WEBVTT 00:00:01.559 --> 00:00:06.120 Hi, I'm Kara Sutterfield and this is my podcast. 00:00:06.780 --> 00:00:09.779 After over 20 years of leading one -on -one and 00:00:09.779 --> 00:00:12.939 group coaching in professional settings, I developed 00:00:12.939 --> 00:00:15.960 a passion for helping other women uncover who 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:19.019 they long to become and how to live into that 00:00:19.019 --> 00:00:22.859 vision of self today. Let's deep dive into this 00:00:22.859 --> 00:00:26.440 profound exploration together, discover how best 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:29.559 to embody the highest version of ourselves, and 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:33.140 take action in this present moment. To Be Her 00:00:33.140 --> 00:00:37.020 Now. Hello and welcome back to To Be Her Now. 00:00:37.460 --> 00:00:40.280 I am Kara, your host, and I'm so glad you're 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.719 here with me. Today I just want to share a few 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:46.259 things that I'm loving lately that are bringing 00:00:46.259 --> 00:00:49.719 me joy, that are benefiting me, and maybe you'll... 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:52.320 Here's something that helps you or encourages 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:54.880 you to follow through on something that you feel 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:57.320 would be great for you. There's no particular 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:00.619 category for these or rhyme or reason. These 00:01:00.619 --> 00:01:04.040 are just things I enjoy, like, benefit from. 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:07.060 And I also suppose I should leave with a caveat 00:01:07.060 --> 00:01:09.560 that you do you. You decide to try any of these 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:13.579 things and they end up not bringing you the same 00:01:13.579 --> 00:01:16.700 sort of satisfaction, joy, or ease or help that 00:01:16.700 --> 00:01:19.280 they are bringing me. Don't blame me, try something 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.900 else. So here we go. The first thing that I am 00:01:22.900 --> 00:01:27.280 super loving is revisiting the book Period Power 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:30.200 by Maisie Hill. We are starting with menstrual 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:33.819 cycles. Now I am in perimenopause. I am 43 years 00:01:33.819 --> 00:01:38.140 old, turning 44 this year. So if you are in that 00:01:38.140 --> 00:01:41.579 phase of life or later maybe you hear Period 00:01:41.579 --> 00:01:45.120 Power and you think that's not for me. But let 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:48.500 me tell you how awesome this book is. A, it's 00:01:48.500 --> 00:01:50.400 written by Maisie Hill, and I have to repeat 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:52.439 that because there's a couple of books out in 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.799 the world, or at least available on the large 00:01:55.799 --> 00:02:00.079 order delivery services that are out there that 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:02.120 are written by other people. And so I'm speaking 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:05.180 specifically about Period Power by Maisie Hill. 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:09.919 But I love her take on looking at a woman's hormonal 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:13.340 cycle because she overlays it with the seasons. 00:02:13.710 --> 00:02:18.189 And it makes it so relatable and easy to digest 00:02:18.189 --> 00:02:21.169 bigger concepts about how hormones work and how 00:02:21.169 --> 00:02:24.030 they operate together in the body to create certain 00:02:24.030 --> 00:02:27.990 circumstances. She compares different phases 00:02:27.990 --> 00:02:31.009 of your cycle to different celebrities to give 00:02:31.009 --> 00:02:34.069 you a clear idea about how your body is feeling 00:02:34.069 --> 00:02:37.729 in those moments. And I just think it's the bee's 00:02:37.729 --> 00:02:42.370 knees. But I have read this book twice. it is 00:02:42.370 --> 00:02:46.389 absolutely the most dog -eared and most referenced 00:02:46.389 --> 00:02:50.750 book in my collection of books and no doubt there 00:02:50.750 --> 00:02:53.669 are lots of great books about menstrual cycles 00:02:53.669 --> 00:02:56.750 and women's bodies on the market so if you have 00:02:56.750 --> 00:02:59.610 any you can recommend I would love it find me 00:02:59.610 --> 00:03:03.319 on Instagram at ToBeHereNow and tell me about 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:06.639 them because I would happily read more. But here's 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.080 what I love about this book. It is the first 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:12.500 book that genuinely got me excited about tracking 00:03:12.500 --> 00:03:15.400 my cycle and I've heard a million times that 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:18.639 tracking your cycle is vital to really understand 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:21.120 what's going on and I wish I had heeded that 