Debunking the Myths: Seven Truths About Hormonal Balance in Women

“Our hormones reflect the context of our lives — our thoughts, emotions, and actions. To balance your hormones, you must first learn to balance your life.” - Marcela Llerena

Introduction:

Uncover the truths about hormonal balance in women. Explore sexual hormones, the root causes of imbalance, and estrogen dominance. Learn about synthetic hormones' side effects and discover natural healing methods.

With that said, here are 7 myths about hormonal balance in Women.

Myth 1: The cause of hormonal imbalance in women is stress, endocrine disruptors, other health issues, or lifestyle habits.

Stress is a symptom, not a cause. A study published in the Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 2018, demonstrated estrogen influences mood and emotional states. Therefore, imbalance in female hormones can cause stress. However, due to the Law of Cause and Effect also known as Law of Reversibility, there is a bidirectional relationship between emotions and hormones. This means that hormonal imbalance can cause stress and stress can cause hormonal imbalance but stress is not the true origin of the imbalance.

Endocrine disruptors or toxins exacerbate the situation, they are not the true origin of the imbalance. At the surface level, our health reflects either our conscious or poor choices in diet and lifestyle. Beyond that, environmental pollutants, stressors, and the quality of our immune system all play a role. However, at a deeper level, spiritual ailments stem from archetypal traumas in the collective unconscious. These traumas create a complex of forsaken, bitter, misunderstood, persecution and shame. This is the large psychic wound that is being played out and healed in this age.

The root cause of hormonal imbalance in women is often the belief that it’s not worth being a woman, which can stem from traumas related to womanhood. This belief may lead to an unconscious rejection of femininity, manifesting as an overemphasis on masculine energy at the expense of feminine energy. Women may somatize this rejection, experiencing pain and issues in their female organs.

Throughout history women have faced rape, denigration and devaluation, suppression of creativity and independence, suppression of expression, betrayal by other women, including their own mothers, betrayal and abandonment by men, and health decline during pregnancy, sometimes resulting in death giving birth.

The memories of all these traumas are recorded in the woman's energetic field and womb. The womb holds the history of the world. It collects memories of both human pain and love. This is why problems in the womb are often linked to memories of trauma and why periods tend to be painful. Some women who reject their femininity feel uncomfortable in a female form. They may stunt breast development, grow facial hair, and experience sexual blockages, causing painful intercourse or avoiding pregnancy.

Women with hormonal imbalance tend to develop autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, lupus, thyroid diseases, and type 1 diabetes. Spiritually, when we experience autoimmune issues, it often reflects we are in conflict with ourselves. There is a struggle between who we believe we should be and who we truly desire to be. This is the essence of our inner turmoil. Rejecting femininity is the inner conflict in women that tends to manifest as autoimmune diseases.

When a woman rejects her femininity, she tends to position herself on the side of the female wound. Therefore, there is often also resentment towards the masculine figure. This resentment often manifests as a feeling of superiority. Women often feel superior to men unconsciously which pushes men away. This is why these unresolved traumas also affect romantic relationships.

Myth 2: The solution is to apply creams with synthetic hormones.

Hormones from creams can be absorbed into the bloodstream, affecting the entire body. Numerous studies from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and Pubmed have investigated the adverse effects and complications associated with transdermal estrogen-hormone creams. These studies have found that some women experienced hormonal imbalances, weight gain, skin irritation, mood changes, nausea, headaches, fatigue, dizziness, and the development of blood clots and cardiovascular issues.

Administering synthetic hormones (via oral or transdermal supplements) gradually diminishes your body's natural ability to produce those hormones, thereby weakening it. Additionally, female hormones naturally fluctuate throughout the month, making it impossible to achieve the right balance with synthetic hormones. This imbalance is why such treatments may result in devastating side effects like cancer.

The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Hormone Therapy Trials published a study in 2002, which found that women who took a combination of estrogen and progestin (a synthetic hormone) had a greater risk of developing breast cancer compared to those who did not take these hormones. This large-scale study conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides significant insights into the health risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

Myth 3: Balancing hormones naturally is about taking herbs and supplements, reducing toxins, changing your diet, improving sleep, and reducing stress.

