🎙️ Haley Nichole on nourishing change through hormonal health
Did you know that hormonal health, nutrition, and our food system are interconnected?
Working on food system transformation has changed me in slow, sneaky ways.
Over the last 5 years, I have done a lot of research, had many conversations, and worked with a lot of entrepreneurs and corporations who are building a better future through food.
And the more I’ve learned, the more I’ve felt my worldview subtly change.
But that change only recently translated into action.
While I have known that what I eat, how I eat, and where I buy has big influence on the global food system, I only recently started claiming that power as a consumer.
In the past year, my family has made it a priority to get to know and buy from local producers. We started buying organic whenever possible. We checked labels to avoid overly processed foods. We upgraded our protein sources to be pasture-raised and grass fed. We started asking restaurants where their ingredients are sourced from. Is the proudce chemical free? How were the animals raised? Where does it come from?
If you’re reading this and thinking, “How can an expert on the future of food only be doing this now?”
My answer is that food is deeply cultural, habitual, and societal. We grow up a certain way that informs how we know and interact with the food system. Changing that requires unlearning and relearing, especially in a family context.
Depending on where you live, good food might be harder to come by. It might be more expensive. It might require you to go out of your way.
For others, it might be the norm. Your community might turn up their nose to anything processed, grown with -cides, or not from the local area.
Wherever you live, whatever system you were born into, it is possible to start choosing differently.
When you eat, you choose the food system you want to support.
One of the biggest things I have learned over the last few years is how tied human health is to soil health.
From there, I learned about how soil health is tied to nutrition and how the quality of our food influences our health.
I realized that choosing food that is grown in a way that supports a healthy planet also supports me in being a healthy woman.
I learned about how to properly nourish my body and consequently how that ripples out to nourish mother earth.
My teacher in this process has been Haley Nichole, a women’s health and fertility guide and the owner of Root & Womb Collective.
I’ve worked with Haley over the last year to get the education in women’s health I wish I had received as a teenager. She taught me about how I am a cyclical being, how our hormones are deeply interconnected with the food system, and how to properly nourish one’s body.
This education came alongside me starting my own business, which gave me so much freedom to design an organization that truly supports my health and wellbeing rather than leaving me burned out and stressed. I’ve been able to pay this forward to my clients when coaching them to create their career and be visionary leaders.
Join Haley and I as we share our personal experiences and give you a big picture understanding of how our health, hormones, and nutrition are interlinked.
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