It’s Menopause Awareness Month, and most of what you’ll see this month is about symptoms. Lists of them. What to take, what to track, what to fix. I want to talk about something quieter. Red School call perimenopause The Quickening. I love that name, because it says...
At the beginning of 2025, I spent three months inside the Menstruality Leadership Programme with Red School. It gave me language for something I’d been quietly feeling for a while. For the past couple of years, I’d noticed changes. Not all the time, but...
The idea of loving your period is a radical one. Especially if you’re in your thirties, forties or fifties. Because most of us have it ingrained in us that periods are bad. And for a lot of us they have been. Painful. Difficult. Something we dreaded the arrival...
Medicine Festival has a dear place in my heart. Two years ago it was a place of huge transition for me. And this year, again, something shifted. I arrived knowing more about myself than I did last time. More about cycles. More about my connection to the land. And it...
As someone who really struggled with words at school, I loved maths (not algebra though, because letters and numbers… argh) So here are some big numbers. Numbers about our menstrual cycle. I hope that when you see them, you’ll think, ‘WOW, we are...
