I recently had a suicidal PMDD episode and it’s made me realize I need a spiritual practice. This video was so comforting and healing for me. Thank you so much.
I randomly came across Forrest's podcast with you about CPTSD and so many seemingly unrelated little nuances you described resonated with me, my mind was blown. And then I watched your conversation about PMDD and now this vid, and things make SO MUCH SENSE. I've suffered from emotionally super intense PMS's so much of my life and didn't know that this was a thing!! Probably not quite as bad as yours but definitely much worse than your average PMS. It has also interfered so much with my social life, and it is such a journey to take the fact that you need more space during that time serously enough, in the face of today's culture. You have given me so much with your sharing and with the resources you mentioned, I somehow deeply resonate with your being in so many ways, you're even inspiring me to reconsider becoming a therapist one day. I could go on but I don't want to sound over enthousiastic or creepy XD Thank you again and I hope that your relief will arrive soon. :)
I have only been aware of my PMDD for about a year, though I have had my period for about 7 years.. so many moments I wish I could go back in time and hold myself and have the self compassion to know that it wasn't my fault. I am in the beginning days of my PMDD for this cycle, and am very grateful to this first episode. Know that this has made me feel better
I would say you have no idea just HOW DEEPLY I appreciate you sharing your PMDD journey and tips - as a fellow PMDD sufferer I hope you know just how invaluable this is for the rest of us!!! 🙏❤️😌 So blessed to have recently found you.. speechless in my profound gratitude 🙏 💞
Thank you Elizabeth. As these words are about to pour out of me, Im taking a moment to acknowledge and appreciate how your words and your story has really assisted me in transforming my feelings of fear into feelings of excitement as I approach my next PMDD week. For maybe even the first time in my adult life, I’m not afraid and I’m intentionally looking forward to what wisdom and knowledge that week will bring to surface FOR me 🙏🏻
Elizabeth your channel is my island 🏝. Journeying? Never heard of that definable something to learn. I read oracle cards every day and lately the message of that I need to work with my female energy hasn’t stop coming out of my cards. Now hearing your experience I realized that I’m not compassionate with myself. And that the female energy is about being more sensitive and soft with myself. Thank you so much for everything you shared. I’m really happy and grateful for finding your channel. 🫶🏻
Elizabeth, thank you! So much gratitude to you and your Inner Wise Woman! ♥️ I’m currently overwhelmed with gratitude, sense of connection, flow and safety. My Inner Seeker is so grateful for “finding you” through Being Well podcast. Thank you for sharing your Wisdom! ♥️
That's so interesting that your inner voice at the end kicked in when it came to questioning if you'd conveyed what you wanted to communicate effectively (which you did brilliantly btw). I think there's an intersection of childhood trauma and questioning our perception and how we'll be understood that gets hugely exacerbated during pmdd episodes. It's like our inner voice starts gaslighting us, and repeating old negative frames from childhood. Trusting ourselves is so important.
AI am going through an inner critic experience with going back to school at 40 - I have such issues around chronic freeze and cPTSD that I asked for neurodivergent advisors out of wanting to help myself, and was met with confusion. The inner critic doesn’t want to be met with confusion upon asking for help. I appreciate your authenticity.
Thanks for opening up and sharing some of your journey with us. I am working on my internal critic as well and your perspective has real value for me. Your videos are very good, thank you.
I'm not in a PMDD episode right now, but I've been through some serious shit lately (and actually in the past couple years I now see) and listening to you speak of your practice and how amazing you are at PAIN, you know ? It's such a hard thing for everyone, experiencing pain and actually feeling it and letting it live inside of us instead of fighting it, I've felt what tou said so deeply I burst out crying and I can't stop as if something was sitting inside of me, suffoxating me without me even realizing it because there's so much pain in people's lives and we learn to kinda swoop it under the rug and not pay much attention to it and only if we're lucky - can we find that true power that comes from loving out pain. Thank you, beautiful soul, thank you so much for this episode, for your wonderful podcast. I will always remember your sweet voice speaking gently to my surrow and making me feel so alive.
If you can get your hands on an old copy, Starhawk wrote a wonderful novel called The Fifth Sacred Thing. She works with the Reclaiming Collective in the San Fransisco Bay Area, and likely have an abundance of resources that would be helpful.
