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Like most of us, I had the requisite health class in fourth grade where there was a lot of giggling,

but I learned precious little about anything. Not how to use a maxi pad or tampon let alone how to

track my menstrual cycle or how my moods, preferences or energy might change throughout each month.

It was in my early teens admittedly a precocious young woman already on my way to becoming a

home birth midwife that I stumbled into a whole new world, one that included understanding how

my menstrual cycle worked, when I was ovulating, how to track my cycles and how to feel more

empowered about menstruating. Then in my late teens already deeply cycle aware, now from paying

attention to what I called my cycle sense for several years, I was fortunate to gain a mentor

who taught me a great deal more about the magic and power of menstruation and also had a pay

attention to the subtler aspects of my cycle. Herbalist midwife and yoga teacher and Shoshone

medicine woman Janine Parvati taught me to pay attention to things like my dreams, creativity,

food preferences, sexual desires and needs, even what clothes I was selecting at different points

in my cycle. I started noticing that I had major creative surges around ovulation like hold me back

here comes another book proposal. I wanted to socialize more and I gravitated toward wearing

sexier clothes and oot in my sex drive ramp up. Then around my moontime, aka my period, yes letting

my hippie wise woman self fly here, my energy felt more inward and I was inclined toward journaling,

slower exercise like yoga, nesting at home and warm nourishing foods. These patterns repeated

month after month, year after year, I knew them like the back of my hand. In fact, my body was my

period tracking app. If that feels foreign to you, you're not alone. Most women don't pay much

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