Support for hormonal symptoms in Anna Paulowna
Do you experience hormonal symptoms month after month and notice how much they affect your daily life? Do you experience mood swings, low mood, fatigue, poor sleep, pain or other symptoms associated with your cycle or hormones?
Hormonal symptoms affect not only your body, but also how you feel. Because they are so personal and vulnerable, they can affect your connection with yourself, your body, your sexuality and your sense of womanhood.
Perhaps you are tired of worrying, searching for solutions and feeling concerned. Perhaps you have often been told that you “just have to learn to live with it”, while deep down you feel that more is possible. I believe things can be different. And somewhere inside, you feel that too.
Hormonal symptoms are associated with fluctuations or changes in your hormones. These can include symptoms related to your period, PMS, PMDD, pregnancy or menopause. They may appear as mood swings, low mood, irritability, anxiety, fatigue, poor sleep, physical symptoms around your period, an irregular cycle or reduced desire for intimacy.
The impact of hormonal symptoms is often greater than the physical symptoms alone. You may notice that you do not quite feel like yourself at certain times each month, become emotional more quickly or constantly have to plan around your cycle. This can feel lonely, particularly if the people around you do not understand how much your hormones affect daily life. From my own experience of lichen sclerosus, I know how vulnerable women’s health concerns can feel. That is why I understand that hormonal symptoms are not only physical, but can affect you deeply on an emotional level too.
What does support for hormonal symptoms in Anna Paulowna look like?
Your nervous system forms the foundation of your health and vitality. It influences your hormones, digestion, immune system, emotions and the way you respond to stress. Women’s health concerns never exist in isolation. Your body and emotions continually affect one another. This often receives too little attention in healthcare, even though for many women with hormonal symptoms it can be an important key to feeling better.
Perhaps you recognise the pattern of always carrying on, caring for others and adapting yourself. Constantly keeping all the plates spinning is not only stressful and exhausting; it also takes you further and further away from yourself. I help you break that cycle.
In the sessions, there is space to slow down and feel what you truly need. Together, we look at what your hormonal symptoms do to you and what they ask of you. By combining ACT coaching with body-oriented exercises, we explore not only the symptoms themselves, but also what may be going on beneath them. Step by step, this can bring greater calm to your mind and body. From there, space for recovery can emerge.
“From the very first moment, it felt safe and familiar, and I am incredibly grateful to Lotte for her warm way of coaching. Thanks to her, I feel happier, lighter and full of energy again.” — Isa
What are hormonal symptoms?
Hormonal symptoms are associated with fluctuations or changes in your hormones. They can occur around your period or ovulation, with PMS or PMDD, during pregnancy, after giving birth, during postpartum recovery, during the menopausal transition or in perimenopause. Common hormonal symptoms include mood swings, low mood, irritability, fatigue, poor sleep, headaches, abdominal pain, painful breasts, heavy periods, an irregular cycle, hot flushes, night sweats, brain fog, feelings of anxiety or reduced desire for intimacy.
Why do hormonal symptoms sometimes make me feel unlike myself?
Hormonal symptoms can mean that you do not recognise yourself at certain points in your cycle. You may suddenly feel low, irritable, uncertain, overstimulated or emotional, only to experience greater clarity and happiness again a few days later. This can be confusing, particularly if you keep trying to carry on as though nothing is wrong. There is space in my support for what these changes do to you. In this way, you learn to understand more clearly why your body and mood change and how you can respond differently.
What do stress, tension or long-term overload have to do with hormonal symptoms?
Stress does not always directly cause hormonal symptoms, but your nervous system does play an important role in how your body functions. It regulates many processes, including breathing, muscle tension, sleep, digestion, recovery and your hormonal system. If you demand a great deal of yourself over a long period, carry a great deal of responsibility or repeatedly push beyond your limits, your nervous system can remain constantly “switched on”. This may make your body respond more sensitively to hormonal fluctuations.
My support pays attention to your body, nervous system, thoughts and feelings. You learn to recognise when your body has been “switched on” for too long and what you need to settle again. This gives your natural capacity for recovery more space and can help greater balance to emerge, physically and mentally and emotionally. This can be supportive alongside hormonal symptoms and the impact they have on daily life.
