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The Period Party Podcast · EP. 259 · May 14, 2024

Navigating Grief and Loss in a Heartbreak-Illiterate World

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Sara Avant Stover is a business strategist, author, and Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Practitioner. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Summa cum Laude from Columbia University’s all-women’s Barnard College, she had a cancer scare, moved to Thailand, and embarked on a decade-long healing and spiritual odyssey throughout Asia. Since then, she’s gone on to uplift tens of thousands of women worldwide.

In this episode, Sara and I talk about her profound insights on navigating heartbreak, the need to expand the heartbreak conversation, the cascading losses that often accompany individual heartbreaks, common roadblocks on the healing journey, the importance of seeking support, practices for healing, and so much more. Enjoy the episode!

Episode Highlights

Resources Mentioned

Fix Your Period

How Fix Your Period Supports Your Hormonal Health

Fix Your Period is built on Nicole Jardim's root-cause approach to women's hormonal health — the same methodology explored throughout The Period Party Podcast. Here's how the app can support your journey.

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Hormone Health Assessment

Take Nicole's free Hormone Health Assessment and get personalised results and resources based on your unique cycle and symptom picture.

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Cycle & Symptom Tracking

Track your cycle, period metrics, monthly symptoms, and lifestyle factors — building the picture of your hormonal health over time.

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Personalised Protocol

Fix Your Period Premium unlocks your personalised protocol built from your assessment results — a targeted starting point for addressing your specific hormonal imbalances.

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Period Pillars Education

Nicole's signature Period Pillars cover the key drivers of hormonal imbalance — nutrition, blood sugar, gut health, stress, and liver health — with practical, actionable steps.

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Symptom-Specific Protocols

Fix Your Period Premium includes Nicole's library of symptom-specific protocols covering every major hormonal condition and period problem.

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Nicole.AI

Fix Your Period Premium includes Nicole.AI — an AI trained on Nicole's complete methodology — giving you personalised answers to your hormone and period questions whenever you need them.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions from this episode — and how Fix Your Period can help.

What is Fix Your Period?
Fix Your Period is a women's hormonal health app built by Nicole Jardim, Certified Women's Health Coach and author of Fix Your Period. The free app includes a Hormone Health Assessment, personalised results, and resources. Fix Your Period Premium unlocks your personalised protocol, Nicole's signature Period Pillars, symptom-specific protocols, and Nicole.AI.
Who is Nicole Jardim?
Nicole Jardim is a Certified Women's Health Coach, author of Fix Your Period, and host of The Period Party Podcast. She is the founder of the Institute for Menstrual Health and has helped tens of thousands of women address the root causes of their period problems. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Well+Good, mindbodygreen, and Healthline.
How is Fix Your Period different from other period apps?
Most period apps focus on predicting your next period. Fix Your Period is built around understanding the root causes of what your symptoms are telling you — tracking not just cycle dates but blood quality, symptom patterns, and lifestyle factors, then providing Nicole's personalised protocols and education to address what's driving those symptoms.
Is Fix Your Period right for me if I don't have a period?
Absolutely. Fix Your Period supports women at every life stage — including those with amenorrhea, those who are postpartum, perimenopausal, or have had their periods disrupted by stress, illness, or hormonal conditions.
How long before I see results with Fix Your Period?
Results vary depending on the underlying cause and how consistently the protocols are followed. Many women notice improvements within the first few weeks, with more significant changes typically seen over 1–3 months of consistent effort.
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