The Healthy Body Podcast

Today's episode is the third in my hormone series and is with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack! Lisa is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner who teachers women to chart their menstrual cycles for natural birth control, conception and monitoring overall health. In this episode, you will learn about: Lisa's journey in having period pain, history with hormonal contraceptives, and wanting to find a more natural solution to birth control How Lisa started using the Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) to track her menstrual cycle and learned she had a thyroid issue More on how our menstrual cycle is more than just our period and why it's important to look at the whole cycle The four different phases of your menstrual cycle - 1) follicular (or preovulatory), 2) ovulation, 3) luteal (or postovulatory) and 4) your period Using FAM as a means of 1) natural birth control, 2) conceive and get pregnant and 3) learn about your health and body How FAM can also help you develop b