Understand Your Cycle is a medically-verified guide and platform to the menstrual cycle and women's health. The Understand Your Cycle podcast turns taboos into table topics, by sharing women’s health experiences with a human lens. We talk to women about going through these experiences, and how it actually feels. We also ask our women’s health specialist doctors our community's FAQs.
Keen to learn everything we should have been taught in school about our menstrual cycles? From period products, contraception, fertility, endometriosis, menopause, PCOS, PMDD, and lots more? Without taboo nor shame, you can ask our doctors all your questions and learn to love your menstrual cycle through Understand Your Cycle.
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Understand Your Cycle is a medically-verified guide and platform to the menstrual cycle and women's health. The Understand Your Cycle podcast turns taboos into table topics, by sharing women’s health experiences with a human lens. We talk to women about going through these experiences, and how it actually feels. We also ask our women’s health specialist doctors our community's FAQs.
Keen to learn everything we should have been taught in school about our menstrual cycles? From period products, contraception, fertility, endometriosis, menopause, PCOS, PMDD, and lots more? Without taboo nor shame, you can ask our doctors all your questions and learn to love your menstrual cycle through Understand Your Cycle.
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"I can't explain the feeling, but it's as if everything was going to fall out of you"
In this episode, we sit down with Jasmine from Emerald and Tiger, a meditation teacher and energy healer, to explore her journey through endometriosis, perimenopause, and self-healing. From enduring a 20-year diagnostic delay to finding empowerment in her cycle, Jasmine shares raw, honest insights on body awareness, pain management, and the emotional highs and lows of women’s health.
Expect real talk, no taboos, and plenty of wisdom. Tune in as we break the silence around menstrual and hormonal health—one conversation at a time.
"I’m grieving my periods—even with the pain, I loved them"
We cover (PART 2):
🩸the onset of perimenopause
🩸the experience of perimenopause and endometriosis alongside each other (and how some symptoms are hard to disentangle)
🩸her work with women experiencing chronic conditions, through reiki and sound healing
🩸How does Reiki actually work?
In PART 1:
🩸Jasmin's endometriosis diagnosis
🩸ending up in A&E on her wedding anniversary
🩸finding out she had endometriosis, and skin cancer shortly after
🩸how her endometriosis symptoms impacted her socially and physically (e.g. painful sex)
🩸how she began to heal her symptoms through reiki
This episode is part of UYC's Endometriosis Awareness Month Campaign. Listen to Alice's powerful endometriosis journey, through diagnosis, surgery, and becoming an endo coach, on our podcast as well.
Find Jasmin on:
Website: emeraldandtiger.com
Instagram: @emeraldandtiger
Book: emeraldandtiger.com/ext-shop/
Endometriosis Facebook Community: Living With Endometriosis
Understand Your Cycle's episode with Le'Nise Brothers here 🎙️✨
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