Dr. Jessica Shepherd
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254 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I'm just doubly excited to be here. You are someone who I've listened to for a long time, and the ability to be able to share my little slice of life with you and with everyone here, I love it.
I would say, you know, for everyone who's listening and even myself, I think this is where this really resonates is I'm going through that journey as well, but why am I here and where do I want to be? And that really is that opportunity of self-care to say, I get to be in charge of myself. And many times we don't take that time to say, what is really going on?
Because that's when we really start to push away all the narratives and the stories and what society tells us. And that really is this transformation in life is to take some time, take pause and say, why am I here and where do I want to be?
Yeah, it actually started from the OB world, right? Bringing babies into the world. And that was so fascinating to me. And it's very exciting. And as I was going through residency, still love OB is when I really realized that there is this whole scope of a woman's life outside of pregnancy.
But when I really started to see women, whether it was in their adolescence or even later on in life, is that there's still so much to be taken care of that we really have that ability to interact and build relationship with women. And that's where I really thrived. And so that after residency, I actually did a surgical fellowship because I loved being in the OR. I love being able to
really take something very complex and transform in a way that's helpful for them in the operating room, and then coming back to who are you and how can I help you there?
And most of the surgeries that I was doing, a lot of times it had to do with women in their midlife. And so when they would come into me with their diagnosis, whether that was fibroids, endometriosis, I got to sit with them and talk to them about this diagnosis. But what actually came out in the visit was all the other things that were going on in their life.
And so that's where I started to see our physical health has so much more to do with the mind-body connection. So they would come in and have a certain disease or something that was going on. And I was like, I know I can help you there because that's a surgical thing that I know I'm very skilled to do.
But what I'm really paying attention to are the other things that you're telling me that's going on with your life and your career, taking care of your kids, your relationship. And that really has so much more to do with how we show up and what we're able to capacitate, what we're able to take in.
And that's when I was like, something's going on in this midlife that I need to pay attention to more.
Yeah, not at all. I think pregnancy, you said it perfectly there, is that's what society tells us, what our worth is in the reproductive years. But even as you said it, in your experience, which was similar to mine as far as getting your period, you're just kind of like, okay, I'm going to figure this out. But that was something that had to do with just self. right?
But no one was really paying attention to that. But when it came to now you have to take care of someone else, society's like, here's your importance. And then we dive into it because we're kind of feeding into that. Not to say that pregnancy is important, that we don't love it, but now we're fascinated and kind of giving more towards because we have to take care of someone else. When we Right.
Right.
Oh, no, that wasn't part of the memo.
I think hormones are these beautiful, complex messengers. So it's like we have these little mailmen that are, or male women, going around delivering messages every day. Like they are consistent. They know what they're supposed to be doing. And our bodies are beautiful machines. And they're meant to be
Well, oil machines with these messengers giving off these messages, whether it's to an organ like the brain or the ovaries, hormones are probably one of the most important parts of how our machine runs.
You know, we should go inward and talk about these hormones, but it's actually the delivery of a kind of chemical. Okay. Yeah, it's a chemical that's released. And from these messages that are being sent, then someone can respond. So it's like, I'm giving you a message and you're supposed to be doing this today at this time.
And so as we go through our lives, we usually through our younger years in our reproductive life, have these hormones that are giving off these messages and they're just going like clockwork. They're like, I know where I'm supposed to be. I know what time I'm supposed to go off. And then we start to see that the hormones... have little glitches. They don't want to show up to work.
Some of the messages aren't being delivered. And that's where we start to see those changes and fluctuations, which is why exactly, like you said, we need to be having these conversations about hormones earlier so that we're aware before they just kind of kaput and they're out.
Yes, because they are now getting the response of we now biologically want to start to deliver our follicles, right? So we're born with the amount of eggs that we'll ever have. Okay. But the delivery of when they're gonna release every month
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