Rewriting Wellness

In Part 1, Kenna shared how she lost her period doing everything she'd been told was healthy. In Part 2, Brooklyn and Kenna get into why it happened, and what actually moves the needle in restoring a lost period. They cover why "eat less, move more" is such a damaging prescription for women with PMOS, how PMOS and hypothalamic amenorrhea can look nearly identical on paper (and the one distinction that often separates them), and the quiet signs that healthy habits have tipped into underfueling, including the ones that don't feel like restriction at all.They then walksthrough what nourishing actually looks like: why blood sugar balance and eating enough aren't competing goals, why cutting carbs while undereating backfires, and what recovery really feels like emotionally and physically, including the part nobody warns you about.Download Kenna's free guide, 5 Signs Your PMOS Might Actually Be HA here!Join the waitlist for PMOS Thrive Academy here, a full roadmap for this work with support the whole way through!

Brooklyn is joined by Kenna, her dietetic intern and new business owner, for a story a lot of listeners are going to resonate with.Kenna was diagnosed with PMOS at 16 and spent years doing everything she'd been told would make her healthier: fasted 5am workouts, carbs cut down to fruit and beans, studying nutrition searching for "perfection". Then her period disappeared completely. What followed was a PCP who wrote it off, an ultrasound that confirmed the label without a single follow-up question, and months of prescriptions instead of answers.In Part 1, Brooklyn and Kenna talk about what it's like to be dismissed, why hypothalamic amenorrhea can happen in any body, and what the brain is actually signaling when a cycle goes quiet.Make sure to download Kenna's free guide, 5 Signs Your PMOS Might Actually Be HA here!And if you have PMOS and you're ready to take back your health without restriction, joing the waitlist for our next round of PMOS Thrive Academy here!

Cut gluten. Cut dairy. Skip fruit. Fast. Do more cardio. Lose weight. There's a reason none of these rules have helped, and in today's episode, Brooklyn takes apart five of the most common PMOS rules... including where each one came from, what's actually true, and what to do instead.In this episode:Rule 1: "Cut gluten and dairy" and the confounding problem nobody mentionsRule 2: "Fruit has too much sugar" no, the raspberries are not the issueRule 3: "You should be fasting" who the research was actually done onRule 4: "More cardio is better" and why it works against your own goalRule 5: "Lose weight and everything resolves" — the biggest oneWhat all five have in common Breaking the rules is the easy part. Building what goes in their place is what we do inside PMOS Thrive Academy! Check out more info here!

If you've been told to eat less, move more, and be patient and you feel worse than when you started, this episode is the explanation nobody gave you. Brooklyn breaks down what actually happens to your hormones when your body decides food is scarce, why it hits harder with PMOS, and what eating enough actually looks like.In this episode:What under-eating actually looks like (it's quieter than you think)What your body shuts down first when it thinks food is scarce, and whyThe PMOS-specific trap: why restriction makes insulin resistance harder to manageWhy the 9pm kitchen moment is physiology, not a character flawWhat eating enough looks like, no numbers, no rulesIf you're wondering what "enough" looks like for your body, that's where we start inside PMOS Thrive Academy. Twelve weeks, small group, get more info here!

Season two is here (!!!), and so is a pretty big life update! Brooklyn shares what's changed, what health has actually looked like in a season with less energy and less time, and why doing less hasn't made her less healthy.In this episode:The life update (and what season two of the podcast is going to look like)What fitting in nourishing habits looks like when your capacity has shrunkWhy "the bare minimum" is a real and legitimate version of taking care of yourselfHow to tell the difference between slowing down and giving upThe permission slip: your health doesn't have to look the same in every seasonKey takeaways:Consistency in a hard season looks different than consistency in an easy one, and it still countsDoing less on purpose is a skill, and it's completely okay!Body trust matters most in exactly the seasons where your body is changingCome say hi on Instagram @dietitianbrooklyn — and if you've got PMOS and want real support, learn more about PMOS Thrive Academy here!