What Your Hormones Are Actually Trying to Tell You

From the Aumbrellia perspective: where women finally learn the language of their own bodies.

Most of us grew up believing hormones were something that happened to us…random, annoying, unpredictable storms we were supposed to just “deal with.” We were taught to roll our eyes at our mood swings, hide our cravings, push through our exhaustion, and apologize for the ways our bodies shift throughout the month. And somewhere along the way, the world decided that women’s hormonal changes were either dramatic, exaggerated, or inconvenient. No one ever explained that hormones are not explosions to control, but conversations to understand.

I spent years trying to silence my body. I tried to out-discipline it, out-diet it, out-workout it, and override its every message. If I was tired, I pushed harder. If I was craving something, I restricted more. If I was bloated, I blamed myself. And if I was irritable? Well… that must have just meant I was “being hormonal,” right? That’s what we’re told. But the truth is, I wasn’t “being hormonal.” I was being human. A woman with a complex internal rhythm that no diet, trend, or morning routine could flatten into simplicity.

Hormones are not random. They’re not dramatic. They’re not the enemy. They’re a language…one we were never taught to read.Your sudden exhaustion in the afternoon? Your hormones are telling you your cortisol is crashing and your body needs stability, not another cup of coffee or another expectation added to your day.

Your cravings the week before your period?
That’s not you “losing control.” That’s your body increasing energy demands to prepare for a biological shift, one your entire system is working overtime to support.

Your irritability?
That’s not weakness. It’s your nervous system asking for less stimulation, fewer tasks, and more breath. It’s a signal that your brain chemistry is shifting, not a sign that you’re failing at being calm.

Your bloating?
A sign that inflammation, stress, or gut imbalance needs attention, not hatred, not shame, not war.

Your lack of motivation?
It isn’t laziness. It’s a hormonal recalibration that happens predictably, monthly, and with purpose.

We’ve been conditioned to believe these things are flaws. But your hormones aren’t attacking you…they’re informing you. They are messengers carrying information from your body straight to your consciousness, saying:
“Please slow down. Pay attention. Something needs support.”

When you stop interpreting these messages as problems and start seeing them as communication, everything changes. You stop punishing your body for reacting and start partnering with it. You realize that every shift has a reason. Every discomfort has a context. Every symptom has a story.

The wellness world often talks about hormones like they’re switches we can simply turn on and off. Balance them! Optimize them! Fix them! It’s all so mechanical, like you’re a machine that needs new parts. But a woman is not a machine. She’s a rhythm, constantly changing, constantly recalibrating, constantly communicating through the subtleties of hunger, temperature, emotion, intuition, and sensation. Once you begin to understand this rhythm, you stop fighting your nature and start flowing with it. You learn when to lift heavier and when to rest. When to fast and when to nourish. When to plan your week around creativity and when to plan around recovery. Your entire life becomes easier to navigate simply because you’re finally moving with the current instead of against it.

And that’s the heart of everything I teach inside Aumbrellia: you’re not meant to control your body, you’re meant to understand it. Your hormones aren’t obstacles; they are guideposts. They tell you when to expand and when to contract. When to push forward and when to dissolve into softness. When your soul needs solitude and when your body needs nutrients. When it’s time to let something go, and when it’s time to rebuild.

In a world that constantly tells women to be consistent, stable, predictable, and even-tempered, we forget this essential truth:
We were not designed to be the same every day. Our power lies in our fluctuation. Our brilliance lies in our ebb and flow. Our resilience lies in our ability to listen deeply to what our bodies whisper before they ever need to shout. Your hormones are not yelling at you. They’re inviting you…to learn, to listen, to come home. And once you understand how to read these signals, your entire relationship with your body transforms. You stop trying to “fix yourself” and start finally supporting yourself. You start honoring the unsaid wisdom that’s been there all along.

Because your hormones aren’t working against you. They’re working for you. They always have been. It’s just time you learned their language.

I am working on something special for teenage girl and women looking to dive in and understand. Stay tuned.

Love & Light,

Mandy Hunter