Today on The Girl to Find Show, we are talking about periods.

Yes, you heard that right, menstruation, and I'm laughing because this is such an interesting

conversation and something that we've never directly talked about here on The Girl to Find

Podcast, but it's a conversation that needs to happen because 50% of the population

us as women experience periods on a regular basis, right, most of us on a monthly basis,

and if you average that out between our whole lifetime, that's about four to five hundred

periods. So something that affects all of us, and I think something that most of us as women

have more of a negative perspective on, we view it as that pesky thing that rolls around

once a month, and we're like, ugh, it's here again. But in today's conversation, we're actually

going to take a deeper, more spiritual, more theological look at our periods as women,

something that I don't think I've ever really done, and I have a guest today who is an expert

in this area, Rachel Jones. In fact, she wrote a book on this topic. If you can believe it,

and her book is titled A Brief Theology of Periods, yes, really. So I hope that intrigues you,

and I hope you'll stick around because I think for us as Christian women specifically,

in this day and age, especially in this climate where we are being told that we're nothing more

than bleeding people, menstruating people, I mean, crazy terms, we need to understand God's

design for our reproduction, for our cycles, for our periods, and the significance that that has,

and how that should impact our view of our womanhood, our view of God. It's not insignificant,

and in fact God's word has things to say about this. So we're going to dig into all of that today

on The Girl to Find Show. Rachel, thanks for having this conversation with me.

Thank you so much for inviting me. I'm excited to be here.

Okay, I just have to ask you right off the bat. How in the world did you get interested in writing

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