Menstrual Cycle Syncing & Hormone Balance with Daily Habits | Yajaira Rodriguez

Overview

In this episode, Rachel sits down with Yajaira Rodriguez, owner of Olivia Organic Market in Tulum, Mexico and founder of the wellness platform Cuerpo Mente Alma (Body Mind Soul). Yajaira’s path into women’s health began with her own personal health journey as a teenager and eventually led her to build a platform dedicated to helping people create sustainable habits that support total wellness. This conversation covers the infradian rhythm and how it shapes a woman’s energy, mood, and nutritional needs throughout the month, practical habit formation strategies, the importance of sleep for hormonal health, and how meditation can serve as a foundation for everything else.

You’ll Learn

• What the infradian rhythm is, why women operate on two biological rhythms instead of one, and why trying to perform the same way every single day works against how the female body actually functions
• How energy levels, metabolism, appetite, and emotional sensitivity shift across the follicular and luteal phases, and what types of movement and self-care are most supportive in each
• Why mid-cycle spotting is a hormone signal worth paying attention to rather than dismissing as normal, and how two simple morning habit changes eliminated it entirely for Yajaira
• Why women who are still cycling are generally better served by a shorter fasting window of around 12 hours, and why copying a male partner’s fasting protocol can disrupt hormones
• Why women typically need 8 to 10 hours of sleep for their bodies to complete full restorative cycles, and how the 3-2-1 sleep rule can dramatically improve sleep quality
• How to actually start building new habits without overwhelm, including the five second rule, preparing your environment the night before, starting with one habit at a time, and making habits enjoyable enough to sustain
• Why changing your inner dialogue, even before you believe it, is the most foundational step in any health transformation
• How meditation builds the capacity to move through difficult emotions without being overtaken by them, and why it is the single habit Yajaira credits most for her own growth

Resources

Connect with Yajaira:

Website- https://www.yajairarodriguez.co

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