Is coaching the same as lifestyle support for hormonal symptoms?
No. My support is not conventional lifestyle coaching. Lifestyle support often focuses on food, exercise, sleep, supplements or practical habits. This can be very valuable for hormonal symptoms, and sometimes it is important to explore these areas with a healthcare professional. My support focuses mainly on the psychological and body-oriented layer beneath hormonal symptoms. We look at stress, emotions, tension, boundaries, patterns and the way you relate to yourself and your body. It can therefore complement lifestyle support, medical care or other treatments.
What can support offer you if you experience hormonal symptoms?
✔ Your mind becomes calmer and you worry less about your symptoms.
✔ You feel more relaxed in your body and pelvic area.
✔ You learn to listen to and trust your body’s signals.
✔ You gain clarity about your boundaries, needs and desires.
✔ You live according to your own rhythm and cycle, and what truly suits you.
✔ You feel more in control of how you deal with hormonal symptoms.
Dear woman, from my own experience of lichen sclerosus, I know how deeply intimate symptoms can affect you. But I have also learnt that they can be an invitation. They can open a path back to yourself. For me, this may have been the most remarkable journey I have ever taken. A journey from always carrying on, caring and adapting. Back to connection. To the intimacy of being allowed to come home to yourself. To being truly present with what you feel, long for and deserve. This journey is here for you too, if you feel that now is the time to take that step.
VERBINDING Programme
VERBINDING is for women with hormonal symptoms who feel: things are truly allowed to be different now. Women who do not only want to gain more control over their symptoms, but above all long for a deeper connection with themselves. Over nine weeks, we meet every other week for a total of five sessions (online or in person in Anna Paulowna, the Netherlands). Between appointments, you receive inspiring exercises and support via WhatsApp. You will also receive the workbook De Verbonden Vrouw (The Connected Woman) to support your process. The fee for this programme is €595.
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Practice in Anna Paulowna
I support women with hormonal symptoms at my practice in Anna Paulowna, the Netherlands. Sessions take place in our welcoming garden room, surrounded by greenery. The practice is easy to reach for women from the surrounding area, including Julianadorp, Callantsoog, Schagen, Wieringerwerf, Breezand, ’t Zand, Hippolytushoef and Den Helder.
Words from other women
11 years’ experience as a therapist | More than 10,000 hours of therapeutic support
“I really appreciated looking together with Lotte at where I was getting stuck and what I needed. She thought things through with me and helped me find my way, but did not do it for me. It truly was a journey we undertook together. Thanks to Lotte, I have come closer to myself and experience far fewer physical symptoms and negative thoughts. I always found the atmosphere warm and pleasant. Lotte is very attentive and radiates calm, while also being direct and honest. A lovely combination. I would certainly recommend coaching with Lotte if you want to find more calm within yourself.”
Marianne
“During the programme with Lotte, I went through an enormous transformation. Her approach is particularly valuable because it is not a quick fix, but a complete programme. When I encounter challenges now, I consciously pause with those experiences and apply the new insights. This has changed my entire perspective. I felt safe with Lotte from the beginning; she proved to be a warm and skilled coach. It felt like a shared journey in which you are not alone.”
Nikki
“Over the past few months, I followed a coaching programme with Lotte. Through many exercises and conversations, I learnt an incredible amount about myself and my symptoms. It is a very personal programme, but Lotte is highly knowledgeable and had a good sense of what I needed. There was also always space for me to say what felt right for me. From the very first moment, it felt safe and familiar, and I am incredibly grateful to Lotte for her kind and warm way of coaching.”
Lisanne
“Among other things, I was looking for more calm in my mind and a deeper connection with my body and feelings. Lotte has a great deal of knowledge and experience, and works with gentleness, love, calm and creativity. She always seemed to know exactly what I needed. The combination of ACT and yin yoga was the ideal way for me to engage more physically alongside our conversations. It was something I had never experienced before and proved very valuable. I also received personal exercises to work on. I learnt a great deal and am grateful that I was able to do this together with Lotte!”
Merel
Women from Julianadorp, Callantsoog, Schagen, Wieringerwerf, Breezand, ’t Zand, Hippolytushoef and Den Helder, among other places, come to my practice in Anna Paulowna for support with hormonal symptoms.