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I Searched for the Answers & Found a Mirror | Every Phase VLOG | Over the Rainbow

I searched for the answers.

I found a mirror.

Over the Rainbow’ | Luteal Phase | Every Phase piece #7 — the 2nd cycle - 2021

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The luteal phase is the descent. After ovulation, progesterone rises and then begins to fall — and the internal world sharpens in ways that daylight hours often soften. This is the cycle's shadow-meeting territory. The place where illusion becomes harder to maintain and truth insists on being seen.

PMS during this phase is caused by too much estrogen in the body relative to progesterone, or estrogen dominance

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00:15 Over The Rainbow - luteal phase

02:28 This Every Phase Series

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Transcript
Speaker A:

Over the rainbow I searched for the answers and I found a mirror.

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This is every phase piece number seven, a luteal phase piece of the second.

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Cycle titled over the Rainbow.

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Over the rainbow I searched for the answers and I found a mirror.

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When does something go from destroying you to inspiring you or vice versa?

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The path to destruction, which I know quite well, is when you believe that your cup isn't full or that you can be destroyed, or when you aren't really aware that you created the game you're in.

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That means you can never really lose.

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It's when you're not willing to face.

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Some seemingly inconvenient truths and be honest about what's really there.

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For me, this something called endometriosis moved from destroying me to inspiring me.

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When I realized that freedom is a choice, I wouldn't have come to that really ingrained understanding if I had not gone through the destructive trials of Endo.

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I started to see it as my teacher while I learned new information about.

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How our bodies work.

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Most of what I gained was a deep seated awareness I already knew I had just forgotten.

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I just needed a swift kick to remember what was already there, available freedom and awareness for the taking.

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So I did.

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The luteal phase is my favorite phase.

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It's the getting shit done phase.

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Your brain is primed for organization and for completing tasks and reviewing what was started during the follicular week that didn't get done in the ovulatory.

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It feels so good to wrap it up and even better to turn inward due to the ratio of estrogen to progesterone in this phase, it allows you to notice all the details, the things that you didn't see during the follicular ovulatory phases.

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As a result, your brain begins to prioritize detail driven responsibilities you may have ignored all month or longer.

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This info is from Alyssa.

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Vts in the flow highly suggest you go check it out.

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See description notes for details and more about the luteal phase.

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The There are so many things I can say about this piece and how it relates to the science of this phase, but I think it speaks for itself.

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As I said in the last luteal phase with the wedding dress, art speaks where words can't.

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If I could write it or say it, I wouldn't have to make art.

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I am making videos of select pieces of this series but for the full every phase journey and the newest releases, subscribe for free on my website to join my 13 year visual art journey.

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My experience healing myself of 17 years.

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With endometriosis inspired me to actually live my art, so I created this ongoing art series about it called Every Phase,.

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Which is what you're watching right now, where I create artwork that illustrates how.

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I healed myself as I live by the phases of the female hormonal cycle.

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days in April:

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Instead of an everyday series, I began my Every Phase series creating a piece of art from start to completion.

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Not every day, but every phase for 13 years.

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So basically the feminine response to people's project and the plethora of everyday projects out there.

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Within each female 28 day cycle there are four phases follicular, ovulatory, Luteal and Menstrual.

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The art illustrates the different brain and body chemistry of what's occurring during that particular phase and reveals how to biohack.

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And leverage this energy in your life.

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Follow this vlog series by subscribing to this channel as I actually live the art within each phase and if you prefer writing, check out my Every Phase blog.

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In addition to the original works, I have created all of the images in the series as $50 limited edition bite size acrylic art block collectibles.

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So at the end of 13 years the entire collection can be enjoyed as.

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A whole without completely taking over your entire house.

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Speaking of living the art, this series is about way more than just healing.

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These videos as well as the writing and art pieces discuss truth, freedom, our current health care and financial system, slavery and the Way out.

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In addition to the book, I also have an accompanying podcast that introduces some of the experts and practices that helped me achieve what I thought was impossible.

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I kept the desire and I gave.

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Up the struggle and my wish is.

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For it to spread to all women dealing with endo and all people in pain.

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Through my experience, I learned that all healing begins with being authentic and that the truth really will set you free once you decide to break the ice.

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Thanks for listening.

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Meredith Ochoa

Meredith Ochoa is ANOTHER F#%ING ARTIST—a former ballerina turned mixed media artist, author, photographer, and generational cycle-breaker who turned 17 years of excruciating endometriosis into a revolutionary body of healing artwork.

Her journey started in the shadows—recovering from an eating disorder, building pinhole cameras by hand, and falling in love with the alchemy of the darkroom. When digital photography took over, she challenged the movement by turning a scanner into a large-format camera—flattening depth to make the subject the negative. This integration of old‑world photography principles with new‑world tech became her signature technique, and the way she started revealing the stories our bodies keep.

But it wasn’t until she experienced a series of near-death menstrual experiences that the real unraveling began. After years of being dismissed by doctors, pumped with medications, hormones, and told “it’s all in your head,” Meredith took her healing into her own hands—she studied the infradian rhythm, dismantled medical lies, and healed herself of a disease the system said was incurable.

That liberation sparked Every Phase—a 13‑year art project (2021‑2033) creating a piece for every hormonal phase—Follicular, Ovulatory, Luteal & Menstrual.
The series is a moving blueprint for anyone learning to alchemize biology into fuel and biohack with art, whether their battle is endo or a heartbreak no scan can see.

Her work wages a visual war on medical gaslighting, inviting viewers to face their own contradictions: shadow and light, pain and power. Each piece is a mirror—and a key—for anyone told “it’s all in your head.”

Why does she make art?
Because images can slip past the gatekeepers of logic and land directly in the bloodstream.
Because authenticity is the first medicine.
Because living a lie almost killed her—and creation keeps her honest.
Because pain is power waiting to be translated, if you’re willing to face your shit.