my periods are off and on with the pill (god please i donāt wanna be on it anymore) and iām an odd duck who loves connecting to my period but i havenāt had one in a couple months and let me tell you
diva down
i am down i have cramps and in a strange way i enjoy the forceful rest it puts me in
i feel like iāve walked miles in these hinged hips, or lifted people with this aching back
anyway shout out my womb havers who also are getting visited by their aunt flo this month
when i was on birth control i stopped getting my periods which was awesome but not good for my body... now that im off it im like damn... having a period sucksss #boooooo
I got my period at about 4am this morning, 2 days after winter solstice and the day after a full moon. the sybolism of it all, the kismet of it all. i've ended up going inwards in a way I don't often during my period. i welcomed her instead of groaning under the effort. i've decided to see it as cleansing, grounding, enveloping, slowing. i coccooned myself and treated myself right. i dragged my mattress into the garden and stared at the sky for 3 hours. i did """self care""". i feel good. i feel grateful to women who came before me and battled this with less than I have.
after having an ovarian cyst for a while and finding out 4 months later that THATS why I was feeling deranged and horrible all the time I canāt get this thought (truth) out of my head ā hormones are kind of everything! period cycles interest me so much now in a way they didnāt before bc I can clearly see the effects of them on our psyches/energy. for example I can always tell when a friend of mine is ovulating or PMSing. now Iām 24/7 yapping about menstruation/womenās health to all my friends.. or anyone who will listen really. mind-body connection fr fr OUT: thinking that asking about periods is rude; men Tiptoeing around the subject of periods; discounting what hormones do to our bodies and minds !!!!
because life is more than what you do to pay bills, and no one deserves to feel unsafe and underpaid in a work place (yes i am terrified but itās okay)
i donāt want to have a āthick skinā about everything, maybe we should all just be nicer to each other. when did we come up with the concept that being sensitive is bad? iām sensitive and i like it. the world doesnāt have to hit me and i just get back up, maybe i will cry a little bit.
