Lifestyle Balance and Healthy Hormones

Overview

Across this journey, you’ll explore the foundational principles that shape women’s health and energy. We begin with Doing vs Capacity, understanding why so many women burn out by relying heavily on cortisol while becoming depleted in progesterone and estrogen creating a cascade that disrupts the entire endocrine system. You’ll learn to read Symptoms as Information, seeing fatigue, irregular cycles, mood shifts, sleep issues, bloating, and emotional overwhelm as early messages from the body rather than problems to push through. We then dive into Ayurveda’s 6 Stages of Imbalance, giving you a clear map of how subtle imbalances develop over time and when intervention creates the most profound healing. You’ll explore the Yin–Yang Hormone Model, a simple and powerful framework where yang represents stress hormones (adrenaline and cortisol) and yin represents sex hormones (estrogen and progesterone). This helps you understand how lifestyle choices determine which set of hormones your body prioritizes. You will also learn How Hormones Work Together, including why the body chooses survival over reproduction during stress and how progesterone depletion begins. Together, we will examine Early vs Advanced Symptoms, helping you recognize which signals can be corrected with simple lifestyle shifts and which may need deeper support. You’ll also study Doshas Across Seasons and Daily Rhythms, discovering how Vata, Pitta, and Kapha move through the day, the seasons, and different life stages and how aligning with these rhythms enhances digestion, sleep, emotional grounding, and energy. From here, we move into Dinacharya (Daily Rhythm Living) a practical way of structuring your day to stabilize hormones, regulate the nervous system, improve digestion, and reset your energy patterns. Finally, you will explore Courtney’s Lifestyle First Approach, a three-phase model: starting with diet, lifestyle, stress management, and nervous system regulation; moving into supplements and herbal support; and integrating medical intervention only when needed. Most women skip straight to Phase 2 or 3—this program brings you back to the foundation where true healing begins.

Introduction Video