breakthrough. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Having the will to start planting seeds Choosing people around you We are constantly learning Hard work leads to success Be the audacious woman that you are You always have a choice Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners  Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. Quotes - “If you want to be successful, it is going to take some hard work.” “You have to have very clear intentions on what you desire and what you're moving towards.” “If you aren't clear on what you want, you're going to walk in circles. And knowing what you want and declaring it is not selfish. It is not selfish, it is actually imperative.” “Your sisterhood doesn't have to be massive, but it has to be the right combination where you see yourself in the other women, you see their potential, you link arms, and you help each other rise so that you don't feel like you are this anomaly.” “Life can be felt and experienced differently.”  

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. The entire theme of today's episode will be all about simplicity. I am going to talk about what simplicity and ease really mean to me, how I learned to embrace myself, and share some experiences I had before I became the woman I am now. Being true to ourselves is one of the hardest things to do. During today's episode, I will share the process that I undergo so that it might help you to love and care about yourself even more. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Choosing to live for myself Having to define what luxury is for you Learning to release and to let go of things Accepting that people change and we grow apart How I lightened my load I let myself feel the emotions I want to feel Choosing to move forward Deciding to be honest and authentic to myself   Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.   Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for the Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.   Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that.   Quotes - “So for me, I really feel that moving into a place of more simplicity and more ease is deciding to shift your anxiety into power.” “You have no control over what anyone else thinks about you, about what you say, how you dress, how you look, the things that you do, your family, any of that.” “I lacked the confidence in trusting my own voice, my own vision, my own self to be enough.” “That people come into your life for a season. And instead of getting sad about that or getting angry. I'm just grateful for it.” “I have made these very conscious choices because it's so easy to get distracted and get pulled into someone else's world and someone else's life and someone else's stuff.”

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today's episode builds on the last episode which dealt with body image issues in women. Let's talk about how women can build muscle properly to increase our overall health. I will run through the mistakes that women make when they want to add muscle to their bodies and provide you with 10 things that I have learned in my fitness journey. I have over 24 years of experience managing my own fitness and training and I am here to share as much information with you as possible. Purchase a Fitrack through this link and use the code JENNPIKE20 to get 20% off the start to your fitness journey. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice. Here are the main topics of today's episode: How women's bodies respond to hormones The difference between weight loss and overall health How I started working out My younger lifestyle was intense Working out wiser as I grow older 10 things I have learned in my fitness journey The keto approach did not work for me Focus on rest and self-development A little bit of fat comes with building muscle Have your why and community   Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.   Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.   Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Save 15% off your first order with the code JENNPIKE15 and use code JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order.   Quotes - “ I look back to those days and like, whoa, those were some inflamed training days. In my twenties I was partying, I was drinking, I was teaching a lot of classes and they were all high intensity.” “My adrenals didn't love it anymore. I never felt like I fully recovered from the run. So as much as my mind loved hitting the road, I never even ran with music or podcasts. I just hit the ground.” “I have a deep understanding of how. Important muscle is as an organ of longevity and a hormonal endocrine functioning organ, and the role it plays for our bone health, our heart health, our brain health, and our hormonal health as women.” “The big rocks of your success, especially if you were trying to build muscle, are going to be stress management, your downtime, your nutrition, and personal growth.” “If you have specific goals that match the movement, then match your effort with the specificity of the bowl.” “You're going to have to be in a slight caloric surplus in order to build muscle”

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. I decided to do something a little different than our regular Monday episodes. I encouraged you to ask me your questions on estrogen and you all came through with some great queries. The questions allowed me to go over many of the myths and worries involved with estrogen. I discuss why estrogen is vilified when we discuss hormones and how the hormone fluctuates through your life. I answer many questions on varying levels of estrogen and its effect on your body as well as how you should interpret test results for the hormone. I am also releasing my 7-day detox program for FREE so you can move towards feeling better soon by following the program: https://jennpike.com/freedetox If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: The reason why estrogen is vilified Estrogen fluctuations with age What do you think comes first: estrogen dominance or Endometriosis? Are fibrocystic breasts only a result of excess estrogen? How low is low for estrogen levels? What do I recommend taking for high estrogen? Do phytoestrogens influence the Dutch test results? What are the top 5 ways to get rid of extra estrogen? Is estrogen safe post-lumpectomy with proper monitoring? Can milk physil increase estrogen? Is it still meaningful to take broccoli sprouts? Are blood tests for hormones still worthwhile? How to test phase three of estrogen detox? How does estrogen play into night sweats around the time of your period? Is there any evidence that daily raw carrots will help clear estrogen? Can soy protein affect estrogen and can that affect libido? Is a terrible luteal phase feeling better after ovulation an estrogen problem? Do soy and flax seeds increase estrogen? How is estrogen made in the ovaries? Does high estrogen cause menstrual cramps?    Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.   Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.   Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code COLD20 (October 7th to October 23rd) at checkout to save 20% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. On October 19th use the code HEARTS at check out and you will get a free bag of hemp hearts with all of your orders. On Halloween (October 31st), use the code HALLOWEEN to get 25% off orders over $200 and get one of their super salves for free. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Use code JENNPIKE20 to save 20% off your first order and add JENNPIKE10 at check out to save 10% off your next orders. Mid-Day Squares - Use JENN15 to save 15% off these delicious squares. They get you through the day like a protein and fiber bar but they taste like you decided to treat yourself today. 7-day detox program for FREE from me. Go to jennpike.com/detox and enter the code COMMUNITY.   Quotes - “...a stimulated HPA ACCE, which is your hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis. This is really what we're talking about where adrenal health can actually suppress the signal, which then can result in less progesterone and more estrogen, relatively speaking.” “A perception from women is that you're not trying to have the hormones that you had in your twenties and thirties when you're in your late forties, fifties, and sixties” “Stop drinking alcohol. Don't shoot the messenger! But the alcohol will seriously mess with your excess estrogen.”

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today's episode is a continuation of the thought that I had in last week's Simplicity Bite. Last week, I discussed how I needed to learn to sit back after a win and celebrate; however, I felt compelled to continue working on the next project, for the next win. I received some great feedback from people over the past week. People DM'ed me to share their thoughts and/or congratulate me celebrating my victories. I want you to think about how you were taught to work. Maybe it's similar to the way I was taught to work: if you work more, then you will earn more and/or you will be more successful. However, that is not the full story; it's important to listen to your mind and body. It's important to not only celebrate the wins, but relax as well. Women are often burning out in their businesses because they want to do more work as they measure their busyness as part of their success. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: How I feel after last week's show (and the feedback- thank you!) What we were taught about how to succeed What happens when you don't listen to your body Are you courageous enough to ask the question?    Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.   Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.   Quotes - “ Like you feel like you've been taught that doing the most is what you are supposed to do.” “We put the pressure on ourselves that either we have to nail it and, you know, seven different areas of our life or just hyper performance show up really high in one area.” “Can we please just stop focusing on the width of what we do in life and start to move heavier into the depth of what we do. Meaning why do we need to have a million things that we are participating in.” “​Ask yourself, how wide am I? How deep do I want to go? Start to ask yourself where you can pull back on some of the width? Where can you trim and prune today?” 

Today I chat with Jen Pike - Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, best selling author, and host of The Simplicity Sessions podcast. Jenn focuses on women's hormone health in her practice and educates through her programs and podcast. Today Jenn talks to us about Cycle Synching - an amazing concept that promotes well-being and comfort for women during all four phases of their cycles. Jenn educates us on: - the four phases of a woman's cycle - you don't have to menstruate to have a cycle! - how you can adjust your nutrition and exercise routines around your cycle to feel you best - what seed cycling is and it's benefits - her "Synced" program and what sort of results you can expect from it Track your period with the help of an app; https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/g26787041/best-period-tracking-apps/ Find Jenn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennpike/ Work with Jenn: https://jennpike.com/ Reach out on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/amberpachla/ or email me at amberpachla@yahoo.ca Work with me! Lose weight and develop life changing health and wellness habits for long term success - book your free 45 minute consultation today! Email or DM me to book. Interested in Essential Oils? Check out my site and work with me!: my.doterra.com/amberpachla

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. My guest for this episode is Maggie Berghoff. Maggie is the founder and CEO of Celproceo, a health agency rooted in functional medicine and trusted by celebrities, professional athletes, and CEOs. Maggie's expertise in building multiple thriving businesses online has also led her to become a sought-after business mentor for those building an online business. She has been featured in hundreds of places including Forbes, Business Insider, Entrepreneur Magazine, Oxygen Magazine, Under Armour, USA Today, and local and national television programs. Maggie and I discuss why she is focused on helping you to get healthier and how she helps you lower your inflammation in six different ways. This life-changing information can help you understand more about your health and overall well-being. Maggie provides easy-to-implement solutions to help you see results in the way you feel and look.  If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Maggie's passion for health Maggie's book-writing process Maggie's health problems Health Quiz 6 Types of inflammation and their solutions Building a community that can help you     Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.   Connect with Maggie Berghoff - Website: https://maggieberghoff.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maggie_berghoff/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaggieKBerghoff   Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.   Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order (a bit more than "JENNPIKE10", as mentioned in the episode- we hope you don't mind an upgrade!). Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Use code JENNPIKE20 at check out and save 20% off your first-time order. After your first order you can save 10% on your next orders with the code JENNPIKE10. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. Mid-Day Squares - Use JENN15 to save 15% off these delicious squares. They get you through the day like a protein and fiber bar but they taste like you decided to treat yourself today.   Quotes - “What I found in my practice and in my personal life is that there usually is more than one type of inflammation going on in the body.” “...decreasing inflammation as a whole, I would say nutrition could be one of your most important things. I found that when we address an anti-inflammatory way of eating, it's the easiest thing to do because we will provide healthy swaps.” “...start eating a varied and diverse diet and getting obsessed with nourishing your body.” “...the next type that we'll move into is inflammation by sugar. So these are people who are addicted. Some people are truly addicted to sugar or cravings are out the wazoo and sugar is totally impacting them, causing them irritability to break out.” “What is going on in the body related to your digestive system that may be causing this inflammation?” “I just recently started to implement topical probiotics because there's research that shows the skin microbiome is absolutely connected to this as well. Not just the gut microbiome. Kind of feeding from an internal standpoint and fixing the gut lining, like we've always done, but also topically, like using topical spray probiotics to help that as well.”

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. I recently had some great success and I found that I had trouble giving myself permission to celebrate. I thought through all the different ways I celebrate such as travelling, buying expensive things, or having a nice dinner. The world is not as open to travel these days and I am living more minimalistically, so buying nice things does not match my lifestyle. I came to the conclusion that I can feel luxury in a different way to celebrate my successes. I feel luxurious when I can be alone, when I am up before anyone else, when I'm eating well and moving, when I can spend time with my family, and when I am rested. The entire situation got me thinking about the time I went to a ceremony. It was the most powerful, quiet feeling that I have ever had. The quiet space spoke to me so much without any noise. I only went with one friend so I didn't know anyone else. I was able to feed off of the energy and wisdom of the other women at the ceremony and I was inspired to define in writing what feeling successful, abundant, luxurious, and wealthy means to me. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: I had a recent success, but I had trouble celebrating it I used to associate celebrating successes with fancy items and expensive vacations The quiet ceremony Absorbing energy and wisdom from the women around me How I now define my own successes   Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.   Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/   Quotes - “ I really struggle with celebrating any level of success. I recognize this success. I acknowledge this as success, but I also tend to just dive right into the next thing.” “...what is my block with this? Why am I having such a difficult time celebrating myself? I went through all these different ideas in my mind of what I believed the definition of celebration to be: a big party, a trip going away, you know, having drinks and dancing, buying something luxurious.” “I'm working to really try to embrace is the embodiment of this beautifully audacious woman that I have been becoming. “ “And so you just think of the decades of wisdom, of knowing, of living, of learning, of heartache, of growth, of beauty, of strength, of resiliency. It was really powerful and really beautiful. “ “The luxury in all of it and celebrating the wealth and the success and the freedom of it all is to have time and space nourishment, hydration, nature, choice, and freedom.”

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. I am very happy to welcome Dr. Shawn Tassone to the podcast. Shawn Tassone MD, Ph.D., is known as America's Holistic Gynecologist. He is the first physician in the United States to be double board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and by the American Board of Integrative Medicine. He holds a medical degree in addition to a Ph.D. in mind-body medicine. He's a practicing OBGYN in Austin, TX, hormone specialist, author, speaker, highly rated patient advocate, and creator of the world's first integrative hormonal mapping system. In his 20+ years of practice, Shawn has seen over 40,000 women and he is determined to remove the myths surrounding women's health. As an integrative health practitioner, he believes that you should have an active role in your care. His work includes studies and publications on hormonal imbalances, spirituality in medical care, whole foods to heal the human body, and integrative medicine. Dr. Tassone is featured in many publications including The New York Times, NBCNews Online, Stanford MedX, and his book (The Hormone Balance Bible, published by HarperCollins), is now available in stores and online! I speak to Shawn about the reasons he has followed a career path in women's health care. We also discuss how women often treat pain and discomfort based on society's rules for women. Shawn discusses the signs and symptoms of hormone imbalances and how women can find solutions for such imbalances. Here are the main topics of today's episode: Why Shawn chose his field Shawn's inspiration Shawn's interests beyond the medical field How the strength of women and their mindset can hurt them Functional health tests are not available in our healthcare system until you search for them The SHINES protocol Solutions to reset your hormones Top 3 signs of hormone imbalances Hormone treatment Signs of too much testosterone Estrogen levels Find the connector in your health care    Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.   Connect with Dr. Shawn Tassone - Website: https://tassonemd.com/ Hormone Mapping Quiz - http://www.tassonemd.com/quiz Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shawntassonemd/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tassonedoc   Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.   Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order. Use organic hemp hearts in smoothies, parfaits, or oats to get great protein, healthy omega-3s, anti-oxidants, and loads of vitamins and minerals. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Use code JENNPIKE20 to get 20% off your first order and use JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that. Mid-Day Squares - Use JENN15 to save 15% off these delicious squares. They get you through the day like a protein and fiber bar but they taste like you decided to treat yourself today.   Quotes - “...what's called the nocebo effect versus placebo where the negativity of what you say can actually change a diagnosis versus the positivity, and just having that open up my brain…” “I'm a robotic surgeon, too. I use the robot for surgery, but then if a woman's having heavy periods, sometimes I'll just recommend yarrow flower instead of birth control pills.” “they're telling me I can't have hormones and I'm just supposed to be miserable for the last five years of my life.” “fatigue, if you're taking a nap at four or five in the afternoon that's probably not normal.” “Testosterone does stimulate hair follicles so it will help with hair growth, but too much can overstimulate it and that is when you get hair on your stomach or your chin” “The reason I think we see a lot of thyroid issues is because the more estrogen that's in the body, the less active your thyroid is going to be. And we have that for one, huge reason: diet. Fat cells make estrogen. So the fatter you are the more fat cells you have, the more your estrogen goes up and your thyroid function goes down.” “ don't put all the pressure also on that practitioner to know everything for you.”

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. The ladies in my practice often use the terms ‘stress' and ‘burnout' interchangeably without knowing that there is a difference between the two terms. Stress is when you take on so much work and responsibility that you cannot complete everything. Burnout is when you have given up on tasks and feel disengaged from your daily activities. Once you realize where you are within the spectrum of stress and burnout, you can focus more on the solutions that will help you get back on track. I discuss the solutions to create a life of simplicity and ease. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice. Here are the main topics of today's episode: Stress and burnout used interchangeably What stress looks like What burnout looks like Solutions to help during trying times   Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.   Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.   Quotes - “ In a stressed state, you might find that you're over engaged in life.” “You don't care about it. You completely disengage another thing in terms of your emotions.” “There is a list for every list, for every list for everything. And that is a state of stress versus burnout in which you have never-ending tasks. You have piles of uncompleted things all around you, and it just keeps mounting and mounting.” “Eat nourishing foods; get the rest, hydrate your body; and balance your blood sugar. Spend time in nature and get yourself to bed at a good time. Spend time with good quality people. Create space for yourself. Give yourself grace and compassion to feel your way through the life that you are currently living so that you can understand more about some of the things you need to do to create that level of simplicity and ease in the life that you are moving towards."

