I got majorly redirected in the spring. Multiple things coincided.I was really burnt out on the social media hamster wheel finding myself getting caught up in all the “do this to grow” “do this for more engagement” “visual hooks, verbal hooks, all the hooks” and feeling so crappy about all of it. And you know what? None of it worked. 

You know who I get the most shit from about talking more positively, or not just solely negatively and disparagingly about periods? Women. If you’ve read anything I’ve ever written about periods and the cycle, you know I don’t sugar coat or delude. I don’t portray it as blissful or something we will love every second of…

It’s always been imperative that women and anyone taking hormonal birth control understands how it works in the body. Unfortunately, somehow, this is not information that gets passed on by medical professionals when it’s being recommended or prescribed.

I know this isn’t the normal thing usually write about. And I feel things changing in me and in the way I show up in the world. And activism in one arena is very easy to let spill into another. I am very passionate about human rights for all peoples.

I wanted to write up the Menstrual Cycle Basics so we are all on the same page and can talk about all the things. Because there is such a lack of education around the cycle, and I love getting into the more subtle aspects, I thought I’d put it down..

I recently had a conversation with an old friend about how one of my main philosophies about health and wellness is that it is, and needs to be, inherently very simple…

Balancing the Doshas in Ayurveda is literally what a lot of Ayurveda is about. and is a deep study and practice. To me it’s about how to live in a way and have our practices and habits reflect that harmony with Nature.

It gets said in the world of menstrual health that if your period blood is bright cranberry red than your hormones are in balance. There’s a lot more to it. The color, consistency, and even smell of our menstrual blood is determined by a few factors..

I see so many women struggling to accept themselves within the societal picture of how they are “supposed to be” and struggling with their menstrual experience as a result…

I’ve been seeing a trend lately. Of women in their late twenties and early thirties, who have either been on the pill for many years and/or who have been diagnosed with reproductive conditions such as endometriosis and PCOS and have been put on hormonal birth control to treat it, saying that since they don’t want to have kids for many years…

My goal is always to shed light on a subject from the perspective of women’s experiences, as well as how something effects all people in bodies, as best as I can tell, and how something intersects with the ways we feel about ourselves, each other, and what we are taught and absorb from the cultures we live in. In terms of self pleasure…

It’s nothing new that a lot of medical professionals, unfortunately those working at Planned Parenthood as well, tend to prescribe hormonal birth control as the go-to remedy for most problems with the menstrual cycle and female reproductive system.

I’ve wanted to write this for a while. Like many things involving heterosexual sex, things get framed from the perspective of how men feel about it. What we really need to be asking is How Do Women Feel About Period Sex?

I think we have to be really careful to not turn something intuitive and body based into a commodity, and into something that is meant to purely serve and work for us.