My story
Rocsi is a Period Recovery Nutritionist who supports women in navigating period problems with confidence and clarity. Her approach focuses on healing the gut through targeted nutrition to support period recovery, enhance fertility, and ease symptoms of PCOS & PMS.
Through her decade-long journey of struggling with an autoimmune thyroid condition, cystic ovaries and primary dysmenorrhea, she learned how to support her body back to health by finding the root cause of her period problems.
Now her mission is to empower women to trust their bodies and show that it is possible to reclaim vibrant health.
unaware.
Ever since I was a teenager, my periods were painful, so much so that for the better part of a decade, I was a frequent patient in the emergency room, looking for pain relief. Convinced that this was normal, a belief which was further cemented by seeing women around me go through the same, I did not pay much attention and powered through the pain month after month.
At 16, I had my first visit to the OBGYN. He told me my ovaries were ‘full of cysts’ and prescribed the birth control pill to help me get rid of them. My doctor said this could ‘cure’ my painful periods as well. I was over the moon, started taking the pill, and my painful periods were finally regular and pain-free, just like that. Magic.
3 years into taking the birth control pill, I started having panic attacks, and my gut problems from my early teens were creeping up once again. Something was no longer working.
realisation.
After 5 years on the birth control pill, I was feeling depressed and anxious, could barely find foods I could tolerate, and my panic attacks were running and ruining my life.
I had a hunch that the birth control pill might have something to do with it, and after diving into the research, it turned out I was right. At that point, I decided to quit the pill and start therapy to support my mental health and find answers to my panic attacks.
After 2 months, my periods were back, more painful than ever, deeming life unbearable 2-3 days every month. I saw 10 doctors, all advising me to ‘get back on the birth control pill’ or ‘have a baby’ to cure the excruciating monthly pain. But I knew there was more I could do, so I took matters into my own hands.
difficulties.
I dived deep into hormones and nutrition, and I took that knowledge with me to every doctor’s appointment. Oftentimes, I found myself mocked for daring to have a conversation, shamed for fighting for myself, and dismissed because I did not have a medical degree, so I could not possibly know better.
I did not allow anyone to convince me that my hunch that something was wrong was insignificant, and after years of trying, I found a doctor willing to listen. She was open to hearing the question I’ve been carrying with me for almost a decade, ‘Why is this happening to me’, and exploring the root cause.
I finally had my diagnosis: an autoimmune condition, a 16 cm cyst on my ovaries, and primary dysmenorrhea with an unknown cause.
I dived even further into natural solutions I can engage to support my healing by reading hundreds of articles, filling my bookcase with every hormone education book I could get my hands on, and spending every free second testing, trialling, and writing down what was and what wasn’t working.
After receiving my certified nutritionist diploma and applying my arsenal of knowledge, I reversed my thyroid autoimmune condition, supported my period problems, and regained my energy and joy for life.
coming home to HER.
Looking back on my journey, I realise how privileged and lucky I was to persevere in my mission, and I acknowledge that this is not a happy ending every woman gets when it comes to her health struggles.
Women are often overlooked and dismissed when reaching out for help, or are given quick fixes. As you know, I experienced this firsthand for a decade.
This is why I made it my mission to simplify how women navigate period problems with a simple method: by learning how to harness the power of targeted nutrition and through increased body literacy.
You don’t have to accept your debilitating symptoms as your new normal, and you don’t have to feel confused as to where to start first.
I want to help you get back to HER.
Healed. Empowered. Reclaimed.
