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...
Catch me on these podcasts talking breathwork and menstrual cycle awareness Over the years I’ve had the absolute joy of sitting down with some incredible podcast hosts to talk about the things I love most… breathwork, women’s breathing, menstrual...
