Start building an intuition, based on a really good understanding of female physiology and psychology, and a really good understanding about your lived experience of the menstrual cycle, in the context of your body and your life. Then you have the exciting opportunity to subtly tweak and adjust things to capitalise or cope with where you are in your cycle.
Read MoreIt’s time we stopped making ‘being hormonal’ a female thing, and started accepting that the more we can tune into our hormones, and how they ebb and flow or even peak and plummet, the more we can tap in to when this is helpful for the things we want to do and achieve. And when it’s not, we can explore and find effective, natural strategies to help us work with our hormones rather than against them.
Read MoreWith a newfound knowledge of the menstrual cycle and the effects that hormones can have on everything from digestion to emotion, suddenly a new world of opportunities seems to opens up. But research hasn’t been quick enough to keep up with the appetite and enthusiasm that we’ve created in sport for understanding female-specific performance.
Read MoreHow we can change the culture and open up the conversation about female topics such as the menstrual cycle. Improving our understanding of our self, specifically what it means to be female, and how what’s happening in our body’s makes us perform – in sport and in other areas of our life is very empowering. If we can stop the secrecy, silence and judgement that surround subjects like the menstrual cycle then we have so many opportunities to allow girls and women to fulfil their potential. !
Read MorePerspective – if you change your view, it could change your life. So true for many things, and in this blog I talk about how the lens through which we view the menstrual cycle has not always been a positive one. It’s time to tap in to the strengths and powers that the cycle can bring us, and look at it from a different perspective.
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