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Amanda is an HTMA expert and a hair trace mineral analysis expert.  She puts her passion into teaching people about whole food sources, possible toxicity or overload, and the body's inability to utilize certain minerals. Amanda discusses how copper and iron can affect the body and how the bioavailability of these minerals can affect your mood and your health. For example, a lack of copper in the body can lead to anxiety, depression, mood swings, and skin issues. We also talk about how testing is important to detect the amount of minerals in the body but the interpretation is even more important. You need experts to provide the proper interpretation for your best health care. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice. Here are the main topics of today's episode: What we are missing in our health care Copper's bioavailability The importance of mitochondria in the cells Lack of copper can lead to low energy and postpartum anxiety and depression Sources for copper and why everyone is unique Sources for Vitamin C  The role of iron and the confusion around it The addition of iron HTMA testing Testing depends on good interpretation of the results How mineral availability is affected by your mental state   Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.   Connect with Amanda Lee - Website: https://sozomethod.thinkific.com/pages/landing-page.com%5C Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sozomethod/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sozomethod   Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Woman mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.   Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. INCREDIBLE BUNDLE - when you spend $65 or more you get free express shipping and you can use code JENNPIKEMIST to get a facial mister FREE! St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. Digestive bitters make bloating or any gas go away almost instantly. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. If you use the code 75FREESHIP when you spend $75 or more on any of their products, you get free shipping. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order. Their solid shampoo and conditioner bars are incredible products that have a great impact on your body and the environment. Avoiding products that are in plastic bottles will avoid the oil production, greenhouse gas emissions, and plastic pollution of our environment. Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 to save 20% off all your orders on their site. Use organic hemp hearts in smoothies, parfaits, or oats to get great protein, healthy omega-3s, anti-oxidants, and loads of vitamins and minerals. Mid-Day Squares - Use JENPIKE15 to save 15% off these delicious squares. They get you through the day like a protein and fiber bar but they taste like you decided to treat yourself today.   Quotes - “It's really more about copper not being bioavailable in the body and when not being able to be used properly, like anything, it starts to become a problem.” “At the gut level, copper is our natural God-given anti-parasite, antivirus, antifungal. You'll sometimes see people using copper… to defend against viruses.” “I really do think some of the things we're taking right now actually are depleting our copper and it's causing. Actually, there is more chaos in our body.” “When you look at cereal boxes or any sort of flour the iron is added in and most of the forms of iron are carcinogenic.” “Iron is estrogenic and the body. It does help how fast we can store estrogen in the tissues. And then vice versa. The more estrogen you have the more iron you're going to store.”

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today, I am speaking to you while hiking through new trails that I discovered in Kelowna. Walking has been my way of self care over the past 18 months. It allows me to fulfill my movement goals and it allows me to think (and speak) to myself. Lately, my thoughts have been about “what I want” and more specifically “what I don't want.” I find that after anything I do that is successful, such as launching a program, coaching programs, or anything else in that area of my life, I end up searching for what I should do next instead of celebrating the success I just had. These days, I think of why I am always searching for the next big thing. I speak every day to women in my practice that are feeling the same way. They think that they have searched out the next big thing but never end up being satisfied when they achieve a specific goal. I am here to tell you that you don't always have to search for more. I am here to show you how to find out what you want and don't want. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: It's easy to fall into the trap of the next big thing Making decisions during your cycle Observations during the pandemic Always feeling the need to strive for more The realization that I don't need more My three vehicles that allow me to speak Create room for yourself in your life  The exercise that will help you decide what you want and don't want   Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.   Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.    Quotes - “ ...you are running the business and that can be a slippery slope because it's very easy to get caught up in what other people are doing, what other people are saying are a must have, and then putting yourself into that position of filling up your calendar or weighing down your schedule…” “So if I want to show up to the event. If I want to speak at something. If I want to host the party. If I want to do the conference, then I am only going to be able to do that during this week and a half to two week period of time when I know I'm going to be at my best.” “...then there's the other side there are the women that for so long stayed quiet. They worried so much about what everyone said and now they're like these quiet little cubs that have turned into these roaring lionesses that have so much power and they are standing in their power.” “Why is it always the question of what's next now? What are you doing? What's happened? And I was starting to feel myself become suffocated by this; by other colleagues; by business mentors, by my coach, even by family.” “I am done with the feeling, the desire, and this pulse in my body that I have to. I do not have to create anymore. I do not have to become any more successful than I am.”

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. I am switching things up on the podcast today; I will be interviewed by my longtime friend Laura Foster, who came up with this idea. She felt that you get to hear from me through my regular episodes, interviews, and simplicity bites, but there is a difference between being me sharing carefully planned content and me answering a question in the moment. Laura gets to see this side of me all of the time because of our working relationship and our close friendship. She wants you to see what she sees, through her interviewing me. Laura dives into my thoughts before and after the pandemic; my family's decision-making process for picking up and moving out west to Kelowna, BC; and my vision on how women leaders can make the world a better place. This episode reveals my thoughts on my values and how I am living in this world. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Where my heart is at this point of the pandemic Setting boundaries in life   Moving to Kelowna My family being self-sufficient How I stay rooted in who I am Women leadership in today's world  Speaking up for your values    Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.   Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Woman mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.   Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners -  GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. If you use the code 75FREESHIP when you spend $75 or more on any of their products, you get free shipping. Use code JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your orders. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. NEW SALE: “Be Prepared Sale” to help your family get your immune system prepared for back to school. Enter the code BEPREPARED20 to save 20% off their immune support, cold, and flu products. The sale ends on September 26th. Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and Hemp based company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE to save 20% off all your orders on their site.   Quotes - “I realized about two weeks in that I needed to cancel our cable. I couldn't have the news on in our home anymore. I was starting to feel it change how I was showing up and functioning as a person. And I knew right out of the gate, this is not in alignment with who I am.” “We were starting to cultivate things in our own home, building a bigger garden, doing different things so that we could be the resource for what we needed to have for our food and for our health, and our safety.” “I wasn't looking for permission from anyone else. The family unit was important. My husband and my children are important because this was impacting the four of us, but I wasn't talking to other people looking for their permission or their opinions.” “In 18 months, I have learned that what you needed last week may not be what you need this week and it is this willingness to unlearn an unbecome so that we can become and learn the things that we need to go forward.” “I see more women and more mothers than ever that are standing up and are saying: ‘Not happening. Not to me, not to my family, not to the world my children are going to grow up in” “Freedom and opportunity to choose whatever that means for you, whatever that means for you.”

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today's episode is an AMA (Ask Me Anything) episode. There were some questions from the audience that were asked not long ago so I decided to take some of the questions and answer them in this episode. You can see the questions below in the next section and of course, hear my answers by listening to the episode. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Is Phase Four the first day of bleed through the last day of bleed? What are the best stretches for menstrual cramps? How does The Hormone Project work for those of us who live in the United States? Are you moving into a tiny house and where will it be? Do you have advice for a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN) wanting to start their own business? How did you get started as an RHN? Is it hard for you to travel because of your bookings? If the body holds onto weight, despite many paths and programs, where do you look next? What is the best way to figure out why I am not ovulating? Have you ever heard of PMDD? My best friend has been diagnosed with this and is being told that she needs a full hysterectomy and that there is nothing that will stop her symptoms. I am struggling in my luteal phase. I'm seeing a pattern of being very hard on myself, not having the best outlook on life, and perhaps fixating on things in my life that are not perfect. Is there a supplement you could recommend to help me through this time?   Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.   Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.    Quotes - “The first phase is your follicular phase , which starts after your period ends. The second phase is your ovulatory phase, where you are actually ovulating. The third phase is your luteal phase, which is the longest of the four phases and happens between our ovulation and when your period actually starts. And then phase four is your actual bleeding. When you have your period.” “The reason that we get the low back. Discomfort is because the uterus is actually contracting to be able to slough off and release the endometrium, which is the lining of the uterus.” “...we work with women globally inside of the hormone project, all over the world.“ “...really focus in and dial in on what you are passionate about and stay committed to the process…” “we have to understand why and how the body ovulates. So it starts in the brain, not in the oval. So if there's stress that's going on, if they're are sleep issues going on, if there's inflammation, that's going on autoimmune issues that are going on. If the body is stuck in a perpetual state of fight or flight and does not feel safe, your body has the ability in the brain and the connection within that pituitary gland to actually eliminate ovulation from happening

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.  Julie Davey is a nurse practitioner with 20 years of experience. She shifted her career and dedicated herself to helping hundreds of people transform their lives by healing their bodies with natural medicine and developing personalized health habits. We had a great conversation on gut health in this episode. We discussed the tests that will help you better understand your gut health; identified symptoms that can reveal what gut health issues you may be having; and outlined steps you can take to ensure your gut is healthy. We also talked about the types of food that could cause underlying chronic inflammation, which can prevent people from losing weight. It can be surprising to learn the foods that can cause inflammation. Eliminating inflammatory foods from your diet can have great results on your gut health. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice. Here are the main topics of today's episode:  Julie's professional background  How Julie dealt with GI issues Discovering the GI map Why Julie uses the GI map Symptoms of poor gut health What your SigA tells you about your gut health Breaking down fat adequately How your gut influences your mood Tests can dig deeper into identifying the right problems How chronic low grade underlying inflammation can prevent weight loss What is leaky gut People with an autoimmune disorder should have their gut tested Top four items to eliminate from your regular diet Are you really gluten-free? Lifestyle changes that can help your gut health   Connect with us -  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.   Connect with Julie Davey -  Website: https://www.juliedavey.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliedaveynp/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliedaveynp   Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Woman mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. If you use the code 75FREESHIP when you spend $75 or more on any of their products, you get free shipping. Their solid shampoo and conditioner bars are incredible products that have a great impact on your body and the environment. Avoiding products that are in plastic bottles will avoid the oil production, greenhouse gas emissions, and plastic pollution in our environment. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order. NEW SALE: “Be Prepared Sale” to help your family get your immune system prepared for back to school. Enter the code BEPREPARED20 to save 20% off their immune support, cold, and flu products. The sale ends on September 26th. Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and Hemp based company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE to save 20% off all your orders on their site. Use organic hemp hearts in smoothies, parfaits, or oats to get great protein, healthy omega-3s, anti-oxidants, and loads of vitamins and minerals.   Quotes - “Patients say ‘Isn't it good to have these high levels of good bacteria in your gut?' and I responded, no, it's all about balance.” “The gut is the gateway to help”  “70% of our immune system lives in our gut”  “The gut microbiome really plays a key role in regulation of estrogen levels; therefore it can influence the risk of developing estrogen related diseases like endometriosis, polycystic, ovarian, breast cancer, and even prostate cancer for men.”  “...it was a bit overwhelming to see everything that was wrong, but at the same time it was such a relief.”  “...studies actually show that dysbiosis in the gut plays a key role in weight gain. Even low grade inflammation can cause obesity.” “People with an autoimmune disorder should have their gut tested”

