How to Find Your Zen when PMS Strikes

It's been a crazy year during the pandemic, filled with problems both small and enormous.

We had to deal with a global pandemic, our schools, work environments and health were up in the air year round.

Life right now is stressful enough, but do we also have to deal with PMS?

What exactly is PMS?

PMS occurs a week or two before the start of the period when women experience different side effects due to the hormonal changes taking place in their bodies.

Symptoms can start about a week or two before the bleeding and stop when your period starts.

There are a number of different symptoms that can be physical and emotional, including mood swings, irritability, anxiety, stress, and gloom.

Other physical symptoms include breast tenderness, gas, acne, and pain. Most symptoms will return over time and all women will have different symptoms.

Some women may have severe emotional stress or anxiety or mood swings during this time of the month; others may only have sugar cravings. When it interferes with your daily life it is considered premenstrual syndrome.

PMS can also change as you get older. Symptoms may shift as your body ages.

One way to look at this is to ask once a month whether these developments are causing problems with work or your family, and whether they affect you in the week before your period. Then it's PMS.

How do we find out Zen during PMS?

You can definitely prevent PMS and rephrase your thoughts about the upcoming monthly PMS roller coaster. PMS continues to occur every month, but there are ways to keep the misery to a minimum.

PMS is already stressful. Start by dreading it with some of these tips that can help you live a fuller life this week of the month.

There are a number of ways you can help and stop your PMS. And as an added bonus, these tips will help you stay healthier in general!

Work out! You want to get aerobic activity to avoid fatigue, recharge your batteries, and help focus.

Make sure you sleep properly! Sleep can be your best friend during this time. You want to make sure you're trying to hit your eight hours. Lack of sleep can make you feel awful and make PMS symptoms worse.

Perhaps try practicing yoga or taking some meditation time. Also, make sure you don't consume sugar, caffeine, or alcohol just before bed.

Try to eat healthy foods. You want to stay away from sugar and salt as much as possible during this time of the month. And we have some great recipes on our blog to make healthy eating fun!

Find ways to deal with stress. You can try meditating. We have a great meditation series for PMS just for you from our resident therapist. You can find it here! Another great idea for finding new ways to help your anxiety is by recording or doing yoga.

Count to 10. Sometimes it helps if you close your eyes for a moment and stop and count to 10. It literally only takes 10 seconds. Add that calm to a stressful moment and watch your body transform!

Try Jubilance for PMS. It's the only clinically proven supplement on the market that helps alleviate the emotional sides of PMS, including stress, anxiety, irritability, and gloom. Find out more about Jubilance on their website at www.Jubilance.com!

Find that inner peace

Having a period means that you are part of a group of people who can always relate to you. We are women or men with periods all concerned with the history of the rituals of our body.

Find that inner peace by choosing to find zen in your daily life. You choose to practice this life-affirming peace and choose behaviors that can help you find calm in the madness of our world.

Make sure to ask for help when you need it. Your friends and family are there for you, and who knows, they may be facing the same problem. It is important to talk about your problems and concerns and get the help you need.

It's one step at a time.

About the author:

Alice Cash is a New York based writer who hosts a podcast destroying the taboo on menstruation, Weekly Woman. When she's not writing, she can direct in the theater, on a rock wall, or help plant flowers in Central Park.