Ep. 50 Manifest Better Using Your Hormones

Have you ever wondered how you are supposed to get the hang of manifesting your dream life when your hormones leave you feeling crazy? 

This has been a burning question for me since learning about the power of manifestation. Yet it seemed like something was missing in the discussion. 

As women, we are meant to be cyclical beings with hormones that can make us feel like Beyonce or a bag of dog poop all in the same day. Much less “high vibe” and the same frequency as our biggest aspirations. 

Learn how to harness the power of your hormones to manifest better in this episode with Giulietta. 

Giulietta is a menstrual cycle nutritionist and period coach inspiring women to step into the healthiest and most vibrant version of themselves.

Through hormonal healing, cycle-nourishing nutrition, and coaching she empowers women to realign with their divine feminine power, deepen the connection to self and live in harmony with their hormones (and bodies) for greater wellbeing.

Giulietta compassionately guides women back to the wisdom of the womb, helping them to discover the magic of cycle syncing, honoring the courageous, sexy, and enlightened goddesses that they are.

You can expect to hear:

• Hormones 101 how they affect our moods, the menstrual cycle, and menopause
• Find out which major hormone is like the “Beyonce hormone” and which is the “Netflix Chill” hormone
• The importance of knowing how these hormones feel and express themselves in each person because is the key to manifesting better. 
• Different archetypes associated with every season
• How the menstrual cycle is like the best life coach you will ever have
• Which part of your cycle you are most likely to get in touch with your subconscious mind
• Handling your inner critic 
• Shadow work 
• Soooooo much more!

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Giulietta Durante 0:00
Yeah, I mean, we could talk about this for hours. But I think, I think the first thing is like, you know, maybe you know what, once we start developing some cyclical awareness, like I said, understanding how these different phases feel for you, and what kind of manifesting mood they put you in. Does that make sense? So is it like, Oh, this is a high vibe moment. So this is where I’m going to be maybe writing out the really kind of saying out loud, the really audacious the really big, bold kind of statements that feel a feeling good in my body just now. You know, you feel that alignment. And that could be a great place to start seeing, thinking, Oh, actually, three days after I stop bleeding. That’s a great time for me and maybe developing that awareness. But then it’s like

Loren Runion 0:48
you’re listening to the Align and expand podcast. Join your host, Loren Runion, in conversations that will inspire you to intentionally create a life you love. What’s up, everybody, we made it to Episode 50. I’m pretty excited. I feel like it’s a huge milestone. And I just want to take a moment to celebrate and say thank you to everyone who comes and listens to learn and expand. I’m very thankful for you and for sharing and everything that you guys have done to help make this podcast successful and hopefully continue to grow and be and see more success. But anyway, let’s get on to how freaking excited I am about today’s episode. So I have been dying to share this episode. I am talking with Miss Julieta durante she is a fabulous, amazing human being I love following her on Instagram, I originally heard her on another podcast and instantly while I was listening to the podcast, went and found her and loved all of the information that she shares about hormones, and knew that she was the person to have this conversation with. So when I first started out on my manifestation journey and learning about manifesting and all of the things, something that I kept wondering and struggling with myself was how the hell does this work when you have hormones that are kind of all over the place? How does this work if you’re someone who, like for me, I definitely have since I’ve had children been all over the spectrum of hormone deals like postpartum anxiety, and I definitely can struggle with monrage, I can definitely spent years trying to get premenstrual dysphoric disorder under control. And so for me the whole concept of manifestation and trying to really feel good. And it’s not the concept of like over positivity, but, you know, really trying to align with what it is that you’re calling in means that maybe you’re not being a bitch all the time. And I had just no one was talking about how the heck do you do this, if your hormones are under control are out of control, I got the opportunity to speak with an expert about it. I hope you guys love this conversation. And we talk about hormones in general for the female. But also know that this doesn’t mean that you have to be still getting your menstrual cycle. So we talk about how your hormones will be presenting, when you may be in going through menopause, or within a stage of that. And maybe you don’t even get a period because you have you know, other reasons that you don’t have a period, but still want to as a as a woman or someone who has a woman parts, you will still have these cycles of your hormones unless you’re doing something different with your hormones. And those hormones can make us feel a certain way. And so you may notice that there are certain times of the month that you don’t feel awesome. And then there’s times in the month that you feel freaking on fire, you’re so amazing. And there are there’s a way for us to work with that in the entire spectrum of our month. Whether we feel bad, you know, quote unquote bad or whether we feel really good. And we talk a lot about how your shadow work can show up during your cycle and when it may show up and how you can use your shadow side as an opportunity to grow. I could just am very thankful to have had this time with her and to be able to share this episode with you guys. I hope it helps you as much as it helped me. And don’t forget to share yourself listening to the episode take a screenshot share it on Instagram tag me in at Lauren dot Runyon And I can’t wait to hear how much you guys love this episode. Thanks for listening. Thanks for 50 episodes. Here’s to growing some more. One more thing I need to just throw it out there that my audio sucks for this episode. I don’t know what happened. It was 430 in the morning for me because of our time difference and I think that my microphone was not hooked up and the sound is coming through my computer so I apologize so deeply for the sound of my audio in this episode, but I hope you guys can still enjoy it.

Loren Runion 4:58
Hello Giuliana how are you? You

Giulietta Durante 5:00
hello, I’m very, very well. Thank you. Yes. Excited to be here excited to chat, first podcast interview of the year. So it’s very Oh, yeah,

Loren Runion 5:10
I’ve been, it’s mine as well. And I have been looking forward to this for so long because this is a subject, since I’m learning about manifestation that I have wanted to know. And then I heard you on another podcast. And I’m like, she’s it. She’s who I want to learn this from. And I think that all of the information that you share, essentially, I follow you on Instagram, everything that you share there is it’s so perfect. And I’ve learned a lot from you, I’ve changed a lot from you. So I can’t wait to dive into a hormones, how we can use them with our manifestation. I am someone who became really interested in how the hormones affect manifestation because I feel like I don’t know if it’s possible. But I feel like I’m really sensitive to the hormones where I have some things off in my hormonal balance, because they do have PMDD. And it’s something that I have worked to get under control for a long time. But so for me, that means two weeks out of the four week month, I’m struggling to keep my emotions in check, basically, and I don’t like to use the words I’m struggling, but I am. It’s a constant battle almost to keep everything in check. And when you first start manifesting, you learn keep it high vibe, you know, your dominant vibration, it’s all of these things. But then you’re like, Well, my hormones aren’t nice, I’m trying really hard. But to bounce from really low to really high isn’t, it doesn’t always feel possible. So then I thought that maybe I was the only one that had this question, because I haven’t heard anybody address it. And then I happen to see some other girl post a question on somebody else’s Instagram account. But But what about my hormones? I’m like, I have to address this because I can’t be the only one. And I know that my listeners, I have variety of listeners, some of us are still in our having our menstrual cycle. I do have a lot of listeners that have also inner inner middle entered menopause. And so I do the hormones still affect you the same way, but maybe differently. I don’t know, I shouldn’t be worrying about what’s going on. So I think that like, let’s just start now that I’ve got that blurred out of my mouth. Let’s just start with who you are, what you do, and then we’ll kind of head into.