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. This is a special episode today because it is my birthday. I have a unique birth story as I was adopted at birth; I was raised by my wonderful adoptive parents and met my birth parents when my daughter was 10 months old. I wanted to tell you this story because it made me into the woman, mother, and wife that I am today. My birth parents had me when they were 15 (mother) and 16 (father) years old. My mother didn't even know she was pregnant until she was 5 months along because she was having irregular periods due to her young age. My adoptive parents already had a daughter but decided to adopt another child after tragically losing my older brother Christopher at 19 months old after recovering from surgery to repair five holes in his heart. Soon after I was born and my adoptive parents took me into their care, they found out they were pregnant with my younger brother, Matthew (younger by 8 months). Life as a child within my adoptive parents' family was wonderful. I always felt loved and supported by my parents who told me I was adopted at a young age. I took pride in my adoptive status. I gave an award-winning speech in grade three on my adoptive story. My parents gave me the forms to find my birth parents at the age of 17. I was excited; however, I didn't fill out the forms right away because I had the opportunity to finish high school early to move to Japan and work as a model. I went away to school when I got back from Japan. It wasn't until I was married and pregnant with my first child, Emerson, that I decided I wanted to find out more about my birth parents to find out the family health history. After filling out a series of forms and a lot of patience, I finally got the chance to meet and speak to my birth mother. I discovered that my birth parents stayed together, got married, and had three more children: Matt, Spencer, and Emma. A fourth child, my parents' second pregnancy, was lost (another boy), which was similar to my adoptive parents' experience. I was very nervous when I first met my birth parents, but I was fortunate that my adoptive parents prepared a number of pictures when I was a baby to show my birth parents. I discovered that my birth siblings did not know about me. My birth parents never told them about me because my birth was a secret due to the nature of the times and how people would react to a young teenage pregnancy. It took me a long time to figure out how I felt about gaining an entire family that I did not know well. I would spend a lot of time with my birth parents and my birth siblings, but it was difficult to accept that my daughter would call them grandparents. Over time, I was able to get over the emotionally draining times and grew a bond with my birth family. I am forever grateful that I have this big extended family from which my husband, kids, and I interact with on a regular basis. Meeting my birth family and being raised by my adoptive family with such love and support throughout my life has shaped me into the person I am today, and for that I am eternally grateful. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice. Here are the main topics of today's episode: Life changes and update The Beginning of Jenn's birth story The reason why Jenn's parents decided to give her up for adoption How Jenn's older brother Chris led to her adoption Jenn's birth Jenn as a baby being held by nurses because neither mom was present at the moment The arrival of her younger brother, Matthew The search for Jenn's birth parents Marriage to Jenn's Chris and her first child The adoption disclosure bill Discovering the government found her birth parents Jenn's first conversation with her birth mom Jenn's first meeting with her birth parents Discovering how her birth parents mourned the loss of their daughter Adjusting to the new family The unknowing connections between Jenn and her birth family over her lifetime Grateful for a big beautiful extended family Pay attention to the signs   Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.   Online work with Jenn - Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. You can get $250 off until September 8th. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.   Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners - Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out to save 15% off your order. I have been under stress lately with my life changes, so I have been using ashwagandha to decrease stress. It helps me stay aware and increase my body's resiliency and it acts as an anti-inflammatory. Ashwangandha comes in a tincture form. Other benefits include increased strength, endurance, and sex drive. Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and Hemp based company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE to save 20% off all your orders on their site. I take their CBD oil to help my body relax by supporting my nervous system. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. If you use the code 75FREESHIP when you spend $75 or more on any of their products, you get free shipping. Their scalp care products are great to use during tough workouts in the late summer heat. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. I use soothe oil on my skin, which has calendula, vitamin E, sage, and galbanum, which have anti-inflammatory properties. I put the oil along my hairline.   Quotes - “...until she was sitting in class one day and actually noticed that she had lactated through her shirt through her bra and her shirt.” “He was born with five holes in his heart and he lived until he was 18 months old with that heart, then underwent heart surgery. He survived the surgery, but then didn't make it through the recovery. And so my mom and dad lost him at 19 months old. And my sister lost him.” “I have a baby coming in September and I have a baby coming in October. Would you like one of these babies? This is the conversation that happened back in 1979. “I, in fact, was the final private adoption done in Ontario before CAS came in and took over.” “...here's what I want you to know throughout this whole journey of me sharing this. There has never been a moment in my life where I have not felt loved from inception.” “I am so grateful to my mom and dad for being the home that my soul and my spirit needed in order to become the young girl, the mother, and the woman that I am today, because they're responsible” “...now I think I'm ready to fill out the forms because I want to know more about my health history. I want to know more about things that I need to understand in my own body and if I'm susceptible to anything. Now that we're starting to have children, I want to know it for them.” “...she says, hi, can I speak with Jennifer? And I said, yep and start crying. She says ‘hi, my name is Leslie. I am your birth mom'” “But at the same time, it was so emotionally draining and exhausting. Now we are at these points in our life where we have a really great relationship.” “I believe that I have had such a healthy relationship with my whole adoption story and with all of these new things happening and meeting my whole birth family, because my mom and dad were honest with me from day one.” “And that we may not arrive here in the family that we are going to be raised by, but we can most definitely end up in a family that we are meant to be loved and raised by. And that is my story”   Additional Information About Jenn - Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today, I am so excited and honored to be interviewing one of my dearest friends and nutritionist, Julie Daniluk. Julie has been on the podcast before and today makes it extra special because we are the first podcast to be interviewing her all about her brand new book, which is actually her fourth book called Becoming sugar-free. The work, research, and time that Julie dedicates to the craft and art of what she puts out there into the world is inspiring.  So in this episode, Julie and I talk about the impact that sugar, processed foods, sweeteners, artificial flavors, and colors can have on our digestive system and how our digestive system is quite literally the foundation of where all other elements and factors of our health begin. We also touch on Julie's upcoming sugar-free program, starting this coming October 2021, that will delve into the emotional parts of sugar-free living and really support people step by step through a 30-day process with a live group so that people can feel that support throughout their journey. You can find links to Julie Daniluk's multi-platform services, as well as social / websites and publications below in the ‘Connect with us' section of the show notes. You will also find below-linked info about our partners and recommended products to try. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Introducing our guest, Julie Daniluk Jenn's product recommendations Becoming sugar-free Digestion and sugar intake Sugar-free lifestyle Hormone stabilisation  Recipes Training your digestive system How do we break up with sugar emotionally? Connect with us -  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. To connect with Julie Daniluk and find direct links to her published works, programs, and supports, click here to go to her website https://www.juliedaniluk.com  To follow Julie on social media, find her on Instagram @juliedaniluk and Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/jdaniluk  Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.  Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners  GoodJuju make all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. If you use the code SUMMER when you spend $65 or more on any of their products, you get the free jar of the exploiting and softening mask. Plus you get free express shipping. Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs, and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion, allergies, on immune support, on heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and Hemp-based company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered and they are third-party tested. They have a really amazing promotion going on from August 23rd until the 31st, where any product that you order, you are going to receive a free sleeve of their toasted superseeds. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the following discount code JENNPIKE to save 20% off all of your orders on their site https://eatonhemp.com  Quotes “In this book is I actually outlined twenty-five alternative sweeteners and some of them have naturally occurring sugars and other ones, other sweeteners are truly sugar-free” “There's really two levels here. The first level is let's get off of refined sugar and corn syrup. Cause those are the two evils we know are profoundly inflammatory and hormone-disrupting. And then past that everything else is on kind of a scale.” “Sucrose is also a double sugar - half fructose, half glucose.” “When I realized that my brain chemistry was so altered, that every day I give the sugar-free lifestyle, I actually have a joyful day where I feel calm and relaxed” “I know that as long as you are consuming the foods that hit the bliss point that are engineered to suck you in; It's very hard for you to intuitively know what your body wants and needs when you're trapped in that cycle of crisis. “Whatever you're addicted to, you're most likely intolerant to.” “This is really about our vitality and our health moving forward” “A FODMAP approach is a short-term for somebody in an acute situation” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today, we have a fantastic show with Dr. Breanne Kallonen, who is a naturopathic and integrative functional medicine doctor. This is a really great conversation today about weight loss and the myths surrounding weight loss, insulin resistance issues with leptin and a really fantastic methodology called the metabolic reset that Breanne shares with us.  I think one of the most pivotal parts of our conversation, which is about three quarters in, is driving home this message: weight loss is the first goal for many of the clients that Breanne works with. But the key is actually being able to maintain the weight you use for as long as possible. Now in order to really wrap your head around what I mean by that, you are going to have to listen to the full episode, as we lay the groundwork up to that point in the conversation. Our goal is that this important message resonates with you and you leave us today with a deeper understanding of your own body and how your decisions affect it. You can find links below, in the ‘Connect with us' section, to Dr. Breanne Kallonen's multi-platform health services as well as her social media and websites. You will also find below-linked info about our partners and recommended products to try. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Introducing our guest, Dr. Breanne Kallonen Jenn's recommended products Metabolic Reset Insulin resistance Sleep, stress management, nutrition Maintenance Satiety cues Fueling your body Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. To connect with Dr. Breanne Kallonen and find direct links to her published works, programs, and support, go to her website: https://breannekallonen.com. To follow Breanne on social media, find her on Instagram @breannekallonen and TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@breannekallonen. Online work with Jenn: Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners GoodJuju make all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. If you use the code SUMMER when you spend $65 or more on any of their products, you get the free jar of the exploiting and softening mask. Plus you get free express shipping. Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion,  allergies, on immune support, on heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and Hemp based company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered and they are third-party tested. They have a really amazing promotion going on from August 23rd until the 31st, where any product that you order, you are going to receive a free sleeve of their toasted superseeds. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the following discount code JENNPIKE to save 20% off all of your orders on their site https://eatonhemp.com  Quotes “A lot of women are very busy. They have lots of things going on and it's not always easy to prioritize, getting in crazy amounts of nutrition every single day. The way that I look at weight loss, especially weight loss resistance - how can we help them to make it as easy as possible. “ “Diving into the research and looking at the impacts of insulin and how we can use meal timing for that, and really strategic workouts.” “Maybe being normal doesn't necessarily mean optimal” “Over time as our food quality has gone down, or just the types of foods that we're eating, I saw research studies showing 88% of the US population has insulin resistance. So if you're eating and you're continuing to spike your insulin all the time, insulin is a fat storage hormone, making it really hard to lose weight.” “The reality too is that our human bodies are constantly evolving. And especially like if you're working with women, I mean, there's different times of the month. There's different phases in our life where we're going to need a different amount of each of the macronutrients in order to feel our best and for our body” “When you're running the functional tests, you're running the full blood lab, like thyroid panel, all of that, you're running like, are you doing GI map, test and Dutch testing, those types of things for the gut. It depends on the individual.” “How can scaling back on exercise cause me to lose weight? Well, it's a lot of inflammation and exercise can increase your appetite too. So if you don't have your nutrition and your sleep and your stress dialed in. You're not going to see the results that you want from the exercise, or it could be detrimental.” “Maintenance is the most important part. That's where people really struggle is how do I create a sustainable lifestyle that feels flexible, that I can sustain” “Some individuals are not necessarily hungry. Their satiety cues haven't caught up, but again, the point is not to suffer through hunger. If you're hungry, have something” “If we're struggling with resistant weight loss and the obesity epidemic and diabetes, there is no better time. Just learning how to properly fuel your body to maintain health long term.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today's conversation is with Susan Baker. Susan Baker is the mom of two beautiful children, Andrew, 13, and Abby, 9. She is the author of Life, Love & Autism, an online blog that chronicles her family's journey of growth and challenge, including love, loss, and an autism diagnosis. She is a holistic nutritionist by training and has been in the natural health industry since 2001. She continues to inspire health in others through her online programs and social media presence. Susan lives in Toronto with her husband and children.  "Life, Love & Autism is a beautiful documentation of life as a family. Often hilarious, sometimes hard, but most certainly, inspiring, Life, Love & Autism is raw, real, and relatable. The stories go far beyond autism; they are about the human connection and what brings us together. The joy, the challenge, and the learning that comes from it all. A journey-- lived, documented, and shared.” Jenn and Susann discuss how Susan's life has changed after having children and searching for ways to improve the quality of life of her eldest, Andrew, who was diagnosed with non-verbal autism. You will hear about the inspiring story of a mother that will do anything to help her child become all that he could be instead of trying the “fix” him.  If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Introducing our guest, Susan Baker Why Jenn thinks Susan is inspiring The loss of a child Autism diagnosis of Susan's first child The wonders in sharing your journey Andrew's communication breakthrough Andrew's want to share is experience Who has Susan Baker become? Connect with Susan Baker -  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifewithsusan/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifeloveandautism Lead With Love ~ Motherhood anthology: The voices of ten different women, each with a unique experience of motherhood. Raw, real and heartfelt. Mine, one of 10 chapters, and probably the best summary of my journey as a mother and of how each of my children shaped who I am today. The love, loss and joy of it all. ~Susan Baker @lifewithsusan  Life as a Nonspeaker: An Insider's Perspective (Andrew S., nonspeaking autistic, age 12, Nov.2020) : 25-min https://youtu.be/tm9fTEgQK4A Connect with us -  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners  Eaton Hemp Sale is on Aug 19th (1 day event), 25% discount - Jenn uses their CBD oil to recover after her workouts along with her husband.  Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion,  allergies, on immune support, on heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order or use the code JENNPIKE20 at check out and save 20% off hemp products through August 17. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE15 for 15% off. Use code JENNPIKE10 at check out and save 10% off your order for every order after that. Facial cleansers. Jenn keeps one fresh one that she uses to wash at night and the other one is called Pure that she keeps on a ledge near the shower. While in the shower, she lets her body get wet then she massages the Pure facial cleanser into her skin. She takes a little of the dried powder into her palms and creates a bit of a paste to which she will massage that in exfoliating her forehead, hairline and all around her face down through her neck GoodJuju make all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. Use code JENNPIKE10 at check out and save 10% off your first order  Eden Hemp Sale is on Aug 19th (1-day event) - Jenn uses their CBD oil to recover after her workouts along with her husband.  Quotes “My spirituality really allowed me to see this unfolding in a way that was meant for my life.” “Can it be okay to be, you know, yeah? The opposite of strong, can it be okay to accept help? Can it be okay to say, you know what? There are other people in my life who love and care for my children and they can take care of them just like I can” “It's not another woman, another person is being open about it. You can feel and see yourself inside of that. And that's what I think, you talk about these stories going far beyond what you and your family unit are experiencing. That's where the connection piece comes in and why people are so drawn to it.” “What does this child need? I just said I don't know, but I will never give up. I will never give up on my child. And that wasn't me thinking there was some kind of miracle solution that I was missing. It wasn't about that, right? It wasn't about waiting to fix this child, but it. I know there's more, I know there's more and so I'm open and I don't know what that looks like. And within a couple of weeks, I met a family who was using a method of communication that involves spelling on a letter board, a very simple method, but it's one that's unconventional.” “I am, I would say, yeah, a new version of Susan Baker, which is somebody who continues to work at this, but is so much more trusting in the process of life. And partly because I can look back on examples of where I pushed myself to trust in the process of life. And it unfolded in a way I could never have predicted, but that brought me to an incredible place because I trusted in this process and I let go where I thought I should be going, what I thought I should be doing, what I thought I should be doing for Andrew or Abby. Um, and that's very difficult for my personality, but you know, I'm 44 this year and that is who I am now is just somebody who is more open to. You know, doing things in a way, I guess I, I'm not typically programmed to do it, you know? Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Last week, I was discussing Leaky Gut; what it is, what the heck is going on and what are some of the things that you can start to do or things that you can begin to be aware of and understand in your body that can make a big difference in your digestive system. Today, we are going to talk through additional steps and tactics that you can do regarding nutrition and supplementation to support your digestive system. Now, a little disclaimer - while I am a practitioner, I may not be your practitioner. So what I'm going to talk about in this episode, as I did last week, is not necessarily me saying, you need to go out and buy this and take this and do this, I'm going to talk in general terms.  If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Refresh on last week - Leaky Gut 101 How to support your digestive system Digestive rehabilitation Food sensitivity tests Supplementation Healing is a process, not a quick fix Make the investment in yourself Connect with us -  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. To find my recipe for Bone Broth, follow the link here, Jenn Pike Bone Broth Recipe.  To find Megan Telpner's recipe via her blog, click here.  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.  Quotes “Bone broth, the reason I love it is because it contains collagen and it's got great amino acids, glycine being one of them that can really help to heal the damaged cell. “Fermented foods can really help to support the pH balance and microbiome as a whole.” “Coconut products tend to do really well for people with gut issues because they're loaded with medium chain fatty acids, and those can be easier to digest than some other fats. They also work really well to help to lubricate the digestive system, keep the bowels flowing well.” “Sprouted chia or spread and flax hemp. I find to be really powerful and quite a neutral seed for people who may have sensitivities. These are also really rich in protein and amino acids and a great source of fiber” “Think about those things first. Think about your stress. Your sleep, your environment pay. And then we look at the supplements that can help.” “Probiotics are meant to help to replenish and support healthy, good bacteria. And essentially to crowd out the bad bacteria, prebiotics feed the probiotics (prebiotics are the food for the probiotics).” “When I'm working with somebody who has H pylori or who has CBO or who has candida, I won't start with the probiotics right out of the gate. We do a kill protocol. We do a heal protocol. We do a reinoculate rebalance protocol and it has to happen in steps for a lot of women.” “Remember, it's never going to be just the one thing you can't go out and simply just start to take supplements and then expect digestion to be healed. You can't just remove food and add in bone broth and expect everything to be healed. It's going to be a combination. It is going to take effort, but within that, there also has to be learning and understanding” “Make the investment in yourself, figure out what's going on. So you can get to your healing much faster because whatever's going on in your gut or your butt or the combination of both it's impacting the rest of your health. Overall, it's going to impact your weight. It's going to impact your immune system. It'll impact your energy. Sleep, your hormones, your hair, your skin, the way that your brain functions, your cognition, your sharpness, your clarity, your focus, it will impact all of those things.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. I wanted to let you know that the Thursday simplicity bites episodes of this podcast may not be happening every single Thursday. I'm actually taking some time off until around mid September. So if there's a surprise episode that decides to upload for Thursday because I've got that extra energy, consider yourself lucky. Otherwise I hope you'll tune in with us here every Monday for our weekly episodes. Today's conversation is with Dr. Jordin Wiggins ND. She is a sexual health disruptor and evolver, a naturopathic doctor, and the author of The Pink Canary.  We're taught that we're supposed to have a sex drive, that you're supposed to naturally be hornier than you are, and that your sex life is supposed to peak. And so many women hit a point in their life where they think, “That did not happen to me, it is not happening to me- there must be something wrong with me.” We talk about issues that can impact feminine libido, including stress, communication, and health, including mental health. We don't just talk about what's going wrong; we identify some of the more common things that women are feeling and going through, and then really give you feasible solutions. If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Introducing our guest, Dr. Jordin Wiggins ND Jordin's journey of understanding her libido Jordin's book, The Pink Canary Common themes that many women experience with their libido Jordin's program that considers holistic health and libido The collective experience of knowing you aren't alone Connect with us -  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. To connect with Jordin, and to inquire about and join her programs, click the following link: https://www.healthoverall.ca/practitioners/. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners  Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion,  allergies, on immune support, on heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order or use the code JENNPIKE20 at check out and save 20% off hemp products through August 17. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE15 for 15% off. Use code JENNPIKE10 at check out and save 10% off your order for every order after that. GoodJuju make all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. Use code JENNPIKE10 at check out and save 10% off your first order  Quotes “It has been a bit of a journey, but I have lost my libido three times in my life.” “This is the hidden secret to women's health that they don't know… it's like the Canary in the coal mine, this warning sign that there's problems ahead.” “We've all been miseducated.” “We need to start with an individual journey, with the internal work first. And then we bring the couple in.” “...there's just this relief of ‘I'm not alone. I'm not broken. There are not only other women, but millions of other women on the planet experiencing exactly what I am.'” “There's health benefits to… not diminishing the essence of who we are.” “...that is this good girl conditioning, where we have been taught to self-sacrifice, taught to not listen to our own wants and needs.” “Be open, feel the feelings in your body.” “These are the type of conversations that we should be actually cultivating… because I think there's a softening that happens when you recognize that you are not alone.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today, I am speaking to one of the women in our Audacious Woman mentorship programme, Shannon Feir. She is a registered nurse and has been on the front line this entire year and a half and working in healthcare for 30+ years where she has seen a chronic level of burnout and burnout culture. In this episode, we will be discussing how to do ‘all the things' without burning yourself out, without creating a health issue for your own self and body. Shannon is real and loving and brings wonderful humour to our conversation.  Shannon has worked her entire career, decades, taking care of other people and being a nurse and really excelling at it. But she wants something more. She's raised her children and she's at a time in her life where she can start to make some different decisions. So as a nurse, a self-care and resiliency coach, and a heart math certified practitioner, she helps kickass female healthcare workers build resiliency. She does this by being on the front lines for decades and she offers coaching and programs to help women show up and do the job that needs to get done in those moments on your feet, on your toes - when you need critical thinking in the moment. To inquire about and join The 12-week Frontline Resiliency Reset Formula program, click the following link: https://www.shannonfeir.com. You can join Shannon Feir's facebook group here: Burnout prevention for female health care professionals. Lastly, I don't have any products to share with you today specifically, I really just want to say thank you so much to the companies that support us. Not only sponsoring the show, but for supporting us in our health and in our life.  If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Access links to Shannon Feir's facebook group, socials and website below in the ‘Connect with us' section of the show notes. Here are the main topics of today's episode: Introducing our guest, Shannon Feir Helping women in healthcare build resiliency How do you support one another? The feeling of guilt for wanting We need to have that permission to be vulnerable Burnout prevention for female health care professionals Frontline Resiliency Reset Connect with us -  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. To connect with Shannon, and to inquire about and join The Frontline Resiliency Reset Formula program, click the following link: https://www.shannonfeir.com. You can join Shannon Feir's facebook group here: Burnout prevention for female health care professionals. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.  Quotes: “I feel like over the past 30 years, things have certainly changed, in the culture of healthcare, particularly with women.” “My mission now has been to help women in healthcare build their resiliency so that they can balance their career in healthcare, as well as having a beautiful life that they desire at home.” “You wear the mask at work when you support people, you take their energy on, and I feel like the culture of healthcare, we have not done a fantastic job on building resources internally, whether it's your organization or from a personal perspective where we support each other” “We don't have the tools inside. We're not taught the tools to be able to be vulnerable, right. When you get home.” “Like you get guilt, you feel guilty about wanting more, so you kind of stay small and then that's kind of how burnout starts. Right. It's slow, it's not just one event. It's not like one thing happens, it's this cumulative stressors that you don't process” “We need to have that permission to be vulnerable. And if we can't do that at home because of, you know, PHIPAA, confidentiality, whatever. You know, we need to have somewhere, we need to have a group where we can be supportive to each other and allow the permission that it's ok not to be ok.” “I wholeheartedly believe that in order to prevent and manage burnout, you need to have a foundation that improves your personal resiliency.”  “My goal is to reach my hand out to these women, thousands and thousands of women, to show them that it doesn't have to be so hard. It doesn't have to be so separate. And by implementing some simple strategies and simple techniques that improve their resilience, improving their mindset, all of those things will help them be able to show up as a better version of themselves.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this simplicity bite, I'm going to chat with you all about leaky gut 101: what it is, what the heck is going on, and some of the things that you can start to do or things that you can begin to be aware of and understand in your body that can make a big difference in your digestive system. Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite in order: What is leaky gut? Discomfort is not normal What can cause leaky gut? H pylori Irritants to your gut and body as a whole Nutrition and environment The Hormone Project Please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject  Links and resources mentioned in this episode are shared in the Online Work with Jenn section of these show notes. Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!  To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to hello@jennpike.com and myself or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you.  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  Learn more about Jenn's work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Quotes:  “Leaky gut refers to an increased intestinal permeability, meaning that you have got a retaining wall around the stomach, and this is a barrier so that we are not allowing certain things to come in or other particles. So think like undigested food pathogens, bacteria viruses, to be able to pass out into our bloodstream, which is going to cause us inflammation and massive digests.” “So what happens with leaky gut is that over time, and this can be for a few different reasons that we'll talk about, these junctions start to break down. Your retaining wall starts to falter, starts to crack, starts to have seeps and openings. And now things that should not be getting in or moving out are, and this is what creates a response or reaction in your body. This is when you start to have food sensitivities and allergies and auto-immune responses and things that are characterized like IBS, hormone imbalances, different gut infections and more” “When you have some level of increased intestinal permeability, which is what leaky gut is referred to, there is a crack or multiple cracks, and now we're having things get in that are causing us those issues.” “Tons of people are walking around with something called H pylori. And if you have H pylori, which is a gut infection, this is a bacteria that specifically goes in and decreases the amount of hydrochloric acid that you can produce in your. It impacts your enzymatic ability, which all of this, what it means in English is it impacts your ability to digest and break down the food that you eat” “What you put on your body, what you use in your hair, your makeup, your nail polish, your household cleaners, your tampons, All of those things, they have a toll and the totality of bringing all those chemicals in is your body has to try to filter and manage that.”  Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today, I am going to be discussing a new topic for this podcast, CBD. This is an insightful and educational conversation with Danny Dolgin, CEO and co-founder of Eaton Hemp. Now, I do want to preface this by saying I did not have anxiety, I didn't have insomnia, I didn't actually have anything going on that typically people would start to use this for.  For me, I was getting so many questions from women in my community, asking my opinion about CBD and my experience. And I couldn't give my opinion, because I'd never had an experience. I'm not going to recommend something or talk about something that I've not yet used.  So after trying it myself, through a great partnership with a strong focus on education, my goal today is to help you to understand a little bit more about what CBD is and what it is not.  If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Access links to Eaton Hemp's socials and website below in the ‘Connect with us' section of the show notes. You will also find below linked info about our partners and recommended products to try. Here are the main topics of today's episode: Introducing our guest, Danny, CEO and Co-founder of Eaton Hemp Eaton Hemp What is CBD? How and when to utilise it How CBD works Connect with us -  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the following discount code JENNPIKE to save 20% off all of your orders on their site https://eatonhemp.com  To connect with Danny and his team at Eaton Hemp, go to their website https://eatonhemp.com  To follow Eaton Hemp on social media, find her on Instagram @eatonhemp  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.  Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners  GoodJuju make all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. If you use the code SUMMER when you spend $65 or more on any of their products, you get the free jar of the exploiting and softening mask. Plus you get free express shipping. Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion,  allergies, on immune support, on heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. Quotes “Eaton Hemp...They farm it. They're a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered. They're third-party tested. The integrity behind this company, I have been so blown away by. “CBD is a sort of shorthand for cannabis oil, which is a cannabinoid, basically a chemical compound that's found in the cannabis plants. Now cannabis encompasses both hemp and marijuana.” “There's many different ways that somebody can be consuming these products too, right? Like tinctures,there's lotions, edibles, through smoking.” “CBD works best when it, when it's part of your daily regimen.” “It's a holistic approach - that we are a consuming bio-individual and that we're the sum of so many things that are happening and going on in our life, not just what we're eating or drinking or exercising, but literally the things that we're feeling and that are around us. And we, we don't just hand over the expectation of being healed, fixed, or our health to a singular product.” “ How CBD works is it promotes your, tells your body to produce more of things that it needs. So everyone could have a different kind of feeling to it.” “With CBD, um, it's more going to be restoring balance throughout your entire body, um, fighting internal inflammation” Learn more about Jenn's work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this simplicity bite, I am going to speak to a question that I received while writing a big article for a strong fitness magazine that is all around the importance of the education that we really should have access to as women, about our cycles, cycle syncing and that level of connection. The question was ‘Why is it important for women to recognize and honor that they are cyclical and not linear beings? What's the benefit there for the average woman?' This is the kind of information you can anticipate coming out in the fall. Not only in this article, but in some additional resources that we are creating for you.  My main mission is to help women, to help young girls, to help all of us connect to this deep knowing and understanding of our bodies, because we have been given, in my opinion, the most incredible gift of life being a female. And there's so much that we can tap into, but we don't, we don't know that because we're not educated about it. Socially, in so many areas of the world, it's not acceptable to even talk about these things, let alone understand more about what's going on.  You have to dig, you have to search. And it shouldn't be that way. The very fact that we are born women into this world means that we should have full accessibility to understanding or getting the manual for or, at the very least, a blueprint to the body that we have been blessed with. Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite in order of priority: Speaking to your questions How every day is different Optimizing your hormonal health Observation is key to a healthy reproductive system Tracking your cycle Where is our manual, our blueprint? Symptoms are our messengers So please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject  Links and resources mentioned in this episode will be shared in the Online Work with Jenn section of these show notes. Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!  To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to hello@jennpike.com and myself or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you.  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  Learn more about Jenn's work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Quotes:  “My main mission is to help women, to help young girls, to help all of us connect to this deep knowing and understanding of our bodies, because we have been given, in my opinion, the most incredible gift of life being a female.” “The truth is that you are never in the same hormonal state twice a month. You were never in the same cycle phase twice. Every day is different. Your body is physically, physiologically, mentally and emotionally in a constant state of ebb and flow.”  “When you show up each day to your body, to your life, to your calendar, to your workouts, your nutrition, and you engage in the same activities of hustle and grind, energy, you are living counter-intuitively to your own body's hormonal fluctuations. And it's completely counterproductive. This is a huge energy waste for women and often leaves them exhausted and burnt out.” “When you learn how to plan your workouts, your nutrition, your other activities of life around yourself, You'll be optimizing your hormonal health finally, to begin to understand when it is the best time of month for you to push or pull back, to put yourself out there or to take more rest.” “The truth is that observation is the main event and the telltale sign of a healthy reproductive system. Your period is the culmination of the other three phases that lead into and result in shedding your uterine lining.”  “It is extremely beneficial for women to know this information as they transition into perimenopause. Instead of feeling like you are surprised and you just woke up one morning and everything shifted, you would be able to go back now and actually track that data that you have been collecting and start to understand and see when changes happened. Ask yourself the question, what was going on?” “The reason it's so important for us to track is not just to have another app in our life. It is so that we actually have our own. Interpersonal or internal recognition of what is going on in our body.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. We will then be joined by Heather Chauvin, who is a leadership coach who helps ambitious, overwhelmed women conquer their fears and become leaders at work and at home. Heather draws on her professional experience as a social worker and her life experience raising three boys to create a signature approach to help her clients create and enjoy sustainability, profitability, and ease in both business and life.  Heather is the host of the Mom is in Control Podcast, where she reveals her most vulnerable truths about womanhood, marriage, parenting, living through her stage four cancer diagnosis and full remission, and running a successful business without burning out.  If you have a question for me and my team, send it on over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Access links to Michelle Breau's multi-platform publishings as well as social / websites below, in the ‘Connect with us' section of the show notes. You will also find info linked below about our partners and recommended products to try. Here are the main topics of today's episode: Heather's story Heather's cancer and recovery journey and mindset  Behaviour surrounding women feeling out of alignment Make the true investment in ourselves, as women, for our health Finding women role models Connect with us: Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. To connect with Heather Chauvin and find direct links to her published works, programs, and supports, go to her website http://heatherchauvin.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/heatherchauvin_/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/mom-is-in-control-podcast/id982980293?mt=2 Book: http://heatherchauvin.com/book-waitlist  You can connect to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.  Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners  Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. They are having a new summer deal. You get a free facial and jar product (exfoliant and softening mask)  when you spend $65 or more (while quantities last). Go to www.skinessence.ca/shop. The mask helps get rid of clogged pores and blackheads, especially during the summer months when you are sweating more, or you have sunscreen on while you are working outside.  The mask also helps you balance out your complexion and regenerate and renew yourself.  Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs, and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion,  allergies, on immune support, on heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE10 at check out and save 10% off your order. Do you have dry, curly hair in the summer? Saint Francis Herb Farm has a specific shampoo bar for dry and curly hair. It contains coconut and hobo oil and different shay and coconut butters.  It comes in a sweet oil and petrulli  scent.   Suffering from insomnia, anxiety, tension, irritability, cramping, mood swings, and breast tenderness then try Saint Francis Herb Farm's PMS support that comes in a tincture form. It contains don quai (an estrogenic alternative), black cohosh (a herb with hormone-balancing properties), and, burdock. Eden Hemp - Jenn has been working with the company for over a year and did an interview with the co-founder Dan to provide more education. They are continuing the education and providing a new deal when you put in the code JENNPIKE, which will give you 20% off of all orders.  Quotes “...the only thing I can control is if I have all these odds against me, what I can do is just try, do the things that you don't think you are capable of.” “Because my son was my, why? Like that was my bigger, why, which was a great motivator and great start. And I had that energy and that like, anger of like, I'll show you I'll show I'll prove you wrong. But when you're trying to prove the world wrong, you burn out and you're doing it from an angry place, but it got me started. So. Then I fell in love with meditation and mindfulness because of his behavior, not my behavior, his behavior.” “So now my focus is how good can it get? How good can I feel? Um, And I watch how cultural perceptions of who I need to be shows up and how far removed I am from that.” “you have to observe your own behavior and go, why is it that when I actually create space for myself, I'm so incredibly uncomfortable.” “ I had to rise and it was, it sucked and I had to figure it out, but it forced me to take my power back. It wasn't about so much the treatment. It was the journey to get there. Um, it forced me to take my power back.  Learn more about Jenn's work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children. 

