Hormone Happy Hour with Dr. Heather Rhodes
Aug 10, 2026 · 43 min · 14 segments
Season two of Hormone Happy Hour is here! 🎉 After a summer sabbatical (and a very non-resort-style trip to Costa Rica!), I’m back with some reflections on slowing down, what happens when fear shows…
I was talking with someone from London, and she was saying that the pace in the US and the pace in London are way too fast, but she had just moved to Costa Rica maybe a year before, and she was saying that's a tiny bit too slow.
We were there for the time we were there, but I could definitely see how you kind of feel like it...
And so something I've been thinking about since leaving that trip, if you've listened to my news- or read my newsletter, I talked a little bit about this, of how my view of this trip before we left was that I wanted it to feel slow and savory.
I wanted to feel, like, free from responsibilities, from to-dos, from the rush, from the pace, from expectations.
Like, I was really craving this, this thing that I had created in my head of what this trip was going to be like and how it was going to feel.
And we experienced moments of that, absolutely, but more so when I came back, I started to realize that I am craving those things because I am being asked to create them right now in the place that we are planted, in the season that we are in, in the lives that we are creating and building today right here in the US, even though the pace and the culture and the expectations, the responsibilities around us are still happening.
And so that was a really, I think, impactful way of deciding that this thought that these things and this feeling and this pace of life would come by being somewhere else, yes, that helps, but it really opened my eyes to, like, hey, there's something within you that you're believing will come outside of you, and what you need to do with this information now is look inside yourself and start asking yourself hard questions.
And so that's what I've been doing, truly seeing, like, okay, what the questions I've been asking have been.
Like, why do I not feel free now? What feels too fast now? What feels too slow here? What...
Like, I literally sit and close my eyes and envision how I thought I would feel on the trip, and even how I felt on the trip, and I'm thinking, "How can I create those feelings now? What are the thoughts I need to have? What are the beliefs? What are the standards and the rhythms and routines our family needs to operate now in order to create those things?" And so I wanna pass that along and share with you in case that helps you a little bit.
Another thing that I came home with from Costa Rica, I actually was surprised that I...
What popped up for me once I did have a little bit of this freedom in this new place was fear, which makes sense, because I'd never been there.
I had never spent time completely disconnected in this way or in a new environment or with different and new routines.
And so it's almost like as soon as I got a taste of that freedom I was craving so bad, my body started to panic a little bit.
I was talking with someone from London, and she was saying that the pace in the US and the pace in London are way too fast, but she had just moved to Costa Rica maybe a year before, and she was saying that's a tiny bit too slow.
We were there for the time we were there, but I could definitely see how you kind of feel like it...
And so something I've been thinking about since leaving that trip, if you've listened to my news- or read my newsletter, I talked a little bit about this, of how my view of this trip before we left was that I wanted it to feel slow and savory.
I wanted to feel, like, free from responsibilities, from to-dos, from the rush, from the pace, from expectations.
Like, I was really craving this, this thing that I had created in my head of what this trip was going to be like and how it was going to feel.
And we experienced moments of that, absolutely, but more so when I came back, I started to realize that I am craving those things because I am being asked to create them right now in the place that we are planted, in the season that we are in, in the lives that we are creating and building today right here in the US, even though the pace and the culture and the expectations, the responsibilities around us are still happening.
And so that was a really, I think, impactful way of deciding that this thought that these things and this feeling and this pace of life would come by being somewhere else, yes, that helps, but it really opened my eyes to, like, hey, there's something within you that you're believing will come outside of you, and what you need to do with this information now is look inside yourself and start asking yourself hard questions.
And so that's what I've been doing, truly seeing, like, okay, what the questions I've been asking have been.
Like, why do I not feel free now? What feels too fast now? What feels too slow here? What...
Like, I literally sit and close my eyes and envision how I thought I would feel on the trip, and even how I felt on the trip, and I'm thinking, "How can I create those feelings now? What are the thoughts I need to have? What are the beliefs? What are the standards and the rhythms and routines our family needs to operate now in order to create those things?" And so I wanna pass that along and share with you in case that helps you a little bit.
Another thing that I came home with from Costa Rica, I actually was surprised that I...
What popped up for me once I did have a little bit of this freedom in this new place was fear, which makes sense, because I'd never been there.
I had never spent time completely disconnected in this way or in a new environment or with different and new routines.
And so it's almost like as soon as I got a taste of that freedom I was craving so bad, my body started to panic a little bit.
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