HeyJaredRe-Source Somatics
Personal essays at the intersection of lived experience and nervous system truth. I write about the moments before I figured it out, so you can find yourself in them. Mom. Somatic practitioner. Certified nerd.
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Running My Own Trial (opens the original)
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My estradiol was 141 in June 2025. I had requested routine blood work because something was feeling off. Just for reference, a postmenopausal woman is 31 or below.I started HRT with Winona in November 2023. I don’t have a reference point before then because nobody drew any blood before I started. The only reason I have any reference point at all is because I asked for one after I kept being told that everything was fine. I wanted evidence.Here is how I ended up on HRT in the first place.I had be
Nobody Explained the Last One (opens the original)
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I knew before anybody told me.My last period was dark and there was hardly anything there, and I remember being in the bathroom looking at it and thinking, that’s the last one. Looking back, I had no clue what to expect. I just knew at that point that my egg making days were done.When you’re in school you get taken out of class, if your parents opted in that is, and you’re taught a lesson on what’s going to happen to your body. It may not be the best explanation but you get the basics covered. T
The Sand Timer (opens the original)
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I started my “healing journey” when I was 48.I’d always intellectualized what had happened to me and just put it down to life. My body had started to complain really loudly with tennis elbow. I was training hard, and initially thought it was an injury. I struggled with the pain for 2 years before I decided to go off down a rabbit hole trying to get it fixed. My youngest daughter had just broken her arm for the second time, and I asked the orthopedic surgeon if he could do something for it. He sa
I said six (opens the original)
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I’ve been quiet for a while because I’ve had some fairly major things happen in my life. Some of which I can’t talk about yet.Last week I saw a physical therapist about my sciatica. It’s been going on for about two years, travelling from my butt through the back of the thigh and into my heel. It’s worse in the mornings and also at night when I’m trying to sleep. The PT asked me to rate the pain out of ten.I said six.She stopped writing and looked at me and said she couldn’t believe I’d been walk
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