Giulietta Durante 7:18
Yeah, perfect. And I love that blurb, by the way does such a good job. And it’s so good to start with like so set the theme, right? So. So my name is Julieta I am a menstrual cycle nutritionist and period coach, I changed my title all the time, because I feel you know, and I’m like, oh, what’s my 2022 titles going to be because I’m always evolving. But ultimately, I think that the core of my work is helping women balance their hormones, but also, like fall in love with their hormones and with their cycles and develop a new relationship. And this really ties in with what you’re saying about not being able to manifest two weeks of the month and all this kind of stuff, right? Like really stepping into a new kind of way of living with our menstrual cycles, accepting the highs and lows, laughing at the lows, being okay with the lows, you know, beating the pillows when we’re lows, enjoying the highs, accepting that they don’t always last and really, it all for me about cyclical living, just really embodying cyclical living. And I do that in a number of ways I do one to one work, I do group programs. I am a science geek. So I will go deep into the science. But you know, it’s a lot more than that for me. And it’s like, let’s balance your hormones. And let’s see what your cycle looks like to you, and what it will how it manifests in a different way, you know, for you every month and how you can work with that. Because I think the messaging has been off for such a long time around hormones. You know, I think the messaging of all wake up and feel amazing every day just makes us feel like actually excuse my language like shit about ourselves for at least two weeks, you know, like you say, and you’re like, Well, how do I work with this? So that’s really what I do. And I use food. I use supplements, meditation, lifestyle, whatever, you know, anything that we can use to really help us embody that what it means to be cyclical,

Loren Runion 9:13
basically. Yeah, I love that. And that was actually one of the things that when I heard you on the podcast, it was a beautiful podcast. And then I went straight to your Instagram while I was listening to the podcast. And you had a I don’t remember it wasn’t a story. It must have been a real or something. And you were talking about not feeling good during your ovulation. And it was that was exactly where I was. I’m like, here I am. I’m in my ovulation. I feel like shit. I hate everyone. I hate my life. I hate myself. What’s happening I should not be feeling this way. I get two weeks of my life like my life that I feel good and I don’t feel good in this period what’s happening? And so I love that you address that in what you’re talking about. Because even cyclically, you may not present the same way each cycle right.

Giulietta Durante 9:57
You may not present the same way each cycle or every few years, we have big shifts in our hormones. I have seen in many women, including myself, when you’re moving more into perimenopause that ovulatory time isn’t, you know that it used to be used to going off and actually, that build up sometimes to our periods is a more comfortable time once you’re in perimenopause. So it’s like, yeah, and you’re so right, because also, don’t forget that we ovulate from different ovaries. It’s not necessarily left, right, left, right, it could be like, left, left, left, right, whatever. But that will also impact because potentially, you’re not always ovulating, that causes a whole different cascade of hormones, you know. So, in within our own patterns, we will have other patterns. And sometimes we don’t have any patterns at all, you know, and this is like, this is what menstrual cycle awareness really teaches you, it’s to just have a bit of humor about everything, and to just sometimes just go, You know what, like, there is no pattern this month, this is a difficult month, we’re very susceptible as women to changes in our environment to stress. I’m not even going to allude this to the stress that we’ve all been having in the last two years. But we all know what’s been going on. Right? So it’s like, all that has a huge impact on our cycle. So potentially, you know, you’ve been having a certain type of cycle for like years that you wake up one morning, and it’s completely different. And it’s really important to raise awareness around this. You know, and I’m glad that that post or whatever the religion ovulation really resonated with you. Because it’s important to say this, you know, because when you get into cyclical living at the beginning, it’s like, oh, I should always feel good when I ovulate. And you do that, and you’re, you know, you’re doing that for a while, and then all of a sudden, you wake up one day, and you’re having an awful day. And we go back into the, the narrative of what’s wrong with me. And that’s, that’s one of the other things that I really, I’m really passionate about kind of shifting, it’s like, there’s nothing wrong with you, you’re a cyclical being. And that’s just part of what it is to be cyclical, because especially, I think women, we always go back to this question of, oh, well, it must be, it must be me, I’m the problem, you know, not that society isn’t built to support me or whatever. I am clearly the problem. That’s one of the things that I really am very passionate about kind of breaking through, basically,

Loren Runion 12:15
yeah, it really puts you into an empowered seat, knowing what’s happening. And it’s not, it’s not just you, when you have the awareness of what might be happening. And I’ve learned now that I’ve started to pay more attention once I learned that, okay, I’m not always going to feel good at my ovulation, that it could just be any influx of change in my hormones, that’s going to create this ripple effect of of who knows what kind of mood that’s gonna go. But okay, cool. This, you know, who knows what’s supposed to really be happening, but because I’ve had this change in hormones, than I, I am feeling different are off like, so what I used to kind of like what you’re saying what I used to feel really right before a period now happens sometimes at a different part. But it’s usually where there’s some kind of change and what the hormones are supposed to be doing. I don’t scientifically know it very well. But I know

Giulietta Durante 13:03
there’s you don’t even need to know scientifically, you know, I think if you know, just you develop that awareness in your body, and you you know how to kind of hold yourself and navigate those times, then you’re there, you know, you’re doing the work, basically.

Loren Runion 13:19
Yeah, yeah. So, you know, in the one of the things that it isn’t that I necessarily felt like I couldn’t manifest during those two weeks, it’s just that there was so much confusion and almost like you said, there was this feeling of what’s wrong with me? What? Why can’t I feel so great all the time? Or how do I keep this from making me feel so that and it really morphed into? It’s okay, how can it work with how I’m feeling right now? It isn’t about changing. I mean, yes, there was definitely aspects that I needed to work on, there was definitely something came up to improve as a human so that, you know, again, I wasn’t playing victim or all of those things. But it was it was moving into a space of how can I work with this? So where do you think do you think the best place to start is to kind of chat about the hormones in general and how they affect our mood? Not us, you know, because everyone’s cycles going to be different, like throwing that out there. Even menopausal but do you think that’s a good place to start?

