Enemies to Lovers, but it’s you and your body.
but what does that mean in real life? how does one simply, live?
live with the ‘iNcOnSiStEnCiEs,’ the dynamics of difference, the crescendos, the decrescendos, the messiness of it all? How do we flow in and out of the different archetypes that make up who we are? How do we anticipate and accommodate changes in our capacity? what’s happening neurologically, when our luteal brains explode?
A TEN WEEK GROUP MENSTRUAL CYCLE PROGRAM
Befriending the Cycle
A 10 week group program exploring the menstrual cycle through an animist, relational, sensory, and neurological lens.
For people who are tired of feeling like there’s something wrong with them, and want to relate to their menstrual cycle with curiosity, accommodation, creativity, and awe.
introducing
You know better than to think Biology did you dirty by making you so freaking different from week to week.
But you’re not sure what you’re body is really asking of you.
And maybe your heads gotten kinda full of some cycle syncing scaremongering- you better not have a second cup of coffee or god forbid a manhattan when you’re luteal! you better not skip that HIIT workout when you’re ovulating? You better not let me catch you drinking coffee on an empty stomach, or you are banned from matcha, banned from pilates, and exiled to Unhealthy Girl Land. and while we’re at it you’re outfit is not matching lycra enough.
ahem. yeah. fuck allllllll the way off with that shit.
whether it’s your hairy armpits poking out of your ancient black cutoff teeshirt, your gender nonconformity, your feeling too discombobulated or overstimulated to keep track of it all, or just your capacity for critical thinking, something made you feel like the pop culture cycle syncing discourse on the internet wasn’t quite for you.
If you’re looking to…
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If your cycle is ‘normal and healthy.’ Or if you’re going to cry at work next week, or is it the week after? What the heck you should be eating and when you should be going to the gym, and when you’ll be kicking yourself for making all the plans, and ready to fake your own death to get out of social commitments….
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Embracing and designing for the more sensitive times, feeling good in the times that feel good without kicking yourself for the days you don’t, and synchronizing your creativity, leadership, and spirituality to your biological reality.
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When fully expressed, the menstrual cycle grants us access to something of… what it’s like to be the land moving through the seasons, to be an ecology attuned to a wider ecology, cycling through all the beauty and pain of a life fully lived immersed with a living world.
In Befriending the Cycle, you’ll learn:
⛲ The physiology of the menstrual cycle
the normal, healthy process of constant change that our bodies move through.
⛲ The neuroscience of hormonal impact
how the different hormonal landscapes at different points of the cycle affect the neurotransmitters that determine how we think, feel and operate on a daily basis.
⛲ the art and science of accommodations
Learning how to track what your unique body wants, needs, loves and hates at different times.
⛲ and the art and science of planning
anticipating your capacity, your strengths, your sensitivities and limitations based on where you’re at in your cycle.
PLUS: guest teachings! such as, Decolonizing Self Care, with an indigenous creator who teaches rest, ritual, and resistance, and Everyday Herbalism, with an herbalist, fertility awareness educator, and astrologer.
PLUS: a practice library with guided meditations, movement practices, and easy rituals to weave into your days, weeks, and cycles. To meet you where you are and move you towards where you’re going, in balance and with self-trust.
We begin Sept 28th. I’d love for you to be there.
Ready to enroll?
Early bird til Sept 1st
First access: body, mind, spirit practice + resource bank
I’m Kate.
II’m a Registered Nurse, a Certified Childbirth Educator, a Craniosacral Therapist, a writer, and a menstrual cycle victim turned enthusiast.
My experience of knock-down, drag-out burnout (I was a new grad nurse in 2020) brought me to luteal hell. My brain was broken. I left every 12 hour shift feeling like a had a low-grade fever. And the luteal phase was like watching a horror movie. I’d go on a run to try to clear my head and just be sobbing doing laps around the duck pond at the park. It was bad bad.
I listened to Maisie Hill’s book, Period Power, and it kinda changed everything. First of all, I felt interested in something, for the first time in a long time. And then, I had that ‘ohhhhh fuck’ sinking feeling in my stomach, running back every tearful, out-of-the-blue breakup, every crashout “I QUIT,”, or every time I moved to a new continent/across the country to avoid a relationship that had gone sideways.
a long and multi-pronged approach (meds! therapy! switching my job! coaching! exercise! bodywork!) got me feeling better over the next few years. But the biggest thing and the lens that will never leave me, is the understanding of the menstrual cycle.
It became a lens through which I view my self and my days, and it radically shifted my understanding of who i am.
This collective process is for you if…
✤ you want to relate to your body and your menstrual cycle with positive regard, mutual cooperation, and enjoyment
✤ you want to step into a deeper relationship with the natural world that makes space for attunement and reciprocity
✤ you want to understand the menstrual cycle like you understand the weather: forecasting what’s to come, and knowing how to to feel prepared.
✤ you’re willing to be in process in community: because this normal, healthy, human function has been absorbing layers of shame for generations. Healing is relational and befriending each other helps us to befriend our cycles and ultimately, exist in harmony with the living world.
Early Bird Pricing is available until Sept 1st.
Joining early gets you first access to our body, mind, and spirit practice + resource bank, AND the opportunity to request custom resources for exactly where you’re at, now.
So you can get started now on creating the conditions for harmony, within and without.
