The Period Party

Catherine Dezynski is a licensed certified nurse midwife and women’s health nurse practitioner. Her clinical areas of expertise include family planning, colposcopy, office-based gynecology, and labor management. Catherine is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH), and the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP). Catherine is also a medical science liaison for BD, a global medical technology company and the creator of advanced cervical cancer screening tests. In this episode, we talk about why cervical cancer is underdiagnosed, shocking statistics on the rates of diagnosis and death, how the testing innovations at BD help women prevent cervical cancer before it starts, why HPV testing is recommended alongside Pap smears, what you need to know about the HPV vaccine, and so much more! To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/advanced-cervical-cancer-testing-that-could-save-your-life-catherine-dezynski/ [https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/advanced-cervical-cancer-testing-that-could-save-your-life-catherine-dezynski/]. This episode is brought to you by Knix. Visit Knix.com [https://knix.com/] to shop for period underwear and more. Podcast Production Support: Amazing Gains [https://listenerstoclients.com/] | https://listenerstoclients.com [https://listenerstoclients.com/]

Coach Gessie Thompson is a fibroids survivor turned Health Activist and Founder of the online wellness platform TheDeToxNow.com. She works with celebrities and everyday women daily to eliminate the health equity gap by educating and empowering BIPOC women and families with resources, detoxes, herbal supplements, programs, coaching, and a community support system that helps their bodies heal and prevent inflammatory conditions such as Fibroids, diabetes, high blood pressure, infertility and more. In this episode, Gessie and I talk about the deeply ingrained medical bias against black women, how women of color are frequently dismissed by medical professionals, the shocking new study highlighting the toxicity of hair relaxers, why black and brown women have disproportionately high exposure to environmental toxins, the ongoing fight for reproductive justice, Gessie’s commitment to empowering women with the information and tools to have the best possible outcome, and so much more! To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/the-state-of-emergency-of-black-womens-health-gessie-thompson/ [https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/the-state-of-emergency-of-black-womens-health-gessie-thompson/]. This episode is brought to you by Knix. Visit Knix.com [https://knix.com/] to shop for period underwear and more. Podcast Production Support: Amazing Gains [https://listenerstoclients.com/] | https://listenerstoclients.com [https://listenerstoclients.com/]

Sandra Sharpe is a Certified Functional Medicine Health Coach who focuses on the gut and hormone connection and helps women restore hormone balance through a root cause approach. Through her health obstacles with gut and hormonal imbalances, debilitating PMS, chronic migraines, Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, hypothyroidism, and thyroid cancer, Sandra realized that there were massive gaps in the women's health space. After years of educating herself about these topics and getting the answers she needed, her mission is to help women worldwide finally get the education, support, and tools they've always needed. In this episode, we talk about why women need to be proactive about our thyroid health, how the thyroid connects with almost every period-related problem and impacts fertility, symptoms of thyroid imbalance, what you need to know about thyroid testing, how you can start to improve your thyroid health without being overwhelmed, and so much more! To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/how-your-thyroid-affects-your-cycles-fertility-sandra-sharpe/ [https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/how-your-thyroid-affects-your-cycles-fertility-sandra-sharpe/]. This episode is brought to you by Knix. Visit Knix.com [https://knix.com/] to shop for period underwear and more. Podcast Production Support: Amazing Gains [https://listenerstoclients.com/] | https://listenerstoclients.com [https://listenerstoclients.com/]

Mari Dickerson is an integrative coach and psychotherapist specializing in women's health, trauma, and spirituality. She holds a master's degree in clinical social work from NYU and has worked in the mental health and healing field for over ten years. As a multi-passionate healer, Mari has training in yoga, meditation, reiki, psychoanalysis, addiction treatment, EMDR and women's health and hormones. In her work with women, Mari integrates the basics of menstrual health and body literacy with trauma work and supportive coaching to help female clients reduce symptoms, get in touch with their intuition, and find their feminine power. In this episode, we talk about how Mari first made the connection between hormones and psychology, why she takes a very different approach from traditional mental health therapy, the history of hysteria and its connection to patriarchal oppression, bridging the gap between the mental health and health coaching fields, and so much more! To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/female-hormones-and-feminine-psychology-mari-dickerson/ [https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/female-hormones-and-feminine-psychology-mari-dickerson/]. This episode is brought to you by Knix. Visit Knix.com [https://knix.com/] to shop for period underwear and more. Podcast Production Support: Amazing Gains [https://listenerstoclients.com/] | https://listenerstoclients.com [https://listenerstoclients.com/]

Brooke Scheller is a Doctor of Clinical Nutrition and Certified Nutrition Specialist in New York City. She specializes in using nutrition and functional medicine practices to help change your relationship with alcohol, heal your body from the damages of long-term drinking, and address chronic health concerns that overlap with regular alcohol use. She is the founder of the Functional Sobriety Network and is currently authoring a book that will be published in late 2023. This is the first time I’ve dedicated a show to the effects of alcohol on our bodies and our hormones, and it’s about time! Brooke is so knowledgeable, and she seriously delivers the goods. In this episode, we talk about Brooke’s evolving relationship with alcohol, cultural messaging around women and alcohol, how alcohol invades our mental space through the media, peer pressure around drinking, the physiological impact of alcohol, how alcohol leads to hormone imbalances, getting support and accountability on your sober-curious journey, and so much more! To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/women-hormones-alcohol-brooke-scheller/ [https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/women-hormones-alcohol-brooke-scheller/]. This episode is brought to you by Knix. Visit Knix.com [https://knix.com/] to shop for period underwear and more. Podcast Production Support: Amazing Gains [https://listenerstoclients.com/] | https://listenerstoclients.com [https://listenerstoclients.com/]