Giulietta Durante 14:12
Yes, I think let’s have a little hormones 101 how they affect our moods, the menstrual cycle, so we have a bit of an understanding, and then we can go into more than the real like, how, how to use this for manifestation and for that practice, so yeah, like, right, let’s, let’s do a really good summary of it all. So what I would say is, you know, the menstrual cycle and for women who are no longer menstruating, you know, you can still do this, you can still be cyclical, what I always say is just use the moon cycles to really help you sort of have a connection because ultimately, a menstrual cycle is our connection with nature. It’s the same thing, right? So there’s no reason why you can’t do this after you stop having periods. So the menstrual cycle is divided into four phases. I love to use the He kind of model of the inner seasons, I love this because again, it really connects us with nature. And it’s such an easy model to just refer to, because we all know the outer seasons are like, you know, like, it’s very easy, you can go like, Okay, I know how I feel in winter. So that’s what my inner winter feels like. So in a winter is when we are bleeding, it’s our menstruating days. It, we call it, that’s the beginning of a cycle, we call it there is a little bit of debate around that. But to make things easy, I always say day one is the first day of bleeding. And it lasts for the entire time of your bleed. And this is very much out in a winter. So if you think about I mean, it’s winter where I am, I think it’s probably winter where you are, you know, so we know how we feel in winter, you know, we are energy is a bit low, we want to sleep more we want to hide away from the world. And in terms of hormones, the two major hormones that we’re thinking about when it comes to female health is estrogen and progesterone. These are the two main hormones. And a quick detour estrogen is called Well, as we like to call it the Beyonce hormone. So it’s like the Whoo, look at me, you know, she’s the one that’s like, Hello, boys, you know, I’m here, you know, very kind of like Queen energy very kind of like check me out, you know, ready to take on the world. And then progesterone is more the kind of Netflix Chill, you know, very kind of like colada, or do they that kind of much more like a Karma energy. So it’s very much these two that we’re kind of feeling into throughout the month. And when we are bleeding, both of these are low, they’re at their lowest. So we don’t have the Whoo, Beyonce kind of vibes. But we, you know, even the progesterone is quite low. So there’s sometimes progesterone can be a bit of a funny one. But it can also give us a bit of a kind of like, we sometimes want to do things like lots of clearing and tidying and nesting. We’re not like that, at this point. We’re just like, very low. And we can feel that right when we’re bleeding. Like it’s just that kind of like, yeah, just looking inwards. There’s a lot of just like very, very calm a beautiful time for meditation, because we’re just, you know, we’re just in this very, yeah, just sort of like, serene state, not, you know, not always that, let’s always put that caveat there, right, this is always different for everyone. But this is kind of like a rough model. So then we finish bleeding. And we come into our inner spring. And we all know what happens when spring starts, you know, those first times when you see those little like the buds coming out and the daffodils and you’re like, yeah, it’s that kind of feeling. What’s happening hormonally estrogen is starting to rise. So that’s the beginning of like that sense of renewal and life coming and we’re getting ready to ovulate, we’re getting ready for that egg to pop out of the tube and come down into what pop out of the ovary into the fallopian tube and then come down. So it’s very much a beginning of fertility kind of idea, you know, beginning of growth. So you might start thinking, you know, this estrogen rise just makes you feel like, Oh, I’m ready to come out in the world again, you know, and in terms like to talk about manifestation, this might be a time when all of a sudden, you’re like, oh, I can think about manifesting. I had a block, we will go into it in more depth, obviously. But it’s this feeling of, oh, all of a sudden, I’ve got my journal out, and I am actually capable of thinking about manifesting. That’s estrogen, you know, that is estrogen, it’s just this very much like back into the world feeling. Then we get into our inner summer, which is ovulating rephase, it’s when the egg actually gets popped out of the ovary. That is a quite short, intense period, that’s when estrogen hits its peak Peak Peak. And in theory, that’s when we should be feeling our best like that is the real like proper, out in the world, you know, lots of energy, sometimes actually a bit exhausting, because we maybe cannot sleep properly, that kind of stuff.

Giulietta Durante 19:03
And that’s when you know, like in terms of manifesting again, this is when maybe you’re doing like 1000 journal entries a day, you know, those days and you’re like, I’m doing this or that. And I’m really, it’s very easy to connect with spirit or this. You know, I mean, all this kind of stuff that’s that kind of that you can get from from your estrogen.

Loren Runion 19:21
You said that estrogen is at your highest in yourself. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. So it appears that

Loren Runion 19:27
what’s happening with progesterone is addressed

Giulietta Durante 19:30
to us at this point is still not doing very much progesterone is going to come into its own now. So what happens is, few days after we ovulate, progesterone starts getting released because progesterone is the hormone of pregnancy. It prepares the womb for implantation. It prepares a womb for an embryo to grow. But the body doesn’t know yet whether we have got pregnant or not. So it always produces progesterone, just in case we have got pregnant. It’s very clever. It’s like okay, Just in case we’re going to produce this pedestrian. If you don’t ovulate, and many women don’t ovulate, you know, or we certainly don’t ovulate every month, you won’t produce this this, this progesterone, which can lead to that PMS, sometimes because progesterone, estrogen and progesterone are a bit of a bit of a yin and yang, they kind of come, progesterone will calm the estrogen down. So now the progesterone starts rising. And this is where we start moving into what we call out in autumn. So think about autumn outside, we’re starting to slow, we’re starting to want to retreat to nest, you know, being the, the the hormonal pregnancy, we know like, whether you’re pregnant or not, like so many women at this time find that they start doing some like manic clearing or cleaning or all of a sudden, you know, like, and I love to think about it, like we’re nesting in preparation for our bleeds, you know, we don’t, you know, we’re not going to have a child every nine months, you know, is kind of that this is that that kind of energy. And progesterone can be very calming, very soothing. For most women, some women actually is complete opposite. So it’s really important to know how these hormones feel for us. I think that’s a really important, like you said earlier, you know, I don’t know what the scientific explanation is, but I kind of know, the feelings in the shifts. And it’s, it’s how do these hormones express themselves in you? How do they make you feel, and I think that’s going to be key when we move on to the manifestation part of what we’re talking about. But progesterone generally very calming, very soothing. What else around progesterone, sometimes you can get a bit hungrier and progesterone because there are shifts in our blood sugar as well in the in the autumn time. So we get more like that cravings kind of, sort of presentation. But also, this inner autumn is a bit of a roller coaster, because estrogen also peaks again, not as high as before, but there’s still a peak. So there’s a little bit of a kind of, I like to call it like a bit of a complicated dance between them at this time. And that’s what can lead to that tumultuous, you know, like, okay, one day, but in the morning, but then crying your eyes out in the evening. And you know, like that kind of PMS kind of feeling. And that’s where in an autumn, for a lot of women is the most challenging time hormone early. And again, if we kind of refer back to the whole idea of manifesting, this might be a time when it’s also a challenge, because we’re really, it can throw up a lot of stuff. In autumn, it’s a real time for truth, speaking and accessing deeper levels of ourselves and shadows, and it’s not an easy time, not you know, like, I think it’s about really understanding how to work with these times. And in the past, we’ve always been told, take a pill, you know, or take a painkiller and ignore this and battle on through and now we’re really shifting to the Okay, so how can we work with these more challenging times? And then yeah, we get to the end of in autumn, and then we will start a new cycle. And we will bleed once more and back into our inner winter. So that’s kind of a hormone whistlestop tour, what happens every month? Yeah.

