What if your period was something you looked forward to?
We'll get our period around 450 times in our life. If we know how to understand and track our cycles, we can use it as our secret superpower.
In this episode, Katie sits down with period preacher, educator and songwriter, Lucy Peach, to understand what is actually happening when we menstruate and how we can use it as our secret superpower.
Why we get a periodThe four stages of the menstrual cycle and what is happening hormonally for us at each stageWhy we have more energy in some weeks than othersThe importance of resting during our periodThe effect of the Pill on our cyclesAnd if we actually need to eat more on our periodsFollow Lucy on Instagram at @lucyspeaches and listen to her song 'Your Blood Is Amazing' on Spotify
This is what we think you should be reading, watching & listening to this week:
Podcast: Lucy's podcast 'Period Queen'
Podcast: Period Power with Maisie Hill
Book: Lucy's book 'Period Queen'
YouTube: 'The best ways to exercise during your period AND every stage of your cycle' by Amanda Bisk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0lHoG6fCQ
Follow Alisa Vitti on Instagram @floliving
Watch: David Attenborough's 'Prehistoric Planet'
Watch: 'Sex, Love and goop'
Read: Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Listen: YEBBA
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