Understanding Your Body Through the Serenity Mojo Lens
🌸 What If Your Symptoms Aren’t Random?
Bloating. Fatigue. Foggy brain. Poor sleep. Unpredictable energy. Weight that won’t budge.
You’re not imagining it. And you’re not doing anything wrong.
Many women in midlife start feeling like their body is changing faster than they can keep up. But here’s the truth:
Your body is wise. Your symptoms are signals. And when we listen, we can begin to heal.
These clinic models help you understand what your body is trying to communicate — so you can feel calmer, clearer, and more in control.
The Stress Bowl
Why symptoms appear when your body runs out of capacity
Imagine your body as a bowl. Everything you experience — physically, emotionally, chemically, hormonally — adds to that bowl:
- changing hormones
- emotional pressure
- blood sugar swings
- sleep disruption
- digestive stress
- inflammation
- food intolerances
- environmental and chemical exposure
- stimulation from screens and devices
- daily demands and responsibilities
- tension held in the body
When your bowl has space, your body copes beautifully.
But when it overflows? That’s when symptoms show up.
Common "spillover" signs include:
- Bloating
- Fatigue
- Irritability
- Cravings
- Hot flushes
- Anxious thoughts
- Sleep disruption
- Aches and tension
Wellness isn’t about emptying your bowl completely. It’s about creating enough space for your body to adapt again.
🐝 The BEES Model
The four realms of stress that quietly drain your system
The 4 realms of stress that fill your bowl
Most people think of stress as just emotional. But your body experiences stress in four key areas:
⭐ Biochemical Stress
- Food reactions, inflammation, blood sugar swings, toxins, medications, nutrient gaps
- Often shows up as bloating, cravings, reactivity, fatigue
⭐ Emotional Stress
- Worry, work pressure, family load, grief, trauma
- Impacts mood, digestion, sleep, cortisol
⭐ Electrical Stress
- Screens, devices, busy environments, EMFs
- Feels like buzzing thoughts, wired-but-tired, disrupted rhythms
⭐ Structural Stress
- Tension, posture, injuries, jaw tightness, lymph stagnation
- Can affect digestion, inflammation, circulation, pain
These stressors combine quietly and fill your bowl faster than you realise.
You can find out your full list here:
⚡ The Triangle of Hormonal Health
Blood sugar • Stress hormones • Sex hormones
Your body relies on these three systems working in harmony. When one goes out of balance, the others compensate — often leaving you with a cascade of symptoms.
🍯 Blood Sugar Balance
Affects energy, sleep, cravings, mood, and weight
⚡ Stress Hormones (like cortisol)
Impact digestion, inflammation, nervous system, and emotional steadiness.
🌸 Sex Hormones (oestrogen, progesterone, testosterone)
Influence temperature changes, brain clarity, skin, mood, rhythm
During peri-to-post menopause, supporting blood sugar and stress hormones helps your entire system settle.
⏱ Stress Stages
Why symptoms build slowly, then feel sudden
Your body moves through predictable phases when under long-term stress:
⭐ Alarm Stage
Your body reacts to a stressor quickly
⭐ Resistance Stage
You push through, but the system is compensating
⭐ Exhaustion Stage
Reserves fall. You feel the crash: fatigue, bloating, low mood, disrupted sleep, reactivity
This isn’t failure. It’s feedback. Your body is asking for space and steady support.
🧩 Bringing It All Together
These models help you:
- Understand what’s filling your Stress Bowl
- Identify what kind of stress is affecting you
- See how hormones respond under pressure
- Spot your symptoms’ deeper roots
- Know what to reduce, remove, or support
When you see the whole picture, you can stop chasing symptoms — and start working with your body instead of against it.
🌻 Want to Go Deeper?
Get personalised insight into how your hormones are working behind the scenes.
🎥 Prefer to Watch?
Check out The Menopause Map Playlist on YouTube — where I explain each of these models in short, simple video guides.
