Getting to Know Yourself, One Cycle at a Time
The menstrual cycle isn't a personality test or a 28-day countdown to becoming unbearable. It's a constant conversation between the brain, ovaries, uterus, and hormones, one they have on repeat every month. Learning your own pattern can help you understand what's happening in your body and, sometimes, in your mind.
Our Brains, Our Periods & the Things Nobody Told Us
For a girl who already has a brain that says “I will absolutely do this thing… eventually, probably… wait, what was I doing?” her period can add another variable to a mind-body system that is already working really hard.