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The Rushing Woman Syndrome was coined by Australian author, speaker and nutritional biochemist Dr Libby Weaver – and it does sound like an excellent book to get my hands on soon. This perceived need to rush and the relentless pursuit to be all things to all people is causing detrimental changes to our bodies and driving a long-term crisis in women’s health. It’s that they live their lives so out of touch with their beautiful hearts, out of touch with how extraordinary they are and in the cloud of false belief that they aren’t enough.
You will receive three videos per week, with most of the videos sitting around the 15-minute mark, though some are longer, and some are shorter.For the first half of the cycle, we make a small amount of progesterone from our adrenals glands, walnut sized-glands that sit on top of our kidneys.
Overcoming Rushing Woman’s Syndrome is a 30 day online course designed to teach you how to truly reduce your stress—and the negative health consequences it can elicit—while living a full and thriving life.It all boiled down to one simple truth that so many of her patients shared: “None of it was a disease; it was just that nothing was working as well as it once did,” Libby says. The hypothalamus [control centre region in the brain] is getting the message from the constant production of stress hormones that we’re not safe, because that’s what stress hormones still mean to the body, and then the hypothalamus is telling that to the pituitary gland [hormone-producing gland in the brain] and then the pituitary is telling all the other glands, ‘We’re not safe: respond accordingly. I thought of my friends that have spoken about their struggles in balancing their work/home lives and I considered my own journey where I have at times felt that I was trying to juggle a hundred different things and failing miserably. Park the fertility aspect of what I’ve just said and consider the additional biological impacts of this: we make too little of a hormone that helps us not feel anxious, not have a depressed mood and allows us to efficiently mobilise fluid.
Immediately I related to the concept of the “Rushing Woman” and thought of numerous clients who have presented in my therapy room feeling overwhelmed by the demands of their daily lives. This interference of stress hormones with sex hormones is one of the major biochemical factors I describe in Rushing Woman’s Syndrome.If you are familiar with Dr Libby’s work, you will know nutrition is one of three key pillars when it comes to health (along with emotional and biochemical).
When we are stressed, adrenalin is released by the adrenal glands (to escape the perceived threat), blood sugar rises, to give us more energy and blood pressure and pulse rate increase to provide more energy to the muscles. In this course, Dr Libby applies her three pillar approach – the biochemical, nutritional and emotional, and we explore Rushing Woman’s Syndrome through these lenses. As well as our period, another canary in the woman’s health mine can be our thyroid, because the thyroid also plays a huge part in our overall wellness. Never before had I seen the extent of reproductive system and sex hormone challenges that I was seeing. It’s been over a decade since Dr Libby Weaver’s game-changing book Rushing Woman’s Syndrome first came out – and women have been rushing even faster in the years since.
Yet when we primarily burn glucose as a fuel (instead of body fat), because it is our “get out of danger” fuel, the body can’t risk the glucose fuel tank getting too low so the desire for sweet food gets switched on… hello harsh self-talk when you give in to your sweet cravings even though you said you wouldn’t. And when it comes to excess estrogen, liver function, diet and lifestyle factors play a huge role (here is where we get into alcohol and caffeine consumption, the part you knew was coming).
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