Dental Wellness, Digestion & Peri-Menopause

Quick Orientation 

Hi I'm Christina, 
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This is my blog where I share a variety of things as I move into year eight of my own heading toward Menopause journey. What that means is: I've been in peri-menopause for almost eight years now.

I mention this because I believe it's important for women to understand their own inner body as it relates to the subtle shifts taken place, often over a significant length of time- as we head toward menopause: is not only possible-but it's also subjective to each woman's life.  I believe this level of awareness is super important on a lot of levels.  Every woman's journey in this stage of life is going to happen inside of her in different ways. Therefore, it's a wonderful time for women to be even better listeners inside their own bodies and also, inside their chosen sisterhood circles.  We are not all the same and it's just been an incredible witnessing to see so many younger women take on and honor their four phases of their cycle while their cycle is monthly and carries a lot of self information. That will be most helpful and good practice for when this stage of life happens. 

For me personally, I am excited about menopause because menopause equals freedom for me. As a woman who was diagnosed with PMDD in the early 90's shortly after my second biological son was born and died from a rare chromosome disorder, it was a very intense and a confusing time. All these years later as I continue to move through this normal stage of a woman's most natural life, I'm thrilled to see so much awareness happening for women-GLOBALLY! You can read more about that by clicking the WHAT IS PMDD, link below.... 
I haven't had any PMDD symptoms in a while. 
What I can say about PMDD in retrospect though is
never ever underestimate the absolute power of things like: when you are loved well, heard the first time and your boundaries are respected in terms of being able to quickly assess, get the help that a woman needs and or take on holistic practices that make a world of difference within the 5 interwoven puzzle that is PMDD. 


“We can’t talk about our own health without understanding
our place in our environment, because in order to fulfill our
potential we have to live in the context of our surroundings.
We have to know our place in the ecosystem of which we
are a part, and this means living 'consciously': being aware
of nature and how it affects us and how we, in turn, affect
nature.”
― Sebastian Pole, Discovering the True You with
Ayurveda: How to Nourish, Rejuvenate, and
Transform Your Life

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What is PMDD?

Quick Preface

Before I share my Dental Wellness-I want to be sure to articulate, self-care for my particular peri-menopause includes, transcendental meditation, self massage with warm oil, acupuncture and a few other things. Currently my newest thing seems to be cleaning my feet in a ritual sort of way. First I use a golf ball under my feet and that does wonders! 

A few months ago, it was all about the rice water ritual for my hair because that wonky itching no longer exists. Itchiness- is an oddly common development for women moving through Peri-menopause. Yet, I've noticed through these past almost eight years within my own peri-menopausal experience, when I experience some odd new thing, the more I love up on that and find ways to nourish that...the more ease, peace and joy I experience.  This allows me to love out in ways that fulfill me. The sense that my life has meaning based on the meaning I give it, totally helps inspire me to keep coming back to the intimate connection within my own body mind. 

DENTAL WELLNESS

My dental health has been highlighted as one of the many holistic wellness prevention action steps. 

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We created an action plan together to see what needs to be done now to enhance the quality of my existence. I've had a few appointments and digestion does begin in our mouth. I've noticed, after the semi-rough parts like having my gums scraped for the first time in my life felt amazing after and it does seem like my digestive health is a lot more steady too. Again though, there is a lot of self-care that I do and after this gum treatment, same as after acupuncture. I ride those health care waves beyond those appointments/experiences. 

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This Ayurveda Kapha Balancing simplistic under 15 minutes sequence totally helped me with my new allergic reaction to being "numbed" by the dentist. My whole life visiting the dentist office, I've never had any allergic reactions to that before. (This is what I mean by -things change) In addition to the twitching reaction that doesn't last all that long, I now experience some weird and twisty lower level slight depression of some sort. It's so minor though. Being aware that this substance is the cause helps a lot. It was as simple as understanding time and intentional action helps move things along. Now that hormones have changed....

It feels good, to take care of what needs to be taken care of.  It's like anything else really. You know when you are a couple and then you have children and life changes because room needs to be made to be "more." and some of it you might feel a little sad that life is a little "more," in ways you weren't expecting while also feeling blessed? Moving beyond couple-hood to the expansion of parenthood changes you and sometimes people resist that especially if they don't take the time to re-create or re-evaluate to add it all into the mix and make it all work? I think a lot of life and especially life phases within our female physiology is like that. Every stage teaches you something different about yourself but if you resist the changes, stay stuck inside what once was.....because it was a lot easier -we can totally miss so many opportunities to enjoy our now as it is. Now, If I can only have this same mindset as it relates to cleaning out my closet which is a hot mess! I hope to get to that but right now, for me my best medicine and self care happiness is what it often is: My digestion is so happy! 

Stay tuned!

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