28/08/2023
I have a confession to make.
I've been hiding.
Hiding behind the "safe", "normal" and the "easy" options. Even though talking openly about periods hasn't been the norm for many of us, it's safer and easier than to talk about the other side of puberty, the menstrual cycle and menopause. That being the spiritual side, the true feminine side, the powerful side. The side that sees us acknowledging the power of our cycle and our womb space, the connection we have to the Divine.
Hormones are "safe" to talk about, connecting to our womb space gets judgement. This work can be seen as "pseudoscience" or "woo-woo", so I've kept my message "safe", while always having the undertone of spirituality sitting just beneath the surface. I have my own stories around being judged, ooph, do I have some stories, and part of my healing and unpeeling of those stories is to not hide anymore.
Seeing the rite of passage of our first period, motherhood and menopause as a spiritual journey, one of holistic personal growth, is judged as "woowoo", and instead these important phases of our lives have been limited to a series of "symptoms" and physiological changes.
Acknowledging the spiritual side of these rites of passage is how we help our young girls through their womanhood and help heal ourselves.
When I talk about the spiritual side, I refer to the ability to connect to our bodies and to our womb space and to listen to each message. It involves the awareness of our cycles and the impact it has on our physical and emotional wellbeing and to understand that creation comes through us. Spirituality includes supporting and holding space for one another, protecting, nurturing, showing unconditional love and giving wise counsel and encouragement to one another and especially to the young women we are raising.
I acknowledge that this healing I am going through is a part of my spiritual peri-menopause journey, where everything that needs healing comes up to be healed. As painful as it can be at times, I see it as a gift.
If you feel similar things coming through, Like you kind of don't know who the f@ck you are, know this is all a part of the spiritual side of perimenopause.