Blog: Insight & Tips
Body Gardens: The Beauty of Accepting & Embracing Your Body Hair (if you want to)
Whether you have fields on your legs, a meadow under your arms, a bush between your legs, or brush above your lip, your natural growth is beautiful. And whether...
DIY at Home: Natural Herbal Remedies to Calm Your Body, Mind & Menstrual Cycle
Our herbal allies can bring us so much relief in times of discomfort when we don’t know how to help ourselves. Natural remedies are effective when given the proper...
The Healing Power of Presence in Pain & Discomfort
I write this reflection in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, where I am lucky to be home and well with much time to reflect. So I write this with...
My Favorite Reusable & Sustainable Menstrual Products - For Your Wallet & The Planet!
Oh where do I even begin! I’m sure most of us grew up being given disposable pads and tampons to use - there’s no shame in the fact that...
What's Hiding in Your Menstrual Products? The Truth About Pads, Tampons & the Reproductive Health Industry
Healthy menstruation is, arguably, one of the most important, yet the most overlooked, aspects of our health and the body-positivity movement. We have been taught to believe that it is largely an inconvenience to bleed: painful, messy, and embarrassing. For centuries, the patriarchy taught us to believe that bleeding people are "dirty", unholy, and even dangerous.
Does the Moon really Impact my Menstrual Cycle? Lunar Influence, Guidance & Intention
What is lunar influence and why does it matter? The moon is our reminder to turn inwards. In the very externally-focused world we live in, we are not as...
Self Devotion: Committing to the Habit of Cycle-Tracking
When we are able to follow and record what our bodies tell us, we can follow the flow more easily and be more in-tune with our nature. This allows us...
The Journey towards Body Literacy
In our busy lives we tend to forget to pay attention to our bodies and the cycles within and around us. I often find that the stress of everyday life...
Reawakening Our Intuitive Wild Nature, Together
Jessi Mendez of Wild Essence Alchemy We all possess the dark and the light, yin & yang, solar & lunar, inner & outer. We are conscious of both, but our...
On the Cyclical Nature of Stress & Menstruation
Our world is quite externally driven under the sun, often with a lack of space in our busy schedules and to-do lists designated to turn inwards, focus on self-care and...
Why I Began Tracking My Menstrual Cycle & Created A Journal Dedicated To It
Feeling scattered but being someone who always wants to organize and make connections, I figured I'd create a tool for myself to help me find my patterns, since I knew they existed but I never followed close enough to know. I realized how little I focused and gave time to my body, and how it was affecting my ability to function my best and work with myself to prepare/respond. I then realized, that I am not alone in these feelings and disconnections, because of the world we live in.
