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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In this episode, Kirstie shares her deeply personal journey through breast cancer, surgical menopause, and what it really means to rebuild your life after both.
At just 35, Kirstie was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. What followed was a whirlwind of treatments: chemo, a double mastectomy, and the removal of her ovaries—plunging her into surgical menopause overnight. She tells us what it felt like to go from full hormone health to zero, the mental health toll it took, and how she found strength, purpose, and even joy on the other side.
We cover:
🩸 Six months of non-stop bleeding after the wrong HRT
🩸 The BRCA gene and deciding to remove her breasts and ovaries
🩸 What surgical menopause actually feels like (and why no one warns you)
🩸 Hair loss, wigs, and the emotional rollercoaster of chemo
🩸 The big mental health toll—and how she got help
🩸 Rebuilding life after treatment, and becoming a coach for breast cancer survivors
This episode is honest, raw, and packed with wisdom. Whether you’ve faced breast cancer or want to better support someone who has, you’ll come away with insight—and hope.
How to check your breasts resource: https://coppafeel.org/breast-cancer-info-and-advice/how-do-i-check/
Find Kirstie at:
Website: www.breastcancercoaching.co.uk
Instagram: @breastcancercoaching
Facebook: the beyond breast cancer coach
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