Finding Your Power Within Your Menstrual Cycle
Today is day 21 of my menstrual cycle.
And traditionally day 19, 20 and 21 are some of my hardest.
Because ALL of my insecurites come up to be examined and this often makes me feel angry, anxious and sad.
Today, it's about:
the balls that I have to juggle and the fear that they are not going to be juggled well enough for me to reach the deadlines that I feel are looming over me.
how I'm showing up as a mother to a tween: she seems like she is coping really well without me but I'm doubting whether I’m there for her in the way that she needs me to be. And I'm not sure how to do that without treating her in a way that disempowers her blossoming independence.
As usual, I forgot that today was day 21 and I let it all get on top of me.
And since everything seems unfixable at this time of the month - as though it's spiralling out of control - I felt tearful and overwhelmed.
But then I remembered that my ‘autumn’ (the week before my period) is the time when we are SUPPOSED to see what is out of balance.
We are being shown what needs addressing in our lives, so that we can step up into our authentic power.
And this gave me a lot of comfort.
I realised that my core wound of powerlessness was being revealed. And that I was being asked to accept this emotion.
To forgive my need to be in control, to understand where this has come from (my childhood) and to love myself through it.
I was being asked to create enough safety for myself (by soothing my inner child through the familiar pattern of helplessness) so that I could surrender to something bigger than me.
THIS is how you can work with your cycle, mama.
By reframing something that seems to knock you backwards, into something that propells you forwards.
Your POWER lies within your cycle; you just need the courage to uncover it.
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