060 // Recover Your Periods and Your Life w. Dani Sheriff - a podcast by Meredith Wadsworth

After discovering that her "healthy" habits were actually the cause of her absent cycles (hypothalamic amenorrhea), Dani Sheriff began channeling her frustration with societal expectations on women's bodies through her childhood hobby: drawing and illustration. She quickly learned that there was a need to help other women with HA and share her own experience, and The HA Podcast was born. Soon after, she created The HA Society, an online membership community offering support, guidance, and tools for women recovering from hypothalamic amenorrhea. In this epic discussion, I share reflections on my recovery journey as we dive into Danny's story, how she not only recovered her periods but her life, and turned her experience into a career.  

We also get into... 

How creativity helped me in my own journey

Releasing the limiting belief that doing the easy thing is a cop out

A tangent on why finding your "talents" should be taken off a pedestal

The importance of community and support in this healing journey Her membership community, The HA Society, and what its all about

How HA is becoming more and more well-known, and the information is consistent: trust your body and nourish it properly.

How expanding her life outside of food + fitness was the key to her recovery and tapping into her aligned self

Breaking up with "fitness" as an identity

Getting pregnant after HA and the expectations fitness marketing places on women's pregnancy bodies

Recovery and dating/marriage

How recovery opens you up to more opportunities, relationships and deeper connection and compassion

How recovery made us better people

Getting stuck in quasi-recovery

Reprograming restrictive food thoughts

Slip ups and letting go of perfectionism in recovery 

Episode Links: 

// Follow Dani on Instagram @danisheriff 

// The HA Podcast

// No Period Now What Facebook group

// Follow me on IG @thehyelife

// Ready to shift your story and take charge of your journey? Work with me via 1-1 coaching + support

// Take the HYE Road Workbook - the best place to start (besides the podcast) if you're new to me!

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// Have a question you want answered on the show? Send me an email

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