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this simplicity bite, I will be sharing with you about energy expectations, expectations we have for ourselves, as well as those put onto us by others in our family, community, place of work, and society as a whole. Our individual capacity is a currency and we need to be aware of how it impacts us and those around us when we are beyond capacity, essentially when we are over spending.  Today, we will talk about how we as women already carry a disproportionate amount of the responsibility, support, and work to take care of our families, our careers, and our communities, and how the last 16 months have impacted what's happening globally and in our own backyards. We will delve into how we can support each other but ultimately how we can each support ourselves by doing the work, because while we can support each other, no one else can do the actual work for you. And I want to say to all of you that I see you. I see you in my clinical practice. I see you in my programs, in my community, through my zoom screen. And I see you in the mirror. I see you and I am you too. Energy flows where attention and intentions go. Never forget that.  Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite in order of priority: Energy expectations No one else can do the work for you Individual Capacity  I see you - a message to the community Empowering yourself empowers others So please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject  Links and resources mentioned in this episode will be shared in the Online Work with Jenn section of these show notes. Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!  To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to hello@jennpike.com and myself or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you.  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  Learn more about Jenn's work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Quotes:  “Explain to people like you are responsible for this, the person you're working with, the program you're doing, the people you're working with. They are part of the team of support. They're your support network. They can't move in with you. They can't make the changes for you.” “No one else can do the work for you. Nobody else. People can be the connectors, the conduits, and they can help to show you and teach you. They can educate you with the different tools and resources and opportunities, but no one can do it for you” “It's us being aware of being at capacity feeling spent and exhausted, and then how that impacts the way that we show up, how we treat other people, the words that we use, the tone that we use, the energy around it, it all matters so much.  “I see you. I feel you. I am feeling it too. Women are not doing okay right now. Mothers are not doing it right. We already carry a disproportionate amount of the responsibility, support, and work to take care of our families, our careers, our communities, and in the last 16 months have had the impact of what's happening globally and our own backyards. The four walls of our home, the chambers within our hearts and the cells of our very being and spirit pushed to the very brink of our individual capacity. We have been coerced into a place of constant fear and anxiety. We have outsourced our health to others. We have disconnected from trusting our own bodies, our deep knowing and guidance from within we've stopped asking how do I feel? And we've replaced it with doing what you're told and what will they think? The more I sit with women in practice. In my mentorship in community and in real life, the more I hear and I feel their struggles. We are exhausted. We're overworked. We're making decisions that don't feel real true, or like they are our own, we're taking care of others when we long to be taken care of, we're longing to see and feel the light at the end of a very long and what feels like never ending tunnel women, tune out the judgment and tune. To your body. Stop bowing to the shedding and be open to the cutting. What could you do today? What do you need today? Rest nature, alone, time connection, fun, delicious food, a hug, a movie. A good cry, pleasure. All the rules, the list and the rigid boxes we are trying to live inside of. They are slowly eroding away at the strong, bold, loving, fierce, courageous, feminine desire, filled audacious women that we are, the rules are slowly killing us in a way that many aren't able to do. I see, I see you. I see you in my clinical practice. I see you in my programs, in my community, through my zoom screen. And I see you in the mirror. I see you and I am you too. Energy flows where attention and intentions go. Never forget that. Where will your energy go? Now? Take a deep breath and a moment to really sink into it. Sending you all big love. “If you don't talk about it, if you don't share, if you don't let other people know, if you don't ask three little words, I need help. Not only are you harming yourself, you are making it impossible for another woman to do that for herself. Understand that every single time that you squeeze and contract your muscle of courage and bravery and audacity, and you speak with your shaky voice and you type with your shaking things. You are creating global permission for another woman, for young girls, for women everywhere to do the same.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today, we are going to kick start today's episode by briefly discussing an area of interest expressed by you, our community, which is healthy skincare. We will then be joined by a very good friend of mine, Michelle Breau. Michelle is a mother and a wife and she is an advocate for the health and for medical freedom. Michelle is a holistic nutritionist who really believes that lifestyle medicine is the way of the future. And her goal is to provide her clients with space for that concept of wholeness to be explored as we collectively return to the most basic principles of health amidst an extremely complex world. I do want to give you a warning today before going in to listen to this episode. Not that your heart's not going to be able to take what we have a conversation about, but we do go into depth around the conversation around vaccines. If this isn't for you, have a beautiful rest of your day, I totally understand. If you have a question for me and my team, send it on over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.  Access links to Michelle Breau's multi-platform publishings as well as social / websites below, in the ‘Connect with us' section of the show notes. You will also find info linked below about our partners and recommended products to try. Here are the main topics of today's episode: Healthy skincare Introducing our guest, Michelle Breau The importance of informed consent and decision making Research Vaccinations and medical freedom Coercion vs consent Advocacy Connect with us: Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. To connect with Michelle Breau and find direct links to her published works, programs, and supports, go to her website https://www.michellebreau.com  To follow Michelle on social media, find her on Instagram @iammichellebreau To work with Michelle, go to the following link https://www.michellebreau.com/nutrition  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.  Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners  Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs, and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion,  allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. Use code JENNPIKE at check out and save 10% off your first order  Quotes “Majority of what we see on the outside is a reflection of the health and the function of what is going on inside your gut function, your liver function, your ability to detoxify the state of your lymphatic system.” “I discovered the necessity of informed consent and how I had consented to certain things that I do not feel I was informed enough on that I was not provided all of the information on, um, I think as a parent, any parent who has an experience like this with their child, it sends you down the rabbit hole of research and getting as informed as possible because you realize that I was doing what I thought was the best for my child.” “This is what I'm seeing happen in my practice every day, working with women, is lack of information, which leads to lack of informed decisions, choices, and consent, which then leads to a lot of different issues.” “Our world has changed drastically and, and the idea of having a diversity of opinions of questions has really come down to anyone who thinks outside of the common theme of, here's how you should think, here's how the world is thinking collectively. From the media perspective, they'll say that is an anti-something or a conspiracy theorist.' “It's not that we just can't accept that our world is changing, It's what do I do about it?... every voice is so important in this evolution that we're going through. But there are different ways that you can go about it. It's a matter of what your comfort level is” “If you are living in a lot of fear and uncertainty we have to start really, really small. We have to start within our own four walls. How can you create a deeper level of calm, certainty, warmth, and connectedness in your own home?” “We've got to be balanced out ourselves first before we branch out. And I think that is such an important reminder.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.   

