How Supporting Your Vagus Nerve Helps Reduce Stress Now that fall is here, it’s time to establish our wellness routine before the holidays arrive. Along with joyous celebrations, the holidays can deliver feelings of fight or flight while traveling to see family for the holidays, meet work deadlines and shopping for the perfect gifts. Today I’m sharing how supporting your vagus nerve helps reduce stress. Stress is the number one cause of hormonal imbalances. According to studies like this one, we are currently living in the most stressful period of time in recorded history. The cause of our str ..read more

Digestive health is key for hormonal health. Having a daily bowel movement is so important for your overall health and your hormones since we only eliminate toxins and hormones via sweating, breaking out, or going to the bathroom. If you are not having a movement at least once a day then you are officially constipated. Even if you are eating lots of nutritious foods you may not be absorbing all of the key nutrients that you need. I see a direct relationship between better bowel movements and a HUGE improvement in my client’s PMS, their periods, sleep and energy levels. Why do I see improvemen ..read more

The combination of eating different seeds during the follicular and luteal phase of a women’s cycle, otherwise known as “seed cycling”, has been a ritual of mine for several years. Studies show that seed cycling can help support women’s hormonal health, especially women with PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.) I found that seed cycling is one of the easiest things to incorporate when eating for your hormones, and today I’m sharing the benefits of seed cycling for hormonal health. What Is Seed Cycling Seed cycling is the practice of consuming different organic seeds within the different phase ..read more

Have you ever been so hungry that you start getting moody and a little angry? Being hangry is one of the quickest ways to disrupt your hormones. (Hangry is a combination of hungry + angry!) and it’s actually real. This 2022 study shows what being hangry does to your hormones. Today I’m sharing why you feel hangry and what to do about it so you can balance your hormones naturally. What Being Hangry Does To Your Hormones? If you are not eating enough or are skipping meals entirely, the glucose in your blood starts to drop and then hormones cortisol and adrenaline start to pump out more to help ..read more

black friday healthy deals For the first time ever I’m offering some healthy Black Friday deals! I’ve made available for purchase a single one-on-one session with me, my recipe book or a bonus session if you join either my three or six month program. Please see below for additional details and reach out with any questions you might have at katie@katiebressack.com. single sessions This is your opportunity to work with me without a three or six month commitment. I’ve previously only offered single sessions to clients after they have completed either a three or six month program with me. I ..read more

If you have painful periods, you most likely dread menstruating every single month. Pain with periods can be common, but it doesn’t have to be your normal monthly occurrence! Unfortunately more than half of people who menstruate have some pain for one to two days each month. So what can we do to reduce your monthly period pain? What you eat can help reduce your painful periods and I’m sharing what to eat if you have painful periods.  Pain associated with menstruation is called dysmenorrhea. Usually, the pain is mild. However, some women experience excruciating pain which keeps them from ..read more

You know the feeling. Irritable toward almost everyone, moody, snippy with your roommates and family? PMS has likely affected every woman at some point in her life, but there is an even more severe form of PMS called PMDD which can be debilitating at times and something you definitely should discuss with your doctor. So is it severe PMS or PMDD? Today I’m sharing in detail what PMS and PMDD are so you can get some more clarity and support with how you’ve been feeling and understand the difference between the two. Both PMS and PMDD symptoms usually occur after ovulation and end once your perio ..read more

Perimenopause: Three Ways To Support This Hormonal Change Women read and talk a lot about menopause, but what about the years and hormonal changes that lead up to menopause? Perimenopuase is an important hormonal stage that can last up to two to ten years before you actually reach menopause, the life stage defined by a full year without a period. Today on the blog perimenopause: three ways to support this hormonal change. Unfortunately, many of us haven’t received the education necessary to help us have an easeful transition during this phase of life. So much of the information we read has led ..read more

You are officially invited to join me on Wednesday, September 8th at 5 (PST) to my Eating For Your Hormones Live Masterclass where I will share with you diet and lifestyle shifts you can make to support your hormones. During our time together you will learn: Is it you, or your hormones? Identify the signs of hormonal imbalance and how to get to the root cause How stress, especially chronic stress messes with our hormones including sleep, cravings, weight, mood, energy, our periods, BUT even more important what we can do about it so it doesn’t have to wreck havoc on our hormones How to constr ..read more

Postpartum is a time in your life where you need all of the nourishment and nurturing that you can receive. It’s a super challenging time, but if you can continue to make your health a priority, it will make a huge difference in the way that you feel every single day. Today I’m sharing a postpartum nutrition success story. My pregnancy journey was challenging, I honestly didn’t feel well until I was about seven months pregnant, but nothing prepared me for all of the emotions and pain that came during postpartum. Because of my own postpartum journey I’ve put a bigger emphasis on helping my cli ..read more