Loren Runion 23:13
That was perfect. It was really good. And I actually, you know, I My background is in nursing and so I like no at least things sometimes you know, a lot of stuff doesn’t like to stay in my brain it doesn’t hold on to really specific things. And but I will always remember that agenda and the estrogen and the progesterone thing now you know, like the Netflix and that that was a really good explanation that I think people will it’ll sit with them way longer than what it has for me in the past for sure. And I love the seasons. And I think it’s so I feel like women in general anybody that I’m talking to they can have these periods and especially like right in that autumn when you’re the when you’re saying that everything’s kind of well I’m not gonna say I mess it up but when we can be harder on ourselves and they don’t realize like somebody I work with a lot of female entrepreneurs and they’re like really hard on themselves. I’m like when you start your period where you have non cycle because that’s when that inner critic seems to come out Yeah, most I feel

Giulietta Durante 24:09
absolutely in the autumn is the home of the inner critic of the wild woman you know, because there are also like different archetypes associated with every season and definitely in the autumn is it’s a it’s a tempestuous time it’s all there. But you know if we know how to work with our critic and recognize a wild woman and everything else we can just kind of actually we can we can make incredible leaps forward in you know, in our personal development in our in our careers, all sorts of things. It’s just that for so so for centuries, we have been told to ignore all of these. They’re almost like coaches and teachers that reside in the menstrual cycle, right? But we’re like, no, no, suppress her, you know, because, I mean, nobody. Nobody really likes a truth speaking woman who says turns around and says, Well, no, I’m not gonna do that.

Loren Runion 25:00
Oh, yeah. Well, that was kind of gonna be my next question. What in your opinion? What do you think the purpose of all these different archetypes? Are these different? In the each cycle? What do you think the purpose is for us to have that? I mean, other obviously, than producing childbearing and all of those things. But why do you think we have this period where we have this inner critic? Do you think it comes down to? This is just a crazy question, in your opinion, why do you think we have that?

Giulietta Durante 25:28
Very good question. I believe they’re there to guide us, I do believe they are like, like little what I call the menstrual cycle, like the best life coach you can ever have, you know, I really like our own inner life coach. Because we can access different energies, our brains work differently at every single stage of the cycle. So we have different type of like, processing skills, we have different ways of seeing different ways of speaking, understanding the world. So we get different angles and different types of perception every week of the month, which is amazing, because, you know, and we also have points where we’re more able to weigh things up more logically. But then we’re also have other points where we’re able to see through all the bullshit, you know, and it’s like, okay, now I really understand. So I really believe, you know, apart from obviously procreation, which is what genetically, we’re all here to do, whether we like it or not, you know, this is what we’re here to do. I do believe these different phases of the cycle are here to guide us and help us navigate, you know, our lives, but we just haven’t been sort of taught how to access his wisdom, you know, but like, you know, what we’re, I believe that, you know, witches in the past would have worked very closely with their cycles would have used, you know, that they would use menstrual blood for like casting spells and all of this kind of stuff. So there’s always been a knowledge that there was a very deep power in the cycle, but we just have forgotten it, basically. Yeah,

Loren Runion 27:01
and you kind of touched on it, it’s, it just dawned on me that, you know, from a subconscious mind perspective, because everything that we take in is built is based off of our filters that are going on in our head, we’re going to have different filters that each part of our cycle, you know, everything from time, your mood, every bit of that is going to absolutely, because that’s your brain’s job to, you know, distort, delete, or generalize whatever it is that you’re taking in based off of these filters, which are going to change cyclically, and that actually never snapped into place until you said, even though I knew that, even though I knew that that’s what your brain does, I didn’t attach it to that hormonal perspective. Because, yeah, they should have been in the books, like it’s based on another filter is your hormones, because your hormones really affect so much of that?

Giulietta Durante 27:47
Absolutely. I mean, a classic example, right, like our relationship with our partners, you know, so potentially ovulation, you know, you’re not being irritated by them. And in fact, you’re quite attracted to them or more attractive than you would normally be. And you, you don’t really see the untidiness, or something when you come home, and there’s loads of dishes piled up, but you’re like, Oh, it’s okay. You come back to that a week later, in your inner autumn. And believe you mean, that filter will be completely different. You know, and you’re like, Okay, I’m not putting up with this anymore. The thing is, because the messaging for so long has been like, you know, you are the problem, you need to control your emotions. Nobody likes a woman who cries or has these, like, you know, meltdowns. So we, we kind of just keep it to ourselves, or we have a little cry or whatever, you know, but this, this filter might be there to really show us something, you know, it’s like, okay, something here isn’t working. But when you have a lot of estrogen in you, you’re so people pleasing, you’re so kind of, oh, it’s no problem that you just gloss it over. But now you’re here at this point, just sit in this for a minute, you know, and sometimes it’s just a case, you know, you are a little bit like, you know, all over the place, and it’s just the dishes, and that’s it, but sometimes it’s a much deeper thing. And that’s why I love this work, because you’re like, Okay, so what’s really going on here and one of the things I recommend that my clients do is you create a like an inner autumn list, right? So have a section in your journal or however you kind of, sort of like write your thoughts or whatever, and have an inner autumn list of the things that really annoy and irritate you or anything that’s really you know, getting to you at a deeper level and that is not actually the time to solve anything, but it’s a time to get it all out and then go back to it for example, when you’re bleeding when you’ve you’ve got a bit more clarity or even like maybe in your inner spring and look back and go you know what this is this is a deeper thing this I want to do more work on. And it’s so so powerful because you can get this clarity into into sort of like things that are really they need work or they you need to have those conversations or you know, it’s not just about coming home to a dirty pile of dishes it’s it’s about something else. And that is where that beautiful kind of type of life coaching can happen.

