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Seasonal, Cyclical, Nourishing. Tips for empowering your feminine.
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Seasonal, Cyclical, Nourishing. Tips for empowering your feminine.
You aren't tired because you need more sleep...You’re uninspired because you’ve disconnected from the magic of life. The constant busyness and expectations have taken over and you’ve lost sense of who you are and all the glistening, glorious wonders of you.
Growing up in a traditional Christian home I always found it strange that this wasn’t talked about more. I remember sitting in church listening to the story of Jesus and being so awestruck at the gift of Mary and women.
To this day I feel overwhelmed by the blessing it is to be a woman and my whole heart is for each woman to feel that about themselves, too. There’s simply nothing like it.
During your late luteal phase (this is your "inner autumn" phase just before you begin bleeding again), you slip into a reflective energy that is extra sensitive to your environment. You naturally go into a hyper-critical state in order to analyze what in your life needs to be polished, enhanced, or released.
Being in your feminine allows you to be in ease and receptivity for you to actually allow all that hard work to bear fruit and excel in business as a woman without burning out.
We need all seasons. We need the depth of winter to send nutrients deep, and we need the heat of summer to drive growth forward into maturation. We need the autumn and the spring to help us gentle arrive at both “extremes” with tools and capacity.
In the same way, we honor the internal cycles of our bodies and the seasonal cycles of nature, astrology offers a way to honor and create awareness around the cycles of the celestial bodies that interact with life here on Earth.
It’s so important to recognize the blocks we carry and bring acceptance to them while developing tools to unblock or upgrade them, so that we cannot only express ourselves, but also receive our desires, and return fullest potential.
Our female infradian rhythm (aka menstrual cycle) is a relatively new discovery to science. The truth is, science will never truly catch up to the magic of women.
While it's amazing to now have studies to validate our experience as women, our bodies worked this way long before science caught up and made it "official".
Cycle syncing is just a starting point to reconnecting with your body and getting a feel for the journey but YOU are the most important part. Your knowing, your wisdom, your relationship to your body, and your communication with her needs and desires.
World War II changed both the type of work women did and the volume at which they did it. Five million women entered the workforce between 1940-1945.
We filled a gap and met the need for workers as men went off to war. But we stepped into a framework designed for men’s biology- a 24 hour hormonal cycle vastly different from our own. Learning how to work with our female biology through the lens of cycle syncing actually improves our productivity without the burnout.
Our nervous system helps us and
protects us by alerting us to danger, responding, and
notifying us when we need to rest.
Your menstrual cycle is woven into every part of your life whether you’re aware of it or not and is an incredible tool that benefits all areas of life. There is no doubt this practice empowers connection with yourself, returns your reproductive sovereignty, and increases wellness. Here are 5 benefits of cycle syncing.
As a woman, your menstrual cycle is the perfect blueprint for health, vitality, and sustainability. Cycle syncing is simply the practice of aligning with this blueprint and the wisdom your body provides.
On this episode of the Freely Feminine Podcast, I am joined by Tori Matthews.
Today we're discussing how to begin fostering this innate and beautiful femininity in preparation for motherhood.
On this episode of the Freely Feminine Podcast, I am joined by Annika Taylor with Nourished By Nature!
Join us as we dive into the nervous system to help you live a more thriving and nourished life as a woman.
Mothers and mentors: you have a responsibility to your daughters to cultivate a connection with your body and teach them how to do the same.
This is for the woman doubting her dreams.
There is no mistake in the passions and dreams in your heart.
Each and every one has purpose in it and offers insight into a deeper calling.
You don't have to know it all right now, you don't have to deal with every demon this week. Let your body lead you to healing and reach for the tools supplementarily and for restoration - not as a first step. Listen and lean in.
“Don’t worry about it!”
“Just finish your food. There are starving children in other countries.”
“Just take some ibuprofen and get to work.”
“A little wine will help take the edge off.”
Your luteal phase is something like a nesting period a pregnant mother goes through just before giving birth.
This weekend I took 4 days off of social media. It gave me space to "see the forest through the trees" and clarity I've been seeking for a few months.
In just 4 short days I had trauma surface to finally make peace with, clarity develop on my next steps forward in business, the deepest sleep I've had in months, and productivity I haven't had in over a year.
This concept of the Infradian rhythm is excitedly beginning to gain traction in some small groups here and there but one of the things I’m consistently seeing is a way of syncing with your cycle in order to be more productive, to produce more, to “hack the body” and this is exactly the opposite of the true feminine nature.
I started Rosewood Woman from a laptop in bed between naps because I couldn’t hold a job that required me to go into an office.
I’ve lived in burnout. I’ve destroyed my digestion so badly I could only eat three foods for a year.
I know what it’s like to be so tired I’ve lost memory.
I know how scary it is to feel so tired I physically can’t get out of bed.
As you start to learn more about your 4 distinct energy phases throughout the month within the context of your Infradian rhythm, I invite you to check your inner judgment about which phases are better or worse.
Women are being left out of medical, fitness, and nutrition research. So much so that in 96' the National Institute of Health put out a special task force committee to include researchers to include women in their human clinical trials. As of 2016 progress has been "slim to none" in their status report. This is directly impacting the quality of heal care women receive in a medical setting.
In this blog, we're going to talk all about sleep! As a former insomniac who naturally resolved it, I want to share how I did it and how you can take back your sleep, too.
Dear Female Business Owner...
Here are some symptoms indicating you are awakening to the desire to live from your true feminine.
Each December I make intentions for the upcoming year with a small list of 3 or 4 words I want the year to encapsulate. Alongside this list I make a couple of goals and an actual plan to achieve said goals.
As I was reflecting yesterday on this list I made last year, I realized how few of my goals I achieved. How different this year was to what I envisioned.