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this simplicity bite, we will be discussing a question that I hear a lot, one that I think about often, which is How can I heal my hormones for good? As women, our bodies are ever-changing, ever cycling, ever-evolving and therefore there is going to be a bit of undulation that will happen based on where your body is at, how your body is feeling, what you are experiencing. What I want to share with you today is how you can work on the foundation so that you can make sure that things like your gut, adrenals, blood sugar, your thyroid, and your sex hormones are getting the attention and the care that they ultimately need. You can find a graphic on this topic on our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/jennpike/  Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite in order of priority: Digestion and Gut Insulin levels Adrenal function and hormones Thyroid Sex hormones Symptoms are our messengers So please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject  Links and resources mentioned in this episode will be shared in the Online Work with Jenn section of these show notes. Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!  To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to hello@jennpike.com, and I or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you.  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  Learn more about Jenn's work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Quotes:  “The protocol system within the hormone project is to work on digestion and gut first. We want to make sure you are able to digest what you're consuming, break it down, pull the nutrients from it, and that you're free from digestive issues, gut infections, inflammation. So it's really important that the digestive and the assimilation piece is happening as well as the elimination piece, that you're pooping on a daily basis.” “From there it's then working on supporting your insulin, managing your blood sugar and your insulin levels... if your blood sugar is not stable and you are now in a state of stress as a result of it, That will impact your digestion and increase your rate of inflammation.” “Your adrenals are so critical because it is how our body is responding to stress. It is what is building up our resiliency, helping to support our immune system, helping to support the thyroid, helping to support ovarian health.” “Your brain health is super important and your mitochondria health mean everything” “I encourage you to prioritize in order of gut, blood sugar, adrenals, thyroid, then the sex hormone.” “The symptoms are the messengers. It's what we need to pay attention to. You want to start to write some things down, collect some data about your body, pay attention, and then begin to start to put these things into place.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.       

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today, we are joined by Dr. Anna Cabeca who's known as the Girlfriend Doctor, she's a triple board-certified Emory university-trained OB-GYN and author of two best-selling books.  Anna is the creator and author of The Hormone Fix, a groundbreaking holistic lifestyle program for menopausal women, as well as Keto Green 16, which is a comprehensive nutritional plan to help stay healthy and slim. Dr. Anna Cabeca works tirelessly to help women reclaim their vibrancy, their sexuality, their health, and their happiness. She speaks from her experience. She speaks from the hip and she speaks from the heart and she has risen from her own ashes of personal tragedy that spiraled into depression from not one but two rounds of menopause.  You can find links to Dr. Anna Cabeca's multi-platform publishings, as well as social / websites below in the ‘Connect with us' section of the show notes.  If you order any of her products including those discussed on this episode, you can save 10% by entering in the code JennP10 at checkout -  https://drannacabeca.com  You will also find below-linked info about our partners and recommended products to try. If you have a question for me and my team, send it on over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Introducing our guest, Dr. Anna Cabeca Supporting Moontime Sisters  Jenn's recommendation Keto Green Lifestyle Hormones are our messengers Disciplining our mind and connecting our heart Manipulating our hormones Nutrition and Sleep Vaginal health DIY recipes Supplements and supports Connect with us -  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. To connect with Dr. Anna Cabeca and find direct links to her published works, programs, and supports, go to her website https://drannacabeca.com  If you order any of her products including those discussed on this episode, you can save 10% by entering in the code JennP10 at checkout -  https://drannacabeca.com  To follow Anna on social media, find her on Instagram @thegirlfrienddoctor, and Facebook @thegirlfrienddoctor  Click here to listen to her podcast.  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.  Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners  Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs, and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion,  allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. Use code JENNPIKE at check out and save 10% off your first order  Quotes “Our lifestyle and our daily practices are one of the most powerful tools we can use to actually manipulate our hormones in a positive way” “This journey led me into what I call the keto green lifestyle. And it's not just about what we eat, but it's how we live when we eat, who we eat with” “Our hormones function in different ways. They relate. They are chemical messengers, writing a story, they are energetic messengers and they're led and driven.”  “When we focus on what's good in our lives, what we're focusing on is where we feel love, what you know is beautiful in our lives, the things that bring us joy and pleasure, that's oxytocin. That's the hormone of oxytocin. It's a different energy. It's the most alkalizing hormone in our body. It's the most healing hormone in our body. It's a hormone of fun and pleasure.” “So what do I know to be true right now? That's the number one question I ask. What do you know to be true? What's your reality? What is good in your life? And let's focus on those things that are good, noteworthy, positive, beautiful, bring you pleasure, joy, connection, the relationships, and people that you love and laugh with” “You have to be very intentional nowadays to choose the joy, to find the happiness and the bliss. It's not going to be delivered to you.” “One of the key aspects, lifestyle hacks is to practice gratitude before you get up” “No more snacking, snacking is destructive to our bodies, especially in perimenopause and menopause. So no more snacking and just creating these lifestyle practices to empower our physiology.” “Keto green is really helpful at any part of the life cycle, but it is essential and mandatory in menopause and perimenopause. It is essential and mandatory in perimenopause because these hormone shifts and this declining glucose, you know, this decline in progesterone and estrogen Our brain needs estrogen.” “How you're beginning the day to set yourself up before your breakfast is important, and then at the end of the day, priming your nervous system and getting your body ready for a good night.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv, and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.   

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this simplicity bite, we will be opening up about our individual capacity and how to recognize when we are beyond capacity. And in order to feel resilient or to have true resiliency, you have to first understand what your individual capacity is.  I believe it is important for each of us to reiterate to ourselves and the women in our lives that it is ok to say no, to give yourself that permission, and treat yourself with more love and self-compassion.  Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite: Beyond capacity Capacity is learned How our cycle can affect our capacity Gut instinct Giving yourself permission to say no So please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject  Links and resources mentioned in this episode will be shared in the Online Work with Jenn section of these show notes. Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!  To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to hello@jennpike.com, and I or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you.  You can connect to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  Learn more about Jenn's work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Quotes:  “I wasn't at my capacity, I was beyond my capacity.” “Capacity is learned” “In order to feel resilient or to have true resiliency, you have to first understand what your individual capacity is.” “When I'm in the first half of my cycle, my energy is higher for me, I'm more primed and I get excited about all of the ideas and everything that comes my way... Then I pay for that when it's in the second half of my cycle, or when I'm feeling heavy” “Where do you hear your own voice? Where do you have the time to grow your own self-awareness and to form and choose your own opinions, your own core values? In any capacity in life.” “It's okay, to be honest and say, when someone asks, Hey, could you help me with this? I'm sorry, but I'm at capacity. Hey, could you go get this for me? I'm sorry, but I'm at capacity. Whatever the thing is, it's actually okay. If your gut instinct is like, I literally don't have room for that.” “I am only one, but I am one. Though I can't do everything, I can do something. And so I will not let the things that I can't do, that I choose not to do, interfere with what I can do. And I know that to be true for myself and for others around me.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv, and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.   

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today, we are speaking with the lovely Dr. Jordan Robertson ND, a naturopathic doctor who specializes in women's health, hormones and fertility. She is the host of the Women's Health Unplugged podcast and author of Carrying To Term, the practical guide that teaches you specific strategies to support your fertility journey and reduce the risk of miscarriage or pregnancy loss. We begin this episode on a very personal note. Jordan shares with me her own experiences, suffering from multiple miscarriages and her fertility struggles. And how, even as a health professional, she really struggled to advocate for herself, as well as the proper testing, treatment, and care she knew that she needed and deserved. One of the biggest takeaways from today's conversation with Jordan is that we have the ability, as functional health practitioners, to see a woman's health vulnerability before it actually gets to a point where she needs further intervention, whether it be medical or otherwise. Not only are we able to recognize this, we then do our utmost to support and implement strategies to help her get better. Your story matters, we need to band together and work together. Not only as clinicians and practitioners but women as a whole to stop this dismissive nature around our health and our wellbeing from happening. You can find links to Dr. Jordan Robertson's multi-platform publishings, as well as social / websites below in the ‘Connect with us' section of the show notes. You will also find below-linked info about our partners and recommended products to try. If you have a question for me and my team, send it on over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Your story matters You have to be the voice for your health and for your body Perimenopause - Puberty 2.0 Tracking your cycle Energy flows where attention goes Nutrition and metabolic flexibility Hormone Replacement Therapy Resources Connect with us -  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. To connect with Dr. Jordan Robertson and find direct links to her published works, programs, and supports, click here or go to her website https://clarityhealthburlington.ca  To follow Jordan on social media, find her on Instagram @drjordannd Click here to listen to her podcast, Women's Health Unplugged  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.  Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners  Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion,  allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. Use code JENNPIKE at check out and save 10% off your first order  Quotes “Your story matters, we need to band together and work together. Not only as clinicians and practitioners but women as a whole to stop this dismissive nature around our health and our wellbeing from happening” “She turned her personal experience and her background into medical research and medical research into a springboard to support women and their own health journeys. She is known for her relentless search for the best quality evidence in integrative medicine and her willingness to stand up for women as they pursue their health goals” “When I wrote Carrying to Term back at the beginning of my career, it was right on the heels of me having three miscarriages. And at that time I was a graduated health professional, and yet I still couldn't really advocate for myself.” “Can we change a woman's story? Can we help her support herself so that she doesn't suffer… the answer is yes?” “Regardless of the age of the woman or the health concern, the story that she has to tell matters. And what I mean by the story is that there are clues hidden in your health history. There are clues hidden, maybe in your family history that would potentially change what your baseline risk is.” “It pays off to chat with someone about what those underlying conditions are how they can specifically contribute to miscarriage. Because for women with PCOS, it's not the same reason that women miscarry as it is the reason why women with endometriosis miscarry, you probably need slightly different supports.” “With perimenopause, it's stretched out over years and years of experience, which coincides with maybe having adult children, aging parents, at the peak of their career… pinnacle years for women, where they are also having the hormonal carpet pulled out from underneath them.” “The best way to describe perimenopause is like it's Sunday and your uterus thinks it was last Thursday, right?” “When women track their cycle, they actually develop self-compassion for themselves.” “The stress of worrying about menopause actually worsens your menopause… energy flows where attention goes” “Something women can do for themselves - A is be mindful of their non-exercise movement cause your bodies were made to move, but also reflect on what your barriers to movement are.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv, and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.   

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this simplicity bite, we will be discussing your hormone concerns and whether they are being dismissed.  One of my biggest concerns as a healthcare practitioner who has chosen to focus on women's health and hormones is that when it comes to women's hormonal health, Our concerns, our symptoms, our issues are far too often being dismissed.  And what's important to understand is that our intuition, that guides us, is often a direct conduit for that inner balance in your body. The way we feel when things are not right, is literally your body communicating with you on the deepest level. And you know when something is off and this should be taken seriously, you should be taken seriously and it should be addressed in a caring and thoughtful way.  Even with the best practitioner, their job and role is to educate you, to help support you with the tools and the resources to empower you, to guide you. But you, you are the only one that can create the power pause that can either put things into action for your health. So I want you to start to peel back. I want you to begin to take note of what is truly going on in your body. Then find the team, create your village. This is what my team thrives off of, is helping women just like you. Not by doing it for you, but by linking arms, cutting through the BS, and doing it alongside you. So please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject  Links and resources mentioned in this episode will be shared in the Online Work with Jenn section of these show notes. Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite: There isn't always a pill for the ill Attention disparity Dismissal culture If you are being dismissed, find another practitioner Take control of your own health Create your village, they are out there! Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!  To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to hello@jennpike.com, and myself or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you.  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  Learn more about Jenn's work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Quotes:  “If she's not trying to conceive, she will most likely be given the run-of-the-mill basic hematology, basic blood work. And no one is going to look any deeper.” “We cannot just be handing the pill out like candy and like it's a prescription for solving every single hormonal problem because it is compounding the issues that are really going on. And that type of prescribing, in my opinion, is part of the dismissal society that is happening right now” “This is why ladies if you are a woman who has been dismissed, I'm going to strongly encourage you to stand back up on those strong legs and two feet that you have got and walk yourself into a different office. Walk yourself into a different virtual setting, which is how many practitioners are functioning now until you find the person where you're like - Everything they say, the way they describe it, how they teach that is resonating with me.” “You also cannot hand over the responsibility of your health to anyone else, whether this is the best practitioner, someone that you super connect with, or somebody not so much. It is actually not their job for you to get better. Their job and role are to educate you, to help support you with the tools and the resources to empower you, to guide you. But you, you are the only one that can create the power pause that can either put things into action for your health.” “I want you to start to peel back. I want you to begin to take note of what is truly going on in your body. Find the team, create your village. They're out there. They're waiting for you as much as you are waiting for them.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv, and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.   

