{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Balancing Hormones Naturally","title":"Hormones, Grief, and Giving Yourself Grace","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1425,"description":"This one is just you and me. No guest, no protocol, no checklist, just an honest conversation about what it actually looks like to keep going when life gets heavy. Because 2026 has been a year, and I think a lot of you are in a similar season.\nIn this episode:\nWhy Leah is sharing this, not for sympathy, but to model what adapting actually looks like in real life.\nThe grief button analogy that reframes how we think about loss and why time doesn't heal the way we think it does.\nWhy ignoring your emotions and plowing forward isn't healing, and what she did instead.\nThe specific things she pulled back on during this season and why that was the right call.\nHow she supported her adrenals when stress was high, and the catnip bitters she reached for when things felt really unsettled.\nWhy she put away all self-development books and just read fiction, and why that was the right move.\nThe gardening hobby that became her low-stakes, low-pressure nervous system reset.\nHow joy became a non-negotiable, singing with the kids, playing piano, making cottage cheese chocolate protein balls.\nWhy communication with your spouse about what you actually need matters more in hard seasons than in easy ones.\nThe levels system, and why having a lot of level one days is not failure, it's just where you are.\nWhat it looks like to still be moving forward even when forward feels slow and small.\nYou don't have to be okay all the time. You just have to keep moving. Even if it's smaller and slower than you'd like.\nUse code LEAH to save 15% at Eversio Wellness here\nLeah's Favorite Things: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites\nI'm Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life. Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you'll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/86wOr6F_xPdgn7OPf0XXH95ik4VSvdkxX5yC3FNCRRo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jZDg5/ZjRlYmM5NDBiZTc4/MDg0MmUyMWY5OTAx/NWQyYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}