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:23.400 advice when I was much younger. I think it would 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:25.439 have saved me a lot of questions about when I 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:28.219 was emotional and why I was emotional and what 00:03:28.219 --> 00:03:30.919 was happening in my body. But she refers to tracking 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:33.460 your cycle as a superpower. And I have to say 00:03:33.460 --> 00:03:36.620 I now agree. I straight up kept a note in my 00:03:36.620 --> 00:03:40.280 phone. I would write day one when I would have 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:44.479 the first day of my regular flow of period. And 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:48.680 I would just write simple words to describe whatever 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:51.330 my day was like. I would write emotional, teary, 00:03:51.610 --> 00:03:55.169 happy, energetic, hungry, craving junk food, 00:03:55.449 --> 00:03:59.949 craving healthy, lots of energy, headache, migraine, 00:04:00.550 --> 00:04:03.629 tired, weepy, you name it. I would just track 00:04:03.629 --> 00:04:07.330 what was going on each day. And very soon, I 00:04:07.330 --> 00:04:10.469 would say three months in, I had started collecting 00:04:10.469 --> 00:04:14.689 enough data to where on, for example, day 19, 00:04:14.849 --> 00:04:19.410 when I would feel rundown and start to feel very 00:04:19.410 --> 00:04:21.850 internal, my thoughts would move to internal, 00:04:22.129 --> 00:04:23.990 I would feel impatient with everybody around 00:04:23.990 --> 00:04:26.670 me, I would start to feel like engaging with 00:04:26.670 --> 00:04:29.220 the world less. I realized that that was happening 00:04:29.220 --> 00:04:32.899 every month on day 19 of my cycle and I had had 00:04:32.899 --> 00:04:35.699 no idea that that was a repeat pattern despite 00:04:35.699 --> 00:04:39.040 the fact that it's called a cycle and yet it 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:41.500 never occurred to me that I was probably going 00:04:41.500 --> 00:04:44.699 through the same things every month on a regular 00:04:44.699 --> 00:04:48.300 basis which maybe I'm just ridiculous and the 00:04:48.300 --> 00:04:50.620 only one that didn't know that or didn't notice 00:04:50.620 --> 00:04:54.480 that but giving my cycle the framework of the 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:57.459 four seasons is single -handedly the most helpful 00:04:57.459 --> 00:05:00.339 thing that anyone has ever given to me. All that 00:05:00.339 --> 00:05:04.180 to say, today I moved into what Maisie Hill refers 00:05:04.180 --> 00:05:07.199 to as your autumn, which is your luteal cycle 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:09.699 after ovulation. It's when your energy starts 00:05:09.699 --> 00:05:12.779 to deplete, you start to turn inward, you feel 00:05:12.779 --> 00:05:15.300 more like having a private moment, just some 00:05:15.300 --> 00:05:17.800 time to be still with your thoughts. And I felt 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:20.420 that switch today and I thought I would just 00:05:20.420 --> 00:05:23.639 revisit her description of autumn and her advice 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:25.660 around autumn. and it made me remember how much 00:05:25.660 --> 00:05:28.220 I love this book. So number one period power 00:05:28.220 --> 00:05:31.019 by Maisie Hill and if you are in perimenopause 00:05:31.019 --> 00:05:34.120 like I am she also has a book called perimenopause 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:37.000 power also highly recommend. Thing I'm loving 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:41.699 number two I have been on a very intentional 00:05:41.699 --> 00:05:44.560 learning path over the last couple of months. 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:48.420 I have obtained a sound healer certification. 00:05:48.420 --> 00:05:51.699 I am working on a breathwork certification. If 00:05:51.699 --> 00:05:54.620 you can't tell I am a little bit woo -woo. I 00:05:54.620 --> 00:05:57.240 love alternative healing modalities and I love 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:59.120 learning about them and this is the first time 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:02.160 in my life I have ever actually pursued them 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:04.600 in an effort to be certified in them to help 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:06.540 other people with them so that's been lighting 00:06:06.540 --> 00:06:09.540 me up in a big way and I am studying for a women's 00:06:09.540 --> 00:06:12.860 health certification to help coach first myself 00:06:12.860 --> 00:06:15.600 on my own health journey and then hopefully eventually 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:18.360 other women as well but the simple act of learning 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:21.139 something new as I have mentioned in other episodes 00:06:21.139 --> 00:06:24.040 and decided to take my own advice, just makes 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:27.800 life so much more interesting. I wake up excited, 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:30.040 I'm intrigued