My blog
  • Home
  • Start Here
  • Business
  • Reviews
  • Happiness
  • Fitness
  • Family
  • Shop
  • Home
  • Start Here
  • Business
  • Reviews
  • Happiness
  • Fitness
  • Family
  • Shop
0
My blog

exploring authenticity for professional women who want success, equality and fulfilment

HappinessHealth

The beginnings of a menstrual revolution

by admin February 2, 2020
menstrual revolution

A while ago I bought a book publicised by the Victoria Women’s Trust – ‘About Bloody Time’ by Karen Pickering and Jane Bennett. 

I hadn’t read it until this week.

But a couple of things prompted me.

Firstly, I want to be off the pill. I’ve been on it solidly for twenty years, without any breaks. This has been a safe solution for me for contraception. But I know that it increases the risk of breast cancer, and I have known that taking hormones can’t be great for the body long term.

Secondly, I went to my doctor recently and talked about my mood swings and a couple of other changes I’ve noticed recently. My doctor asked about the pill, and suggested the the changes particularly in my mood could be due to the pill. He was pleased that I was starting the process of coming off the pill.

Thirdly, I just listened to Lacy Phillips’ Expanded podcast with guest Alisa Vitti. It confirmed all my fears, and also thought me a lot about the female body that I’d never previously heard. I’m going to buy her book In The Flo and live by it as I coming off the pill.

I’m a very intelligent woman, and yet I don’t know why I have never heard this information before – except that it’s almost a taboo subject.

I didn’t know I was in peri-menopause as a 36-year-old, and that peri-menopause lasts for usually 20 years, and on average a woman’s last menstrual cycle is at 52 years of age. I have just been oblivious.

I’m determined that will change.

Hence, reading About Bloody Time. 

Here’s a couple of other things I’ve learnt:

  • while society seems to be concerned that girls are getting their periods younger, in fact we’re returning to what is historically more true. Girls in the Stone Age reached puberty between 7 and 13 years. When humans settled, and went through the Dark Ages, they were generally less healthy and had the poorest nutrition. Modern hygiene and nutrition is returning us to biological reality and the current age age for girls to get their period is 12 years old;
  • the average cycle is 29 to 30 days, although 26 to 32 days is normal. The ‘typical’ 28-day cycle was actually introduced by the pill manufacturing companies who wanted a neat 4-week cycle;
  • the cycle ‘begins’ on Day 1: the first day of bleeding (not the last day of bleeding, like I always thought …
  • there are roughly 4 stages to each month cycle, with different hormones, different metabolic rates, and up to 25% difference in brain chemistry!

Hence, despite most of us being raised it feel ashamed and disgusted by our menstrual cycle, there seems to finally be more research happening and more information openly available for women to learn about their bodies. There must be better ways to live, based on our monthly cycle, rather than the daily hormonal cycle that suits male and post-menopausal women. 

0 comment
0
FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
previous post
Heart Coherence
next post
Review: Ransom

You may also like

Moments

August 8, 2020

Shadow archetypes

July 18, 2020

Fear hunting

July 5, 2020

How learning more about neuroscience has given me...

June 21, 2020

Rage and Happiness

June 13, 2020

Wild woman

May 11, 2020

North Node

May 3, 2020

The Joy of Dogs

April 25, 2020

Shadow

April 13, 2020

Your Online Presence

March 21, 2020

Leave a Comment Cancel Reply

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Free Workbook For You

Shortlisted for Australia’s Top 50 Influencer Awards 2017

 

MyDeal.com.au

Free Ebook For You

Recent Posts

  • Moments
  • Shadow archetypes
  • Fear hunting
  • How learning more about neuroscience has given me more hope to change
  • Rage and Happiness

Follow Me

Facebook

28 Day Online Weight Loss Challenge

28 Day Online Weight Loss Challenge 300 x 250

Jacqui’s Video Diaries

Moments

Shadow archetypes

Rage and Happiness

Flexibility

Failure Resume

Follow me on Blogarama

Categories

  • Business
  • Career
  • Diet
  • Family
  • Fitness
  • Happiness
  • Health
  • Jacqui's Diary
  • Philosophy
  • Reviews
  • Writing
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Youtube
  • RSS
Footer Logo

it's okay to want to do something that makes you happy


Back To Top