The Different Phases of the Menstrual Cycle (and What Your Favorite Says About You)
Cycle awareness is not about fixing or perfecting ourselves or our cycle; it’s about getting to know ourselves in the most intimate way, and really owning the rightness and uniqueness of our nature, as it is. It’s about getting to know our strengths and our vulnerabilities, and seeing it all as reason to love ourselves deeper. […]
Organic Timing & Your Menstrual Phase
My menstrual cycle has taught me many things over the years, but one of the best lessons has been this: to trust the organic timing of the creative intelligence within me, for we cannot rush our growth. Like plant seeds, we hold unseen potential within us, and only through the experiences of life will we evolve […]
Luteal Phase Plant Allies: Nettle & Mugwort
In the luteal/inner autumn/fruiting phase of our cycle (roughly days 21-bleed), our bones speak to us. They speak of ancestral knowledge,the hardiness of generations that have carried through and carried on through weathers and wars. They speak of the deep ache we collectively inherit from generations of buried Feminine ways; the ways which have silently sustained […]
The Soft Animal of Your Body: Signs of the Luteal Phase
There comes a time in the cycle when the soft, raw animalistic nature of your body really wakes up. This is the inner autumn (roughly days 18-26), or what I call the fruiting phase. Your body is incredibly wise and innately intelligent. When the mind confuses us, we can ask our bodies.When the mind feels disconnect, we […]
What’s Your Intuition Style?
One of the many natural powers on offer in inner autumn / fruiting phase of the menstrual cycle (roughly days 19-bleed) is increased intuition. In the second half of our cycle, sexual energy descends and creates inner spaciousness and increased sensitivity for our subtler senses to come alive. Like in outer autumn, inner autumn is a […]
Kind to Yourself
Working with inner dialogue, self-compassion, and emotional awareness This reflection explores the practice of being kind to yourself through awareness of inner dialogue, emotional patterns, and self-compassion. Rather than fixing or silencing the inner critic, this approach invites curiosity, presence, and gentler self-relationship, especially during moments of contraction, discomfort, or self-judgment. _ Not being kind […]
Ovulatory Phase & Conscious Relationship
While we dive into the energies of the ovulatory/inner summer/flowering phase (days 12-19 of your cycle), lets talk relationships. “Intimate or romantic relationships – those relationships in which you reveal (either all at once or slowly, layer by layer) the tender and beautiful and large and small aspects of who you are to another – are fodder […]
Healing Through Earth Wisdom
“Our impulses of self-love, the desire to nurture ourselves, to receive pleasure and support, and our practical actions and commitments to give our body what is needs to thrive and bloom, are rooted in our connection with the Divine Mother.” – Azra & Seren Bertrand, Womb Awakening Nature is my biggest teacher. Everywhere I look […]
Follicular Phase: Your Boundaries Are Important
Even the softest, sweetest flowers have boundaries. Boundaries are necessary for growth. When your boundaries are healthy, you will: – Be able to ‘hear’ what your needs and desires are moment by moment and make decisions that honour those needs and desires – Feel how you are feeling, not just how everyone around you (or in the […]
Follicular Phase Plant Ally: Ashwagandha
Your follicular phase (or roughly days 5-12 of your menstrual cycle) holds the precious energy of new beginnings. Like an inner springtime. There is often a major energetic shift here – a sudden upsurge of testosterone and estrogen as your body prepares for the abundance of inner summer to come. New beginnings are great, but they […]