What if the reason you only feel good one week out of every month, struggle to lose weight no matter what you try, and feel like your hormones are constantly working against you has nothing to do with your willpower or your discipline --- and everything to do with the fact that nobody ever taught you how your body actually works? In this episode, Shannon sits down with Raquel Dorsey, women's wellness advocate and founder of the Female Wellness Club, to talk about how understanding and working with your natural monthly cycle instead of against it completely transformed her health, her marriage, her weight, and her life.

Raquel shares:

• How a complete breakdown on her bedroom floor at 35 years old --- wondering why she only ever felt good for one week a month --- led her to discover cycle syncing and completely change the way she eats, works out, homeschools, dates her husband, and lives her life
• The 4 phases of your monthly cycle explained in the most relatable way possible --- winter, spring, summer, and fall --- and exactly what your body needs from you during each one to feel energized, balanced, and genuinely good all month long
• Why intermittent fasting at the wrong time of your cycle is working directly against your hormones, when the best windows for fasting actually are, and how syncing your nutrition with your cycle can make weight loss feel dramatically less hard
• How Raquel lost 25 pounds by cycling her peptides with her monthly phases --- which peptides she uses during menstrual, follicular, ovulation, and luteal, and why using them with your body instead of against it makes all the difference
• Why birth control flatlines your natural cycle completely, what women discover when they come off it, and how reconnecting with your body's natural rhythm can feel like meeting yourself for the very first time
• The simple tracking habit that started everything for Raquel --- a running notes app on her phone where she records how she feels every single day --- and how noticing your own patterns is the very first step to falling back in love with your body
• Why peptides are one of the most powerful tools available for women right now, how they work as a habit-stacking catalyst rather than a permanent fix, and what the future of women's telehealth looks like through the lens of the Female Wellness Club

Tune in for a fun, refreshingly honest, and genuinely eye-opening conversation about what it means to stop fighting your body and start working with the most powerful biological rhythm you were born with.

Connect with Raquel Dorsey

Instagram: @raquelrdorsey

TikTok: @raquelrdorsey

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