Sughra Khaliq • Apr 15, 2019

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Why period pain is not normal and what it’s trying to tell you.

How many women and girls are told by the doctor that period pain is normal?

How many simply live with it and don’t seek help or advice because we’ve been brought up to believe that pain is normal?


My belief has always been that when something is part of your natural hormone cycle, it shouldn’t be painful.


Don’t accept anyone telling you otherwise.


Pain is our body’s way of telling us that something is out of balance. Modern medicine teaches us to treat the symptoms yet having followed many natural medicine practitioners and more recently Dr Cassie Huckaby of https://gritnaturalmedicine.com/,  I’ve realised that ‘symptoms’ are the ‘healing.’ To treat the symptom is to deny the imbalance, the issue, the deeper reason, the cause and ultimately the message our body is trying to send.


Through Mizan Therapy, my understanding of the causes of period pain has deepened. Mizan combines hands-on therapy, selfcare and herbal remedies. I have learnt that pelvic misalignment, injury, scar tissue and deep seated emotional trauma can all lead to period pain.


I find it so sad that in this day and age, young girls are put straight onto the contraceptive pill to manage their period pain, until they want to have a baby. They’re told it will ease their period pain and they can have more control’.

The truth of the matter is that the pill simply shuts down our natural hormone cycle. The period is no longer a natural period. It’s a breakthrough bleed. 


Nearly all of the body’s functions rely on good hormonal balance so imagine the damage which can be done when our hormones are switched off.

 

At the age of 25, exactly this happened to me. Bleeding between periods, spotting, heavy and painful periods let to me being put on the pill to ‘control’ my symptoms. I was told that I should try to have a baby by the age of 30 if the medical profession was to help me. Little did I know that I was applying a band-aid to the problem and I was delaying the healing.


Twenty five years later, I wish I’d known then what I know now. Having said that, the journey (however painful, stressful and turbulent) has given me the knowledge and the wisdom to help so many others like me.


If you’d like to book a FREE 20 minute chat to tell me more about your case, please click below

sughra@thebodytemple.co.uk.


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