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today, we kick off this episode breaking down elixirs and tinctures as I speak about these two quite often on this podcast, as well as addressing inflammation given it is a frequently asked about the topic by our listeners, clients, and community. We will then dive into our conversation with Doctor Ben Reebs, award-winning naturopathic physician and founder of the Portland Clinic of Natural Health which is an integrative medicine clinic that specializes in helping resolve chronic disease with natural medicine. He is the author of the highly acclaimed book, The Serpent and the Butterfly, the seven laws of healing. We actually go deep into his book, the name of this book, the whole meaning behind it. We talk about the seven different laws of healing as well in today's interview. And Ben is a recognized leading expert in the mind, body healing, and alternative medicine industry. He was awarded one of Portland's top medical providers in 2019, 2020, and 2021.  He has appeared in many different shows and publications. He is a member of the American Association of naturopathic physicians and the Oregon Association of naturopathic physicians.  And lastly, I just want to congratulate Dr. Ben Reebs on being an imminently expectant father to be during the recording of this episode, and with all our prayers and best wishes, a father to a beautiful, healthy, son or daughter, by the time you are hearing this episode.  You can find links to Dr. Ben Reebs's multi-platform publishings, as well as social / websites below in the ‘Connect with us' section of the show notes. You will also find below-linked info about our partners and recommended products to try. If you have a question for me and my team, send it on over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Introducing our guest, Dr. Ben Reebs Jenn's seasonal recommendations Answering your questions Seven laws of healing  The inconvenience of modern convenience Mitochondria and Cytokines Listen to your body, listen to its feedback Connect with us -  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. To connect with Dr. Ben Reebs and find direct links to his published works and social media, go to his website https://www.drreebs.com  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.  Learn more about the products I recommend and some of our amazing partners  Saint Francis Herb Farm PMS Support is a tincture formula that features a classically effective blend of herbs best suited to provide women with the natural hormone balance they need in dealing with PMS. You can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. The Soothe and the Light are two moisturizers that I alternate between. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. Use code JENNPIKE at check out and save 10% off your first order  Quotes “One of the reasons I love them so much is that the tinctures help to retain the most complete range of that plant's therapeutic constituents… they bypass the gut. They get directly into the body, into the stomach without having to go through all of the other channels.” “I think sometimes we get very wrapped up in just the physical of like what we eat and what we supplement with without taking into consideration everything else.” “The first law is what I call the love vitality, the vital force.” “The second is the law of disease...the founder of naturopathic medicine states that disease is caused by three things...and in modern language, these are - deficiency, toxicity, and weak vitality.”  “Looking at their symptoms which are really a reflection of an imbalance of imbalances. It's the way their body's pivoting, almost light a fighter... I don't see their symptoms as something that's wrong. It's more like this is the way their body compensated for an imbalance.” “I think it's how we've been taught. It's how we've been trained. You know, there's a pill for your ill. So just tell me the ill, give me the pill and let me move on. But then that person never actually feels better. They don't achieve vitality.” “ The powerful thing is that it's not having the right modality or having the right supplement, it's having the right way of thinking. I find that so liberating” “Your body will never lie to you” The fourth law is the Law of Compensation. Again from the founder of Naturopathic medicine, in his book, Nature Cure, written in 1913, he said that - ‘Everything you do to the body has first a primary action that is easily observed, and it's short-lived, It's transient, it lasts a short time. Then there's always a secondary reaction that goes in the opposite direction of the first that is actually much more long-lasting and more potent.” “The sixth law is the Law of Synergy - we can combine different therapies, different modalities, and they have a much greater effect than if they were just used individually...certain plants, when used together, are much more powerful than by themselves.” “A lot of that convenience, food, and lifestyle is leading to a very inconvenient decrease in our health” “Cytokines, in their very essence, are signaling cells and they're little proteins that cascade, one into the next.” “The seventh law is arguably the most important of them all, the Law of Intention. We really are the summation of what we think and feel and believe. And so what we intend, if we can visualize healing, that has an enormous impact on the outcome.” “Listen to your body, listen to its feedback, and then start to apply these different healing laws” “You just have to be willing to sit back and observe to sometimes press pause and to allow the innate power and ability of your body to step forward.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv, and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this simplicity bite, we will be discussing an important topic that came up during a Hormone Project team meeting a few weeks ago. One of our program advisors who speaks to women on a daily basis with a primary aim of determining how best we can support them came to the realization that close to every discussion included the relationship between hormone issues and digestion, the gut.  This posed the question of the chicken or the egg, which comes first, hormonal issues or gut issues. Irrespective of which came first, with decades of experience working with women struggling with their hormones, I can attest that digestion is always impacted.  I know this is sometimes so overwhelming because you were never taught this. You were literally never taught anything about your health, other than follow the food guide and get seven to nine hours of sleep and drink some water. But that's why you've joined our conversation today, that is why I'm here, to dive deeper with you so that you may gain a deeper level of understanding for yourself. So today, I'm going to talk you through four different hormones that can be specifically impacted, or areas of hormones in your body, by the gut. This is because your gut microbiota, your microbiome, influences nearly every single hormone in your body including the ones I'm going to focus on today in bite-size form. These are your thyroid hormones, your estrogen, melatonin, and main stress hormone, cortisol. Links and resources mentioned in this episode will be shared in the Online Work with Jenn section of these show notes. Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite: Chicken and the egg Hormones specifically impacted by your gut Impact of low microbiota on thyroid health Your microbiome, a key regulator of estrogen Melatonin - it helps you fall asleep and stay asleep Our relationship to light Cortisol and evaluating your relationship with sugar and starch Dirty Dozen Test, don't guess. Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!  Please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject  To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to hello@jennpike.com, and myself or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you.  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  Learn more about Jenn's work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Quotes:  “Today, I'm going to talk you through four different hormones that can be specifically impacted or areas of hormones in your body, by the gut, because your gut microbiota, your microbiome, influences nearly every single hormone in your body including the ones I'm going to focus on today in bite-size form. They are your thyroid hormones, your estrogen, melatonin, and main stress hormone,  cortisol.” “If you have an imbalanced gut microbiome, your thyroid is definitely going to be impacted by this. And some of the things that you might feel symptom-wise will be things like weight, gain, sensitivity to temperature. Your skin gets drier, your hair gets dryer. Your memory gets impacted, your cognition - that sharpness, that clarity, and that focus in your brain, that really starts to diminish, brain fog and constipation. “ I'm going to say this at the end of every point that I give you today, you want to make your gut health a top priority.” “ If your health is not in its optimal state, then we want to be looking at what are some of those possible triggers of inflammation... like gluten and dairy ...and remove them. It doesn't necessarily mean that as for life, it is for a period of time.” “Your microbiome, it's a key regulator in the levels of circulating estrogen in your body, your microbes in your gut, they actually produce an enzyme that's called beta-glucuronidase and that converts estrogen into its active forms.” “Estrogen is a potent promoter of tissue growth throughout your body.” “Melatonin helps you fall asleep and stay asleep. That melatonin, in order for your body to actually produce a sufficient amount, needs plenty of serotonin. This is the hormone that helps to regulate your mood. And over 90% of your serotonin is actually produced by your bacteria that lives in your gut, not between your ears, not in your brain, which we were taught.” “Our relationship to light is very important to help to regulate all of the various systems and the organs and the hormones in our body.” “Melatonin is one of our primary antioxidants. So it's really important to also help with our immune system.” “In relation to cortisol, you have got to evaluate your relationship with sugar and starches” “Purchase organic wherever possible -  if you're on a budget and you need to start somewhere, download the app from the environmental working group, look up the dirty dozen.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv, and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. This is a conversation with Kristin Dovbniak. Kristin is a holistic health coach and founder of Healthy Balanced Mama. This is a podcast and a brand designed by Kris to help moms stress less about the food that they are prepping and to help them understand and embody balanced, healthy eating and confident cooking. She encourages mothers worldwide to uncomplicate their eating and to find joy via her digital courses, meal planners, cooking classes, and more. Today, Kristin and I are going to discuss meal planning, demystifying the word balance when it comes to your health and the kitchen, and hopefully inspire confident cooking for you, your family, and your overall health.  You can find links to Kristin Dovbniak's multi-platform publishings, as well as social / websites below in the ‘Connect with us' section of the show notes. You will also find below-linked info about our partners and recommended products to try. If you have a question for me and my team, send it on over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.  Here are the main topics of today's episode: Introducing our guest, Kristin Dovbniak Jenn's seasonal recommendations  Finding the balance Creating simplified, balanced meals Digestive supportive ingredients Variety and balance = satisfaction Scheduled meal prep and front-loading Resources for flexibility, convenience, and balance Connect with us -  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. To connect with Kristin Dovbniak and find direct links to her programs, meal planners, and additional resources,, go to her website https://www.healthymamakris.com . To follow Kristin on social media and join her weekly cooking classes - Instagram @healthybalancedmamapod and Facebook group healthybalancedmamas To listen to Kris's podcast, the Healthy Balanced Mama podcast, visit the link here https://www.healthymamakris.com/podcast  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.  Learn more about the products I recommend and some of our amazing partners  Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. Pure is a gentle cleanser that has been specifically designed to effectively clean the skin without leaving it feeling dried or damaged. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. Use code JENNPIKE at check out and save 10% off your first order  Saint Francis Herb Farm Allergy Relief with Deep Immune provides symptom relief plus addresses the underlying cause of an overactive immune system without drowsiness or dryness side-effects. You can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. Quotes “Having this really hard relationship with food, I really wanted to share how food can be delicious and it can be nourishing and we can find that balance.” “I realized that the old ways of doing things of me just coming home after a long day, and either throwing something together really quickly or, um, you know, just eating takeout all the time, wasn't going to work anymore. I wanted to nourish myself, I wanted to nourish my family” “You need your meals to be satisfying and to balance your blood sugar so that you actually stay full and fueled.” “We have taste buds for a reason. If we're not enjoying our food, then it doesn't matter how healthy the meal is. We're not going to stick to whatever plan we're on if it doesn't actually taste good and it's not delicious' “Fruit is great for a smoothie, delicious and nutrient-dense. But if you put so much in there that. Spiking your blood sugar up to a million and then it's dropping down. You will be hungry really soon after. So having that balance in there, making sure there's some sort of a protein in there.” “Breakfast and lunch are important too. Especially if those are busy times of the day and you're not actually getting balanced meals” “ I think that midday fuel really sets us up for the rest of the day.” “I'll prep a Mason jar salad for lunch, and I'll just layer things in there” “I love having those options on hand that does have a good amount of protein in them to keep you satiated, that are easy to grab and throw together, and don't require a lot of cooking.” “Oftentimes in the afternoon, we might want something sweet because we're feeling a little bit low energy so having something in the fridge that I can grab, that's got a little bit of fat, a little bit of protein, and that tastes delicious.” “Whenever I talk about food, I love talking about the concepts of variety and balance. So we know that variety and balance are really important for nutrition, but they're also really important for satisfaction when it comes to food.”  “I always recommend when you are doing your meal planning, especially if you're not used to meal planning, or you're just starting to meal plan, or you're just meal planning for a busier week - to look at your week, to look at your schedule and ask yourself where you need the most support.” “ Front-loading with those foods that make us feel really good because we show up as the best version of ourselves and we're feeling good throughout the day when we're not showing up at our meals super hangry.” “ Allowing that space for flexibility, but also creating that place where you can create that convenience.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv, and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.   

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this simplicity bite, we will be delving even further into our ‘Distilling Our Thoughts' discussion over the past few weeks. This bonus episode is in response to the many questions that my team and I have received since we released our first episode three weeks ago.  Today, we will be discussing the hustle, the ambition that we all have to achieve. This is a good thing, don't get me wrong. I am a very ambitious woman. However it is equally important to celebrate what it is that we've achieved, and what we've accomplished to give our bodies, our nervous system the opportunity to pull back, ask ourselves how am I doing? and create that pause.  If you haven't yet listened to Part One or Part Two of this topic, please feel free to pause this episode, go listen to Distilling our Thoughts linked here and then join us back on this episode where I will do my very best to answer your questions. Links and resources mentioned in this episode will be shared in the Online Work with Jenn section of these show notes. Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite: Your questions on Distilling Our Thoughts Creating the environment within ourselves to tune in Expectations - our own and others Hustle culture  Intentional mindset Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!  Please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject  To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to hello@jennpike.com, and I or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you.  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  Learn more about Jenn's work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube   Quotes:  “It's understanding that life is always going to throw us things that we didn't know we're coming at us, that we're going to have to juggle. We're going to drop some of those balls. We're going to break some of them. Some of them need to stay on the ground and not be picked back up. Right. That is a good thing when we do that.”  “We have to start gauging - I only have this many hours in a day and this much energy in a day. Then you probably need to schedule 50% of what you normally do so that you have grace, you have the room in order to be able to still show up and to still feel good and not burnt out and polled and resentful and exhausted.” “Sometimes the expectations we put on ourselves, when we stand back we actually recognize this isn't even mine. Like I don't even care about this, but we've taken it because that is the impact around us. So you have got to get clear on those boundaries and by getting clear on your boundaries, you have to first get clear on your priorities. That is where you come back to that tune in.” “How many of you right now, like raising a hand and I'm raising both have achieved the thing, and yet still not felt fulfilled. Right? This is like that, that culture we're in the hustle culture, which has the only way to achieve, right?” “I think so many of us have been taught our worth is attached to productivity and that when we are not being productive, we are lazy… instead of thinking about it being lazy or doing nothing. Think of it as being intentional, right? Intentional about taking care of yourself, attentional or intentional, rather about doing what lights you up.” “it's just about making a decision and it doesn't have to be a massive one. It can be the tiniest one. It could even be listening to this again, and actually just soaking up what I was saying when it comes to the seasons and animals in our life, and nothing being in full bloom all the time.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv, and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.   

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you’ve joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. This is a conversation with Nicole Jardim. Nicole is what I would call, a period wizard, in terms of helping women repair their periods and get to that stage of having really healthy menstrual cycles. She is a certified women's health coach, a writer, speaker, and mentor.  She is the creator of Fixed Your Period. a series of programs that empower women and menstruators to reclaim their health in a really positive way. She is the co-author of Happy Balance, a recipe book with 80+ hormone-balancing recipes. And if that is not enough to fill her time, she hosts her own podcast called the Period Party. She uses a method that combines evidence-based info and simplicity and SAS, this is why we love her. Her work has impacted the lives of tens of thousands of women all around the world, helping with period problems, PMS, irregular cycles, PCOM, painful, heavy periods, missing periods and so much more. What I really love about Nicole's work is, that rather than just treating problems or the symptoms, she works with women to help to address the root cause of what's really going on physically, mentally, and emotionally. She believes that these are the fundamentals to heal hormonal balances that are happening in our body and this is something we are in complete agreement on. You can find links to Nicole Jardim’s multi-platform publishings, as well as social / websites below in the ‘Connect with us’ section of the show notes. You will also find below-linked info about our partners and recommended products to try. If you have a question for me and my team, send it on over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.  Here are the main topics of today’s episode: Introducing our guest, Nicole Jardim Jenn’s seasonal recommendations  Hemorrhagic menorrhagia  If I could help myself, maybe I can help others Connecting the dots Our menstrual cycles are not a design flaw Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Pain is pain and should be treated as such Diet is the bedrock for healthy cycles Pandemic Periods Understanding what your maximum tension is Nicole’s tangible advice and resources Connect with us -  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. To connect with Nicole Jardim and find direct links to her programs, go to her website https://nicolejardim.com. To listen to the Period Party podcast, https://nicolejardim.com/podcast/  To find details on Fixed Your Period, follow the link here https://nicolejardim.com/about/ and The Happy Balance Recipes here. To follow Nicole on social media - Instagram @nicolemjardim and Facebook @nicolemjardim You can connect to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I’ve shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.  Learn more about the products I recommend and some of our amazing partners  Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. Pure is a gentle cleanser that has been specifically designed to effectively clean the skin without leaving it feeling dried or damaged. If it’s your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. Use code JENNPIKE at check out and save 10% off your first order  Saint Francis Herb Farm PMS Support is a tincture formula that features a classically effective blend of herbs best suited to provide women with the natural hormone balance they need in dealing with PMS. You can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. Quotes “You can have a conversation with your practitioner about what is going on because bleeding doesn't happen for no reason. Hemorrhagic menorrhagia does not happen for no reason” “When to my mom’s gynecologist and she said, Oh, I think I'll just put you on the pill. And this should take care of all of it, you know, in one fell swoop. And it actually does do that right away, you start to feel better, your periods lighten up and they're not as heavy, they're less painful and regular. And that's what happened to me. And then I started having all these side effects from being on the pill, which does happen.” “ Finally I went to school to learn this stuff because I thought - if I could help myself, maybe I can help other people too.” “The other thing that is often overlooked is progesterone, estrogen, testosterone. These hormones that are produced because of ovulation are so critical to our overall health.” “This just becomes a ubiquitous part of a woman's health journey. Is she just stumbles from one suppressive form to the next masking it as she goes” “And I fundamentally believe that our bodies were not created in such a way that we would be miserable for one or two weeks, every single cycle, because our menstrual cycles, in my opinion, are not this design flaw.” “I want everyone to know that what you experience shouldn't feel negative and it really shouldn't disrupt your life.” “I find it fascinating that pain in any other part of your body is taken seriously, generally speaking by medical doctors and practitioners. However, period pain, when you have pain in your uterus, that's not taken seriously at all. That's just like, Oh, that's totally normal. So how have we normalized pain as it relates to our menstrual cycle and our uterus.” “Diet is the bedrock. It's the foundation for healthy or unhealthy periods and it's not just our periods. Right. It's really how we feel all month long and particularly how we feel in those one to two weeks before our periods...I think that that's the first and mostly the easiest place that people can start with, just by bringing in more food that is nutrient-dense and is going to support ovarian function.” “Pandemic Periods - I think about the collective stress that we're all experiencing that is basically never happened before” “How do you Nicole, create more simplicity and ease? ...it's really living in tandem with my cycle, in my opinion, it's the best tool that we have to create more of this simplicity and ease in our lives because we all work really hard to do the things that we do.” Learn more about Jenn’s work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv, and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.  

