Healing

Why does our wintering matter?

Winter(ing) Stillness. Quiet. Dormancy. Energy below ground. Nourishment from the roots. Darkness of the womb. Origin. Creativity. Cocoon. Rest. Replenish. Sleep. Dream What is wintering? How can we learn to winter? Why is wintering important?  What can our wintering bring to these times? Wintering resists the pull of busy, modern life and instead attunes to the need in our […]

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How to navigate the medical system for menstrual health

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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8 ways practising Natural Family Planning (NFP) will change your life

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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We can’t talk about maternal mental health without also talking about the way our culture devalues mothering

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

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Welcome to the fertility empowerment revolution

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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Ceasefire now

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

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Cyclical wisdom; our antidote to burning out in patriarchy

The seed I want to tend and grow this spring is a healthier menstrual culture for us all.  Through winter rest, I clarified my vision for a world where working menstruators are rewarded for their super productivity through their fertile phase by getting paid time off while they bleed. I want to work big on

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