Your Menstrual cycle is More Than Just Your Bleed

For the longest time, I believed that my bleed was all there was to my menstrual cycle – it’s the most obvious sign, after all.

When you start thinking about fertility and pregnancy, ovulation might become another focal point in your observation.

But what if I told you that apart from these two opposite poles, there’s a whole world waiting for you to be discovered?

When I speak of the menstrual cycle, I don’t “just” mean your bleed. I mean the complex interplay of hormones, emotions, thoughts and desires that happens over the course of your whole cyclical experience.

Your menstrual cycle is a multifaceted experience that touches all areas of your life and all levels of your being: body, heart, mind and soul.

It includes the shedding and releasing, the pausing and regrounding, and the spiritual connection to yourself and something bigger than you in your inner winter, your bleed.

It includes the rising energy, the flurry of ideas, the often child-like wonder and foolhardiness of inner spring, your follicular phase.

It includes the maturation, the celebration, the showing who you are in inner summer, your ovulation.

And it includes the drawing inward, the reflecting and the material and emotional decluttering in inner autumn, your luteal and pre-menstrual phase.

I know that the experience of the different seasons of the menstrual cycle isn’t the same for everyone and yours might be different to what I describe. That’s why it’s crucial to get to know and understand your own cycle through charting it.

Because your cycle is inherently regenerative.

And if you give space to every phase and honour its unique energies, you will see that your cycle is in fact a source of inner power that generates energy for you month by month, to do the things you love and deeply care about.

Your menstrual cycle is a complex but powerful ally that you can build a relationship with that will support you in living the most vibrant life you can imagine.

Loving yourself – and your cycle – isn’t always easy, but no relationship is 😉

If you want to get started on connecting with your personal cyclical experience, here’s a free resource: Unlock the Healing Power of your Cycle [https://lisa-jara.com/cyclecharting]