Loren Runion 30:04
Right? That is beautiful. And I just keep thinking about when you mentioned the dishes in the partner, you know from a if your partner isn’t man, demand, don’t get it, you don’t get that you have these. They’re like, I’m the same. I didn’t change. That’s what I hear from my husband all the time. This isn’t me This is you, because you’re the one that’s changing. And I’m like, No, this is not me. I’m totally like, because I just express it, it just comes out my mouth, definitely right before my period. So I love that suggestion to write it down. Because, you know, then after it comes out your mouth, you know, like, wasn’t really that big. Really did a B DAC like, Oops. But then sometimes it does boil down to like, I really don’t feel loved right now, I don’t feel hurt right now. Like, can you like help me feel this love that I’m eating or not even or even deeper? Realizing that you don’t need it from that person, you’re not getting the love that you need to yourself, like really spending that time to go deeper. So I love that. So how can we start to use these hormones for manifesting because I know that when you and I talked and we were just going back and forth through instant message in DMS and Instagram voice messages, like you mentioned in the shadow work. And so since you said it really focused on like it being a time to focus on shadow work. So I can’t wait to hear your perspective on how we can start to really use these hormones during our manifestation I do want to throw it out there. Even though I don’t say every afternoon, we are technically manifesting all the time, you know, everything. It’s not that you turn it on, and you turn it off. It’s happening all the time. But But what you want to do is be very conscious manifester. You want to really be like, okay, is this what I want to happen in my life? Or Is this not what I want to happen in my life and then choose, this is the power I want to have. And I want to create this space during my Autumn. That feels a little different. And then you can choose, you can choose not to but I think awareness is the key. So how do you think we start to use our hormones with the process of manifesting? And

Giulietta Durante 31:59
yeah, I mean, we could talk about this for hours. But I think you know, I think the first thing is like, you know, maybe you know what, once we start developing some cyclical awareness, like I said, understanding how these different phases feel for you. And what kind of manifesting mood they put you in? Does that make sense? So is it like, Oh, this is a high vibe moment. So this is where I’m going to be maybe writing up the really kind of saying out loud, the really audacious the really big, bold kind of statements that feel that feeling good in my body just now you know, you feel that alignment. And that could be a great place to start seeing thinking, Oh, actually, three days after I stopped bleeding, that’s a great time for me and maybe developing that awareness. But then it’s like, what about the other parts? You know, I think this is the really like the juicy bit like, like you say, what about the parts when you feel very disconnected with these kinds of like, very high vibe, be kind of manifestation goals, all of this. And, you know, like I said to you in those voice notes, I believe that to manifest, you need to have your subconscious on your side, you need your shadow to be on board, right? Because, for me personally, I spent many years, you know, following all these kind of like lovely manifestation guides and everything, and always feeling like there was a big piece missing, and never noticing that I had subconscious sabotage going on sometimes, you know, and it was only when I started working more with shadow work, doing a bit of breath work, working on my subconscious that I was like, oh, okay, so I know who’s really in charge.

Giulietta Durante 33:36
It’s not my conscious self at all. You know, it’s like, I can tell you 1000 times that I don’t know that I want to live in the sunshine constantly and earn, whatever, 20,000 $30,000 a month, but like, Ah, now I see why it’s not happening. You know, because there are all these like, you know, like, shadows and subconscious beliefs that are stopping me from doing this, and I can’t even see them. And this is where I feel like the shadow really like lives. Again, it’s the inner autumn it’s potentially menstruation. It’s a darker side. It’s a more kind of Yang kind of side. And that’s where we can do this work, I believe? Well, actually, I think there are some studies that show what I’ve been well, I’ve already said that the brain changes throughout the month anyway. But as we move more into like our in our autumn, and then building for our periods, we are in more of a delta wave state. So delta waves are more the ones we produce during meditation. Tibetan monks are the masters of delta wave production. But as women we have delta wave access to those delta waves amazingly, every month. Do you know like, you know, there’s never heard anyone say that. It’s I mean, it’s amazing. It’s incredible. It’s it’s not easy research to find. It’s kind of a bit like hidden but if you I am obsessed with what hormones do to the brain, I love this kind of work because it’s huge, right? Like, and so I believe that once we’re in this more like Delta State, and we can, we, our brains are a bit quieter, even though sometimes we fight it a bit and everything, I think if we can sit there, I believe that Delta State is going to allow us to access deeper, sort of like layers of consciousness, right? Because we’re just able to listen, and especially this kind of inner autumn time, it’s such a good time, you can ask your subconscious questions at this time. And your subconscious will speak back to you, you know, it may not be in a very coherent sense, it may just be an image, but it’s a great time, you know, like, I don’t know, so you’ve been focusing on trying to manifest something for quite a while, it’s not quite working out, come to your inner autumn, and sit down and close your eyes and say, you know, like, Okay, what’s going on here? You know, like, you know, I’m speaking directly to you subconscious, you know, like, I know, you can hear me, the delta waves are good today. You know, look, please tell me, you know, like, what are the blocks what’s going on? And it’s amazing, like, what kind of stuff can come up for you, and you’re just like, oh, gosh, like I, you know, and it may not come to you then like, you know, it’s never very linear or logical, but you may just have a memory come back to you, and you’re like, Oh, now I know why this doesn’t work. You know, like, I’ve got this particular pattern going on, that really stops me from just stepping into that, that kind of energy or whatever. And it’s, it’s amazing, you know, and definitely, in an ultimate in winter, are the subconscious times. Because your brain is just much more, just, you’re just much more able to access it. So yeah, I think that’s one of the ways we can do it, and just almost prepare for it. I think it’s almost like, okay, so, you know, there’s a book called the optimized woman by Miranda Gray, she is probably like one of the first, like the pioneers of talking about menstrual cycle awareness and everything. And in there, she calls, especially in the, in the, in the autumn, she calls her subconscious, like a little puppy, a keen puppy, she’s like, literally, once you develop a relationship with it, you know, like, you throw a ball and the puppy comes back, and she’s like, at this time, once you develop that relationship with your subconscious, you can get it to work for you, it will be so happy to be talking to you. And because you’ve got this easy access, it’s so you know, like, so write a list in the same way that you have the inner autumn list of everything that’s annoying, you potentially have another page somewhere in it in your journal where you’re like, Okay, these are the things I want to ask my subconscious, you know, like, why am I not doing this? Why am I not doing that? What’s the block to this manifestation? And you know, like, oh, you know, is there any patterning here that I need to think about why you know, and all of that, and then literally sit down, close your eyes, you can just even just put your hand on your journal, feel into the energy, ask the question directly. And believe you me, the answers will come it is crazy how it happens.

Loren Runion 38:01
Yeah, I love that. And also to keep in mind, I think a lot of times when I, you know, invite people to speak to their higher self, or subconscious or whatever they want to kind of consider connecting to that higher power, because it’s all source energy, when we get to that is that they don’t hear something and it might be because they’re not in a really perfect part of their cycle where they can, especially if they’re new to trying to access their higher self or subconscious mind, you know, that block there because because you’re not in that wave. And so that’s a really powerful thing to take away. That you cannot hear your higher self exam players just because of you ever been on brainwaves? Yeah, and that’s, I love that you I love that takeaway. Like that was like, Okay, I’m done. I totally needed to know that. Okay, well I can deal with me at random now because now I can I can access my subconscious mind

Giulietta Durante 38:54
it’s a wonderful feeling. You know, like I I believe every phase of the cycle has a superpower and most definitely the superpower of the inner autumn one of them, it’s actually a lead into a secret. I believe that time with the most superpowers. But you know, one of the great superpowers of this time is accessing the subconscious and you’re on that like Higher Self incredible wisdom, but it’s not just accessing, it’s being able to hear it come back to us, like, you know, I think are other times where we’re very able to access that the vibrational pool of a manifestation so say in a spring in a summer would be like, yeah, and that’s probably the time when you going to see 1000 Angel numbers. I don’t know if you ever noticed this, but sometimes like my inner spring ovulation, if it’s a good one, I’m like, wow, the angel numbers are everywhere, you know, and then you get to your otter where you’re winter and you’re like, the angels are deserted

Loren Runion 39:49
you for sure. And you’re like, I haven’t seen any signs. Am I on the wrong path? Where are you?