We must heal a disease rather than just cure it. Curing is is just treating the physical body by managing symptoms. It is a temporary, dependent fix, not a permanent, self-reliant solution. Healing comes from the word “sanity.” Someone sane is someone who can perceive reality with their senses. Therefore, the process of healing has to do with organising our thoughts basically with being coherent. By being coherent we organize the energy in our body and get rid of what is no longer useful to find balance.

Taking supplements is curing and may create another dependence, requiring lifelong use and incurring a hefty monthly cost. Toxins just exacerbate the imbalance. They aren’t the root cause.

Hormonal imbalance often leads to stress. Stress or chronic cortisol then begins to suppress the immune and digestive systems which may cause pathogens overgrowth, gut problems, and sleep disturbances. Therefore, repairing and strengthening the immune system is just repairing the damage caused by the imbalance. It’s managing symptoms. It’s not tackling the root cause.

The reason why women often feel stressed and overwhelmed is because they are overly masculine. Rejecting your femininity equates to rejecting an essential part of your identity, and it often stems from a lack of self-love and self-worth. This is why understanding the power of femininity is crucial. Therefore, the natural solutions involve healing the trauma associated with being a woman, nurturing self-love and self-worth and embracing femininity.

Myth 4: Sex hormones are chemicals we can only affect by ingesting other chemicals (in the form of food, creams, pills).

A study published in the American Journal of Human Biology, 2012 on "The Impact of Acute Stress on Gonadal Hormones in Healthy Young Women" demonstrated that emotional stress induces significant changes in gonadal hormones levels, including estrogen and progesterone, thereby showing the bidirectional relationship between emotions and hormonal regulation.

#1 bestselling relationship author of all time John Gray, Ph.D. in his books “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” and “Venus on Fire, Mars on Ice: Hormonal Balance, The Key to Life, Love, and Energy;” concluded that feminine traits like feeling safe, supported, trustful, joyful, optimistic produce estrogen and progesterone in the body. Masculine traits like feeling independent, detached, competitive, self-sacrificing, problem-solving, produce testosterone in the body. Estrogen is produced by interdependence, ie by depending on someone for something. Progesterone is produced by social bonding.

Matias De Stefano, spiritual leader, explains hormones are produced by energy. Our chemical reactions are the physical expressions that in other levels of consciousness are called emotions, chakras, etc. For example, the solar plexus chakra in the matter is called pancreas. They are just different levels of vibration.

Our sex hormones are a physical manifestation of feminine and masculine energy. Therefore, an imbalance in sex hormones is an imbalance in our feminine and masculine energy. To find balance, we must balance these energies.

Myth 5: Estrogen dominance isn’t related to being overly masculine.

John Gray, Ph.D. in his books explains estrogen dominance often results from a lack of progesterone, and the reason for insufficient progesterone is that when you produce testosterone, you deplete your progesterone levels and excess testosterone converts into estrogen. If you are producing testosterone you are leaning on your masculine energy.

The typical behavior that produces estrogen dominance is self-sacrifice. Women who felt rejected by their caregivers, especially their mothers, tend to overgive or self-sacrifice to earn love. Sacrifice is a male trait. You are self-sacrificing when you are consistently putting the needs and desires of others above your own, living in a realm of what you “should” do, or when you feel “I have to do this to make money even if I don't like doing this.” Biologically, whenever you are doing stuff to earn love, you are producing testosterone.

Myth 6: To balance hormones, you need to understand the intricacies of hormone function and study biology.

You can naturally balance hormones by addressing major collective traumas such as childhood and feminine wounds, cultivating self-love and self-worth, embodying feminine traits, living cyclically and embracing a healthy lifestyle.

Myth 7: Hormonal balance has nothing to do with life fulfilment.

Our hormones change in response to the context of our lives, our thoughts, emotions, actions, what we are doing, how we’re doing it, and how we’re feeling while we are doing it. If you want to know how to balance your hormones, you must know how to balance your life.

This is why we should look at the essence of our lives, because this is what creates our hormonal makeup at any given moment. Our thoughts affect our biology, so if we change our thoughts, our hormones will change in response. It’s not possible to find hormonal balance when we are having stressful thoughts all day long.

The crucial question for a woman to ask herself is, “Am I feeling true to myself?” Am I living on purpose? When we don't follow the path we are meant to, it leads to a constant, underlying stress. It’s important to have the courage to live in integrity with our lives.