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We're swimming in a sea of hormones, and they have some strong currents. Because of hormones, your baby clock might start to tick as you approach age thirty. You might snap at your husband, then sincerely apologize the next day when you get your period. You could cringe at even the thought of a migraine, or you might have to deal with a weird autoimmune disease that destroys your blood platelets.

Still, hormones are not all you are. You have choices when it comes to dealing with the ebb and flow of hormonal currents, such as learning to be content with or without children, finding a different way to express your emotions, feeling joyful when you wake headache free, and managing your autoimmune disease with diet or medicine.

And underneath these choices, you know that you are more than your illnesses, children, and emotions. That's not often easy to remember in daily life, but knowing you're more than what happens and how you feel allows you to step back, relax into the life you have, and experience a changed perspective on the flow of all that estrogen, progesterone, oxytocin, and whatever else is dancing in your brain and body.

Keep reading to learn more about what that dance is like for women, and some choices that may make life easier.