Endometriosis and Cycle Syncing: Living in Rhythm With Your Body | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 46

Endometriosis affects millions of women, and far too many spend years being told their pain is just something to push through. What if the body was not the problem, but the messenger? What if learning to live in rhythm with your cycle could change how you feel every single week?

In this episode of Blush & Bloom, host Gigi Kenneth talks with Katherine Maree Pace, founder of The School of Her and an award-winning health-tech innovator. Diagnosed with endometriosis at 16, Katherine spent years pushing through severe symptoms until a serious health scare pushed her to rebuild her wellbeing from the ground up.

Together they explore endometriosis, cycle syncing, and the idea of bioaligning: living in alignment with both your circadian and infradian rhythms so your physiology gets its own approach rather than a male default. It is a warm, practical conversation about listening to your body and treating it as something worth understanding.

In This Episode, We Cover:

• Katherine's story of living with endometriosis since 16, and the wake-up call that changed everything
• What The School of Her is and why she built it around understanding, not overwhelm
• The four phases of the menstrual cycle explained simply
• Bioaligning: aligning with your circadian and infradian rhythms
• Why common is not the same as normal when it comes to symptoms
• Healing symptoms naturally, one at a time, starting with magnesium and rest
• How workplaces can support women by planning around monthly rhythms

🌱 What Is The School of Her?

The School of Her is Katherine Maree Pace's platform for helping women understand their own bodies rather than feeling buried under health information. Instead of quick fixes, it teaches women to read the signals their bodies send across the month, so they can make decisions from a place of knowledge rather than fear.

Katherine built it after years of experimenting on her own body. She came off her IUD, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar, and paid close attention to what her symptoms were actually telling her. That process became the foundation for the work she now shares with other women.

🔄 What Is Cycle Syncing and Bioaligning?

Cycle syncing means living and working in step with the four phases of the menstrual cycle: menstrual, follicular, ovulatory, and luteal. Each phase brings different energy and hormone levels, so what feels natural in one phase may feel harder in another.

Bioaligning goes a step further. Katherine describes it as acknowledging both your circadian rhythm, the roughly 24-hour daily cycle, and your infradian rhythm, the monthly cycle that shapes a woman's physiology. Living in alignment with both, rather than forcing yourself into a fixed weekly grind, is at the heart of her approach.

💗 Why Is "Common" Not the Same as "Normal"?

One of Katherine's core messages is that widespread symptoms are not automatically healthy ones. Feeling low, anxious, or exhausted at certain points in your cycle may be common, but that does not mean it should be dismissed as simply normal.

"So when women see what kinds of body signs will be showing that are common but not normal."

Her point is gentle but firm: noticing these signals is the first step to addressing them, rather than accepting years of discomfort as the price of being a woman.

🌿 Healing Symptoms Naturally, One at a Time

Rather than trying to fix everything at once, Katherine describes healing her own symptoms one by one. She started with cramping, reaching for magnesium and rest, and paid attention to what actually helped before moving on to the next symptom.

She is careful and non-prescriptive about this, and the episode is not medical advice. What comes through is a mindset: treat your body as a system worth studying, make one change at a time, and notice the response. She also reflects on why turning hormones off with medication can create challenges later, in perimenopause and menopause, which is part of why she chose to understand her body's signals instead.

🔬 Can Science and Lived Experience Both Matter?

Yes. Katherine gives a woman's story as much weight as a clinical study, arguing that lived experience and science are partners, not rivals. Data tells one part of the picture, and the way a symptom actually feels in a real life tells another.

This balance runs through the whole conversation. She and Gigi discuss the myths about menstrual health still waiting to be broken, and why women's physiology deserves research and design built around it rather than borrowed from a male default.

🏢 Designing Work Around Women's Rhythms

Katherine and Gigi also talk about the workplace. Instead of relentless weekly deadlines that ignore how energy shifts across the month, she suggests planning around monthly rhythms, so women can deliver their best work in the phases that suit each kind of task.

It is a practical reframe: the goal is not special treatment, it is designing systems that actually fit how half the workforce lives in their bodies.

💛 Your Body Is a Masterpiece

When Gigi asks for the one message she would want listeners to remember, Katherine's answer is simple.

"Your body is a masterpiece of nature."

She talks about the sacredness of the menstrual phase, learning to trust intuition, and treating her body as something that has been evolving for a very long time and is worth listening to. Looking ahead, she shares what is next for The School of Her, including a three-month programme to help women ease endometriosis symptoms naturally and learn to live and work in alignment with their cycles.

FAQ

What is cycle syncing? Cycle syncing is living and working in step with the four phases of the menstrual cycle: menstrual, follicular, ovulatory, and luteal. Because energy and hormone levels shift across the month, aligning tasks and rest with each phase can help women feel more in tune with their bodies.

What is bioaligning? Bioaligning, as Katherine Maree Pace describes it, means living in alignment with both your circadian rhythm (the daily 24-hour cycle) and your infradian rhythm (the monthly menstrual cycle), rather than forcing your body into a fixed weekly routine.

What are the four phases of the menstrual cycle? The four phases are menstrual, follicular, ovulatory, and luteal. Each phase involves different hormone levels and energy, which is why the same activity can feel easy in one phase and harder in another.

What does "common is not normal" mean for women's health? It means that just because a symptom is widespread does not mean it is healthy or should be ignored. Katherine encourages women to notice signs that are common but not normal, so they can address them rather than accept ongoing discomfort.

Is this episode medical advice? No. The conversation is for general informational purposes and shares Katherine's personal experience and philosophy. It does not replace guidance from a qualified healthcare professional.

💬 Final Thoughts

This episode is an invitation to stop pushing through and start listening. Katherine Maree Pace's journey from a teenage endometriosis diagnosis to building The School of Her shows what can happen when a woman treats her body as a masterpiece worth understanding rather than a problem to override. Whether you are navigating endometriosis, curious about cycle syncing, or building products for women's health, there is something here to carry with you.

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Katherine Maree Pace: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinemareepace/

Gigi Kenneth (Host): https://www.linkedin.com/in/gigikenneth

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