I’m easing into discussion posts over here. Let’s give it a go and keep it simple to start: What has your experience of your menstrual cycle or menstrual cycles in general (whether or not you have one) been like so far? What words come to mind? Feelings? Images? Events? Say as little or as much as you want.
I immediately feel the draw towards wanting to develop a positive, gentle relationship with my cycle but am blocked by negative emotions off the cuff around my cycle.
The cramps, the irregularity, the numerous doctors bills, the herbal supplements, the diets, the list goes on...something I desire to care for on a deep level but feel as if it is disconnected and foreign to me via pain and hormone imbalances that I can't seem to fix.
I have been enjoying learning more from your posts and also taking it slow with this relationship between me and my cycle, a courtship if you will. Good things take time.
Thank you being so honest, Kelsey. I’m so sorry for what you’ve been through or are going through. Every time I hear of someone experiencing pain and hormonal irregularities it just pierces me through and I want to give them a hug because there’s nothing like it. It can be so isolating and frightening. I had my own small dance with that and it took me to a dark place. I think the fact that you can feel the draw towards wanting to develop a positive, gentle relationship is really something. Even if you’re not there yet, that you have that twinge shouldn’t be taken for granted. That’s big. I hope you can follow it.
I’m grateful to hear that you enjoy my posts and are learning things here. I love hearing what you have to say. A courtship is a lovely way to put it! Good things do indeed take time.
I think as an adolescent/young adult I was numb to it. I wanted it to impact as little of my life as possible. When I started having children it felt like a means to an end. It was at least functional, and served a purpose - even if it was still uncomfortable and a nuisance. In the last 5ish years after some health issues, I began to learn about it for the first time in my life! Now I'm obsessed with it and love talking about it and noticing it all through the month, not just when I'm bleeding.
Thank you for sharing, Lindsey! It’s beautiful to see how a relationship with the menstrual cycle can transform. And it’s wonderful that you’ve gotten to a place where you love talking about it. Hopefully this can happen for more and more people. It is interesting to me too that you started to learn more about it after some health issues. It was the same for me, and I’ve heard others express that as well.
I immediately feel the draw towards wanting to develop a positive, gentle relationship with my cycle but am blocked by negative emotions off the cuff around my cycle.
The cramps, the irregularity, the numerous doctors bills, the herbal supplements, the diets, the list goes on...something I desire to care for on a deep level but feel as if it is disconnected and foreign to me via pain and hormone imbalances that I can't seem to fix.
I have been enjoying learning more from your posts and also taking it slow with this relationship between me and my cycle, a courtship if you will. Good things take time.
Thank you being so honest, Kelsey. I’m so sorry for what you’ve been through or are going through. Every time I hear of someone experiencing pain and hormonal irregularities it just pierces me through and I want to give them a hug because there’s nothing like it. It can be so isolating and frightening. I had my own small dance with that and it took me to a dark place. I think the fact that you can feel the draw towards wanting to develop a positive, gentle relationship is really something. Even if you’re not there yet, that you have that twinge shouldn’t be taken for granted. That’s big. I hope you can follow it.
I’m grateful to hear that you enjoy my posts and are learning things here. I love hearing what you have to say. A courtship is a lovely way to put it! Good things do indeed take time.
I think as an adolescent/young adult I was numb to it. I wanted it to impact as little of my life as possible. When I started having children it felt like a means to an end. It was at least functional, and served a purpose - even if it was still uncomfortable and a nuisance. In the last 5ish years after some health issues, I began to learn about it for the first time in my life! Now I'm obsessed with it and love talking about it and noticing it all through the month, not just when I'm bleeding.
Thank you for sharing, Lindsey! It’s beautiful to see how a relationship with the menstrual cycle can transform. And it’s wonderful that you’ve gotten to a place where you love talking about it. Hopefully this can happen for more and more people. It is interesting to me too that you started to learn more about it after some health issues. It was the same for me, and I’ve heard others express that as well.