Men, Good info. to Support your Partner, Sister, Mom, or any Woman in your Life
Part 1: I have just discovered another piece of sacred, hidden knowledge that has blown my mind!
…that our menstruation, menopause, and post-menopause are meant to be a spiritual practice that we live by, not a physical ailment, shameful nuance, or pathology that needs to be fixed or made to go away.
Nature is cyclical, and we are part of nature. We, women, have natural womb cycles too that are meant to be honored, followed, and respected. However, the patriarchy (this is not male bashing) has worked hard at erasing that because when women are living in alignment with their cycles, they are very powerful.
So instead of honor, respect, and reverence for our cycles, it’s been inverted and turned on its head. There is shame, ick, grossness, PMS, bitchiness, eye-rolling, ‘oh it’s THAT time of the month’, making women out to be problematic, that there is something wrong with us when actuality, we’ve been created in such a magical way, with divine intelligence embedded in us.
Plus we create life in our wombs yet somehow it’s all nuances, gross, shamed when our cycle arrives when we aren’t trying to create a baby…something wrong with that picture.
So here’s the good stuff to blow your mind and invite in a paradigm shift!
If you are a woman who is still bleeding, you can think of your cycle as 4 seasons:
Spring – pre-ovulation
Summer – ovulation
Autumn- pre-menstruation
Winter – menstruation
Each season has its own flavor of energy and purpose that if recognized, honored, and worked with, life takes on a wonderful, new reality.
It requires getting in touch with your cycle, tracking it, listening, and honoring your body during each season so that your cycle helps you thrive, instead of trying to swim upstream.
Nature created our cycle with deep wisdom and intelligence. There are two weeks when it’s a good time to be more outward-focused (masculine energy, what society wants us to be all the time which is why so many women are burned out, overwhelmed, and exhausted).
The other two weeks are meant to be more inward (feminine energy) and need more downtime, alone time, rest, inward reflection and recharge before going back into the new monthly cycle. Since the feminine has been dismissed from society, these phases aren’t honored. Time to change this and it starts with us, ladies.
Exciting fact to help shift the mindset around menstruation: your menstrual blood contains stem cells! It was going to create life…It’s sacred, not gross, or shameful.
Want to learn more about this and open the door to a whole new realm, whether you have 30, 20, 10, or just 5 years left of your cycle? This is an area covered in my Divine Feminine Reclamation mentorship program. I’m fired about it! Let’s turn the tides and reclaim your powerful feminine essence, in part through menstruality awareness.
Next week, I will share what menopause is really about, to fully support you through the process so that you can step into and thrive in your second spring: post menopause.
PS – I’m excited to share that The Inner Womb Bloom Retreat in Taos in March is Sold Out but the waiting list for our Sept. retreat 12-14 is open now. Click to add yourself to the waitlist and we’ll let you know when registration opens.