作为女人，你是不是被困在一个残酷的循环里，每个月需要面对月经以及荷尔蒙的混乱，总是对自己的身体感到无力？

如果你在寻找一个另类的答案，那就打开这本书。作者Gemma Barry是一名整体医学的经期健康专家，希望能透过这本书来帮读者控制自己的经期健康。她结合了传统以及整体医学来提供最适合的调整方式。她探讨了以下问题：

*为什么我们会经痛？为什么有些人会痛，有些人不会？

*如何辨识自己的身体，以及了解荷尔蒙的重要

*社会对于月经的忌讳如何伤害我们的心理以及经期健康

*我们可以如何控制经痛以及其他症状

*饮食、草药以及运动的健康

这是一本将控制交回女人自己手上的指南书，让你掌握自己的身体，跟月经共同生存。

关于作者：

Gemma Barry has 15 years of nursing experience and over 20 years of holistic medicine experience. She is a trained herbalist, abdominal massage therapist and mindfulness teacher.

Gemma was a nurse for many years before turning to holistic medicine and retraining as a herbalist. She developed a keen interest in the alternatives after finding out that she had endometriosis and adenomyosis. Not wanting or being able to use conventional methods to alleviate her conditions, she employed all that she had learnt to manage her conditions. This set her off on a trajectory to help others treat their hormonal health with herbs and alternative practices.

She founded The Well Woman Project and runs a busy clinic from her home and online zen den. She has a passion for educating others in the alternatives and options available. Managing to merge all he best bits from her medical and holistic knowledge.

She is also a stand-up comedian, written and performed her own edutainment show Flaps of Steel. Which is a humorous hot take on how women's health has been kept in the dark, and why you need to know the facts that will turn the lights on.