Understanding PCOS: How it shows up in your life
Are you suffering from the wide-ranging, confusing symptoms of PCOS: Irregular periods, facial hair, acne, infertility, diabetes? Learn more about PCOS from naturopathic physician Dr Sherry Pittman.
Caring For Mamas in the Postpartum Period: Part 1
So You Just Had a Baby? Your life has certainly changed! The whole focus of your world has been shifted to this tiny person who is entirely dependent on you to survive. You may feel like you’re spending all your time feeding your baby, changing diapers and outfits, and soothing them to sleep. With all…
Portland Natural Medicine, Diet & More Help Women Balance their Health
Our Portland natural medicine practitioners provide insight into how women can stop suffering from painful, heavy periods & more.
Portland Natural Medicine & Collaborative Care Address Fertility
At Heart Spring Health, we collaborate within our Portland natural medicine clinic and with other healthcare providers to remove fertility obstacles.
Portland Acupuncture Birth Preparation & Chinese Medicine
Have you considered acupuncture in Portland as part of birth preparation? Acupuncture and other forms of Chinese medicine can help expecting mothers prepare for birth.
Holistic Pelvic Care: A Guide To Women’s Health
Holistic Pelvic CareTM (HPC) is a modality designed to care for the female pelvis. It combines internal pelvic floor massage with breathwork and visualization to increase circulation and release tension in the organs and connective tissue of the pelvis. The manual techniques used in HPC are derived from physical therapy: gentle myofascial release and trigger…
Monthly Suffering – Normal, but Healthy?
A lot of women suffer needlessly. Up to 90% of women report painful periods. That’s a lot of us women, the vast majority of us even.
Month in, month out. Take more Tylenol, strap on the hot pack and wait it out, curled up in bed on a Netflix binge. Really? I wouldn’t want to be down for the count on a PMS anti-vacation every month, and neither should you.
And painful cramps isn’t all I’m talking about. I’m also talking about periods so heavy you don’t want to leave the house, periods that seem to come to soon, or not frequent enough. The first step in achieving regular, easy-breezy periods is doing a little of what I call hormone wrangling. It’s true. Those hormones are unruly, and need some gentle-yet-stern guidance.