Giulietta Durante 39:56
And that’s probably because you know, maybe this is not the time to sell much connect with that kind of vibrational energy. But it’s more the kind of the deeper, this is more the shadowy stuff. This is where I need to, like, you know, actually realize that I’m moving into a slightly sort of deeper kind of work for now and just play around with that. And just yeah, like I said, really see how it feels for you in terms of manifesting energy. But you know, like that you said earlier, we don’t always have to be high vibe to be manifesting. It’s happening all the time. And the real I believe, true, powerful manifestation comes when you’ve got these darker, not darker, but like deeper, more subconscious patterning, coming on board becoming part of the whole mix. And that’s when you really go, wow, this is all happening now. Right? And using the cycle can just be so powerful for that.

Loren Runion 40:47
Right? Yeah. And I do want to share for anyone who’s listening, who hasn’t really had the experience of connecting with their higher self or their subconscious mind, one of the most I will, I think I will remember it forever. The first time that I did it, and I really got something impacted how I changed, I think I changed my life from it was, you know, I sat down, I don’t know where I was at my school, because it was two years ago. And I remember I was rocking my son, he was really a young baby. And I just felt the stress all the time, because I was starting my business. And I was a new entrepreneur, and I just, and I asked myself, like, Why do I feel this way all the time, I’ve taken the stress from every job that I’ve ever had. And now I’ve brought it into this. And I, what I thought was the jobs is now here, and I’m creating my own business, like what is it, and it just gave me this image. It was not, it wasn’t words, it’s just this image of me squeezing a sponge, and like a fist squeezing a sponge on even me it was a fist, and that it just showed like releasing a sponge. And so anytime, it was so powerful, because anytime I start to feel like that, I just imagine releasing the sponge. And then I’m like, Ah, it’s like it was just this, like you’re holding on to freakin tight, you’re trying to control everything. And so it be open to whatever your subconscious mind gives you. Because it’s really your subconscious mind knows everything and is the supercomputer and knows exactly the path of least resistance that you need to know, to get there quicker. So just be really open to whatever it’s giving you. Maybe the symbol doesn’t make sense. But we’ll eventually so. Yes, and what else? Go ahead. Sorry. No,

Giulietta Durante 42:18
I was gonna say that’s such a good point. Because in that autumn and winter, again, they’re not very logical times. So don’t expect a logical answer, you know, it’s not going to come to you in all do this isn’t this, like you say it could be an image, it could be a sensation, it could be a very random memory, but initially makes no sense whatsoever. And you’re just like, why am I thinking this? Excuse me, and then it will kind of develop. So I think that’s it. And I love your story about the sponge, right? We all know what it feels like to be squeezed.

Loren Runion 42:49
Yeah, it was perfect. It was the perfect image that it could give me and it was very powerful. So what else do you think that we could start to do to use? Or is there another piece that you think is really important when it comes to?

Giulietta Durante 43:01
Sorry? I’m so sorry about that.

Loren Runion 43:08
Terrible feeling, but it doesn’t stop coughing.

Giulietta Durante 43:13
Another piece. I think also, you mentioned the inner critic. And that is another big piece to think about. Using her to our advantage. Again, it’s a you know, like, okay, befriending her we’re so like, you know, we tend to reject her don’t we tend to be a bit and it’s not easy, I have to say because you know, when you have that voice piping up, but using the inner critic to help us move forward, again, is amazing. And she I think she’s a double sided character in a way because she’s kind of, you know, a little bit spiteful, sometimes a little bit nasty, but then also can be quite useful. Sometimes, again, tying back into the, the truth speaking element of this time, you know, like, really, really like speaking what’s what’s really true for us. Because if we go back to hormones, I think I already mentioned so estrogen makes us want to people, please, it almost numbs us to ourselves a little bit. We’re like, oh, I want to please everyone. And oh, you know, the archetype during ovulation is the mother. And who is the biggest people pleaser? Have them all the mother, right? Like, we always want to care for everyone else. The archetype of the inner autumn, one of them is the wild woman, the woman who literally doesn’t care anymore. And it’s like, really, like I think also working with that inner critic, getting to know her voice quite well, understanding what she’s piping up, and maybe you even have a list of questions for her. So hi, you know, a little bit of humor. There you are. Okay, good to see you. You know, I knew you’d come along here. You know, okay, and challenge her and asked her Okay, so what are you telling me and then very much going like, Okay, well, that’s simply isn’t true. Where’s the evidence for that? You know, like, maybe we all have inner critic stories around being lazy or not achieving enough or whatever, right like, and but then going well actually, I disagree with you, because I’ve done this, this and this, you know, but then maybe she will have a truth for us. And it’s listening to that. So I think in autumn is also a great time to to work with that inner critic and then use her, again to feed into manifestation like you’ve said, you know, all the entrepreneurial women you work with, or so many have this really loud inner critic, I mean, she may manifest somewhere else in your cycle. So maybe work out where she comes up for you, generally, she will come up in our autumn, but it’s not a given deal that she’s going to be there, she could pipe up on your menstruating, you know, so get to know where she comes up, get to know her voice and just use her not, you know, in a kind of nice way to get her to help you to move forward. And again, very much because the inner critic will probably be all definitely linked to subconscious beliefs, right. So getting her to help you access as well, your your subconscious patterning and things that are holding you back and all of that as well. So yeah, I think it’s a great time for inner critic work as well.

Loren Runion 46:13
So you do think it’s probably linked to your subconscious mind, you think it’s deeper, it’s not something that your logical mind is coming up with, you know, so for example, something that I usually go through that I noticed that I carry on, it was kind of a big breakthrough for me, in my relationship with my husband, because I knew that throughout my entire life when I was in the nine to five or working at a hospital right before my period, everyone hated me. Everyone hated me. Like, why? Why are they being mean to me? Why do they hate me now? And then I realized it wasn’t that my husband hated me and said he didn’t love me. And then I was like, oh, that’s kind of the same thing. So this is something I need to deep dive into. So like, it was something deeper, deeper subconscious. Is it ever something that’s really little do you think or?