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this simplicity bite, we will be delving further into what we discussed last Thursday on the episode ‘Distilling Our Thoughts’ discussing tune-ins weekly, monthly and quarterly.  It is no easy task sometimes to distill down our thoughts, so I hope that this deeper dive into what I do for myself through weekly power pauses and utilizing my journal as a landing page for my thoughts, helps you and can support you on your journey.  If you haven’t yet listened to Part One of this topic, please feel free to pause this episode, go listen to Distilling our Thoughts linked here and then join us back on this episode to dive further. Links and resources mentioned in this episode will be shared in the Online Work with Jenn section of these show notes. Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite: Refresh of Distilling Our Thoughts Part One Think of your journal as a landing page for your thoughts Power pause  Elimination, take action, delegation, and automation. Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!  Please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject  To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to hello@jennpike.com, and I or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you.  You can connect to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  Quotes:  “A Lot of the time, what my journal will provide for me a landing page. It's a blank page, pen to paper, and it's where I literally take anything and everything that is occupying space in my head. And in my heart and I just barf it out onto the page, through my pen, and seeing it helps me to not feel it all. And when I can look at it, then what I'm able to do is break it down into four categories - elimination, take action, delegation, and automation.” “Really figure out what can get done because you do not actually have an infinite amount of energy and time. You have a finite amount of energy and time. If we're talking in the literal sense of your minutes and hours and days in a week.” “I can't do everything all at once. And so I will put it in my eliminate for now pile. And if it continues to show up in my brain dump month, over month, and year over year, then that's a passion project. That's no longer just a goal that I have. It's actually something that means a lot to me and I want to bring it to life. And that's pretty much how every single thing I've ever created in my business over the years has happened.” “I call this a power pause for myself. It has helped my brain. And my nervous system so much. And when I start to feel myself kind of sliding back over into my old habits, which for me, it's very easy to take on way more, especially in my follicular and arbitrary phase. It's super easy to say yes to everything and everyone, I come back to these pages that I fill out every weekend.” Learn more about Jenn’s work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.  

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you’ve joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.   Robyn Srigley aka The Hormone Diva joins me on the podcast today. Robyn is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner guiding women to balance hormones, build healthy menstrual cycles and create strong metabolisms. Robyn’s own experience with PCOS and hypothyroidism jumpstarted her passion for supporting women to reverse their symptoms naturally, build confidence and live life on their own terms.   Robyn tells Jenn about her experience with navigating the after effects of getting off birth control and being diagnosed with PCOS and hypothyroidism. She discusses how nutrition is a critical role in being healthy and how a healthy reproductive system is a great sign of health whether you are trying to get pregnant or not.    You can find links to Robyn Srigley, as well as social / websites below in the ‘Connect with us’ section of the show notes. You will also find below linked info about our partners and recommended products to try.   If you have a question for me and my team, send it on over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today’s episode: Robyn’s PCOS diagnosis Robyn’s DIY journey to recovery  How low carb diets can affect your body Reproductive health is a sign of women’s health Eat for the right nutrients Do the Dutch test at the right time When to know you are ovulating     Connect with Robyn Srigley   Website: http://www.thehormonediva.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehormonediva Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thehormonediva  Free Email Series: https://thehormonediva.ck.page/1fdc076968   Connect with us -    Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful.   To connect with Jennifer van Barneveld-Pe, sign up for a one-on-one and find direct links to her programs, go to her website https://www.coachjvb.com.  To listen to the Find Your Strong podcast, https://www.coachjvb.com/category/podcast/.  To subscribe to the Strong Fitness Magazine, follow the link here https://www.strongfitnessmag.com  To follow Jennifer on social media - Instagram @coach_JVB and Twitter @coach_JVB   You can connect to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.   Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.   Online work with Jenn:    Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.   Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!    Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/    To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i’ve shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.    Learn more about the products I recommend and some of our amazing partners    Skin Essence Organics is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. There are certain products from Skin Essence that I used in my skin care that I adores in Question 1 during the episode. Fresh is a product that is like nutrition for your skin as it helps remove the impurities, even makeup, from your skin without hurting it. I pump a dime-sized amount in my hand, add a little water, and then massage all in my skin everywhere, even down my neck.  Fresh is antioxidant rich and used to tone and clarify skin, which helps with your breakouts because it helps maintain your skin’s natural pH balance. For a toner I use a mixture of Doterra oils and add Frankincense, helichrysum, lavender, and geranium in a spritz bottle for my face.  I roll a little bit of Emortel and Frankincense roller Baum anywhere where I might have any scars from previous breakouts or wrinkles.  Finally I apple a light oil from Skin Essence that is called light or soothe or Rose hip.  If it’s your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that.  Saint Francis Herb Farm provides some of the products for treating Poison Ivy that my son got the other week. I used two different things: 1) Vitamin E cream, which its good to have in any home that has kids or anyone that works with their hands where there is a chance to get scraped or have small cuts; and 2) Rose Hip Oil was added to an Amber bottle where I added eucalyptus, peppermint, lavender, and frankincense (5 drops of each oil in a 30 mL bottle of Rose Hip oil. I put this on my son morning and night and it made such a huge difference.  Another tip of treating Poison Ivy is ice packs. A couple of velcro ice packs placed in the areas that were really itchy decreased the itching helped a great deal. You can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. doTERRA oils are used to answer the last question in today’s episode: What do I use to freshen my laundry. First of all, I don’t use fabric softener or Downy sheets was they are carcinogens, respiratory triggers, and skin irritants. They are also loaded with Reno estrogens, which impact your endocrine system. I do use dryer balls made of wool from GoodJuju. Use code JENNPIKE at check out and save 10% off your first order. I combine the dryer balls with deTERRA essential oils. I love lemon, grapefruit, wild orange, or lavender. I pop those in there and it makes the clothes smell fresh.     Quotes   “what they offered me was. Go back on birth control, lose weight. Take Metformin. I decided I didn't want to do any of that. I was at a healthy weight. I should say that I was not overweight by any means. I did not need to lose weight, but that's one of their kind of blanket, pieces of advice that they'll give. And so I decided to start my own journey of trying to heal this naturally.” “And my periods started to come more often. From 60 days to like 45 days, 35 days. And I was getting them every like 28 to 32 days. It took some time. I'm not saying this happened overnight by any means, but this was over the period of like a year or two. And it was that focus on creating safety in my body physically, as well as mentally, emotionally that made those changes.” “You said that this is how reproduction is actually happening in our body, whether you want to get pregnant or not. And here's what we're not taught as women you obviating and having the ability to conceive is not just about procreation. It is actually a marker of your longevity of health.” “are you just focusing on convenience? With your food or are you actually trying to find the stuff that's most nutrient dense? And sometimes that goes against the grain of like, um, you know, protein shakes for breakfast every day, or like meal replacement, bars and stuff like that. Like, those things have their place, right?…how can we switch that into something that's maybe equally as convenient, but has like a lot more nutrient density.” “…so many women are like, Oh, I don't eat breakfast because I'm just not hungry yet. So I don't eat, but if you don't give your body that consistent fuel, then it's going to go into that fight or flight mode…” Learn more about Jenn’s work: Jenn Pike  Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.   

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this simplicity bite, we will be discussing journaling and weekly tune-ins. It can be really difficult sometimes to distill down our thoughts. To have the focus, to understand some of the more important things that we could be doing for ourselves in order to feel our best and then have the energy, the cognition, and the fortitude to want to move forward towards some of the goals and intentions that we set for ourselves. And so what I created for myself is actually what is referred to as my weekly tune-ins. And I use this as a tool with the women that I mentor inside of the Audacious Woman, which is a year-long mentorship that I started just this past year. In today’s episode, I will take you through weekly tune-ins verbally so please feel free to take a moment to grab some paper and take notes throughout. Links and resources mentioned in this episode will be shared in the Online Work with Jenn section of these show notes. Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite: Journaling Introduction to Weekly Tune-Ins Cycle sinking What you focus on expands The environment around you Tapping into your heart and feelings What is your joy point? What are your boundaries? Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do! Please do not hesitate to book a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to hello@jennpike.com, and I or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you. You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community Online work with Jenn: Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ Quotes: “It can be really difficult sometimes to distill down our thoughts. To have the focus, to understand some of the more important things that we could be doing for ourselves in order to feel our best and then have the energy, the cognition, and the fortitude to want to move forward towards some of the goals and intentions that we set for ourselves.” “So the very first thing that I do is I ask myself, how can I support my body this week? And then what I'll do is I'll take a look at what's happening in my calendar.” “I move my body for me as a woman completely based on my cycle. So I do cycle sinking and that's what. Sanct, my online membership studio is all about, so everything I do, I come back to looking at not my work calendar or my family's calendar, I look at my own body.” “Second thing I do is think about this from my mind. What you focus on expands. So how can you support your mind this week to channel your energy into focus and to clarity and to a priority? ...How can I support, you know, this, this jungle gym between my ears.” “The next thing I tap into is my heart. I asked myself, how am I feeling? How are you feeling?, that you are allowed to feel the things that you're feeling genuinely and wholeheartedly and how you're feeling allows you to express or acknowledge your feelings. “How could you fit more of you into this week? And I think sometimes if you look at it in regards to the week, as opposed to every single day” “ Our purpose is not to be here for everyone and everything else” Learn more about Jenn’s work: Jenn Pike  Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.         

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you’ve joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. This is a conversation with Jennifer van Barneveld-Pe. Jenny is known as Coach JVB and is a renowned body transformation specialist. She is the newly appointed President of Strong Fitness Magazine and a three-time fitness cover model. Jenny entered the fitness industry from humble beginnings and has had her fair share of struggles but she has persevered and is making a huge mark on the industry. Jenny’s journey is a powerful one; she has battled through an eating disorder, suffered multiple miscarriages, and almost had to file for bankruptcy. Her quest to heal herself led to her forming her company, JVC Strong Girls, which is a community of women that help other women ascend their lives to new heights. She truly believes that fitness is a vessel to help women feel strong and confident and empowered in their bodies and their lives. In 2021, Jennifer started the Find Your Strong podcast. Her podcast is about life transformation because physical transformation is only part of it. She talks about mental strength, confidence, and emotional empowerment. All that happens when you start to take better care of yourself. So each week she delivers an inspirational guest, story, or a pep talk from myself on how to build stronger bodies, stronger minds, and stronger relationships. You can find links to Jennifer van Barneveld-Pe’s multi-platform publishings, as well as social / websites below in the ‘Connect with us section of the show notes. You will also find below-linked info about our partners and recommended products to try. If you have a question for me and my team, send it on over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice. Here are the main topics of today’s episode: Introducing our guest, Jennifer van Barneveld-Pe Jenn’s seasonal recommendations Learning how to fuel my body, my mind, and my soul Nutrition and wellbeing strategy Strong Girls Method Find Your Strong platforms Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. To connect with Jennifer van Barneveld-Pe, sign up for a one-on-one and find direct links to her programs, go to her website https://www.coachjvb.com. To listen to the Find Your Strong podcast, https://www.coachjvb.com/category/podcast/. To subscribe to the Strong Fitness Magazine, follow the link here https://www.strongfitnessmag.com To follow Jennifer on social media - Instagram @coach_JVB and Twitter @coach_JVB You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn: Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I’ve shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products I recommend and some of our amazing partners Saint Francis Herb Farm PMS Support is a tincture formula that features a classically effective blend of herbs best suited to provide women with the natural hormone balance they need in dealing with PMS. You can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. Use code JENNPIKE at check out and save 10% off your first order Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. The Facial in a Jar helps achieve smooth, vibrant skin by removing dead skin cells that clog pores and form blackheads. Exfoliating regularly improves skin’s elasticity and has the ability to absorb moisture and retain rich nutrients. If it’s your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. Quotes “I truly believe that fitness is a vessel to help women feel strong, confident, and empowered in their bodies and their lives.” “I really need to learn a way that is healthier for me, my body, my mind, my soul. And that's when I went back to school for holistic nutrition. And I really learned how to fuel my body properly and not to be scared of food” “We're always going to experience ups and downs in life and it's, and it's about recognizing that and really giving yourself the permission to go through it” “The Find Your Strong podcast is about life transformation because the physical transformation is only part of it. We talk about mental strength, confidence, emotional empowerment. All that happens when you start to take better care of yourself. So each week I'll deliver an inspirational guest, story, or a pep talk from myself on how to build stronger bodies, stronger minds, and stronger relationships.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.   

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this simplicity bite, we will be discussing testosterone, how to test for high and low testosterone levels, and triggers to be aware of. We will delve into how to support yourself via sleep, stress reduction, lifestyle, and environment, as well as nutrition and supplementation.  I do want to preface this episode by stating that we are talking in general terms today, that it is important for you to test first to understand what is going on with your testosterone levels. This episode will support you in taking some of these questions or info back to your practitioner that you are working with, or if you want to work with my team to help you understand, please reach out to us via the contact information shared in these show notes.  Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite: Testing Testosterone  The high and low of testosterone This is a marathon, not a sprint Triggers to be aware of Prioritizing your sleep and your stress Lifestyle and environment Supporting your digestive system General education on intelligent supplementation Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!  If you would like to understand what is going on with your testosterone, please do not hesitate to book a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject  To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to hello@jennpike.com, and I or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you.  You can connect to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Learn more about Jenn’s work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Quotes:  “IMPORTANT - I want you to understand that we're talking general terms today, but you want to take some of these questions or info back to your practitioner that you are working with, or you want to work with one of us on our team to help you so let's understand what it is that's going on” “This is not something that you can guess, you should most definitely test. And now there are two ways to test your testosterone. You can do it through your blood work and discover what your serum testosterone is. And then you can also do the Dutch test, I actually recommend both.”  “In the blood, we're going to see the amount of testosterone freely circulating. Remember it is like a snapshot. It's like a selfie of what's going on in that moment with the amount of testosterone that you have available. But what the Dutch tell us is that plus how you actually metabolize, how you break this down or attempt to break it down and which pathway it gets moved in your body.” “Making sure you're getting an optimal amount of nutrients into your system, specifically for testosterone - we're looking at things like zinc, methylated B vitamins, magnesium, selenium, making sure your iodine is healthy enough (this is also really important for your thyroid), Iron, Vitamin C and getting enough protein, supporting your cholesterol as well.” “Prioritize your sleep and your stress.” “Disclaimer - The other thing is making sure that you are supplementing intelligently. Now again, I'm giving you general education. I don't know you. So I'm going to talk to you about a couple of different supplements that can be used to increase, but you're not going to do any of these unless you've done a test and you're working with someone” “Whether we're trying to increase or decrease our things like adaptogens, the adrenals need to be supported in order for your hormones to be supported, the liver needs to be supported.  Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.   

