Hormones and Headaches
- Prune Harris
- Oct 9, 2019
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 6
In this article, I want to explore a very specific energy imbalance that almost exclusively affects women, and that is the hormone headache.
Hormone headaches tend to be the symptom of a deeply embedded energy habit that can be difficult to re-pattern into one of balance and health.
For those of you who have experienced them, their defining characteristic tends to be the way in which the headache sits over the whole head like a vice and creates a feeling that you are underwater, or deep inside a thick fog. There are no specific points of pain (such as behind the eyes or in the temples).
When dealing with other kinds of headache then the effort to access mental clarity can result in pain, but it is generally possible. When dealing with a hormone headache, mental clarity is impossible. You are literally being flooded with hormones that are getting in the way of clear cognitive processing. Those days when you have a headache and it feels like you are having to claw through a 10 inch fog to even see – that is a hormone headache.
So what are other defining characteristics of a hormone headache?
Often hormone headaches can last for days, affecting every step, every breath.
Hormone headaches will be just as bad in light as in dark and sleep may not improve them.
You may notice that your headaches are cyclical and can be matched to specific times in your menstrual cycle.
Many women experience them during menopause, for months at a time, and their memory is affected. This may mean you are unable to remember things while you have the headache (many people who work with hormone imbalances become reliant upon lists through necessity), and your memory may be greatly affected for days, even after your headache leaves.
When I see the energy of someone whose hormones are very out of balance it looks like they have dense static all over their body. The beautiful flow and dance of the energy systems can’t move through the static, compromising the flow of energy in the whole-body system. When someone is experiencing a hormone headache the static around the head looks solid, dense and spongy.
How many of you have had the fun experience of painting with sponges? You use the sponge to soak up the paint and wipe/smear/creatively pattern it all over the paper. Well, if you forget to clean the sponge when you finish your picture, you’ll find that the next time you pick it up it is hard and dense with the dried paint. There is a sponginess to it, but there is also a brittleness. This is the way the energy coalesces around the head when someone is experiencing hormone headaches.
When my perimenopause began, I went from being blessed with a mostly headache-free life to experiencing headaches regularly, and as my hormones continued to shift and upset the balance of my body, these headaches were quickly replaced with migraines.
Below I share an easy practice to help relieve pain and stress in the whole of the head – we know that stress is so closely linked to hormonal health, so this practice is a really lovely one for calming stress as well as relieving pain.
Working with my own headaches, along with 20 years of private practice, has helped me develop a deep understanding of hormonal headaches, and now I want to share those understandings and techniques with you!
In my online class Happy Hormones, you'll learn what to do to restore ease and balance to your monthly cycle.
This 90 minute online class can help you:
Get to know the hormones involved in your monthly cycle.
Discover why your energy systems are so important for finding balance and ease with your hormones.
Understand how and why stress is the biggest disrupter of your hormone balance, and what you can do about it.
Learn new, easy and powerful techniques to balance your hormones and ease your symptoms like breast tenderness, bloating, cramping, mood changes and flow irregularity.
Discover the most important energy system for hormonal health and how to work with it every day.
Feel more in tune with your monthly cycle as you move through your life.
To find out more and sign up, just click here.
With love,
Prune