Giulietta Durante 47:02
It could be because she, the inner critic is quite complex, right? So it can sometimes just be like logical mind just playing around a little bit. That’s why I think you could spend years and years doing the inner critic work but I think it’s like knowing, I would say probably well, in my experience in the experience of working with with clients and the inner critic, most of the time it is deeper stuff, it can masquerade as very like, like trivial things. You know, at the bin like you say like with your husband, you realized it was actually went a bit deeper. And there are especially the in the autumn, there’s a lot of feelings of abandonment around their neck. This is where they can manifest we can feel very lonely, we can feel very unloved. And then we simultaneously will reject love when you know so we’ve got this like a friend of mine did a real not that long ago, which is like, you know, me and my in autumn, it’s like love me had me loved me, you know, husband or partner comes closer, you’re like, Get away from me. Yeah, you know, I mean, I don’t know, I would say most of the time, even if it’s something a bit trivial with it. And critic, just always pausing to go Okay, is there anything else here? Because sometimes it is just a little like, you know, and you’re like, okay, whatever. But sometimes it is a little bit deeper. And you’re just like, right? Well, this, again, we got our little list in the autumn list. Now we can write it there. And then when we’re maybe not quite so turbulent in our minds, you know, when the hormones have calmed down a bit and go back to it and go, Yeah, this is a thing. This is something and recurring themes, right? Is it coming up for you? Every month? If so, probably more a subconscious kind of issue going on.

Loren Runion 48:44
And for anyone who’s menopausal or starting to go through that, when they’re their age is their hormone? Do their hormones do the same thing every month? And b Do Is it more than like maybe they’re not going to have this this inner autumn and they’re not going to have their winter in, they’re not gonna have they’re following this moon cycle. But is it more that they just need to have a calendar and they start to track like, this is how I’m feeling this this week is feeling a certain way? Will they see the same thing cyclically, when once you’ve had menopause, or, like, I don’t bring my head I’m like, this is like a flatline like you get nothing from my hand. So how does that work for them? So

Giulietta Durante 49:22
again, it will manifest very differently for every woman. You know, as you work with that with the moon cycle, you will see how that makes you feel. There is the founders of red school so I really recommend anyone who is listening to this development follow red school, they wrote probably the book on menstrual cycle awareness. They were the women who really put together the concept of the inner seasons, they are amazing. Like I’m just like, if you if you can have like a period crush, if you know what I mean like girls, to women, it’s these two, they are just incredible. And one of the founders she’s gone through menopause. and put together like a beautiful menopause program. And the whole menopause is a bit of an initiation, like, there’s a lot of stuff going on. And then you come out to the other side liberated, you know, if you kind of know what to look out for. And then once you’re there, it really is, again, in the same way that no one no one menstrual cycle is the same for a woman. No postmenopausal experience of working cyclically as the same. So you might feel that the full moon is actually a bit overwhelming for you, it’s a bit tiring, you might find that actually, you prefer the energy of the of the of the new moon. So it’s going to be like, again, the journaling the reflecting the feeling into it and seeing how it manifests in terms of our hormones. I mean, menopause is a long journey. Like you’ve got the peri menopausal stage, then you’re in menopause. Well, in medical terms, you’re you hit menopause, when you haven’t had a period for 12 months. And then that’s it, apparently, but like, it’s very, very different in the way it expresses itself for us in our bodies in our minds. But, you know, once because estrogen will be doing this for a long time, it will be shooting up and coming down and shooting up and coming down, and then eventually, it will be lowered. And what happens is, our adrenal glands take over production of estrogen, so our ovaries kind of like they just shut down that in a lovely way, they’re like, Okay, we’re done, you know, like, it’s this, and then our adrenals take over. So we still do produce estrogen, nowhere near at the levels, and we definitely wouldn’t, we’re not cycling in that sense anymore. But we are still very much cyclical beings, and very much very sensitive to everything going on outside, we you know, because we’ve got this very, like ancestral memory of being so connected to the earth and the moon cycles and things. So what I say to menopausal women is really, you know, download an app, find out what what the moon is doing, you know, whether you live in the countryside or in a city, just start finding out what the moon is doing, and just feeling into how that feels for you. Maybe start, you know, like, manifestation and the moon, right, that’s another that’s a whole other topic that so you can do a lot of work around that as well. See how your energy feels every single stage of the month, maybe just at the beginning? Start with new moon, full moon, you know, play around with that. How do you feel around these times? How’s your sleep? How’s your energy and then build out from that? You know, and just see, see how it feels for you? Again, there’s no wrong or right way. I mean, I, I really struggle with full moons. I can’t sleep on them. I feel a bit crazy. Like, sometimes I look up in the sky, and in theory, I love it. But I’m like, Oh, God, here it comes.

Loren Runion 52:39
I was just about to say it feels so unfair that I have I did not used to be synched up with the moon at all. And I’ve since I’ve been on this inner like this journey of healing. I synced up with the moon. And so my period is like it comes. It’s all right where the full moon is. And I’m like, This feels really unfair. Because the Full Moon has that effect on me. I can I almost like until I became aware of it, my husband and I would have this huge blow up fight on the flute Full Moon every time and I didn’t. I was like, Oh, this isn’t really related. So now I’m like, yeah, like chill out, get past the full moon. And then you know, it was like, write it down. And then if performance over, let’s readdress this, so it’s, it feels very unfair that it gets it gets linked up. But I’m sure there is a reason as to why. Yes, huge energy, almost the same kind of energy, at least for me. Yeah, that surrounds the full moon and right before my parents. Absolutely. Well,

Giulietta Durante 53:33
I mean, traditionally, before we had, like, you know, like, electricity, and all of that most women would bleed on the full moon. And there’s a real belief that it is a very releasing kind of energy. So it does not surprise me at all that you used to have this blowout with your husband, like a few days a day before whatever, like you’re releasing your womb lining, right, all the stuff that’s been sort of like building up all month because although our bleeds at the beginning of our cycles, they’re also tying up what’s just happened a month before. So there’s all of that release. And you’ve got the moon, you know, you’ve got like the double whammy of energy and that, you know, like when that happens to me, I kind of move about a bit. I’m a bit irregular now because I’m in perimenopause, but my goodness, when I have a full moon and a bleed, it’s like Oh. Like really? Go to a cave and just like,

Loren Runion 54:26
safer for everyone. Including yourself. Yeah, and you don’t sleep. So it’s like, well, what should I do?

