Your Calendar App Might Be Contributing To Your Hormone Dysfunction.
Why the Cholq’ij Calendar—and Other Traditional Timekeeping Systems—Are Vital for Hormone Healing
Written By: Dr. Chelsea Dakers ND | Edited By Sena (AI)
The Gregorian calendar offers us many advantages. It’s the calendar most of us use—created in 1582 to improve the accuracy of the previous calendar by using key dates in Christian tradition as anchor points. It allows for efficient commerce, coordinated communication across vast distances, and shared timing of interactions that would otherwise be impossible.
However, it offers very little guidance for how to be healthy.
Yes, we celebrate our mothers, fathers, and historical milestones. But on a day-to-day, week-to-week basis, the Gregorian calendar rarely reminds us how to live in rhythm with ourselves, our cycles, or the natural world.
Most people I know use this calendar to schedule their daily tasks and keep organized. I do too—because it’s practical, and I appreciate that.
Other calendars can compliment this utilitarian approach to time-keeping.
A sacred Mayan calendar, the Cholq’ij, is a highly sophisticated and elegant system designed to support human well-being. Its simplicity makes it easy to integrate, and its natural flow into daily life feels effortless. Infinite gratitude to the Mayan wisdom keepers who have safeguarded and transmitted this knowledge across generations and space-time.
The Celtic Wheel of the Year is another timekeeping system that offers a deeper connection to nature and to ourselves. By marking key points along the Earth’s elliptical journey around the sun, it provides essential insight into the seasons, cycles of light, and life themes to tend to. Again, deep reverence for the wisdom keepers who carried this legacy forward despite great adversity.
There are many ancestral calendars that offer health-promoting structure. Perhaps there’s one you feel drawn to—or one from your own lineage that still speaks through you.
Here’s the not-so-secret secret of hormone health: it’s in how we live.
Our daily patterns create the scaffolding within which our physiology operates.
So I invite you to reflect:
Do you find yourself staring at the clock, overwhelmed by the next back-to-back appointment, with no time to breathe?
Have you scheduled your day so tightly that every 15 minutes is accounted for—from sunrise to well past sunset?
Are you holding robust plans that stretch months into the future, feeling the pressure to uphold them all?
Do you live for weekends or statutory holidays just to catch a pause?
It may seem obscure at first, but your calendar app might be contributing to your hormone dysfunction.
When we look at the root causes of hormone imbalance, patterns of overwork, urgency, and perfectionism often rise to the surface. These aren’t just cultural norms—they’re deeply embedded lifestyle choices that pull us out of rhythm and into dysregulation.
Returning to time systems that were designed to support our biology, spirit, and cycles can be a powerful act of healing. An act of remembering. A step toward harmony.
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The disclaimer… The amazing thing about humans is that we all have incomparably unique health profiles and needs. The health-related information contained in this article is intended to be general in nature and should not be used prescriptively or as a substitute for a visit with a naturopathic doctor/health care provider. This information is intended to offer general information to individuals. If you have questions about how these strategies could be used in adjunct to your current health regime, book an appointment with us or consult a registered naturopathic doctor for individualized care.