Testosterone gets reduced to one narrow idea, but this hormone is really part of a bigger story of vitality. It shapes energy, motivation, muscle repair, mood, libido, metabolic health, and physical resilience.

Reflecting on the last seven months. My birthday is coming up in two weeks, and I remember expecting the start of this year to feel fast, full speed. A new cycle. The Year of the Horse. And yet, somehow, it still felt like being a pony.

Endobiogeny is a medical approach that seeks to understand the human being as a whole, focusing on each person's individual terrain rather than solely on the appearance of a symptom or disease.

But here’s what nobody tells you: it’s not one wave of “something is wrong.” It’s five distinct layers — anxiety, identity, grief, relational strain, old trauma — stacked on top of each other and finally asking to be met. Named separately, each one becomes workable.

For me, I was finally able to fully release it after 14 years. And I know, without question, that part of why I never wanted to become a mother is because I could not bear the risk of watching my child suffer something I couldn't protect them from. But as an aunt, my heart now lives outside of me, with my nephews and my niece.

This is what has to change. Not eventually. Now. The information exists — we have the science, we have the research, we have the frameworks. What we lack is the courage to hand it to women early enough, freely enough, with enough warmth that it actually lands. Your hormones are not your enemy. They never were.