Giulietta Durante 54:34
I know, every every time it happens, I’m like, Okay, next time. I’m gonna get up in the middle of the night and I’m just gonna like candles. You know, like put some cards I’m gonna journal. I never do I just like that tossing and turning all night and then

Loren Runion 54:48
yeah, I can usually make myself it’s I mean, since it’s coming up, I’ve been waking up at like 330 in the morning every morning to get like four hours of sleep. I’m like, okay, here I am. I’m awake. I can usually make myself wake up and do breath work. and meditate, but I do it lying down, I can make myself. Okay, maybe I’ll fall back asleep. Yeah, yeah. Is there any, anything else that you feel like is really important for anyone who is really trying to create this correlation between the hormones and manifestation? Before we start to wrap things up,

Giulietta Durante 55:18
I think it’s just kind of going back to the message of feeling into how it feels for you again, and again, there is no wrong or right way. But it’s, I feel, bringing in cyclical awareness to your manifesting practice is like that next step, and just be so beautiful. I don’t really know if there’s a lot written about it. This is my personal experience with myself with my clients. But really feeling into it and being open to allowing the most shadowy sides of manifestation to also be part of the process. You know, and I think that’s, that’s a really important part of like, the whole cyclical living. It’s, it’s like the yin and yang, the highs and lows. And all of it is good, it’s not good, but all of it. It’s, there’s a wholeness about it. And in the same way that the menstrual cycle is whole, like a manifesting process can be hold as well. It’s not just that, yeah, you high vibe, but it’s all the other work that goes it’s almost like backstage work, isn’t it? Like, all the props and all the changes that happen at the back? So you can then do this beautiful work up front as well. So yeah, yeah,

Loren Runion 56:28
I’ve definitely had a lot of really powerful takeaways from this conversation. And I think that it’s just really important to know that, like, you’re okay that you have different moods throughout your cycle. And it doesn’t mean that you’re not manifesting. And it’s almost like trying to create a not only awareness on all of it, but maybe not going too far, one direction or the other, not ignoring that you’re having these feelings of anxiety and inner critic just like don’t keep trying to push her away, and sweep everything under the rug, and don’t go like full force all the way up. Because maybe that doesn’t need to be done either. Creating this really safe space of awareness, and choosing how far you’re gonna go versus almost letting it control you. I feel like that’s where I was, and still learning students not let it just take over my life and it control me, and, and creating awareness so that you can pause and be like, What am I going to do with this thought or feeling that I’m having right now? And not letting yourself swing pendulum? Like, really far one way? Or the other? I mean, maybe there’s times that you need to do that. But yeah, I think the awareness is really huge.

Giulietta Durante 57:35
Yeah, absolutely. The awareness is huge. And like, you know, we do still want to have a balance in our hormones. So if it’s repeatedly month, in, month out, like it’s a real, real struggle, you know, you’re getting other symptoms, then, you know, that’s something that needs the kind of the more physical work, maybe the nutrition shift, so that, you know, maybe a bit of testing, that’s also okay. You know, but it’s kind of knowing where you’re like, Okay, this is, this is where I really do sit as a hormone or woman, this is, you know, maybe a few days or feeling a bit, whatever, this is fine, this is good. And like you say, I think a lot of it comes from resisting and being told, we have to fight it. And it’s a curse, and all of this stuff. And even in those moments, when it really hits hard if you really, really sit with it, and surrender to it, it usually doesn’t last anywhere near as long and you’re like, Oh, okay. It’s almost like a bit of a tidal wave. And then you’re like, oh, like, rather than, like, you know, maybe and it’s not easy, I get it, you know, if we are still working, like a nine to five, or kids are running around everywhere, but it’s not that easy. But maybe when you’re feeling like you’re gonna burst, like almost taking yourself somewhere for five minutes and just allow it to just move through your body and then just going okay, great. You know, okay, I’ve got this, I’ve really got this. So there is acceptance, but also, knowing when maybe, you know, making some changes are also important in terms of lifestyle, nourishment, and all of that as well, right? It’s this little, it’s a little like to skate like a scale and we’re always balancing one and the other and we’re always feeling into how it really feels for us and, and having acceptance, but also self awareness when we want to make bigger changes, if that makes sense.

Loren Runion 59:18
Yeah, I’m glad you brought that back up. And especially since that is a lot of the work that you do with the nutrition. And one of the takeaways, you kept saying in this the podcasts that I listened to before you’re like, it’s, it’s the caffeine, it’s probably the caffeine of like, okay, okay, I hear you. And I cut down to one, just one cup of coffee or caffeinated beverage a day, which is probably it is probably still too much for me, but made a significant difference. So it’s not like you know, when you’re seeing potential changes, people don’t. Some people might, but it’s not like you’re getting rid of everything that makes you happy in your neighbor, maybe just decreasing to one cup of coffee is going to have a huge impact on your hormones. Feel every month.

Giulietta Durante 59:54
Absolutely. You know, and that’s why I really love the gentle nutrition support that you do when you work with your cycle because Is there are times in the cycle when we are able to handle caffeine a lot more like our livers kind of changing the way they detox throughout the month because, for example, estrogen is detoxing through the liver as its progesterone. But estrogen has quite a quite a heavy hormone to detox and we do need to detox it. Otherwise, if it stays in our systems, it can lead to the really bad PMS and lots of other symptoms. But there are times when estrogen we can just handle it better. And we can handle caffeine better. So you might find that when you’re ovulating, you can I wouldn’t ever recommend drinking to like three or four cups of coffee a day. But you might drink that coffee when you’re ovulating and feel fabulous. You drink that coffee a week later, and halfway through this happens to me, I’m like a jittery mess. And I’m like, Oh, I forgot. You know, and I would say as well, sometimes that low energy or that tiredness is there for a reason, you know, so, I sometimes know that when I am at my most high it is when I should least be drinking the coffee even though like I do want to drink it, you know, it’s like, actually, this is when I should surrender to that tiredness, you know, and allow myself not to be because it doesn’t actually give me good energy. It just makes me feel very, very jittery and very nervous and very anxious. You know, so watching those patterns as well, you know, you don’t necessarily have to go and do like loads of deep, deep functional medicine work. Maybe it’s just tweaking here and there as well.

Loren Runion 1:01:26
Thank you so much for being here. You’re such a beautiful human and I can’t I can’t thank you enough for being here and sharing your knowledge with us. Where can everybody go and find you? To learn more for you?

Giulietta Durante 1:01:36
Yeah. So come and find me on Instagram. I am at hormones underscore in underscore harmony. That’s probably where I’m most active. So come along, say hello, drop me a DM if you’ve got any questions following up from this podcast. And I love to hear from people so please, please do as you know, Laura, and another voice note, so I will send you and yeah, that’s that’s the best place to come and find me most most definitely. And yeah, I really. Yeah. I’ve really enjoyed our conversation. It’s been so so so lovely to connect with you today.

Loren Runion 1:02:10
I feel like we can go on for hours. Yeah. So many more questions. Perfect, I

Giulietta Durante 1:02:15
think come back into the sequel at some point, don’t you worry.

Loren Runion 1:02:18
We’ll do like a monthly cycle. Thank you so much. You’ll

Loren Runion 1:02:28
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