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you’ve joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. This is a conversation with Dr. Lara Briden, naturopathic doctor, women’s health activist, and best-selling author of Period Repair Manual and Hormone Repair Manual which provides practical solutions for period and hormone problems. Lara is also lead author of a 2020 medicinal journal peer-reviewed paper which we will link in the show notes. Her newest book, Hormone Repair Manual delves into Perimenopause, how to prepare your body and how to understand the changes that you're going to go through. Lara is currently consulting in Christchurch, New Zealand, working to provide solutions for conditions such as PCOS, PMS, Endometriosis, and Perimenopause. You can find links to Dr. Lara Briden’s multi-platform publishings, as well as social / websites below in the ‘Connect with us’ section of the show notes. You will also find below-linked info about our partners and recommended products to try. If you have a question for me and my team, send it on over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice. Here are the main topics of today’s episode: Introducing our guest, Dr. Lara Briden Jenn’s seasonal recommendations What is Perimenopause? and the emotional terrain Puberty perceptions - ‘Age is but a number’ Four phases of perimenopause Natural cycles, contraceptives and hormone therapy Hormonal vs copper IUD How we can support ourselves through each phase Recommendations Connect with us - Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. To connect with Dr. Lara Briden and find direct links to read her books, Period Repair Manual and Hormone Repair Manual, as well as her peer-reviewed paper, go to her website https://larabriden.com. To follow Lara - Instagram @larabriden and Twitter @LaraBriden You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn: Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I’ve shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. Learn more about the products I recommend and some of our amazing partners Saint Francis Herb Farm Sinafect for acute sinusitis and nasal allergies. And while Sinafect® is recommended for allergy-related acute sinusitis, Oréganum Plus plays a key role in treating chronic sinusitis. You can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. Saint Francis Herb Farm Allergy Relief with Deep Immune provides symptom relief plus addresses the underlying cause of an overactive immune system without drowsiness or dryness side-effects. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. The E-cream is a delicately balanced skin balm that contains a wide variety of plant extracts that offer excellent calming, soothing, and anti-inflammatory benefits. E-Cream is ideal for helping to soothe and reduce the effects of eczema, redness, sunburns, insect bites, and dry/itchy skin. The extracts and essential oils used in the Light Oil formula contain natural healing, anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, which help to keep the skin clean and clear, preventing breakouts. If it’s your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. Use code JENNPIKE at check out and save 10% off your first order Quotes “Perimenopause is what I call in my book, Second puberty as it's a time of transition...It's temporary, It's not about aging. It's actually just a hormonal event that we're hardwired to do.” “I look at these transitionary years - perimenopause into menopause as being some of the wisest that we could be living with the most wisdom of our bodies and really like how much we can gain from that.” “The test for premature or primary ovarian insufficiency is a high FSH reading on a couple of, at least a month apart, two readings over 40. “Having your uterus removed, doesn't bring menopause. There's no periods, obviously, because there's no uterus, but there's still all this PMS or definitely women still go through the normal high estrogen phases of perimenopause, even if they don't have a uterus, which I think is an important part of the conversation because a lot of women have this surgery and are not actually told that that is the case.” “ Phase One ...The assessment for perimenopause is to have three out of nine symptoms (listed in my book) because there is no blood test or otherwise that can diagnose perimenopause.” “Phase Two is when you start to get irregularity, more than usual in your cycle” “Phase Three is when women start to have their first big gaps, like they might go at least 60 days without having a period that's phase three and each phase can last a few years.” “Phase Four is when you've had what you think might be your final period.” “The first two phases are a time of basically high fluctuating estrogen and very little progesterone or relatively little progesterone. And then phase three and four, the phase of more lower estrogen and also lower progesterone and a shift to insulin resistance” “...the official guidance, and I think this is accurate is if you've been more than a year without a period, and then you do get some bleeding, you should check with your doctor” “ How we actually can be supporting and setting our bodies up for moving through these different phases and the transition feeling more supportive, as opposed to like somebody just pulled the rug out from underneath us, which I think is what happens unfortunately, to so many women. And so you talk in the book about insulin resistance, about supporting our nervous system, our relationship to our circadian rhythm and, too light and dark,and really taking care of ourselves, food wise and with supplements.” “So in the later phases of perimenopause when estrogen starts to go down in phase three and four, we, most of us shift to reduced insulin sensitivity, because estrogen in particular enhances insulin sensitivities. It’s just part of the process.” “ Now is the time actually, especially in the later phases of perimenopause, now is the time. If you have any capacity to do it, you know, to carve out some more space for movement, for sleep, for rest, because if you do it now, then you improve your chances of having vital health into your fifties, sixties, and seventies” “Reducing, removing the alcohol is really important” “The circadian rhythm part of the brain, which is a part of the brain in the hypothalamus is affected very much by menopause and perimenopause. Which is one of the reasons sleep disturbance is common in perimenopause.” “I would say the combination of magnesium tarring, bright light in the morning and no alcohol for 50% of those women, that's all they have to do. They don't even have to go as far as progesterone or estrogen or anything like that. So the results can be quite dramatic actually. With just a few simple interventions and lifestyle being the base and the foundation of that” “Dementia starts around the time of our last period. And it's really to do with this rewiring of the brain. It's an energy crisis of the brain when estrogen drops, our brain energy drops by 25%, which sounds bad, it doesn't feel great. So the different ways to mitigate that, I think estrogen can mitigate that to some extent, estrogen therapy. Also other ways would be to not have insulin resistance, like to identify it and reverse it. I really can't emphasize enough now is the time to do that. And it's for brain health, long-term potentially plus for all the other things, but that's, for me, that's a big motivator.” “ What can happen with perimenopause is actually about the recalibration of the immune system and the loss of progesterone and how that increases our risk of auto-immune disease, similar to postpartum flare of autoimmune thyroid disease.” “ We want to make sure that we are actually feeding and nourishing and supporting our bodies.” “Magnesium and taurine is my baseline. That's part of what I call the basic action plan for the rewiring of the brain. Beyond that, of course, it's going to be other things looking at B vitamins, especially B12, in which B12 deficiency is not uncommon and really needs to be identified. I talk about zinc and its benefits for particularly the hippocampus and the stress response system.”

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this Simplicity Bite, we will be discussing bowel movements, more specifically constipation. Constipation affects a range of bodily functions due to the interconnected nature of our gut. A lack of daily bowel movements can cause symptoms including inflammation, estrogen dominance, headaches, low energy, and acne. Therefore it is important to induce regular bowel movements as it is a key indicator of our overall health. Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite: What is constipation?  At what frequency should we have bowel movements Digestive Reset A key identifying tool of our health (present and past tense) What are you putting into your body? Hydration, Adrenal and Thyroid function Jenn’s digestion support recommendations Taking the time to connect the dots Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!  If you are struggling and you feel more confused than you did before, please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject  To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to hello@jennpike.com, and I or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you.  You can connect to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community. Learn more about the products I recommend: Saint Francis Herb Farm Bitters for Naturally Strong Digestion. You can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Learn more about Jenn’s work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Quotes:  “ If you are not having a bowel movement at least once a day, then you are constipated.” “If you are constipated, this is what can contribute to some of the symptoms like inflammation, estrogen dominance - PMS, symptoms, headaches, weight, gain, and toxicity in general.” “The gut is connected to everything in your body. And this is really going to present some different health symptoms if we don't start to get things actually moving.” “If you're eating all the time, right, like you never stop eating, this actually can slow down your migrating motor complex and impact your mobility.” “ When you're under a tremendous amount of stress, this actually shunts both the blood and the hydrochloric acid and the enzymes in your gut away from being able to effectively and efficiently break your food down. This then can lead to things like SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth).” “Starting to simply observe what it is that your habits are and then how your body responds can be a really powerful way to potentially heal yourself to change some of the things that are causing some of the problems.” “Take into account some of the things that I've chatted with you about today, maybe it's a great opportunity for you to sit down and create that timeline for yourself and start to connect some of the dots so that you can determine what some of the best suggestions that I gave you are to start with today.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.  

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you’ve joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. This is a conversation with Fitness industry leader, Tommy Caldwell, best-selling author of Heavy Brain and creator of the MetFlex-Rx Diet. He is also the founder of Hybrid Fitness - Canada’s largest independent fitness facility. Tommy is here today to talk to us about the struggles we all face to meet our health, fitness, and performance goals and delve into understanding what motivates our actions and inactions. He will share with us resiliency strategies built from proven techniques of discipline and mindset, as well as resources to support each of us on our journey. As a performance coach with a specialization in habit and behavior change for fitness, Tommy has worked with thousands of clients, over the past decade, helping them to bridge that gap between their intention and the action to reach those elusive health and fitness goals. You can find links to Tommy Caldwell’s multi-platform publishings, as well as social / websites at the bottom of the show notes. You will also find linked info about our partners and recommended products to try. If you have a question for me and my team, send it on over to hello@jennpike.com or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  Here are the main topics of today’s episode: Introducing our guest, Tommy Caldwell Jenn’s seasonal recommendations  Understanding our motivations for both action and inaction Emotional sensitivities  Building a resiliency mindset  The cyclical nature of reactive responses What’s done is done. What are you going to do now?  Underlying emotions  Changing the environment where the behaviour lives Resources  Connect with us -  Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful. Follow Tommy on Instagram @tcfitnessmentor and Twitter @hybridtraining  To connect with Tommy Caldwell and find direct links to read and/or listen to his books, Heavy Brain and MetFlex-Rx Diet. go to his website https://tommycaldwell.net  To access his Podcasts, The Fitness Mentor Podcast and The Beyond Your Body Podcast, follow this link https://tommycaldwell.net/podcasts/  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/  To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i’ve shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.  Learn more about the products I recommend and some of our amazing partners  Saint Francis Herb Farm Allergy Relief with Deep Immune  provides symptom relief plus addresses the underlying cause of an overactive immune system without drowsiness or dryness side-effects.You can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order. Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. The E-cream is a delicately balanced skin balm that contains a wide variety of plant extracts which offer excellent calming, soothing and anti-inflammatory benefits. E-Cream is ideal for helping to soothe and reduce the effects of eczema, redness, sun burns, insect bites, and dry/itchy skin. If it’s your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. GoodJuju make all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. Use code JENNPIKE at check out and save 10% off your first order  Quotes “I started down the road of understanding. The emotional, psychological connection between a person, what a person wants to do and what a person is able to do and learning why it's so difficult for someone to bridge that gap, because everyone knows what unhealthy eating looks like in their own life.” “ In my opinion, I think there's too much information. So for the average individual, you don't know how to discern what you actually need or how to then apply it into your life.” “If you can be resilient and stay positive. And just when you slip and fall, just pick yourself back up and go, okay, that happened. And this is why it happened. And it's not the end of the world. And I'm just going to pick myself back up tomorrow. That person is eventually going to succeed, whether it's six months, one year, five years, but managing that mindset is the trick.” “The more reactive you are, the less time you give yourself to assess what's going on, what you're feeling and how you should react. Just asking simple questions.” That is the best opportunity to stop and be curious because what's done is done. There's no point in holding it against yourself. What you need to do is now reflect on that moment, in that situation in a positive way. So you can actually get something out of it in the future. And that's just what I tell people what's done is done. Get something out of it. So what was it, what was the chain of events that led to that consequential behavior?” “Pick little things you can change and manage that give you a feeling of self control, that gives you the psychological reward of - I've identified the problem, I've picked how I'm going to manage it and I'm just baby-stepping. So I just made a little augmentation to my routine and I can do this consistently. And once you can prove to yourself that you can make those little changes for a few weeks. Now, you can make the next change.”  “We've had to step into a place of radical resiliency on many levels, right? Like in our, in the economy, in work and finance and our relationships, all of it. I think actually the one area that we really, we could have used the most help in this year, which is the understanding of our health and how to be healthy”  “Changing the environment where the behavior usually lives. And if it's on the couch in front of the TV, go for a walk for 20 minutes or do some yoga in another room because just doing that can number one, break up the pattern. And number two, give you the time and space in order to really assess what you're going to do when you return and it doesn't have to be perfect and it doesn't have to change everything, but you'll find when you have those little gaps and those changes in the habit and routine that you're so used to the leads to the same outcome, it gives you the time and space to manage that part of your day differently.” “How your actions affect your mind in the aftermath is going to determine your future habits and behaviors, which over time will determine the outcomes in your health. So it all starts in the mind and how you manage those, those difficult times, because difficult times aren't going to go away.” Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children. 

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. In this simplicity bite, we will be discussing stress hormones, the associated symptoms and how they can make us feel. We will look to understand how stress presents itself in our own bodies and through this understanding, start to take back control and take care of ourselves - physically, mentally and emotionally.   Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite: What is cortisol?  The associated eb and flow of this hormone How stress can affect you - physically, mentally and emotionally Your adrenals are your bodies SWAT team Low cortisol levels vs High cortisol How to test and assess your adrenal levels Advice you can start using today Vagal nerve exercises and parasympathetic work for your body  The importance of sleep, hydration and balanced nutrition Sensory stimulants - positive and negative  Adaptogens Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!  If you are struggling and you feel more confused than you did before, please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject  To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to hello@jennpike.com and myself or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you.  You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast. Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community. Online work with Jenn:  Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!  Learn more about Jenn’s work:  Jenn Pike   Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike The Hormone Project  The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more! http://www.jennpike.com/ Simplicity TV on Youtube Quotes:  “We need cortisol. It plays massive essential functions in our body, and it's only when things start to go sideways that that's when the chaos actually starts to happen.” “Your cortisol is made by your adrenal glands, which sit on top of the kidneys. You have two adrenal glands and they are supporting your blood sugar regulation. They're supporting your metabolic function. They're helping to reduce inflammation, helping to control your blood pressure. Forming memories, helping with your brain function.” “If you've read my book The Simplicity Project, I talk about this and I always give the same example that your adrenals are your body SWAT team, meaning they don't work 24 seven. They're not on call all the time. They get called in when s*** hits the fan. When it is go time. We need the best of the best.” “When you have really low cortisol or you have symptoms of low cortisol, you might be the person that is feeling like you are tired all the time. Right? This is chronic fatigue.” “Women with high cortisol...They tend to have higher blood sugar, which also contributes to that weight gain around the belly, the insulin resistance. The body has become less sensitive to utilizing and producing an uptaking insulin in the body.” “When we're talking about the adrenals, running a Dutch test would be really beneficial. This can be a useful place to start to properly assess what might be going on. That's something that we do inside The Hormone Project. You can also just book and get on the phone with one of our team members and do a hormone project discovery call.” “The first thing I want you to remember is that cortisol is high or low for a reason. Okay. And so we're trying to identify what is the trigger?”  “Sleep has a massive impact on our adrenals and on our nervous system as a whole.”  “The other thing, ladies, you need to eat food. You need to stop dieting and stop abusing fasting. Your cortisol levels need balanced blood sugar and adequate micronutrients.”  “ Unregulated blood sugar equates to unregulated adrenals.” “Using blue light blockers at night is a really big one so that you can decrease your exposure to blue light. There is a free app you can download onto your devices called FLUX.” “I’ve been using an Aura ring for years now. It tracks things like your sleep and your steps, but more importantly, your heart rate variability and can give you indications about your readiness and how rested you are. And how your body is really doing.” “If you are struggling and you feel more confused than you did before, please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject”  Additional Information About Jenn: Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.