by all the new information I'm 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:33.060 getting, and I'm very curious about what it's 00:06:33.060 --> 00:06:35.420 going to bring into my life, all this new knowledge 00:06:35.420 --> 00:06:38.379 and these new possibilities. Which brings me 00:06:38.379 --> 00:06:41.100 to item number three that I love. I purchased 00:06:41.100 --> 00:06:44.899 healing crystal sound bowls to go along with 00:06:44.899 --> 00:06:47.709 my sound healer certification, of course. This 00:06:47.709 --> 00:06:50.430 is something that I have thought about for a 00:06:50.430 --> 00:06:53.649 couple of decades and I had a moment the other 00:06:53.649 --> 00:06:56.009 night I was laying in bed awake. It's been a 00:06:56.009 --> 00:06:58.290 series of events leading up to this that just 00:06:58.290 --> 00:07:00.529 made me pull the trigger on buying the dang things 00:07:00.529 --> 00:07:03.410 because I've always felt like either I didn't 00:07:03.410 --> 00:07:05.449 have the money when I was younger or there were 00:07:05.449 --> 00:07:07.370 other things that could be purchased. And for 00:07:07.370 --> 00:07:09.490 the first time in a long time, I just had this 00:07:09.490 --> 00:07:13.209 tug at my heart and at my soul that made me feel 00:07:13.209 --> 00:07:14.870 like I don't even need to know what's on the 00:07:14.870 --> 00:07:17.410 other side of this, but this is a next step that 00:07:17.410 --> 00:07:19.910 I'm supposed to take. So I gave in, I purchased 00:07:19.910 --> 00:07:23.350 them and I love them. I love them. I'm having 00:07:23.350 --> 00:07:26.069 so much fun, not only learning about them and 00:07:26.069 --> 00:07:29.449 understanding how they do what they do to help 00:07:29.449 --> 00:07:32.889 support healing in our bodies. but just the sound 00:07:32.889 --> 00:07:35.790 of them is so beautiful, so meditative, so relaxing. 00:07:36.110 --> 00:07:38.370 I'm just having such a blast. So that's been 00:07:38.370 --> 00:07:41.069 lighting me up lately for sure. The fourth thing 00:07:41.069 --> 00:07:42.990 I'm loving, and maybe some of you are in this 00:07:42.990 --> 00:07:46.730 boat, is summer vacation. My children are home 00:07:46.730 --> 00:07:50.949 for summer, which means that we, parents in the 00:07:50.949 --> 00:07:54.009 house who have jobs that do technically allow 00:07:54.009 --> 00:07:56.269 us to make our own schedules, are getting to 00:07:56.269 --> 00:07:58.610 sleep in a little bit later or staying up with 00:07:58.610 --> 00:08:00.839 them a little bit later. We've watched Quite 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:03.160 a few movies in this last week, just hanging 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:06.240 out, and it's just fun to have them around. Now 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:08.639 they're older teenagers. They are barely in the 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:10.899 house to be very honest. They're out with friends 00:08:10.899 --> 00:08:13.620 as well, for sure. And now currently, which is 00:08:13.620 --> 00:08:16.019 why I'm able to record this episode, but it's 00:08:16.019 --> 00:08:18.699 just fun to have the whole family home, to have 00:08:18.699 --> 00:08:20.920 the longer days of summer, to have the sun out 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:23.240 much later. We've been taking a lot of evening 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:26.920 walks and just soaking up the season. So I hope 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:29.439 that you are able to do the same, however that 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:31.769 looks like for you. And the last thing that's 00:08:31.769 --> 00:08:34.830 lighting me up is that I have started to share 00:08:34.830 --> 00:08:38.169 many of these things on social media. I am on 00:08:38.169 --> 00:08:42.629 TikTok at ToBeHerNow, which I understand is something 00:08:42.629 --> 00:08:44.590 that most people have already been doing for 00:08:44.590 --> 00:08:47.649 quite a while. But I am someone who has been 00:08:47.649 --> 00:08:51.549 resistant to a new media platform because I am 00:08:51.549 --> 00:08:54.309 someone who also tries to have some balance with 00:08:54.309 --> 00:08:57.690 media and not be on it as much. But I have given 00:08:57.690 --> 00:09:00.649 in. I am posting some sound bowl healings. I 00:09:00.649 --> 00:09:03.210 invite you to come follow me there. And also 00:09:03.210 --> 00:09:05.909 Instagram at ToBeHereNow, where I post more of 00:09:05.909 --> 00:09:08.250 real life stuff. But yeah, that's all I really 00:09:08.250 --> 00:09:10.350 have for you this week. As I mentioned, I'm moving 00:09:10.350 --> 00:09:12.970 into my autumn. I don't have a lot to say out 00:09:12.970 --> 00:09:16.129 loud, at least, though my brain is buzzing. And 00:09:16.129 --> 00:09:19.169 I just wanted to pop in, share a few things that 00:09:19.169 --> 00:09:21.629 are lighting me up and bringing me joy, and encourage 00:09:21.629 --> 00:09:23.950 you to pay attention to what is lighting you 00:09:23.950 --> 00:09:26.799 up and bringing you joy. to remind you to go 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:29.379 do more of that. I hope you have an awesome week 00:09:29.379 --> 00:09:33.100 and I will talk to you next week on To Be Here 00:09:33.100 --> 00:09:33.360 Now.