About Maraya Brown, CNM, MSN
Maraya Brown is a Yale and Functional Medicine Trained Women’s Health Expert (CNM, MSN). She is a Podcaster, Retreat Host and Facilitator, Mom, Wife, Keynote Speaker and Founder who left her Fortune 50 Corporate Career to serve women. She deeply appreciates and respects food as medicine and mindset matters.
Her work online brings her 22 years of experience supporting women together in one place to co-create deep transformation, hormonal health, consistent stamina, and passion.
Maraya has managed Women’s Health in Federally Funded clinics and Functional Medicine private practices since 2007 and has been a part of international health endeavors in Nicaragua, Ghana, and Haiti.
Today, she works online as a women’s health and empowerment expert. She has caught hundreds of babies and now “midwife’s woman through chapters of change.” She has served thousands of women across multiple continents and is the Founder of the Women’s Vibrancy Code.
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1:54 Contrary to what many women believe, we don’t have to feel lousy as we age
5:29 What is cycle tracking?
9:09 Why Maraya compares our bleeding time to the seasons and shares the characteristics associated with each phase of our cycle
16:15 Why women may want to structure their professional work obligations according to their cycle
19:16 Maraya demonstrates how to use a cycle tracker
23:24 What is the best way to measure basal body temperature (BBT)
28:24 How cycle tracking can help inform our food, lifestyle, exercise, supplementation, and other choices
32:00 When cycles start to go haywire in perimenopause, or when we reach menopause, how do we track cycles and tune into our cyclic nature?
41:33 Advice for women who want to teach their husband/male partner about their cycle
48:08 The benefits of having conversations about cyclical living with your boss and other key people in your life
49:33 What impact does the birth control pill have on our hormones and our cyclical nature?
59:00 How can you work with Maraya
Highlights
- How tuning into our cycle nature can improve every aspect of our lives, from our work productivity to our relationships
- Why it is important to listen to our bodies during each phase of our cycle and make food & lifestyle choices that support what is happening in our bodies
- How educating our husband/male partner about our cycle can help to improve the relationship
- Why Maraya recommends tracking your cycle for at least three months
- How adaptogen elixirs can help to support a woman’s body in different phases of her cycle
- How the moon’s tides can impact our cycles
- When is the best time in your cycle to do intermittent fasting if that is something you want to do
- Maraya explains how to have a difficult conversation with our significant other using the “difficult conversation sandwich” approach
- Why women need to fully understand what happens when they take the birth control pill
