We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Maddie Miles. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Maddie below.
Alright, Maddie thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Is there a heartwarming story from your career that you look back on?
A girl reached out to me and let me know that she purchased my herbal remedy for hormone health and PMS, because her daughter experienced very painful cramps, and she hated to see her in so much pain. After just one week of using my herbal remedy, her symptoms cleared up! They were both so overjoyed with happiness. She shared the story with me and it was so heartwarming and brought tears to my eyes! This is why I do what I do!
Maddie, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I have been studying health, wellness, and medicine for women for as long as I can remember. For starters, I had to do so in order to heal from the many healthy struggles I dealt with throughout my life, one of them being a loss of ovulation and a period, which was a by-product of an eight year struggle with disordered eating during my younger life. I saw the disparity in equality when it came to women and men’s health. I came to realize that most medical research has been done on the male body, so even the much more holistic, natural ways of healing the body were still focused primarily on the male physiology.
I wanted to change this.
So, I truly became all things women and menstrual health OBSESSED! I am a board-certified integrative health practitioner, women’s health and hormone expert, and clinical herbalist. More important than my qualifications, I am passionate, knowledgeable, and actually successful at, helping people heal naturally.
Your body has the most incredible internal pharmacy within itself. It knows how to heal itself and it wants to do so. We just have to remove any obstacles, and add in support.
Here comes in my herbal medicine at Peace. Love. Hormones.. I became incredibly passionate about herbal medicine when I was healing from various health troubles and balancing my body naturally.
I came back to herbs when I was preparing my body to stop hormonal contraceptives, and have continued to use them daily throughout my cycle and seasons. Herbs are the source of medicine and health for women and menstruators. It was always us who were the healers, but we were suppressed by the hierarchy. However, some of us, like myself, have found their way back to plants and have an in-tune relationship with them that is indescribable.
I have seen time and time again women and menstruators healing their PMS, hormone imbalances, period pain, etc., through using my herbal medicine and through adopting the lifestyle and nutritional changes informed in part by my podcast and on my menstrual health app.
We are starting a women’s reproductive health movement. I hope you decide to join us.
Our Philosophy:
Your body is its own best healer. We will give you the highest quality herbal formulas, and all of the education that you need to find balance and achieve your healthiest, happiest self.
We use the highest quality herbs, that are organic, clinically-dosed, and GMP certified and FDA regulated.
We are educating and empowering women and menstruators to take back control of their health.
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
I had to unlearn that the human body is in capable of healing itself. I had to unlearn that being a woman is something less than beautiful and powerful. I had to unlearn that periods are “gross”. I had to unlearn being quiet instead of standing up for what I believe in.
Do you think you’d choose a different profession or specialty if you were starting now?
I would definitely choose what I do over and over again. There is not a doubt in my entire being that I am doing what I was put on this earth to do.
Contact Info:
- Website: Www.peacelovehormones.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/themaddiemiles?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
- Other: Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peace-love-hormones-by-the-maddie-miles/id1545766816 https://open.spotify.com/show/1rmUuua1E9BmfE7Y3XtGgc?si=sQmsAYErTB6p01MlQeOz8Q
Image Credits
Me, myself, and I!