Menstrual Medicine

Your Menstrual Cycle is a Healing Ally

You are a rhythmic being.

Nature’s healing refrains repeat within you each menstrual month.

The menstrual cycle is often viewed through the lens of physical health, but its deeper potential as a powerful healing ally is often overlooked. It’s not just about menstruation, but about the intricate rhythm and wisdom woven into each phase of the cycle.

Knowing how to read and honor your cycle and attune your life to your innate rhythm is the path to resolving menstrual challenges and accessing the cycle’s many gifts. Menstrual challenges are rarely purely physical in nature. The cycle is a continuous stress-sensitive feedback loop that reflects not only the health of your body but also your emotional, relational, and even spiritual, well-being.

I offer 1:1 menstrual medicine sessions using somatic therapies to help you attune to the messages of your cycle, build trust in the body’s wisdom and foster a more resilient nervous system, and support healing menstrual challenges. Sessions are grounded in the Menstrual Medicine Wheel, guided by the framework of the Inner Seasons, and anchored in the overarching feminine initiatory path of Menstruality. 

The Inner Seasons

The menstrual cycle is a microcosm of the generative, creative forces of the mysterious macrocosmic rhythm of the universe. Just as the seasons of the year unfold in their own energetic signature as the Earth cycles around the Sun, so too the seasons of the menstrual cycle unfold in you.

The inner rhythms of your menstrual cycle - your “Inner Seasons” mirror the Moon’s 28-day cycle of waxing and waning and the Earth’s seasonal rhythms. Each Inner Season has its own energetic signature and potential, imbuing you with natural strengths and abilities. Each Inner Season also has its shadow which can be consciously met as an invitation into deeper personal evolution and greater wellness.

Enhancing Resilience through the Inner Seasons

The menstrual cycle provides a natural framework that can support and even facilitate the rewiring of the nervous system.

Every month, the cycle shifts hormones, energy, and emotional states in a way that mirrors the process of neuroplasticity—the ability of the brain to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections. When we embrace the full cycle, we can flow with its energy to promote greater physical health, emotional balance, and stress resilience.

1. Spring - Pre-Ovulation (“Follicular Phase”). A Time for New Beginnings: Tenderness, Ideation, Focus, Play and Experimentation (Me)
   During Inner Spring, estrogen rises, bringing clarity, creativity, and an increased ability to focus. This phase offers an opportunity for renewal and personal growth, making it a powerful time for rewiring negative thought patterns and setting new intentions. As your body heals from the previous cycle, the brain is primed to form new pathways, making this an optimal time for brain rewiring activities like meditation, mindfulness, and intention-setting.

2. Summer - Ovulation. A Time for Authentically Connecting with the World Around You: Expression, Advancing Priorities, Serving and Cultivating Relationships (You)
   During Inner Summer, estrogen peaks and ovulation occurs, bringing vitality and energy for engaging with the world. This phase is about connecting with others, expressing creativity, and amplifying energy. Your nervous system can benefit from the openness and social bonding that comes with this season. Positive interactions and emotional connections can encourage neural growth and repair, enhancing social resilience and strengthening mental well-being.

3. Autumn - Pre-Menstruation (“Luteal Phase”). A Time for Discernment, Grounding and Reflection: High Creativity, Editing Priorities and Relationships (We)
   In the Inner Autumn, progesterone rises, and it is a time of increasing introspection and emotional depth, and can be highly creative. With proper grounding, it provides an opportunity for nervous system healing by expanding our capacity to simply “be with” the energies of discomfort and disturbance and allow them to transform. This phase fosters emotional intelligence.

4. Winter - Menstruation. A Time for Rest: Nourishment, Cleansing, Releasing, Insight (Be)

   In the Inner Winter, energy internalizes and the body and brain process and release what no longer serves you. You may experience an altered state of consciousness due to changes in body/brain chemistry. By slowing down and allowing yourself to rest and recharge, you rebalance the nervous system and support the body’s innate ability to heal from stress and trauma.