Autumn is a time of adjustment and transition for our entire body and being. As we enter autumn, the first signs of readiness for dormant times ahead become visible on the land: cooler nights draw in, plant growth slows, some go to seed and others droop towards the earth under their own weight. All bringing […]
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One of the ways that Natural family planning is remarkable is how it accumulates a menstrual cycle history for us that gets recorded and documented through months and years of charts. I always recommend we hold on to our old charts for at least a year because it provides us with so much data about
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1 ~ NFP deepens your relationship with your partner With so many other methods of contraception, we organise and action it alone without any involvement from our partners. NFP is inherently different because our partner also needs to understand it. Whether as a couple you are looking to achieve or prevent pregnancy, it is in
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I’m writing this after watching Davina Mcall’s channel 4 documentary about the pill which was very damning of the Natural Cycles app. Unfortunately, the documentary failed to recognise the pen and paper method of Natural Family Planning as a reliable method of contraception and that is very different from charting your cycle using an app.
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The health of our mind (mental health), is not separate from the health of any other part of our body or being. It’s also not separate from the health of our relationships, community, the land or the cultural systems we live in. Public mental health work in the UK seeks to assess and label individual
Understanding how to observe, chart and interpret our shifting signs of fertility is a foundational skill for feeling more at home in ourselves and our bodies as women and menstruators. Cycle charting is a powerful tool that steers us away from the pace and expectations of the external world and brings us back into what
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Natural family planning (NFP) is a method of contraception where we monitor and record our different fertility signs throughout our menstrual cycle to work out when we are fertile or infertile. Each day this tells us if we are likely to get pregnant or not. This page briefly explains how it works and what you
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These are not times of peace. These are times when veils are being lifted on governance, power, inequality and colonisation. It’s a time when many extremely difficult truths are being told and a time for many of us, when business as usual makes even less sense than it did before. It might even have become
Maternal mental health matters more than we think. It’s one of the key social markers for how well we’re doing as a culture because it has an impact on everyone. Supporting mothers has a ripple effect of support throughout families and communities because mothers are the emotional centre of family life. The unconditional care and
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This week marks the anniversary of the 1st lockdown announcement. What was happening in your life 3 years ago? I’d just come to the end of my first 40 days of home rest & was ready to venture out into the world as ‘mama’. As we know that didn’t happen … so back in I